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Caption: A volunteer with the non-profit Maritime Heritage explores a boat wreck at the bottom of Christmas Lake, Credit: Josh Knutson / Maritime Heritage
Have you ever accidentally dropped something in a lake? Plenty of Minnesotans have. That's why lake and river bottoms are full of artifacts and boa...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2022
  • Length: 06:38
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This week on the show: Arbitration courts - why citizens foot the bill for big investors - When foreign investors sue governments for losses ...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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Some surprisingly controversial theories of human longevity. 

  • Added: Oct 18, 2017
  • Length: 18:06
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"She called us on the phone and said, 'You will not be allowed to return to the Y.'"

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 08:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Teenager Max Gay interviews his classmates about their version of the American Dream. Turns out the new generation doesn't want a white picket fenc...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2015
  • Length: 05:05
Caption: Brain illustration , Credit: The Popular Science Monthly, 1894
The early days of neuroscience relied on tragedy to strike before doctors could peek inside the brains of humans. Today advanced technology helps s...

  • Added: May 28, 2015
  • Length: 43:39
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Provincetown has long been known as a bastion of tolerance, but hate crimes in the late eighties and early nineties threatened the town's reputatio...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2014
  • Length: 11:48
Caption: Solid Comfort, 1906., Credit: Library of Congress
This show takes on the frothy subject of beer, and explores the science, culture, and history behind the suds.

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Jul 22, 2014
  • Length: 30:45
  • Purchases: 1
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Free, audio excerpt from a book. The California of Harris’ youth was a very different place than it is today: It was a verdant oasis of orange grov...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 06:35
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The San Francisco Wave Organ remains one of the Bay Area's most unknown, misunderstood and yet beloved landmarks. After listening, I hope you'll wa...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 24, 2012
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 1
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The Coalition of Immokalee Workers organized a rally in front of a center city Trader Joes and the Philly Student Union was there to help support.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 03:04
Caption: Yasmine Gustafsson
Bullying isn't an American phenomenon. In Sweden, a federally-appointed bullying ombudsman will sue a school district for not sheltering students f...

Bought by Listenwise, New Hampshire Public Radio, and Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Feb 21, 2012
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Fold.It screen shot
A web-based video game called FoldIt uses crowd-sourcing in the hopes of solving some very big -- er, tiny -- biological problems.

  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 06:17
Caption: Crazy Heart author Thomas Cobb is a professor at Rhode Island College., Credit: Rhonda J. Miller
With Crazy Heart winning Academy Awards for best actor and best original song, Rhode Island author Thomas Cobb says the seeds of his book were pla...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2010
  • Length: 04:00
Caption: Bill Jones
Three Purple Heart recipients talk about how they earned their medals.

Bought by The Story, KUT, KRUA, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Feb 12, 2008
  • Length: 05:25
  • Purchases: 4