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Most of us, when we encounter a fruit fly, are focused on keeping it out of our food. But what if it was your job to feed fruit flies?
- Added: Feb 02, 2024
- Length: 54:00
Labor Day Special
Bought by WHRV
- Added: Sep 03, 2023
- Length: 01:58:03
- Purchases: 1
End the filibuster. Abolish the Senate. Make everyone vote. Only if we do this, and a little bit more, says labor lawyer and former candidate for A...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 20, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Low wages, precarious jobs, shuttered Main Streets and bleak futures — do towns have a way out of poverty that doesn't involve begging and bribing ...
Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, and WNYE
- Added: Jun 15, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 5
In the next 20 years, farmland ownership in the U.S. will shift on a continental scale—400 million acres. Yet 70% of American farmland is owned by ...
- Added: Jan 24, 2022
- Length: 28:28
As the coal industry in West Virginia declides, a nonprofit is offering displaced workers an environmentally friendly industry instead—beekeeping.
- Added: Aug 30, 2021
- Length: 02:38
Uptalk is that rising, questioning tone some people use when ending a statement. And women aren't the only ones who do it—so finds a study of conte...
Bought by WJCT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KPVL, WKCC, KRDP and more
- Added: Sep 04, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 9
When Frances Mayes moved to Tuscany, Italy she left behind her family and roots in Fitzgerald, Georgia. In her new memoir Under Magnolia, the
renow...
- Added: May 29, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 6
In the 1930’s, many African-American artists and intellectuals traveled to the Soviet Union, seeking a society free of class and racism. Joseph Roa...
- Added: Apr 24, 2015
- Length: 03:24
Just how dumb do they think we are? Who would believe that destroying the ecosystems on which all life depends, while dis-employing more and more p...
- Added: Apr 08, 2015
- Length: 28:30
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
There’s a small town in Idaho where prostitution was practiced openly—in effect, decriminalized. The practice was tolerated, even embraced, until 1...
- Added: Mar 06, 2015
- Length: 53:56
- Purchases: 5
On today's show hosts Caitlin and Farhan are hitting up Seattle's current job scene as they hear advice from KUOW journalists, childhood career dre...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 11:19
What does it mean to live in a world where biotech is done for and by the people? How long might it be until we are all growing our own ink, laund...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 06, 2015
- Length: 07:15
- Purchases: 1
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...
- Added: Oct 31, 2014
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 2
This is the first of the series of shows for Women with Women. Lauri Rich was my first guest and she addressed the question "Can a woman have it al...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 46:22
There are ten thousand street vendors in New York City, that magnet for the world's poor and America's hopeful; some licensed and some not. Vendors...
- Added: May 11, 2011
- Length: 48:34
The travels of the last milkman in Portland, Maine.
- Added: Jun 22, 2009
- Length: 06:05