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It’s Rocket Science: Testing PlanetVac in the Mojave Desert
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Masten Space Systems’ Xodiac in flight with PlanetVac as one of its feet, Credit: Bruce Betts
Join Mat Kaplan in California’s Mojave Desert for special coverage of not one but two rocket flights and a real world test of PlanetVac, the innova...

Bought by KDNK, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KWMR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 05, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
The Muse on the Inside
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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Our topic this week is creativity behind bars. We showcase poetry from prisoners working with the Indiana Prisoners' Writing Project, a piece by Sh...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2017
  • Length: 28:19
The Innocence Project (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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There’s an undeniable problem with our criminal justice system, but one organization offers some hope. To date, The Innocence Project has exonerate...

Bought by KENW, WTJU, KCMJ Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KPVL and more


  • Added: Jul 02, 2015
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 7
Dragons of Inaction Feature
From: With Good Reason
Series: Earth Day Specials
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Today, about half of all Americans believe in human-caused climate change, and yet, few Americans modify their behaviors in any serious ways. Allis...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KCMJ Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KKRN, WEZU and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2015
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 6
Secrecy in the Sunshine Era
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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In the 1970’s, a series of laws ushered in a so-called “sunshine era” of government transparency. A new book examines the dark side of the Sunshine...

Bought by KENW, WABE, and KPVL


  • Added: Mar 27, 2015
  • Length: 03:53
  • Purchases: 3
Inside the St. Cloud Correctional Facility
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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No one wants to go to prison, but when the St. Cloud Correctional Facility opened its doors to the press last year during its 125th anniversary, KF...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 03:12
The Jerk at Work
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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If someone is known as “the jerk” at work, it’ll show up on their performance review, right? Not likely, say two management researchers. Lilia Fuq...

Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, KPVL, and KKRN


  • Added: Mar 06, 2015
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 4
Saving paradise: protecting Minnesota prairies
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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During the last 150 years, most of Minnesota’s native prairies have been destroyed—converted into farmland for crops like corn and soybeans. But a ...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 05:55
  • Purchases: 1
The Father of PR
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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When big business news breaks, public relations teams try to get out in front of the story. But that wasn’t always the case. PR in the 19th century...

Bought by KENW, PRX Remix, and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 19, 2014
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 3
Deception Detection
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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A single lie could cost a job – or a life – as it turned out for Eric Duncan, the Ebola “Patient Zero” in Texas. What if there was a way to accurat...

Bought by KENW and WXDU


  • Added: Oct 31, 2014
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 2
Pathway to College
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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College-aged Latinos are the fastest growing population in Northern Virginia, yet these young adults are rarely making it through the education pip...

Bought by KENW, WXDU, and WEZU


  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 3
Counselors Without Borders
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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From the forest fires in California to child soldiers in Uganda, survivors of disasters are receiving a new kind of aid. Counselors Without Borders...

Bought by KENW, PRX Remix, and WXDU


  • Added: Aug 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 3
Reclaiming the Commons
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: The Alley Project, Detroit, Credit: Karpov the Wrecked Train
From pedestrian plazas to pop-up-parklets…cities are looking to create spaces for people to gather, interact and create. But are some people being...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
Guns and Suicide: The Hidden Toll (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
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The gun control debate often centers around homicides and the fear of someone else with a gun. However, attention is rarely paid to the link betwee...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUER, WXDU, PRX Remix, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Apr 28, 2014
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 7
Different Ways of Perceiving the World (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
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Nonverbal until age four, Temple Grandin was first diagnosed with autism at age 2. Now, so many years and hurdles later, Grandin’s success in the l...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2013
  • Length: 02:23
The Meaning of Friendship in the Era of Facebook (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Aristotle said there are three kinds of friendships—those of utility, pleasure, and virtue. But what about Facebook friendships? One scholar is stu...

Bought by KENW and WXDU


  • Added: Sep 30, 2013
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 2
The Rapidly Changing City of Shanghai (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
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China is everywhere in American news, but we seem to hear the same stories over and over. A new book set in Shanghai seeks to tell a less familiar ...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2013
  • Length: 02:32
Veterans in the Classroom
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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With the end of the War in Iraq, tens of thousands of soldiers have returned home, and many of them are going to college. Two writing professors ha...

Bought by KENW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and Radio Newark


  • Added: Jun 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 4
The Republican Party has reached its peak in the South
From: With Good Reason
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Since the 1970s, Republicans have controlled Southern politics, but according to one researcher, the Republican Party has reached its peak in the S...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:28
Growing Pains at The World's Largest Co-op?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The Mondragón Corporation includes everything from banking to bike factories, nano-technology to rabbit farming. Its a corporate dream—but this cor...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2012
  • Length: 09:43
Making it Our Business: Co-ops on the Rise
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Ariizmendi Fourth Street, Credit: Andrew Stelzer
The global economic situation is causing more people to consider worker owned businesses. We go from Chicago, where workers are trying to take over...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Sep 05, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
A picture of American consumerism
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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With the March announcement that Best Buy is closing 50 large stores around the country, the dominance of big box retail has been called into quest...

Bought by KENW and KBRP Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 2
Racing to Save D.C.'s Oldest Federal Monuments
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: The boundary stones are the oldest federal monuments in D.C. (and Virginia)., Credit: Stephen Powers
Washington's oldest monuments have nearly been forgotten. But a group of engineers, preservationists and history buffs is racing to change that.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2012
  • Length: 04:10
Justice in the Home: Domestic Workers Re-define the Labor Movement
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Domestic workers in Texas., Credit: Flickr user: Nuevo Anden
With the passage of New York’s Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in 2010, workers are now organizing in California and other states to win basic righ...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Remembering the Subtle Signs of Segregation
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: This rough sketch for a children's book drew one D.C. native into a mystery regarding “Colored Only” signs in D.C. in the 1930s. , Credit: Rebecca Sheir
A well-meaning illustration in a children's book sparks controversy over segregation in the nation's capital in the 1930s.

Bought by Listenwise, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jan 31, 2012
  • Length: 07:41
  • Purchases: 3