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Bill Shanabruch left his job as regional biologist for the Piedmont with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. It was over a boondoggl...
- Added: Apr 23, 2024
- Length: 26:08
As staggeringly complex as the environmental catastrophe is, by tackling one small space at a time, we might be able to bring back entire ecosystem...
- Added: Apr 16, 2024
- Length: 24:26
Episode 60: Unravel the complexities of Anorexia Nervosa, the deadliest mental illness after opioid overdose. Biomedical writer Evelyn Strauss and ...
- Added: Jan 20, 2024
- Length: 58:39
Episode 61 explores the stark reality that almost one in three adolescents will grapple with an anxiety disorder by age 18. Join us as college stud...
- Added: Jan 19, 2024
- Length: 57:54
In the last full episode of the season, we travel to the Greenland ice sheet and hear from a researcher who collects data at the face of tidewater ...
- Added: Jul 12, 2023
- Length: 23:22
We hear what makes tidewater glacier habitat an acoustic refuge, and why glaciers are important to other species in the ecosystem.
- Added: Jun 26, 2023
- Length: 19:11
A rare little seabird nests in the rugged mountains between Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
- Added: Feb 08, 2023
- Length: 01:45
A passion for movement encounters serious constriction when a yoga instructor and lifelong athlete is diagnosed with thoracic outlet syndrome. When...
- Added: Sep 20, 2022
- Length: 22:11
From Selma, Alabama to Brooklyn, New York — we look at how racial violence and racial memory impacts our country and our libraries.
Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Nov 18, 2020
- Length: 22:24
- Purchases: 2
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
Will Rogers had friends in big business, but that did not make them immune from his criticism.
Bought by WYAP
- Added: May 20, 2020
- Length: 01:01
- Purchases: 1
- Added: May 06, 2020
- Length: 01:02
- Purchases: 1
Will Rogers begins to incorporate humor and commentary to stand out over other trick ropers.
- Added: Apr 22, 2020
- Length: 01:02
Andrew Carnegie has a classic rags-to-riches story: an immigrant turned steel magnate who financed the construction of over 2,500 public library bu...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 06, 2020
- Length: 31:06
- Purchases: 1
Will's unsuccessful experience as a gaucho leads to his career in media
- Added: Apr 06, 2020
- Length: 01:01
It is the most expansive war in human history, and it is occurring on every continent. Unlike all previous wars, this one is truly a world war beca...
- Added: Jan 06, 2020
- Length: 27:37
Books on conveyor belts, book vacuums and books in the mail. This episode of “Borrowed” will take you behind the scenes to see how books travel aro...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 16:48
- Purchases: 1
Kairi Hollon tried to go to the library when he was a teenager in Brooklyn in the 1980s, but he kept getting kicked out. Years later, he came back ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 22:09
- Purchases: 1
From “the most expensive pigeon roost in the world” to one of the world’s most unique libraries, Brooklyn’s Central Library has many stories to tel...
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- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 23:01
- Purchases: 1
We start this episode at Dead Horse Bay, where we ask what trash can tell us about structures of power, and end the episode in 1960s Bed-Stuy, wher...
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- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 20:50
- Purchases: 1
We're talking trash at the library today. Specifically, the story of a 3,000-ton garbage barge that made a scene in Brooklyn in the 1980s… and, we ...
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- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 21:06
- Purchases: 1
Edward Harden Peeples V was born to be a racist. It almost seemed preordained. One of his ancestors had owned 250 slaves and his father loathed bla...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Sep 09, 2019
- Length: 25:37
- Purchases: 1
David Hudson has been principal of Linwood Holton Elementary School for thirteen years now. When he took over the reins of command, the school—thou...
- Added: Sep 03, 2019
- Length: 27:19
David Hudson had been principal of Linwood Holton Elementary School for thirteen years now. When he took over the reins of command, the school—thou...
- Added: Sep 03, 2019
- Length: 27:11
The story behind the story of Three Dog Bakery, and how a dog with special needs brought all the elements together.
- Added: Aug 26, 2019
- Length: 02:00
