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Constant Wonder - Fabric: History Hidden in Plain Sight
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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The history of fabric is the history of life and death on this planet.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Sep 14, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 2
Constant Wonder - Marathon Mayhem, Wacky Inventions and World's Fairs
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Topic 1: Why the mishaps of the 1904 Olympic Marathon almost led to the event being banned in all future Olympic Games. Topic 2: How world's fairs ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and WYAP


  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 2
Bill's Problem With Piracy
From: Sean Haas
Series: Advent of Computing
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Microsoft's first case of piracy actually happened with their very first product.

  • Added: Dec 28, 2019
  • Length: 10:25
The BBC Domesday Project
From: Sean Haas
Series: Advent of Computing
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In 1986 the BBC released a comprehensive survey of Britain. Burned onto two LaserDiscs, the early computer encyclopedia was a technological marvel.

  • Added: Dec 28, 2019
  • Length: 33:04
Could the Soviet Union Have Won the Space Race?
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Scale rendering of the Soviet LK moon lander next to the US Lunar Module., Credit: Eberhard Marx
Space historian and policy expert John Logsdon joins Mat Kaplan for a fascinating conversation about how the US could have lost the race to the moo...

Bought by KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Michael McCarthy discusses a deadly Chicago River shipwreck
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra interview Michael McCarthy about his book, "Ashes Under Water: The SS Eastland and the Shipwreck that Shook America."

  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 30:41
Dialects & Society
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: PRX default Piece image
While the media affect our vocabulary, our accents are a product of our community.

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KENW, and WLPR


  • Added: Feb 19, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 3
Giant Armadillos
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: An extinct glyptodont., Credit: Carl Buell
DNA evidence reveals that the enormous armored glyptodont, an extinct South American mammal, was a close cousin to modern armadillos.

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KENW, and WLPR


  • Added: Feb 19, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 3
Ancient Human Civilizations -- Groks Science Show 2016-01-06
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Graham Hancock presents an alternative story of civilization’s past.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WYAP


  • Added: Jan 06, 2016
  • Length: 37:10
  • Purchases: 2
Lawrence Goldstone and the early days of aviation
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Reader's Corner host Bob Kustra talks with Lawrence Goldstone, author of "Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, And The Battle To Control Th...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Sep 29, 2015
  • Length: 30:16
  • Purchases: 1
James J. Hill's Minnesota legacy
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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James J. Hill is known as the “Empire Builder.” His vision for a Great Northern Railway in the 19th century helped put Minnesota on the map. Produc...

Bought by KSRQ and Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 2
Technology Brings Long-Silent Voices Of 20th Century Poets Back To Life
From: Curt Nickisch
Caption: A rendered image of the etched grooves of a record. IRENE software converts these squiggles to sound., Credit: Julie Martin/NEDCC Courtesy
A innovative technology to preserve endangered sound recordings without playing them (which would further damage them) is bringing the voices of po...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, KALW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 05, 2014
  • Length: 06:24
  • Purchases: 4
NanoArchaeology
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: A 17 cm carved stone figurine shown inside the SEM chamber ready for non-destructive imaging and analysis, Credit: (Timothy Rose/Smithsonian)
Modern technology reveals ancient techniques used in the production of purloined antiquities.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 23, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Superspreaders
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Mary Mallon, aka "Typhoid Mary, Credit: From the The New York American newspaper, dated June 20, 1909.
Learning about the immune system from people who catch germs but don’t get sick.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ancient Cancer
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Lesions indicating cancer in the skeleton’s bone., Credit: (© Trustees of the British Museum
Scientists uncover a case of human cancer as old as the Pharaohs.

  • Added: Mar 24, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
Library Of Congress Preserves A Treasure Trove... Underground
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: The Packard Campus is roughly 500,000 square feet, built into the side of a mountain in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains., Credit: Library of Congress Photo/ Matt Raymond
What do you get when you take a former Cold War bunker and fill it with the world’s largest collection of films, TV shows, radio broadcasts and sou...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 11, 2012
  • Length: 06:38
  • Purchases: 6
The House That Beer -- and Pyrophobia -- Built
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: There's quite a story behind D.C.'s first fireproof residence..., Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/josepha/2977738045/
After losing a home and two breweries to fire, one German beermaker vowed not to let history repeat itself... and built an extraordinary house that...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 09, 2011
  • Length: 04:42
  • Purchases: 1
That Was Invented By... Whom???
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: A man who helped bring on the digital age used to live in this house in Garrett Park, Md., Credit: Rebecca Sheir
The most famous inventors... you've never heard of.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, KUOW, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 06:29
  • Purchases: 4