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The Best Space Movie You Can't See
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Ed Stone and Voyager, Credit: NASA JPL
JPL’s Blaine Baggett has completed “The Stuff of Dreams,” a documentary about an era in planetary exploration that was both exhilarating and exaspe...

Bought by WMNF, WESM 91.3 FM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and WOUB


  • Added: Feb 25, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 4
Sex Itself
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Sara Richardson
Human Genomes are almost 100 percent identical. There is one prominent exception. Instead of a matching pair of X chromosomes, men carry a single X...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Jan 06, 2014
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
Amy Mainzer Hunts Killer Asteroids With NEOWISE
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NEOWISE Mission Principal Investigator Amy Mainzer
Take a spacecraft that can no longer survey the realm of galaxies and repurpose it to discover thousands of much nearer asteroids and comets. Put i...

Bought by KSKQ, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WESM 91.3 FM, and WOUB


  • Added: Dec 31, 2013
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 4
Food Sleuth Radio, Daphne Miller Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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What happens when a doctor looks at health and healing through an ecological lens? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda He...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
SpaceUp LA Unconference: What would you do with an extra $13 Billion for space?
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: 2013 SpaceUp LA, Credit: Mat Kaplan
What would YOU do with $10 Billion for space exploration and development? That’s what Mat Kaplan asked the passionate space enthusiasts at the 201...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WESM 91.3 FM


  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 2
Riddles from the Border Regions 9/28/13
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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TWICE EACH YEAR ...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Sep 26, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Foresight 2020
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Simon Anderson
We’ve all heard the stories of self-driving cars and 3D printers, but it’s the folks like futurists Simon Anderson and Jack Uldrich who make a care...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Jul 16, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
The Opening Door Show - Dr. Stanley Siegel
From: Wendy Strgar
Series: The Opening Door - Sexual Health & Wellness
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The Opening Door with Wendy Strgar, Loveologist, entrepreneur, & educator, is a joyful refocusing on love as the transformative force of life. The ...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2013
  • Length: 26:33
The Philadelphia Chromosome
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jessica Wapner
Jessica Wapner, freelance journalist, open her book in 1959 when a chromosomal mutation, christened “the Philadelphia Chromosome.” Was discovered. ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 08, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
15: Music and Memory
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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Nearly everyone has strong emotional connections to music, and one man realized that our relationship to music might improve the quality of life fo...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2013
  • Length: 15:46
On Looking
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Alexandra Horowitz, Credit: Simon & Schuster
In her newest work, cognitive scientist Alexandra Horowitz turns her attention to humans with an investigation into human perception and a look int...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
09: Babble Machine
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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The Babble Machine, takes its name from a fictional device referenced in The H.G. Wells novel, The Sleeper Awakes.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 02, 2013
  • Length: 11:30
  • Purchases: 1
Marie Curie: The Love Life of the Mother of Modern Chemistry
From: Liz Humes
Series: Wordy Birds
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On this episode of Wordy Birds we interview Lauren Redniss about her book, Radioactive: A Tale of Love and Fallout, which artistically chronicles t...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2012
  • Length: 27:31
Dr. Edlow’s Deadly Dinner Party
From: Radio Rounds
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Physicians have long been compared with detectives, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, was himself a physician. This episode f...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2012
  • Length: 28:52
99% Invisible #47- US Postal Service Stamps (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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They are NOT tiny paintings.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, WBEZ and more


  • Added: Feb 15, 2012
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 19
99% Invisible #38- The Sound of Sport (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Dennis Baxter and Bill Whiston are so good at doing their job, you probably don’t even know that their job exists at all.

Bought by ABC, Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, WOUB, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 16
99% Invisible #26- Chicago's Jailhouse Skyscraper (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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If you want to stand out as a skyscraper in Chicago, you've got your work cut out for you.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 11
The End of Obesity
From: With Good Reason
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New research says that obesity might not all be to blame for ailments such as hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease.

  • Added: Dec 05, 2011
  • Length: 28:58
Ups and Downs of Dynamic Ticketing
From: With Good Reason
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More and more teams like the San Francisco Giants are using dynamic ticket pricing for games, whereby the prices of tickets are determined by the d...

Bought by KMXT and KMXT


  • Added: Dec 05, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Total Artificial Heart
From: With Good Reason
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A new device called the Total Artificial Heart replaces the human heart and can save the lives of patients who may have died while awaiting transpl...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
Burrowing Owls
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
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Not all owls hunt at night and nest in trees. Burrowing owls greet the sun from abandoned prairie dog dens. What else makes these tiny birds unique?

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Big Bend Gambusia
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
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Big Bend National Park is home to many rare and endangered species, but the Big Bend gambusia lives particularly close to the edge of extinction. H...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Nighthawks
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
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Some birds sing. Others twitter, tweet or trill. But the common nighthawk goes boom in the night. This noise isn’t all that sets nighthawks apart i...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Learning to Sing
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
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Learning to vocalize is a surprisingly unusual ability in the animal world. How do young songbirds master their musical talents?

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Our Might Oaks
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
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The 21 oak species in our region assume many forms and are survivors of the last Ice Age. Who are these tenacious trees? And what animals depend on...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1