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This week, we talk about self-driving trucks, Malthusian catastrophes, and human obsolescence.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 47:03
This week we discuss protests in several different contexts.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 52:53
This week we talk about the net-casting spider, space junk, and Kessler syndrome.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 42:04
This week we talk about the German kunstschutz unit, the Venus de Milo, and slavery reparations.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 44:53
An audio postcard highlighting nesting murre colonies along the northern California coast. For air during late spring and summer.
Bought by WNED Buffalo and Radio Newark
- Added: Feb 15, 2017
- Length: 01:58
- Purchases: 2
Mary Leonardson was a button fanatic traveling around the world roughly between the 1920s to the 1950s meeting up with various button clubs to coll...
- Added: Jun 27, 2016
- Length: 12:24
It's FM91's 40th birthday! WGTE FM in Toledo began broadcasting May 2, 1976 and for four decades has continued to deliver the highest quality arts,...
- Added: May 02, 2016
- Length: 06:20
- Added: Feb 12, 2016
- Length: 05:40
Jennifer Kingsley returns to the Arctic almost every year. She has taken some long journeys across the north by canoe, but these days she travels a...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Apr 03, 2015
- Length: 11:06
- Purchases: 1
Corinna, 16, got into so much trouble that her parents told her she needed to pack her bags. So she did.
- Added: Nov 12, 2014
- Length: 05:36
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition
In this short piece, Miguel reminisces about watching the 2010 soccer world cup on a day that his mom was off from work-something that doesn't happ...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 02:21
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Northern Cheapskate - Acoustic Stories
Series: Northern Cheapskate - Acoustic Stories
Christina Brown, AKA The Northern Cheapskate, presents an essay talking about cheap gas prices.
- Added: Jul 31, 2014
- Length: 02:33
In Tara Trudell's descriptive and beautiful piece, cooking is a metaphor for love, and standing her ground after losing everything is a decision sh...
- Added: Sep 26, 2013
- Length: 02:20
To understand what civility is these days in times of tweets, smart phones, blogs and Facebook, we first have to look at "uncivil" and how "uncivil...
- Added: Aug 25, 2013
- Length: 02:36
Youth-producer Adrieana Montes produces an audio essay about her family’s legacy surrounding the number eight. Created in collaboration with P.O.D....
- Added: Jun 29, 2012
- Length: 03:26
A look at the European tricks and treats of the last month, England in Autumn before leaving the UK
Bought by KWMR
- Added: Nov 05, 2011
- Length: 09:44
- Purchases: 1
Corrie showed up at the original meeting to plan Occupy Boston with a sign that read "I am a nurse without healthcare. I am the 99 percent."
Bought by KGNU Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Oct 14, 2011
- Length: 05:30
- Purchases: 3
Remember Summer as a kid? Remember how there were no iPhones, video games or computers? Just the world outside waiting to be explored. Recollection...
Bought by KWSO
- Added: Aug 17, 2011
- Length: 05:18
- Purchases: 1
It's Crunch Time this week; sharing stories of the times you were late or just barely made it as we get through the Crunch Time of our summer fundr...
- Added: Jun 20, 2011
- Length: 04:20
Song, poetry, and prose for our moms on Mother's Day.
- Added: Apr 26, 2011
- Length: 47:59
Sparks turning into the stars; really living.
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Jul 26, 2010
- Length: 03:23
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Dec 24, 2009
- Length: 02:42
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 25, 2009
- Length: 04:58
A walk through the Sound Tunnel in Central Park with producer Mary Wilson.
- Added: Aug 13, 2009
- Length: 03:38
Oklahoma's oldest higher education building is back in use after a two-year, $8.6 million renovation.
- Added: Aug 08, 2009
- Length: 03:56
