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2024-04-19 Artificial Intelligence, Real Climate Impacts
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Artificial intelligence can do some pretty amazing things, including for the climate. AI can help optimize the electric grid, make heating and cool...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
Michael Wolraich discusses "The Bishop and the Butterfly:Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Vivian Gordon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat. Her body turned up the next morning in a desolate Bronx park, a dirty cloth...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2024
  • Length: 25:44
240112: Pairing Scientists with Community Advocates, 1/12/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The climate crisis can feel distant — like it’s someone else’s problem — until your town is flooded, your home is damaged by storms, or you're stru...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
Do You Believe in the Power of Rock and Roll?
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we talked about the new book by veteran music journalist John Robb, which features a selection of artist profiles from throughout ...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2023
  • Length: 28:35
Devo
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode of the Polley Music Library show, we talked about the book "Recombo DNA," an in-depth biography of the band Devo that focuses on th...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:31
Post-Punk San Francisco
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode of the Polley Music Library show, we discussed the book "Who Cares Anyway: Post-Punk San Francisco and the End of the Analog Age" b...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2023
  • Length: 28:23
Good Health and Wellbeing UN Goal #3
From: melodically challenged
Series: Saving the Planet: The United Nations Sustainability Goals
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Welcome to Melodically Challenged.  Today, we continue our series on the U. N. Sustainable Development Goals with an hour dedicated to Goal number ...

  • Added: May 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:06
Feminist Poets: Past American Voices
From: New Letters on the Air
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For Women's History Month, we feature a special program about four important feminist poets who led the the next generations into the 21st century....

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WNMU-FM, KBIA, WNMU-FM, WDCB and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 19
731-Greg's Comet(519)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Halley's Comet, Credit: NASA
The discovery of a Jupiter family comet whose fate is to become a garden variety main belt asteroid.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WYAP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Jan 29, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
War Crimes: From Belgrade to Kyiv
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode we tackle these questions with a war-crimes prosecutor, a former student organizer who played a critical role in the downfal...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Apr 21, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
How to Stop a Civil War (Before It Starts)
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Ray Suarez interviews acclaimed author Barbara Walter about the risk factors than can contribute to the outbreak of violence and civil war.

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Feb 16, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
David Hill discusses "The Vapors"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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David Hill is a writer from Hot Springs, Arkansas. His work has appeared regularly in Grantland and The Ringer, and has been featured in The New Yo...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2021
  • Length: 14:16
Opera recorded 8/2003
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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older, middle and younger generations discuss Opera

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 24:05
Unions -recorded 7/2003
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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A generational comparison on Unions and their imporatnce.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 23:58
Health Insurance recorded 3/2003
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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A comparative generational discussion on the issues evolving in health insurance.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 24:28
Nursing recorded 1/2003
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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A generational discussion about nursing as of 2003

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 24:08
Popular Music recorded 1/2003
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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David Miller, of NPR's show Swinging Down the Lane, is one of the guests on this program of generational thoughts on Popular Music.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 24:53
Home Ownership recorded 1/2003
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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A generational discussion about home ownership

  • Added: Mar 31, 2021
  • Length: 24:41
Smoking
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Recorded in August of 2002, a generational discussion about smoking

  • Added: Mar 30, 2021
  • Length: 24:40
The Untold Story of Food Security and the SCSU Community Garden with Tracy Ore
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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It's finally gardening time in Minnesota, and this year that "hobby" might take on a little more meaning, especially when it comes to community gar...

  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 28:25
Manuel Pastor, author of "State of Resistance"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Bob Kustra interviews Manuel Pastor about his book "State of Resistance" about California's past and how it can inform America's future.

  • Added: Dec 03, 2018
  • Length: 30:11
458-Large and Close
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On June 30, 1908 a celestial object exploded 28,000 feet above the Tunguska river drainage area in Siberia, Russia releasing the energy of 185 Hiro...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WTIP, KKRN and more


  • Added: May 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
When Police Kill Parts One & Two
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious discusses police killings in a two-part conversation with U.C. Berkeley Boalt Hall Law School professor Franklin E. Zimring, author o...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Nov 21, 2017
  • Length: 58:02
  • Purchases: 1
James Rollins discusses "The Seventh Plague"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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James Rollins is a prolific novelist who lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

  • Added: Dec 15, 2016
  • Length: 09:17
The Life of Whalers in the 19th Century
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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adio Curious discusses the history of whale hunting with Michael Dyer, senior historian at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in New Bedford, Massachus...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2016
  • Length: 29:01