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An audio essay that combines science, personal moments, and the wit and wisdom of four 100-year-old (and up) women.
- Added: Nov 13, 2015
- Length: 10:26
Billions of pounds of plastic can now be found on about 40 percent of the world’s ocean surfaces. In this radio documentary, KVNF's Ali Lightfoot...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio
- Added: Apr 06, 2015
- Length: 28:04
- Purchases: 1
Today on our show, four stories of people who tried to see themselves clearly
Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jun 27, 2014
- Length: 58:53
- Purchases: 3
This week we're asking what it takes to get us to give, and how we know if we're doing it right.
Bought by WMUU-LP, WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, WKCC, and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jun 26, 2014
- Length: 58:53
- Purchases: 5
On this week's episode, stories about looking for answers in the wrong places, mercury in the water, and...bigfoot.
Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9
- Added: Jun 25, 2014
- Length: 58:55
- Purchases: 2
This episode features stories about projects that might seem impossible at first: tiny house construction, moving by bike, "hacking" reality, and h...
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
A profile of two master bird banders (and their trainees) who converge every May on the Crown Point State Historic site along the shores of Lake Ch...
- Added: May 29, 2013
- Length: 26:43
- Purchases: 2
Digital music is the furthest we’ve come from running needles through intricate grooves, but record orders keep coming in.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 21, 2013
- Length: 02:22
- Purchases: 1
Here, the direct physiological and psychological affects of sound on the human brain are examined.
- Added: Mar 15, 2013
- Length: 06:20
This installment examines how humans perceive sound, and how we listen, with a number of experiments as aids.
- Added: Mar 15, 2013
- Length: 10:25
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
The Tympanic Eclipse is an audio series that brings cultural theory out of its stuffy scholarly tomes, and puts it into your ears.
Together with e...
- Added: Oct 17, 2012
- Length: :00
- Added: Jun 01, 2012
- Length: 15:00
- Purchases: 1
This is an amazing tale about a goose, two scientists and an ocean between them
Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and KMXT
- Added: Jan 16, 2011
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Jun 19, 2010
- Length: 10:39
A provocative tour into one of America's most curious museums, The Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
- Added: May 23, 2010
- Length: 10:22
- Purchases: 3
A chorus of voices shares stories and insights about the phenomenon of sleep paralysis and nighttime hallucinations.
Bought by XRAY.fm and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Jan 12, 2010
- Length: 10:25
- Purchases: 2
A boy's grief led him to an extraordinary discovery...
Bought by XRAY.fm, WJCT, KUT, KUOW, and Remix Radio
- Added: Oct 05, 2009
- Length: 09:35
- Purchases: 5
Syphilitic skulls, racial science, and some of the oldest non-western music recordings in history - come explore the beauty and pathos that is the ...
- Added: Apr 15, 2008
- Length: 32:55
