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A new approach is linking people with addiction to drug treatment, instead of just sending them out the door when they’re well again. Two doctors, ...
- Added: Jan 19, 2020
- Length: 28:04
The best ways to prevent young people from getting addicted don’t necessarily focus on the drugs themselves (forget “Just say no.”) Research shows ...
- Added: Oct 15, 2019
- Length: 29:58
Following the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeast Japan, a small boat belonging to Takata High School in Rikuzentakata was swept o...
Bought by Radio Newark
- Added: May 10, 2018
- Length: 01:29
- Purchases: 1
From measuring the "size of the wiggle" to monitoring a "seismic moment", Geologist Lori Dengler discusses the scientific endeavor to quantify ear...
Bought by Radio Newark
- Added: May 10, 2018
- Length: 01:50
- Purchases: 1
It all started out as a plan to steal some comic books, sell them and split the cash. That was before a busted lip, a heart attack, and federal pro...
- Added: Aug 08, 2017
- Length: 29:34
Today 50% of all college students are the first of their families to go to college. They carry the hopes and dreams of there families in their back...
Bought by KRZA and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Apr 06, 2017
- Length: 05:49
- Purchases: 2
France has been under a “state of emergency” since November, raising questions about the appropriate balance between security and civil liberties.
- Added: Jun 08, 2016
- Length: 25:50
With the Summer Olympics around the corner, the eyes of the world will turn to Brazil. But Brazil is not only about Rio and Sao Paulo. What about t...
Bought by KSFR
- Added: May 02, 2016
- Length: 02:57
- Purchases: 1
In 2011 the FBI’s National Gang Intelligence Center released their Gang Threat Assessment, which listed Juggalos as a “loosely affiliated hybrid ga...
- Added: Feb 23, 2016
- Length: 22:45
In the U.S., juries are often seen as democracy in action. Twelve men and women are asked to hear an entire case, and ultimately, decide another pe...
- Added: Jan 21, 2016
- Length: 23:13
In real life, the business of jury selection is a 400 million dollar industry. So in a world of high priced jury consultants what does a jury of ou...
- Added: Nov 03, 2015
- Length: 24:42
Amateur sleuths armed with their own laptops, public information and a lot of spare time are working alone and in groups to crack criminal cases. S...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, KVNF, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 24, 2015
- Length: 32:30
- Purchases: 4
Life of the Law and Destination DIY team up to examine the legal grey area occupied by the sharing economy. How are cities grappling with these inc...
- Added: Nov 25, 2014
- Length: 20:51
- Purchases: 2
A preview of Choreographers' Evening 2014 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis with Kenna-Camara Cottman and the dancers of In New Company.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Nov 21, 2014
- Length: 03:15
- Purchases: 1
Bringing wolves back to the West has tested the legal system’s tolerance for restoring wild places Especially when humans live nearby. This year...
- Added: Nov 07, 2014
- Length: 16:25
- Purchases: 2
They’re called disease detectives – the nation’s medical eyes and ears on the lookout for disease outbreaks and bioterror attacks. They’re the Epid...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio
- Added: Aug 25, 2014
- Length: 09:04
- Purchases: 3
It’s been almost a year since former Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan -- then, his replacement -- abruptly resigned.
“It happened very quickly,...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 06:39
The National Rifle Association started its Women on Target program in 2000. According to their website, they’ve trained over eighty thousand women...
Bought by KUER and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: May 27, 2013
- Length: 07:31
- Purchases: 2
Being diagnosed with a disease is hard enough. Imagine living hours away from the closest place you could receive treatment.
- Added: Mar 26, 2013
- Length: 05:24
Before Prohibition hit, the New York mafia had another racket that netted millions of dollars in profits. The name of the game? Sweet, sweet baby a...
- Added: Jan 10, 2013
- Length: 09:56
New to California, the narrator experiences his first earthquake drill: online, and at LA's Union Station
- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 02:00
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 07:12
A new crop of Route 66 business owners give hope of a new life for America's favorite road.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Sep 02, 2009
- Length: 03:29
- Purchases: 1
The Bloomingdale Trail proposed elevated greenway park in Chicago
- Added: Nov 21, 2008
- Length: 09:30
- Added: Jan 16, 2008
- Length: 03:58
- Purchases: 1
