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This year’s outbreak of the West Nile virus is breaking records, with over 1500 cases reported so far. One researcher believes that decreasing the ...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Sep 07, 2012
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 1
While news stories about youth and guns usually involve death or injury, some Hoosiers believe that when young people learn to use firearms safely...
- Added: Aug 28, 2012
- Length: 03:09
Many foster children live in several homes during a short span of time. All of the disruption has been correlated to poor academic performance.
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 02:26
The drought that settled into Oklahoma last year is getting worse. And it’s hurting business owners such as Harold Blackledge, an agricultural pilo...
- Added: Aug 20, 2012
- Length: 03:30
As more and more businesses require employees to have at least a high-school degree, those who do not are getting left behind. In response, public ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 04:49
- Purchases: 1
As part of the NewsHour's American Graduate series, correspondent Spencer Michels reports on Techbridge, an after-school program based in Oakland, ...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 09:42
In Shelbyville, Ind., Melissa Lakes and the Student Achievement Center provide at-risk students with technology-enhanced hands-on learning. But it ...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 08:56
How does violence affect students' ability to learn? That's what eighth-grader De'Qonton Davis and his classmates set out to investigate as part of...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 09:04
Similar to prison guards, police unions advocacy for their members has helped perpetuate cycles of criminalization and incarceration that plague Am...
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 09:17
Support, or opposition from a prison guard union can make or break a campaign for office. The most powerful of them all is the California Correcti...
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 11:30
Modern science has given us a vaccine to protect against Lyme disease, the most common tick-borne illness in the United States. But we don't use it.
Bought by WABE and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 29, 2012
- Length: 07:26
- Purchases: 2
In late 2011. the federal government decided to demolish five old seaside cottages on Cape Cod that were at threat of being washed away due to coas...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 29, 2012
- Length: 08:26
- Purchases: 1
Yes we need quality teachers...but do we really know what that means?
- Added: May 07, 2012
- Length: 28:35
Texas has been fracking for years...so what does Ohio's gas exploration future look like?
- Added: May 07, 2012
- Length: 28:30
When you think of climate change, you might think of melting ice shelves. Heat waves. Shrinking habitat for animals and plants. You might not think...
Bought by Aspen Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Apr 10, 2012
- Length: 03:36
- Purchases: 3
Plants don't have ears, right? And if they can't hear you would assume that noise wouldn't matter much to them, which is why researchers haven't gi...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Apr 06, 2012
- Length: 03:14
- Purchases: 1
Bad news for the bat population, a disease that has killed more than five million bats in the eastern United States and Canada has now reached Miss...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Apr 06, 2012
- Length: 03:34
- Purchases: 1
If you’ve lived in San Francisco long enough, you might have noticed that there are fewer yellow school buses crisscrossing the city. State budget ...
- Added: Apr 05, 2012
- Length: 05:25
When you look at the numbers, many long held truths about crime crumble. Like this one: who do you think is more likely to become a life-long crimi...
- Added: Apr 05, 2012
- Length: 25:08
Whitebark pine trees, once a feature of the mountainous west, are under attack. Nearly two-thirds have died from beetle attacks and other causes, h...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Mar 17, 2012
- Length: 05:56
- Purchases: 1
Caves may lie beneath our radar, but they play an important role in many Southeastern U.S. ecosystems. They filter water and shelter diverse wildli...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Mar 15, 2012
- Length: 03:44
- Purchases: 3
TOMS shoes promises that if you buy a pair of its canvas slip-ons, they'll give a pair to a child in need. The company's "Buy One, Give One" busine...
- Added: Mar 15, 2012
- Length: 19:11
- Purchases: 3
Across the nation, the debate about medical marijuana continues, even in the states where its use has been legalized. But in Michigan the controver...
Bought by Vocalo.org and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Mar 06, 2012
- Length: 08:57
- Purchases: 2
Desperation leads to dramatic self-immolations in Tibet. Tibetan reporter Lhakpa Kyizom reports from Dharamsala, India.
- Added: Mar 02, 2012
- Length: 06:40
Members of the Parkside community and Vernon triangle met on Feb. 29 to discuss the future of the former Fairfield public library. The building, de...
- Added: Mar 01, 2012
- Length: 04:09
