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California Innocence Project: Evidence - episode 6
From: KHSU
Series: California Innocence Project
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The associate director for the California Innocence Project talks about the importance of working to address issues of evidence retention and prese...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
Start a Neo-Modernist Movement #529
From: Teosson Wells
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Rediscover a Creative and Artistic Modern Age

  • Added: Sep 12, 2016
  • Length: 10:24
Temple Grandin on the Autistic Brain
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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" If you got rid of all of the genes that cause autism, you’d be rid of Carl Sagan, you’d be rid of Mozart. Einstein, today, would be labeled autis...

Bought by KZYX, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZYX, and KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 09, 2016
  • Length: 11:46
  • Purchases: 4
A Pepper for Dinner
From: Carla Seidl
Caption: Sir Charles Gardner and Carl Johnson, Credit: Earth Flavors
This food-justice-related audio collage features the voices of Sir Charles Gardner and Carl Johnson, co-managers of Gardens United, a community gar...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2015
  • Length: 04:52
Audio Postcard: Zombie Fest. DIY punk show in Kazakhstan
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Generation Putin
Caption: Zombie Fest, Credit: Alex Stonehill, The Seattle Globalist
Audio postcard from DIY punk music festival in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 11, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Rebel Yell
From: Peter Solomon
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A historian in Richmond, VA believes he has solved the riddle behind the legendary Confederate War cry that was thought to be lost to the ages.

Bought by WEZU, Louisville Public Media, PRX Remix, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Jul 08, 2009
  • Length: 03:48
  • Purchases: 4
Bottled vs. Tap
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
American's have been hitting the bottle a lot lately -- to the tune of 9 billion gallons of water in 2007.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Water Bladders for Free Heating, Cooling?
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A brilliant young professor invents a way to heat and cool homes -- for free. The president gives him a prestigious award, and he waits for the en...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Aug 19, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Treated Sewage as Drinking Water?
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
We may be able to get drinking water from treated sewage -- and water shortages could eventually force us to rely on this option.

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 30, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Sci-Fi Trash Disposal
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Here's a conundrum. What do you do with 3000 tons of smelly garbage a day? Could you just, well, vaporize it?!

  • Added: May 30, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
Water Crisis Caught on Film
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Use water wisely, and we all benefit. Produce a film inspiring others to, and you could win thousands of dollars.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
Which came first? The hydrogen or the egg?
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Engineers at Ohio State University are cracking up over a new way of separating gasses. And they've possibly created a new process to produce a cle...

Bought by WYOU


  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Mussel Development
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Although less "charismatic" than whales, the Monkeyface, Threehorn Wartyback, and Pink Heelsplitter, deserve our attention too!

Bought by WYOU


  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Got Rumen?
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
How now, brown cow? With digestive fluid you say? Along with some hay?

Bought by WYOU


  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Shortcut through the Sea
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
There's now a shortcut between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, courtesy of climate change.

Bought by WYOU


  • Added: Feb 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Up a Creek
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The fine folks of Omak, Washington, found themselves up a creek recently. Cleaning it up.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
Peace Parks
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Bringing countries together to protect our natural environment looks good on paper...The book, "Peace Park" is a collection of articles written by ...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
Inverted Rates Run off Hogs
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Waverly, Iowa became the first in the Midwest to own and operate its own wind generation facilities.

Bought by KUAC


  • Added: Dec 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Forest Floor Junk
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Pick up your toys! That's what mom used to say... So why not do the same in a forest? After a company logs an area, they ought to pick up after the...

Bought by KUAC


  • Added: Dec 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
The Virgin Congo
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In 2007, an expedition sponsored by the Wildlife Conservation Society explored a remote area in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Team members were...

Bought by KUAC


  • Added: Dec 19, 2007
  • Length: 01:28
  • Purchases: 1
Getting Real With Auto Emissions
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
American motorists are familiar with the need to have emissions checked regularly to certify automobiles for registration. But a team of engineers ...

Bought by KUAC


  • Added: Dec 19, 2007
  • Length: 01:25
  • Purchases: 1
Algae Biodiesel
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Fill 'er up with: Algae 100 - you know, the gas that's made from those golden brown or green plants growing along our coasts...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 19, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Choosing "Net-Zero"
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Does it really pay to be energy-efficient? The folks at Clarum Homes hope so.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Aug 27, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Who's the Biggest Polluter?
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the biggest polluter of them all? Is it the company with the biggest smoke-stacks? Or, as a recent study suggests...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Aug 27, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
African Stenocara Beetle Inspires Technology
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The African Stenocara beetle has learned a thing or two about water conservation. Living in the Namib desert, it uses its wings to capture water va...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Aug 27, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1