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Correcting Race
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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"Race correction" is a practice based on the premise that Black bodies are inherently different from White bodies. Medical students are trying to c...

  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 48:57
Black Pills
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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If there is no such thing as biological race, why do we have race-specific drugs?

  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 54:18
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
Space Oddities: Episode 6-The Sue Me, Sue You Blues (With Apologies to George Harrison)
From: Joe Cuhaj
Series: Space Oddities: Forgotten Stories of Mankind's Exploration of Space
Caption: The Apollo 15 mission patch, Credit: NASA
Episode 6 of Space Oddities takes a look at several of the lawsuits filed against NASA and its astronauts. Most were trivial, some very serious inc...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Nov 19, 2022
  • Length: 10:53
  • Purchases: 1
Nicest Troll in Town: On and Offline identity, Extremism, and Polarization
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Episode 10: Nicest Troll in Town, featuring Dr. Chris Bail
Social media is not fundamentally a source of information or a competition of ideas, but a competition of identities. With that and other provoca...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.


  • Added: Jul 21, 2021
  • Length: 26:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Fight for Sheikh Jarrah + NATO
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Co-host Ray Suarez explores one of the underlying tensions that fuels the Israeli-Palestinian crisis by focusing on a single house in East Jerusale...

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
How Is School Reopening Going?
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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Schools have reopened in Fall 2020 amid the COVID19 pandemic, and educators are putting in overtime to make it work. Four educators speak about th...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2020
  • Length: 46:33
The Yoga Pant Problem
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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The rise of synthetic fibers and the war on cotton

Bought by WSGE


  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 27:04
  • Purchases: 1
The Man, the Myth, the Laser
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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The disputed origin story of one of the 20th century’s most important inventions.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 30:06
  • Purchases: 1
Christmas Island Crab Bridge
From: Andrew Kornblatt
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Almost every year a small island off the coast of Java is flooded with crabs. The local National Park staff came up with a unique solution to help ...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2017
  • Length: 07:28
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
Ep. 20: Reinventing the Wheelchair
From: The Story Exchange
Series: Good on the Ground
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MIT-graduate Tish Scolnik is using the power of business to give people with disabilities a new sense of freedom.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 13, 2017
  • Length: 14:28
  • Purchases: 1
Rethinking Ink
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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Lasers, tattoo removal, and second chances.

Bought by KALW


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 20:56
  • Purchases: 1
Myanmar's Technology Leapfrog Into Mobile Money
From: Adam Bemma
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Myanmar’s democratic transition is leading to a tech transformation. Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi told Burmese youth to stop wasting time on mob...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2016
  • Length: 05:25
Owning The Clouds
From: Steven Jackson
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Cloud seeding -- intervening in clouds to squeeze out precipitation -- is done all over the world. But it's not an exact science; we still have muc...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, The Allegheny Front: Reporting on the Environment, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 20, 2015
  • Length: 09:38
  • Purchases: 3
Explorers of the Brain
From: Richard Paul
Caption: Jacopo Annese, The Brain Observatory, Credit: John Gibbins/U-T San Diego/ZUMA press
Latest research from the frontier of neuroscience.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WBEZ, WRVO Public Media, Spokane Public Radio, Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jun 11, 2015
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 20
The Pillsbury A Mill
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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The Pillsbury A Mill is a National Historic Landmark, and in the midst of a $150 million redevelopment project. But back in the 1800s, it was the b...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2015
  • Length: 04:31
Createch connects kids to learning
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Video game critics say computer-generated play keeps kids glued to a screen. But at Createch Studio--a community center in St. Paul--staff are usin...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 05:26
Cowles Center offers distance dance instruction
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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The internet has transformed classroom education around the world. Here in Minneapolis, the Cowles Center for Dance is doing something unique--offe...

Bought by WABE and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 04:38
  • Purchases: 2
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
James J. Hill's Minnesota legacy
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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James J. Hill is known as the “Empire Builder.” His vision for a Great Northern Railway in the 19th century helped put Minnesota on the map. Produc...

Bought by KSRQ and Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 2
The Francis Little House was a Frank Lloyd Wright design
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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The Francis Little House in Deephaven, Minnesota, was designed by legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The building and design took some time--l...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 04:22
  • Purchases: 1
Evernote and the 100 Year Business Plan: Why Funders Hated it and Users Love It
From: PJA Advertising + Marketing
Series: The Unconventionals Season 3
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When Evernote came along, it re-shaped note taking by giving us a way to use technology to remember things. Many thought the application would fail...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2014
  • Length: 31:21
Five Years of Small Business Saturday: How American Express and Local Retailers Are Changing Small Business Culture
From: PJA Advertising + Marketing
Series: The Unconventionals Season 3
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It seems odd that a large corporation would launch a campaign that’s neither proprietary nor tightly controlled. So when American Express — a not-s...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2014
  • Length: 31:16