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Charlottesville is gearing up for the fourth annual Tom Tom Founders Festival, a celebration of innovation and entrepreneurship. Kelley Libby repor...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Apr 03, 2015
- Length: 03:45
- Purchases: 1
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...
- Added: Mar 27, 2015
- Length: 03:53
- Purchases: 3
Mining in Minnesota has been going on for decades, but today, economic and environmental issues are raising important questions about the industry....
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Mar 26, 2015
- Length: 06:16
- Purchases: 1
The Pillsbury A Mill is a National Historic Landmark, and in the midst of a $150 million redevelopment project. But back in the 1800s, it was the b...
- Added: Mar 19, 2015
- Length: 04:31
The internet has transformed classroom education around the world. Here in Minneapolis, the Cowles Center for Dance is doing something unique--offe...
Bought by WABE and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 04:38
- Purchases: 2
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 golden dome of St. Mary's Greek Orthodox Church has long been a part of the south Minneapolis skyline. KFAI producer Britt Aamodt visits the ch...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 05:17
In 1857, economic hardship left farmers and other citizens bust. Looking for a way to earn money Minnesotans took to the forests to harvest ginseng...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 04:39
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
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 ...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 05:55
- Purchases: 1
Blue zones are areas of the world where people live longest. Architects studying these “Landscapes of Longevity” say that our surroundings have mor...
- Added: Feb 20, 2015
- Length: 03:28
- Purchases: 2
Mosques here are generally identified by sect, you have, say, the Sunni Mosque, the Shia Mosque, the Sufi Mosque. But the Islamic Cultural Center o...
- Added: Feb 05, 2015
- Length: 07:52
Cris Miranda believes in the promise of virtual reality. After decades of hype, 2015 may be the year that it breaks into homes around the country.
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 11:41
Off the coast of Virginia, in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, lies a shrinking island called Tangier. Here, an unlikely adventurer docked his sai...
Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, WTJU, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 30, 2015
- Length: 03:51
- Purchases: 4
John Steinbeck, the author of such classics as “the Grapes of Wrath” and “Of Mice and Men” was born to a middle class family in a beautiful, turret...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 07:27
When someone we love dies, how can a headstone express who they were? The answer begins with diamonds.
- Added: Jan 12, 2015
- Length: 07:32
San Francisco’s Mission District. It’s a neighborhood where Mark Zuckerberg now owns a home, and a place where an affluent, whiter population is di...
- Added: Jan 12, 2015
- Length: 06:23
About 25 members of the dance company Mind Over Matter, mostly women, are finishing their warm up. Dressed in comfy street clothes, they stretch wh...
- Added: Jan 07, 2015
- Length: 03:29
So you want to open a bookstore? Excellent news. Here's your guide to survival.
- Added: Dec 28, 2014
- Length: 06:07
Next year marks the 150th anniversary of Leo Tolstoy’s great Russian tome, War and Peace. While the novel’s great length scares many readers away, ...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 1
A team of proofreaders in Virginia has just wrapped up the three-year job of digitizing the papers of the Founding Fathers. They say ending the pro...
Bought by KENW, WABE, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 05, 2014
- Length: 02:41
- Purchases: 4
Stepping inside the Taurus Bookbindery is kind of like stepping back in time.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 11:20
- Purchases: 1
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
In the 19th century, Richmond, Virginia was central to the American slave trade, earning the city more than 4 million dollars annually. A new exhib...
- Added: Nov 07, 2014
- Length: 02:42
- Purchases: 2
There’s a new season brewing for a television series about the Salem Witch Trials. A scholar puts one of the witches under the spotlight. Lilia Fuq...
Bought by PRX Remix, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and Troy Public Radio
- Added: Nov 07, 2014
- Length: 02:46
- Purchases: 3
