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Episode 2: Into the Field
From: David Levin
Series: Deep Soundings: Stories from the Ocean Floor
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In this episode, go into the field with a team of scientists working to map the coastal seafloor in detail—and learn how their technologies could r...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2023
  • Length: 20:11
Episode 1: Mapping the Coastal Oceans
From: David Levin
Series: Deep Soundings: Stories from the Ocean Floor
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When it comes to mapping the seafloor, the hardest spots to see are the ones just off the coast. In this episode, find out why that's the case—and ...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2023
  • Length: 14:52
American Songcatcher Presents: Bascom Lamar Lunsford
From: Nicholas Williams
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The following audio is a shortened segment featuring the story of preservationist, banjoist and fiddle player Bascom Lamar Lunsford, as told in the...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2022
  • Length: 08:23
Online Conspiracies & Virtual Cults Part 2: Celebrity Makes the World Go Flat
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Online Conspiracies & Virtual Cults Part 2: Celebrity Makes the World Go Flat
Do we live in an age where online conspiracies and cults proliferate ever more frequently and powerfully? We continue to explore this question by f...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2021
  • Length: 27:48
Treating America’s Opioid Addiction Part 3
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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Searching for Meaning in Kensington

  • Added: Jun 04, 2019
  • Length: 55:22
The Big Pond #25: US-American Students in German Universities
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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For some US students, escalating costs are putting college out of reach – whereas in Germany higher education is considered a right, tuition is nor...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 24, 2019
  • Length: 19:24
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Pond #17: The Detroit-Berlin-Connection
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Dimitri Hegemann, the mastermind behind the Berlin nightclub Tresor, has been nurturing an artistic connection between Berlin and Detroit since the...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Feb 27, 2019
  • Length: 24:38
  • Purchases: 1
A Good Teacher is Like a Candle
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
Caption: ouda in front of KXCI–photo by her teacher Christina
In episode 25 of Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship, Houda interviews Christina, one of the English Language Development teachers from her schoo...

  • Added: May 02, 2018
  • Length: 05:10
A License to Drive
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
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Episode 26: It’s celebration time! Houda got her driver’s license! Last September, Melanie started teaching Houda how to drive–the first woman in h...

  • Added: May 02, 2018
  • Length: 05:15
Facebook 911 (full version)
From: Jake Warga
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Menlo Park, California was a pretty sleepy bedroom community until Facebook came to town. One thing the social media giant has brought to Menlo Par...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 01, 2018
  • Length: 07:13
  • Purchases: 1
Grandmothers Matter
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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Some surprisingly controversial theories of human longevity. 

  • Added: Oct 18, 2017
  • Length: 18:06
High-Tech and Amish
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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Using 21st-century medicine to maintain a 300-year-old way of life.

  • Added: Aug 16, 2017
  • Length: 27:16
Episode 9: Mapping Oil Spills by Satellite
From: David Levin
Series: The Loop: Stories from the Gulf
Caption: Chuanmin Hu, an optical oceanographer at USF, points to a map of the Ixtoc-1 spill made from archival satellite data.
The 1979 Ixtoc-1 oil spill spewed millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, but has since been largely forgotten. More than 35 years late...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 09:50
The Navigators Part 5
From: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Series: The Navigators
Caption: Hokule'a
The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.

  • Added: Dec 31, 2015
  • Length: 04:56
In Kentucky, a Prairie Made by Coal
From: Reid Frazier
Caption: Up to a million acres of strip-mined land have been de-forested., Credit: Photo: Reid Frazier
More than a million acres of strip-mined land—an area the size of Rhode Island—are now deforested in Appalachia.

Bought by WMMT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 24, 2015
  • Length: 06:18
  • Purchases: 3
The Man who Named 'Earth Day'
From: Reid Frazier
Caption: Julian Koenig, who coined 'Earth Day'., Credit: Photo Courtesy of Sarah Koenig
Who came up with the name 'Earth Day'? It turns out, a legendary Madison Avenue ad man named Julian Koenig. He was responsible for some of the most...

Bought by KMXT, WSLR, KUOW, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 7
A bike shop called Good Karma
From: KALW
Caption: A bike hangs on the wall outside Good Karma Bikes in San Jose, Credit: Leslie Griffy
Getting around sprawling Santa Clara County is a trick for anyone, but for those without housing, getting to and from services and opportunities is...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Mar 23, 2015
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 1
San Francisco seniors cross the digital divide
From: KALW
Caption: Computer students John Ryland and Mary Bartholomew at 30th Street Senior Center, Credit: Jen Chien
Getting seniors comfortable with using technology is the aim of SF Connected, the City initiative that administers the class at 30th Street Senior ...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Mar 17, 2015
  • Length: 05:45
  • Purchases: 1
Roy Orbison - Mystery Girl
From: Joyride Media
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Brand-new one hour special from Joyride Media takes in depth look at Roy Orbison's 1989 posthumous comeback album, "Mystery Girl."

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KPSQ-LP, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, Harford Community Radio, KPVL and more


  • Added: May 01, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
Bay Area Beats: Growing up with Thao and the Get Down Stay Down
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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Thao Nguyen grew up in Northern Virginia, and started playing music at age 12. Since then she has released three critically acclaimed albums, and s...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 08:13
Voices on the bus: the people who depend on AC Transit
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Long-time AC Transit rider Walter Davis gets off the bus at 14th and Market in Oakland., Credit: Isabel Angell
East Bay bus agency AC Transit doesn’t have the ridership or wide-reaching reputation of BART or San Francisco’s Muni. But about 100,000 people tak...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 08:31
Melissa Gets a Life Coach
From: Sean Rasmussen
Series: Happy
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Ever wonder what a Life Coach does? Before Melissa started with a Life Coach, she was stuck in a dead-end restaurant job. Now she is successfully f...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2012
  • Length: 09:15
Jack Johnson & Friends - Best of Kokua Festival Live
From: Joyride Media
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One Hour radio special features Jack Johnson & guests live at the 2004-2010 Kokua Festivals that raised money for environmental education programs ...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, Harford Community Radio, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, Prairie Public, KAZU Seaside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Wells to Wheels: Can shale gas power cars?
From: Reid Frazier
Series: Breaking the Land: Marcellus Shale and the Gas Age
Caption: Making way for the Marcellus, Credit: Reid R. Frazier/Allegheny Front
We use natural gas to heat our homes and generate our power. Can we use it to fuel our cars? Big Gas thinks shale gas is the key to cleaning up our...

  • Added: Dec 22, 2011
  • Length: 06:57
The Welcome Wagon's InaugurART
From: Sam Greenspan
Caption: The Welcome Wagon's series, Credit: Tim Gibbon
DC artists and activists collaborate on a poster project to inform Inauguration-goers about the lack of DC voting rights.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2009
  • Length: 04:13