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Dr. Stephanie Seneff - Roundup and Your Health - Part 1
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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Attn: Program Director The Living Well Show presents: A two part interview with Dr. Stephanie Seneff, Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Compu...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2014
  • Length: 28:35
Dr. Stephanie Seneff - Roundup and Your Health - Part 2
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents: A two part interview with Dr. Stephanie Seneff, Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificia...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2014
  • Length: 28:38
The Big-Money Midterm
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The news from the big-money midterm is: meh! Democrats are out, the Republicans are in, and the country’s feeling bluer than ever. Six years after...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2014
  • Length: 58:37
Retired Navy doctor and poet Fred Foote on the healing power of the arts
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Fred Foote
In Medic Against Bomb, Fred Foote’s first collection of poetry, the neurologist demonstartes first-hand the healing power of the arts for veterans.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, RadioFreePalmer, and WNJR


  • Added: Nov 06, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 4
Political Junkie 11-5-14
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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The results are in. It's good news for the Republican Party. And a sweeping repudiation of President Obama and the Democrats. In the Senate, a new...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WXXI Rochester, KUER, and WRKF


  • Added: Nov 06, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 5
The $35,000 Plumbing Bill: The adventures of a hopeful café owner
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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It all started a couple of years ago, when a happy-go-lucky guy I swim with named Joe Omran showed up at Aquatic Park one day in a foul mood. Thirt...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2014
  • Length: 14:18
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
Political Junkie 10-29-14 - 2014 Midterm Election Special
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Specials)
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Democratic pollster Anna Greenberg and Republican analyst and former Congressman Vin Weber talk about the national stakes of this year's midterms. ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, Marfa Public Radio, NPR Illinois, Maine Public Radio, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2014
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 23
Author Max Brooks has put zombies on the global map!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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The World War Z author Max Brooks isn't kidding when it comes to zombies.

Bought by WABE, KPIP-LP, and WNJR


  • Added: Oct 30, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Political Junkie 10-29-14
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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Republican strategist Vin Weber and Democrat pollster Anna Greenberg lay out what's at stake on November 4th, and what it might mean for the final ...

Bought by KCCU Radio, Troy Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WRKF and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 8
The Mormon Citizen
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Religion & Politics
Caption: Mitt Romney speaking to supporters at a grassroots early voting rally in Mesa, Arizona, Credit: Flickr: Gage Skidmore
Laurie Mafflly-Kipp discusses how the Mormon faith and politics have intertwined throughout American history.

  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 11:00
Biddle Duke on Conversations With Allan Wolper
From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG
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Biddle Duke is the publisher of the award winning, Stowe Reporter, a weekly newspaper in Stowe, Vermont, an international ski destination, and the ...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 30:03
The Bright Side to Big Data: Good Intentions and Ethical Questions
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Impact: Where Business and Ethics Meet
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We wrap up our three-part series on data and privacy with a look at some ways big data can improve our communities. Technology and big data are del...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Oct 28, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
A MESSENGER From Mercury-Principal Investigator Sean Solomon
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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MESSENGER is the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging mission that has been orbiting the innermost planet for more than thr...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 28, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1
We are the 51%: Women's Perspectives on Leadership
From: Giovanna Rossi
Series: Well Woman Radio
Caption: Gloria Steinem
Why is leadership important for women and girls, and how does women's and men's leadership differ? What does leadership look like in everyday life?

  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 29:12
Breaking the Fever
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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With Ophelia Dahl just back from Liberia and Sierra Leone, Jeffrey Sachs, the economist and poverty guru, and Dr. Jim Cunningham, the virus detecti...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Oct 26, 2014
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 1
“Duping Delight” and Who’s Likely to Lie? (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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While lie detectors are highly accurate, they’re also expensive. An expert in cyber security has developed a way to actually predict a person's pro...

Bought by WJCT, KRDP, WLIW, Accessible Media Inc. Station Account, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 6
“Duping Delight” and Who’s Likely to Lie?
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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While lie detectors are highly accurate, they’re also expensive. An expert in cyber security has developed a way to actually predict a person's pro...

Bought by WCNY, KKRN, Accessible Media Inc. Station Account, and WTJU


  • Added: Oct 24, 2014
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 4
2011 National Book Award Winner Jesmyn Ward finds the past is often present in rural Mississippi.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Jesmyn Ward, Credit: Tony Cook
In her memoir Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward attempts to understand the links in the untimely deaths of her brother and four friends.

Bought by WABE, KPIP-LP, and WNJR


  • Added: Oct 23, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Off-Ramp Presents: Norman Lear, legendary TV producer, helped TV grow up
From: john rabe
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Patt Morrison interviews legendary TV producer Norman Lear, whose credits include groundbreaking shows "Maude" and "All in the Family."

  • Added: Oct 23, 2014
  • Length: 06:15
Political Junkie 10-22-14
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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It's not just candidates whom we're voting for (or against!) this year. It's also hundreds of ballot initiatives, propositions and referenda that ...

Bought by KCCU Radio, KUER, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WRKF, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 6
Interview with Latin Waves Host Sylvia Richardson
From: Latin Waves Media
Series: Latin Waves Media
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Sylvia L. Richardson is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. She is the host and producer of the internationally...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 28:39
Marti Crouch: Brave New GMOs
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Tonight’s guest is long-time critic of genetically modified organisms and foods, Marti Crouch, a noted academic research scientist in plant molecul...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 56:10
That Water in Your Glass May be Older Than the Sun
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Researchers have theorized that up to half of Earth's water is older than the sun. It likely formed in the cold molecular cloud that spawned our solar system., Credit: Bill Saxton, NSF/AUI/NRAO
Ilse Cleeves is lead author of a paper that concludes up to half of our solar system’s water is older than the solar system itself. The implication...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 1
Is Capitalism Working?
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Casey Stengel raised the question about baseball’s miserable Mets long ago: anybody here know how to play this game? It’s the question more and mor...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Oct 19, 2014
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 1

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