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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
Caption: Tanya Dimitrova, founder of Science Journal for Kids, Credit: Courtesy of Tanya Dimitrova
Do scientific research articles sometimes sound like another language? To K-12 students, very often it’s yes. Tanya Dimitrova tried to help solve...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2022
  • Length: 48:59
Caption: Avant 03 | Pamela Schwartz
Avant interviews Pamela Schwartz, executive director at the Orange County Regional History Center. She shares her approach to collecting and curati...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2022
  • Length: 27:08
Caption: Rosemary Kamei of the Silicon Valley Education Foundation., Credit: Silicon Valley Education Foundation
The Silicon Valley Education Foundation (SVEF) is a nonprofit running several programs in K-12 STEM education, including its Computer Science Insti...

  • Added: May 24, 2021
  • Length: 35:39
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Recorded in August of 2002, a generational discussion about smoking

  • Added: Mar 30, 2021
  • Length: 24:40
Caption: Dr. Russell Dupuis, Credit: Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
LEDs, or light-emitting diodes, have changed the world – and continue to do so. This energy-efficient electronics technology came from decades of ...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 53:11
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Mechanical engineers must work to eliminate excessive jerk. This is Episode 100 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fasc...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2020
  • Length: 05:51
Caption: Clockwise from top-left: Steve Dembo, Victoria Thompson, Pius Wong, and Rachel Fahrig
These teachers know tech. Steve Dembo and Victoria Thompson teach in K-12 and are also educational technology consultants. Steve is a middle scho...

  • Added: May 11, 2020
  • Length: 01:11:32
Caption: New York City, where School That Can is based.
Casey Lamb and Roger Horton work with the nonprofit organization Schools That Can. Schools That Can aims to promote real-world learning in educati...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2020
  • Length: 52:13
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One is fun, and zero is a hero, in our engineering programming languages. This is Episode 73 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on fa...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2018
  • Length: 03:42
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We talk strategies for teaching computer science (CS), with Dr. Cynthia Taylor, a computer science professor at The University of Illinois at Chica...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2017
  • Length: 37:10
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A generational discussion on the evolution of grammar in our society and culture.

  • Added: Feb 26, 2017
  • Length: 51:27
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Ari Solomon, the genius behind the viral video "Sh*t Vegans Say" and director of communications for Mercy for Animals, on how anyone can be a vegan...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2016
  • Length: 28:29
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The first of three VegFund-sponsored activist spotlight episodes: Katie Cantrell, founder and executive director of the Factory Farming Awareness C...

  • Added: May 23, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
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Corporate disruptor Liz Dee on impact investing and the cultural shift toward plant-based and cultured alternatives to animal products. Dee is co-o...

  • Added: May 16, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
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Prolific vegan cookbook author Terry Hope Romero talks about her latest book - Protein Ninja - and how vegan cooking and taste evolves over the yea...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
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Jeff and Joan Stanford, owners of all vegan The Stanford Inn, dish on their new cookbook Dining at The Ravens.

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: Mar 21, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Barry Truitt., Credit: Charles McGuigan
This is the fastest moving real estate on the entire East Coast, and behind the sandy shores of these Virginia Barrier Islands is the purest ocean...

  • Added: May 29, 2015
  • Length: 27:16
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How China looks to students in two Chinese Schools near Seattle, WA.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 05:13
Caption: A pile of foldscopes, Credit: Prakash Lab
I am in a lab tucked away in the basement of a Stanford University engineering building. Bioengineering professor Manu Prakash is showing me a tiny...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 28, 2014
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 2
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College-aged Latinos are the fastest growing population in Northern Virginia, yet these young adults are rarely making it through the education pip...

Bought by KENW, WXDU, and WEZU


  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 3
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Andrie Morris talks to playwright and Shakespeare expert, Jennie Buckman and Jatinder Verma, Artistic Director of Tara Arts about working with Shak...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2014
  • Length: 16:14
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Karen's latest book is “Reaching the Animal Mind.” Having started out as the world’s foremost dolphin trainer, Pryor is responsible for developing ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 2
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As the son of the great civil rights attorney, Oliver Hill Sr., Oliver Hill Jr. knows a thing or two about fighting for equality. He says that toda...

Bought by KENW, WABE, and WXDU


  • Added: Jan 24, 2014
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 3
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It’s an age old question for teachers from elementary school to college: how do you get students to do their homework? Some educators are trying to...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:28