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The Meat We Eat: Food Safety and the Industrial Animal
From: A World of Possibilities
Series: Food Safety
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Hold that fork! Block that barbeque! Do you know the source of the meat that's sizzling on the grill? Can we trust meat inspectors to catch pathoge...

Bought by WCNY, WZEN.org, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW and more


  • Added: Nov 21, 2011
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 7
#49 Marine Products for Research and Industry
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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A Short Essay by Peter Neill, Director of the World Ocean Observatory

  • Added: Sep 08, 2008
  • Length: 04:07
#48 Marine Organisms as Models for Human Biology
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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A Short Essay by Peter Neill, Director of the World Ocean Observatory

  • Added: Sep 08, 2008
  • Length: 03:53
#47 The Ocean as a Frontier for New Medicines
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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A Short Essay by Peter Neill, Director of the World Ocean Observatory

  • Added: Sep 08, 2008
  • Length: 03:54
#46 Waterborne Diseases
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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A Short Essay by Peter Neill, Director of the World Ocean Observatory

  • Added: Aug 30, 2008
  • Length: 03:56
#45 Oceans and Human Health I
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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A Short Essay by Peter Neill, Director of the World Ocean Observatory

  • Added: Aug 30, 2008
  • Length: 04:00
David Bouchier Essay: What the Eye Doesn't See
From: WSHU
Series: Essays by David Bouchier
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David offers some nutrition tips.

  • Added: Jun 09, 2008
  • Length: 03:45
My Sister's Brain Cancer
From: Nanci Olesen
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a commentary by Nanci Olesen about her sister's brain cancer

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KXOT Public Radio, and NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: May 22, 2008
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 3
Beauty and Pain - Science and Medicine in Berlin
From: Elizabeth Green Musselman
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Syphilitic skulls, racial science, and some of the oldest non-western music recordings in history - come explore the beauty and pathos that is the ...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2008
  • Length: 32:55
Human Costs of Prescription Drugs
From: Appalachian Media Institute
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Commentator Natasha Watts asks listeners to consider the real costs of the prescription drug addiction epidemic in communities across the country.

Bought by WITF and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 14, 2008
  • Length: 02:10
  • Purchases: 2
BP
From: David Berner
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Taking blood pressure measurements becomes a family tradition in mortality.

Bought by The PRX Podcast


  • Added: Sep 02, 2007
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 1
Grow Local, Eat Local
From: A World of Possibilities
Series: Food Safety
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Feeding our hunger for connection

Bought by WCNY and KSFR


  • Added: Aug 20, 2007
  • Length: 55:01
  • Purchases: 2
Body Burden: The uncertain effects of untested chemicals.
From: A World of Possibilities
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The uncertain effects of untested chemicals.

  • Added: Aug 13, 2007
  • Length: 55:00
Sometimes I'm just too gosh darn HAPPY!
From: SCAD Radio
Series: Commentary Corral
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A normal life isn't easy when you are too happy.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jul 02, 2007
  • Length: 01:21
  • Purchases: 1
Adventures in Genetic Testing
From: Neille Ilel
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A story about facing your fate, and your mother.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 13, 2007
  • Length: 05:37
  • Purchases: 2
From The Heart
From: Bill Slammon
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This is a story about dying well. It's my father's story.

  • Added: Jun 07, 2007
  • Length: 09:12
Workplace Injury, Death and George Bush
From: Dick Meister
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The Bush administration is ignoring its legal obligation to lessen the workplace hazards that kill and seriously injure millions of Americans. i

  • Added: May 31, 2007
  • Length: 05:29
The Three Furies: Poverty, Addiction, and Mental Illness
From: Dawn Dreyer
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Producer Dawn Dreyer explores the "three furies" of poverty, addiction, and mental illness through her own struggles with bipolar disorder. "The T...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KZSC


  • Added: Mar 01, 2007
  • Length: 07:31
  • Purchases: 2
The Person I Admire the Most
From: Jake Warga
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Following my best friend to Ethiopia

Bought by WABE, HCC Radio The Dragon, and KUT


  • Added: Feb 16, 2007
  • Length: 05:43
  • Purchases: 3
Aderall and Low Expectations
From: SCAD Radio
Series: Commentary Corral
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Pharmaceuticals change the way college should be.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Feb 14, 2007
  • Length: 01:50
  • Purchases: 1
My Dinner With Menopause
From: Karen Michel
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8 women at dinner talk about fears and realities of oncoming menopause

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Feb 05, 2007
  • Length: 32:32
  • Purchases: 1
Body in Motion
From: Jesse Hardman
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A story about my father and his struggle with Parkinsons disease

Bought by KZSC, Spokane Public Radio, and CKMO


  • Added: Nov 30, 2006
  • Length: 10:31
  • Purchases: 3
More Poison, Says Bush
From: Dick Meister
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A commentary on the Bush administration's successful attempt to allow U.S. growers to continue using methyl bromide, the highly toxic pesticide ban...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2006
  • Length: 02:54
Vision
From: Joan Schuman
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Part of the audio sketch series, Micro-Texts, exploring culture and technology.

  • Added: Jul 11, 2006
  • Length: 02:01
Voices of Reform #1: Norm Stamper- Marijuana Bust 1968
From: NORML Foundation
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Norml Stamper, fomer Seattle Police Chief, speaks about his first Marijuana bust in 1968

  • Added: May 03, 2006
  • Length: 07:31