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Who should decide how stories and artifacts of a cultural heritage are shared? What's the difference between appropriation and appreciation?

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, KOWS, KMXT, and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 52:53
  • Purchases: 5
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Poet Ross Gay on the small, sweet delights of life's daily walk with no fireworks or fanfare.

Bought by WLRH and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 52:54
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: ILLUSTRATION, Credit: by Doug Dobey
More ghostly encounters of a Third Kind with a woman named Sarah who seems to have something of a shine.

  • Added: Oct 31, 2023
  • Length: 25:23
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Argentina, Estonia, Thailand. A ballet career could land you on just about any world stage. International success catapulted Steven Melendez to all...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 52:54
  • Purchases: 1
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We all have English pet peeves (and judge people who break the rules). Why do we insist on proper English — and what does that say about us?

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, KOWS, KMXT, and WYAP


  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 52:52
  • Purchases: 5
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When a congenital condition began to destroy Andrew Leland's eyesight, he decided that the result didn't have to be tragic.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WYAP


  • Added: Oct 20, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 2
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How a pair of courageous botanists became the first women to run the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WYAP


  • Added: Sep 29, 2023
  • Length: 52:53
  • Purchases: 2
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By age 25, a young Croatian had come down with a bad case of wanderlust. So much wanderlust that he lived out his days as a perpetual pedestrian, w...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Sep 14, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 2
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Death and loss are a normal part of life, but American culture is uncomfortable with intense grieving. How can we face our fear of grief?

Bought by RADIOLEX, RadioStPete Florida, KOWS, WYAP, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 7
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In her late 20s, Erica Buist had never been invited or expected to be anywhere near a deceased human. Death had been cloistered away from her, or s...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Sep 07, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 2
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Dr. Holly Golecki, a professor in the Bioengineering department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, talks about using soft robotics ...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2023
  • Length: 48:22
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Police officers spend a lot of time on routine traffic stops because they make us all safer, right? We're assessing our assumptions about public sa...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioStPete Florida, WVTF, KSTK, KOWS and more


  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 52:52
  • Purchases: 8
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It's a massive lake with a murky reputation. It's survived a carp invasion, decades of dumped raw sewage, and the draining of surrounding wetlands....

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 52:53
  • Purchases: 3
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A lot of us think about adoption as a happy ending for a child and a new family. But many adoptees have a different take. We're assessing our assum...

Bought by RADIOLEX, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, KOWS, and KMXT


  • Added: Aug 25, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 5
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In the depth of the sea, where the sun is powerless to send a single ray of light, there live many strange beings. Of these sea folk, we know nothi...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Aug 25, 2023
  • Length: 52:52
  • Purchases: 2
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Burkhard Bilger shares the surprising truth about his grandfather's life and service in Hitler's Germany, it's the latest episode of the Constant W...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 16, 2023
  • Length: 52:53
  • Purchases: 3
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What does it mean to die well? Too often people want easy ways out. Either do everything no questions asked, grin and bear it, or give me a suicide...

Bought by KOWS, KSTK, KMXT, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Aug 16, 2023
  • Length: 52:53
  • Purchases: 4
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Sleep and dreaming. It's when the unconscious mind can process events, solve problems and organize memories. But a mere 20 years ago, little consen...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Aug 10, 2023
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 1
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What do you do when you discover the branch of your family tree that you've always been proud of includes a dark family secret? Is it always better...

Bought by KMXT, RadioStPete Florida, RADIOLEX, KOWS, and KSTK


  • Added: Jul 27, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 5
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Undoing Dracula's nasty reputation, impossible! Reversing the undeserved reputation of bats, now that's a different task all together. And the bat ...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WYAP


  • Added: Jul 27, 2023
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 2
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The miracle of life filled Christopher Clark with a heightened sense of awe, even as he was slowly dying. We'll get to know the Chris Clark story i...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Jul 20, 2023
  • Length: 52:52
  • Purchases: 1
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A transformational summer spent with skuas, penguins, and seals.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Jul 14, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 1
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It's a dog-eat-dog world, and that's probably for the best.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jul 05, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 2
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Clippings of Washington's hair were, for some, like a "selfie." For others, they were used to claim racial superiority.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jun 14, 2023
  • Length: 52:49
  • Purchases: 2
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Naturalist Lyanda Lynn Haupt makes a case for becoming rooted in nature. Sometimes, even with potential risks.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 06, 2023
  • Length: 52:53
  • Purchases: 3