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Shake it - a modern Polaroid love story
From: This Instant Productions
Caption: Shake it!, Credit: Oz Lang
A tender look at two modern photo technologies - Polaroid and digital photography - and the human and visual connections we make with them.

Bought by WYSO, WCBE, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KGOU, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
The Riff-Master 2000@
From: Stephen Provizer
Series: Cultural Curmudgeon
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The Next Step in data management, devised by the Curmudgeon in cooperation with the NSA.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2014
  • Length: 02:59
Episode 1 ~ Music in Video Games
From: Matthew Mustovich
Series: The Art of Video Game Design
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The importance of music in video games is discussed with local composer, John Hoge.

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Mar 09, 2014
  • Length: 07:23
  • Purchases: 1
The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall of Thomas Alva Edison
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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Look around your daily life.  There's a little piece of Thomas Edison almost everywhere.

Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, XRAY.fm, KMUZ, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Feb 05, 2014
  • Length: 23:26
  • Purchases: 7
46: Dr. Blankenstein
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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It's aliiiive. My guitar pedal is ALIIIIIVE!!!

  • Added: Feb 01, 2014
  • Length: 16:19
Large Wildfires Jumpstart Debate on Fire Management Techniques
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Photo by (cc) Flickr user Lotus R
A topic that we covered more than a year ago, but was just as relevant in 2013 is fire, more specifically wildfires. When we aired our show, The Bu...

Bought by KHNS


  • Added: Dec 19, 2013
  • Length: 08:37
  • Purchases: 1
Will Robinson's Brutalist Inspiration
From: Veronica Simmonds
Series: Visual Arts News podcast
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Halifax based artist Will Robinson is trying to play a library like a record.

  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 06:04
Friday Night Lights
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Contributor Meg Cramer tells the story of the first electrically lit town in America -- Wabash, Indiana.

Bought by WOUB, Radio Newark, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 04, 2013
  • Length: 06:21
  • Purchases: 3
99% Invisible #74- Hand Painted Signs
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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The last practitioners of disappearing art form that's poised to make a comeback

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 20
99% Invisible #73- The Zanzibar and Other Building Poems (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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A poet makes a city.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 16
99% Invisible #81- Rebar and the Alvord Lake Bridge (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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The steal skeleton underneath the all the concrete structures that you work in, drive over, and walk under…

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, WOUB, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KVNF and more


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 17
99% Invisible #89- Bubble Houses
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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Buildings of the future, once.

Bought by WABE, XRAY.fm, WJCT, WNIJ, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 23:48
  • Purchases: 6
Homeless hackers head to Noisebridge for shelter
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Chris Zapata shows a guest around Noisebridge, Credit: Holly J McDede
Every day, more than two dozen people pass through a hackerspace in San Francisco’s Mission district called Noisebridge. At its broadest, “hackersp...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 08:11
  • Purchases: 1
DJ Carl Sagan and His Golden Records
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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Before the launch of the Voyager probes, Carl Sagan was given the daunting task of assembling a guide to all things human. Something that would fit...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2013
  • Length: 01:44
The Rise of the Roller Coaster
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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Roller coasters are the workhorse of the modern theme park, but their rise to popularity has been long and strange.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 10, 2013
  • Length: 01:43
  • Purchases: 1
One Child at a Time: Custom Learning in the Digital Age
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: Working a math problem at Mooresville Middle School in North Carolina, where each student gets a laptop., Credit: Stephen Smith
Learning with a personal tutor is one of the best ways to learn. But hiring a tutor for every student was never a realistic option, until now. Can ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KPIP-LP, KMXT, KOSU, WTIP and more


  • Added: Sep 03, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
34: Recalling 1993
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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Maybe pay phones really do encourage time travel.

Bought by XRAY.fm and WJCT


  • Added: Jul 31, 2013
  • Length: 13:54
  • Purchases: 2
Pilot Episode - "Any Given Command"
From: Clapping Monkey Productions
Series: Warren Krane
Caption: Warren Krane
Commander Warren Krane and the crew of the Peregrine arrive at Hermitage Station in a remote region of space to attend an Officer's Ball where the ...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2013
  • Length: 21:58
Engineering Gotham From Below
From: Bishop Sand
Caption: This is a look up from the 86th Street Station construction site.
The New York City Subway is a complex system that keeps NYC running and it is still being built. Hear the reasons for the initial construction, the...

Bought by Hark!, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KFAI Minneapolis, WTIP, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 14, 2013
  • Length: 08:43
  • Purchases: 5
The Last of the Iron Lungs
From: Julia Scott
Caption: Martha Lillard, 65, uses her iron lung to breathe at night., Credit: Julia Scott
Sixty years after polio was eradicated in America, a dozen survivors still rely on their iron lungs to breathe. Come inside the machine Martha Lill...

Bought by KPIK-LP, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, KOSU, Hark! and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2013
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 14
Low Carbon Cows
From: Minnie Sagar
Caption: Fenwood Ranch, Credit: Minnie Sagar
This feature looks at the greening of Prather Ranch, a sustainable cattle hay and farming operation in Northern California. Through a partnership ...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2013
  • Length: 10:25
99% Invisible #78- No Armed Bandit
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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When you're in the zone, it's play to play, not play to win.

Bought by XRAY.fm and KMUZ


  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 17:47
  • Purchases: 2
30: The Silent Age
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
Caption: The Silent Age app icon
Sound effects and music define the games we play, but there's one where the sound and music aren't really supposed to be noticed.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 27, 2013
  • Length: 17:24
  • Purchases: 1
Plasticity
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sound
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What happens when visual information is sent to the hearing centers in the brain? Hear about this interesting experiment and more generally, why th...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2013
  • Length: 09:52
28: Early Electronic Music
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
Caption: A public domain image of the telharmonium in 1897
There's a man who's spent his whole life developing his own library of Electronic music examples.

Bought by Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Jun 13, 2013
  • Length: 20:32
  • Purchases: 1

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