PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging

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Nearly a third of college students in the United States are first-generation—meaning their parents and grandparents didn’t go. For many of these st...

Bought by WCNY, KKRN, KFOK-LPFM, WTJU, and WXDU


  • Added: May 16, 2014
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 5
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If Jewish education is to respond to the needs of American Jews and their communities in the 21st century, we need to rethink the assumption that J...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 13, 2014
  • Length: 12:20
  • Purchases: 1
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Schools are almost out; will they still be there in September?

  • Added: May 10, 2014
  • Length: 58:35
Caption: Diana Moya Lujan's piece at the Museum of International Folk Art
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 05:57
Caption: Sharon Wirtz, left, talks to Marquell Hicks, right, in front of a panel from the NM AIDS Memorial Quilt, Credit: Katy Gross
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
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How does a toddler understand the differences between written words and pictures? Rebecca Treiman, professor of child developmental psychology, exp...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
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A new rite of passage is taking hold among ambitious young doctors entering modern practice in a new century. It can take a year or two after medic...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:34
  • Purchases: 1
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El Sistema is not an instruction method so much as a shared conviction: that every child wants to make music, and can. It has big social implicatio...

Bought by KWMR and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 50:57
  • Purchases: 2
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Alex was influenced to go in the direction of this poem by listening to the work of his peers.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 20, 2014
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Emotional and Personal Intelligence
John D. Mayer, or Jack as he likes to be called, is the renowned psychologist who co-developed the groundbreaking theory of emotional intelligence ...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2014
  • Length: 52:30
Caption: Emily Pilloton, San Francisco, CA 2/10/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Emily Pilloton of Project H talks egalitarian design, doorknob overload, and why failure is a misleading concept.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2014
  • Length: 24:39
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Common Air is spending this episode investigating the current strike that is taking place on University of New Brunswick campuses.

  • Added: Jan 24, 2014
  • Length: 28:23
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Up until she was a teenager, she lived in comfort. What she didn’t see coming was the moment when she lost everything. Find out why her world turne...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 16, 2014
  • Length: 07:31
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Man casting net from a boat, Sulawesi, Indonesia, 2005, Credit:  Mangrove Action Project | Marine Photobank
2013 was an incredible year for the World Ocean Observatory. We celebrated many successes and reach a wider audience than ever before. In this epis...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2013
  • Length: 05:10
Caption: The Voice for Working People
Updates on locked-out nurses, NYU grad students, and restaurant guides!

  • Added: Dec 13, 2013
  • Length: 02:59
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The part of our brains that is responsible for generating creativity evolved throughout human existence to serve a problem solving function. If yo...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2013
  • Length: 07:20
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This week's underappreciated date that changed America is the 1957 publishing of Frommer's "Europe on $5 A Day" and the American travel industry.

Bought by WGCU, Spokane Public Radio, WRIR, and KMXT


  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 53:28
  • Purchases: 4
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This week's underappreciated date that changed America is 1941 and the birth of the Las Vegas Strip!

Bought by WGCU, Spokane Public Radio, WRIR, WCPN, KWMR and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2013
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 6
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Soup kitchens in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District feed thousands of homeless and low-income people every day. These free meal sites serve as a v...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 17:19
Caption: 4 month old bear cub, Credit: Ben Kilham
You’re about to hear a story about the bear whisperer of Lyme New Hampshire, Ben Kilham, and the abandoned black bear cubs he has rescued, rehabili...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 25, 2013
  • Length: 27:53
  • Purchases: 1
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Contrary to popular belief, regional accents are still very much a part of the American cultural landscape. Allison Quantz has the story of a Virgi...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and KWMR


  • Added: Sep 20, 2013
  • Length: 02:22
  • Purchases: 2
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Within seconds of hearing someone speak, we make judgments about that person and their background, just based on their accent.

Bought by WJCT and KVSC


  • Added: Sep 20, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Within seconds of hearing someone speak, we make judgments about that person and their background, just based on their accent.

Bought by WCNY, KTSW 89.9, KREV-LP, WNJR, and WTJU


  • Added: Sep 20, 2013
  • Length: 53:51
  • Purchases: 5
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Hosted by Dick Gordon, this program talks about what’s happening with the drop-out rate in the country. More kids are staying in school but those n...

Bought by KUNM, KTSW 89.9, WNIJ, KUHF, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 16, 2013
  • Length: 51:26
  • Purchases: 14