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Understanding the varieties of conversational styles can mean the difference between feeling you're understood and being insulted. "High involvemen...
- Added: Apr 27, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
Tim Stover is a sculptor exploring the medium of glass, creating work through two different methods. One, reassembling broken sections of glass int...
- Added: Apr 27, 2021
- Length: 06:14
As economic gaps rise, students are often the most affected. In Utah, one school is finally taking a stand for less fortunate students.
- Added: Apr 23, 2021
- Length: 02:30
In some US neighborhoods, it is easier to get a gun than fresh produce. In Los Angeles, Ron Finley is taking a stand - one garden at a time.
- Added: Apr 23, 2021
- Length: 02:30
50 million new-planted trees and a Guinness World Record later, India is on its way to reducing extreme pollution.
- Added: Apr 23, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Bees are good for much more than stinging. With bee populations rapidly declining, Cedar Rapids is finding a way to give them a second shot.
- Added: Apr 20, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Is there something inherent in English that makes it the linguistic equivalent of the Borg, dominating and consuming other languages in its path? N...
- Added: Apr 19, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
In this episode, we will hear how a healthcare worker in Rural Texas is getting the word out about vaccination despite a lack of resources.
- Added: Apr 16, 2021
- Length: 04:16
An anadrome is a word that forms a whole new word when you spell it backwards. For example, the word "stressed" spelled backwards is "desserts." So...
- Added: Apr 12, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
Locust Projects director Lorie Mertes and artists from a collaborative known as FeCuOp—Jason Ferguson, Christian Curiel, Brandon Opalka, and Victor...
- Added: Apr 07, 2021
- Length: 19:38
Books were rare treasures in the Middle Ages, painstakingly copied out by hand. So how to protect them from theft? Scribes sometimes added a curse ...
- Added: Apr 05, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
We take our voices for granted, but it's truly miraculous that we communicate complex thoughts simply by moving our mouths while exhaling. A fascin...
- Added: Mar 29, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 19
The new Downton Abbey movie is a luscious treat for fans of the public-television period piece, but how accurate is the script when it comes to the...
Bought by KUAT, KVSC, KTSW 89.9, Tri States Public Radio, WNIN and more
- Added: Mar 22, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 16
For rock climbers, skiers, and other outdoor enthusiasts, the word "send" has a whole new meaning. You might cheer on a fellow snowboarder with "Se...
- Added: Mar 15, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
“Play for Power” charging swing sets generate power for commuters.
- Added: Mar 11, 2021
- Length: 02:19
Street Store is a rent-free, building free, pop-up clothing store that is organized and worked by volunteers, to give clothing to the homeless abso...
- Added: Mar 11, 2021
- Length: 02:21
The city of Atlanta, Georgia is transforming 7 acres of unused land into the nation's largest food forest.
- Added: Mar 09, 2021
- Length: 02:36
So you've long dreamed of writing fiction, but don't know where to begin? There are lots of ways to get started -- creative writing classes, local ...
- Added: Mar 08, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 17
A vending machine delivers essential supplies to the homeless of Muncie, Indiana.
- Added: Mar 02, 2021
- Length: 02:19
A local police department helps raise donations for their local animal shelter in an innovative, win-win way.
- Added: Mar 02, 2021
- Length: 02:14
In Cockney rhyming slang, apples and pears is a synonym for "stairs," and dustbin lids means kids. Plus, sniglets are clever coinages for things we...
Bought by KUAT, WYAP, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), Tri States Public Radio, WNIN and more
- Added: Mar 02, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 14
This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we're talking to Dani Fuller, owner of Fuller Art House in Sylvania, Ohio. A space specifically located in the...
- Added: Mar 02, 2021
- Length: 05:59
Long time GJ member Jonquilyn Hill speaks with us about her new podcast Through the Cracks.
- Added: Mar 01, 2021
- Length: 58:18
A former Chicago gang member enters rival territory to ask for peace.
- Added: Feb 27, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Overdoses have spiked during the pandemic. One of the reasons is a breakdown in the community support so critical to keeping people off drugs. Soci...
- Added: Feb 25, 2021
- Length: 04:21
