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04 | Betsy Peters
From: Natalia Guerrero
Series: Avant
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Avant interviews Betsy Peters, director of programs at the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum. She shares her perspective on designing experiences for the...

  • Added: May 24, 2022
  • Length: 18:36
Harlem Keeps Jazz Traditions Alive As Pandemic Restrictions Ease
From: Catharine Smith
Caption: Josh Morris, 15, onstage in Harlem.
While New York City reopens, Harlem musicians continue one of jazz's most revered traditions at the historic Minton's Playhouse.

  • Added: Apr 16, 2021
  • Length: 04:20
GN_6.58_ Biological Building
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
Caption: Change your focus, change your world.
Living concrete: This biological material has multiple layers that allow for the growth of plants on the outside of a building, without sacrificin...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 1
GN_7.12_TalkToTheHands
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 7
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Kenyan inventor has designed a pair of gloves that translate signed hand movements into speech.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2021
  • Length: 02:34
Patient No. 7
From: Israel Story
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On February 28, 2020, Roni Bargill was taken by ambulance to the special COVID-19 compound at Tel HaShomer Hospital, where he was informed that he ...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2020
  • Length: 28:12
How Afterschool Programs Empower Parents
From: Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Series: Ways & Means "Shorts"
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Afterschool programs can provide students with additional education opportunities. But a Duke University researcher says these programs can also u...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: May 28, 2020
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
Comedy in Quarantine
From: Brett Forrest
Caption: Comedian Tyler Fischer turns his bedroom into an online venue., Credit: http://TylerFischer.com
How standup comedians and venues in New York City are coping and adapting to comedy in quarantine without their audiences.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2020
  • Length: 03:40
A Green Idea to Power Rural Nepal
From: Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Series: Ways & Means Podcast
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Researchers are investigating a method of creating power from fast moving streams in Nepal. Sometimes these micro-hydro minigrids work and sometime...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jan 14, 2020
  • Length: 16:08
  • Purchases: 1
How to Get More People to Ride the Bus
From: Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Series: Ways & Means Podcast
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What motivates commuters to leave their cars behind, and take the bus or a bike to work instead? A government innovation team in Durham, North Caro...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jan 14, 2020
  • Length: 15:20
  • Purchases: 1
How Parenthood Affects Climate Change Skeptics
From: Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Series: Ways & Means Podcast
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Research shows that when Republican parents are thinking about their parental identity rather than their partisan identity, they are more likely to...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jan 14, 2020
  • Length: 20:37
  • Purchases: 2
How Cultural Training Helps Doctors Treat Refugees
From: Side Effects Public Media
Caption: Adam Paarlberg (left) and medical assistant Ngun Tial (right) demonstrate how the live interpreter Martti system works., Credit: CARTER BARRETT/SIDE EFFECTS PUBLIC MEDIA.
Across the United States, there’s a push to give new doctors cultural training to work with refugees and other immigrants. And some say it’s the di...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WOUB


  • Added: Sep 13, 2019
  • Length: 03:25
  • Purchases: 3
How The Amish Live Uninsured But Stay Healthy
From: Side Effects Public Media
Caption: A horse and buggy drive through Holmes Co., the heart of Ohio's Amish community., Credit: PAIGE PFLEGER / SIDE EFFECTS PUBLIC MEDIA
One of the healthiest counties in the Midwest is also the least insured. About 40 percent of the people in Holmes County Ohio do not have health in...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WOUB


  • Added: Sep 13, 2019
  • Length: 04:05
  • Purchases: 3
The Feminist Case for Joining a Men's Group
From: Felix Poon
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What is an anti-sexist men’s group? And, if I’m a man who identifies as progressive with feminist values, isn’t that enough? What do I need a group...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 13, 2019
  • Length: 13:11
  • Purchases: 1
Abortion Stories: Mother, Daughter And A Clinic
From: Side Effects Public Media
Caption: Marilyn Evans stands outside the Women's Med Center of Dayton, where both she and her daughter got abortions., Credit: PAIGE PFLEGER / SIDE EFFECTS PUBLIC MEDIA
"This is the spot," Marilyn Evans says, standing in the empty parking lot of the Women’s Med Center in Kettering, Ohio. The Women's Med Center is ...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2019
  • Length: 04:08
Why This Group Hands Out Free 'Morning After' Pills
From: Side Effects Public Media
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Rows of silver and pink plastic packages sit on the bathroom counter inside Bean, a Louisville coffee shop. Each package carries these words: emerg...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 16, 2019
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 1
Indiana Play Explores Health Inequity For African American Women
From: Side Effects Public Media
Caption: Actors, community members and researchers joined a talk-back after the performance of One Blood., Credit: JILL SHERIDAN/IPB NEWS
African American women in Indiana face disparities in healthcare and health outcomes. They are more likely to die during or after childbirth then w...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 24, 2019
  • Length: 03:55
  • Purchases: 1
Childbirth, Babies & Bonuses
From: Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
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New research on how providing incentives for doctors in the developing world might help more women survive childbirth.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 22, 2019
  • Length: 03:02
  • Purchases: 1
Ethan Brown, CEO of Beyond Meat, Explains How They Make the Plant-based Burger to Taste Just Like Meat
From: Awesome Vegans with Elysabeth Alfano
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Host Elysabeth Alfano talks with Ethan Brown, CEO of Beyond Meat, about the meat market he intends to capture before getting a tour of the factory ...

  • Added: May 10, 2019
  • Length: 06:57
Stopping the Gentrification Train
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
Caption: Evans Station Lofts
Making neighborhoods sustainable makes them desirable and rising prices push old residents out. Community land trusts in Denver CO and Burlington ...

Bought by WFHB, KGNU Community Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jan 10, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Rats! New York vermin might be making you sick
From: Sarah Wyman
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Rats and other vermin are adversely impacting respiratory health.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 03:38
California Innocence Project: Evidence - episode 6
From: KHSU
Series: California Innocence Project
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The associate director for the California Innocence Project talks about the importance of working to address issues of evidence retention and prese...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
UnCommonCore Podcast Episode 20 | Spring and Summer Fashion 2018 | Capsule Show Part 3
From: Tom Howell
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UnCommonCore Podcast | Episode 20 | Tom and 2thBrush cover Spring and Summer 2018 fashion in our third installment of the Capsule Show from New Yor...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: 01:01:12
Life of the Law #117: The Gift and Curse of Music - Haiti's Fight for Copyright
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Serge Turnier
The Gift and Curse of Music – Haiti’s Fight for Copyright is the story of Serge Turnier, a music producer and composer in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Ju...

Bought by KISA Digital Studios


  • Added: Sep 05, 2017
  • Length: 35:55
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law #109: Unequal Protection - Part 2
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Warren McCleskey's last words, Credit: Sarah Marshall
Part 2 of Sarah Marshall’s report on Warren McCleskey’s life after the Supreme Court ruling and his execution on September 25, 1991 by the state of...

  • Added: May 23, 2017
  • Length: 32:44
Life of the Law #104: Heroin Town
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: addiction, alexander kim, canada, cited podcast, Crosstown Clinic, Dave Murray, diacetylmorphine, Dianne Tobin, fentanyl, gordon katic, Health Canada, Helsinki declaration, heroin, heroin addiction treatment, Kevin Thompson, legal heroin, NAOMI, NPA, over, Credit: Travis Lupick
Doctors usually treat heroin addiction with methadone, but it doesn’t work for everyone. So what do you do? At a small clinic in Vancouver BC, they...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2017
  • Length: 48:30

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