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FBI, CISA and ODNI Issue Guidance to Election Officials to Harden Websites, Train Staff and Educate Voters, Anticipating Foreign Influence Campaigns
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
FBI, CISA and ODNI Issue Guidance to Election Officials to Harden Websites, Train Staff and Educate Voters, Anticipating Foreign Influence Campaigns

Bought by Angelica Community Radio, WUTC, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 21, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
NY’s Redistricting Commission Proposes Another Congressional Map with a Slight Democratic Edge, But This Time with a 9-1 Bipartisan Endorsement
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
NY’s Redistricting Commission Proposes Another Congressional Map with a Slight Democratic Edge, But This Time with a 9-1 Bipartisan Endorsement

Bought by KTSW 89.9 and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
CISA, FBI Warn Secretaries of State to Prepare for Potential Cyberattacks and AI Voter Suppression Before the 2024 Election
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
CISA, FBI Warn Secretaries of State to Prepare for Potential Cyberattacks and AI Voter Suppression Before the 2024 Election

Bought by KTSW 89.9 and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Missouri Candidate for Secretary of State Proposes Hand Counting 3 Million Ballots; Wisconsin Legislators Propose Abolishing the Election Commission
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
Missouri Candidate for Secretary of State Proposes Hand Counting 3 Million Ballots; Wisconsin Legislators Propose Abolishing the Election Commission

Bought by KTSW 89.9 and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 07, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Pain, Fear and Waste: The Costs of Unnecessary Care
From: Tradeoffs
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We explore “cascades of care” — how a doctor’s desire to be thorough can snowball into a harmful spiral of unnecessary care.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2022
  • Length: 18:18
Answering the Call, Part 1: America’s New Mental Health Crisis Line
From: Tradeoffs
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Starting July 16, 2022, anyone in the U.S. experiencing a mental health crisis will be able to dial 988 for help. We explore what it will take for ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 03, 2022
  • Length: 25:04
  • Purchases: 1
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 06/30/20
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Poo tests, steroids against COVID-19 & more - Listen to DW's 30-minute science show.be spotted first in wastewater? Als...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle


  • Added: Jul 02, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Spectrum (Science Unscripted) 04/28/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: a host's wife develops a common, yet mysterious, COVID-19 symptom. Also, how reliable are antibody tests? And Spanish super...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
Paths Out of Prison: E-Carceration or Liberation
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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Since the Ferguson uprising in 2014, the Black Lives Matter movement has shone a light on a range of American institutions, revealing their white s...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
Prison and the Press, Part One
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week is the first episode of several about the intersection between the media and prison struggles. In January of 2015, journalist Barrett Bro...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2020
  • Length: 21:33
MECO Space News Headlines for 2019-04-12
From: KBFG-LP
Series: MECO Space News Headlines
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A black hole revealed, and unsuccessful lunar landing, and a very successful Falcon Heavy launch.

  • Added: Apr 12, 2019
  • Length: 06:30
When Law Enforcement and Trauma Care Collide
From: Trevor Zavagno
Series: Radio Health Journal
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Many patients arrive in the emergency room as a result of violence or car crashes—events in which police have an investigative interest. Sometimes,...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Feb 22, 2019
  • Length: 17:30
  • Purchases: 1
Fri. 12/07 - Microsoft Calls for Regulation of AI
From: Brian McCullough
Series: Techmeme Ride Home
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Microsoft calls for regulation of facial recognition AI, the Crypto market crash is starting to claim casualties, Reddit is quietly doing very well...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2018
  • Length: 20:33
Dwarf Planet Ceres Thrills as a Dying Visitor Closes In
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This simulated perspective view shows Occator Crater, measuring 57 miles (92 kilometers) across and 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) deep, which contains the brightest area on Ceres. This region has been the subject of intense interest since Dawn's approach to th, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Ceres is the queen of the asteroid belt. Her first Earthly visitor is nearing its last days in spectacular style. Dawn Mission Director and Chief...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KRZA and more


  • Added: Jul 03, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Apple Health Records
From: Kasiana McLenaghan
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How Apple's electronic health records feature works, and why it's concerning to privacy experts.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 04:15
Developer wants action on stalled Lake Erie wind farm
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Map of Project Icebreaker, Credit: Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation
A Cleveland company trying to build a set of wind turbines on Lake Erie has been waiting since last July for the state to certify its project. This...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WVBI-LP, Michigan Radio, WBFO, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Mar 26, 2018
  • Length: :50
  • Purchases: 9
Using Social Media for Wildlife Monitoring
From: Betsy Brown
Caption: Instagram Hashtag Search for #monkseal
Learn how scientists are using social to monitor endangered monk seals and the people who see them in the wild.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: 04:25
Niagara Falls sewage release highlights aging systems
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Aerial photo of July discharge in Niagara River, Credit: Twitter/@MaidOfTheMist
Niagara Falls New York has a messy problem – it continues to dump sewage and discolored water downriver from the falls. The most recent incident ha...

Bought by WCMU Michigan, WBFO, and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Oct 05, 2017
  • Length: 01:58
  • Purchases: 3
An Eye on the Sun (In the Middle of a Lake)
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Goode Solar Telescope at the NJIT Big Bear Solar Observatory, Credit: Mat Kaplan
The world’s most powerful solar telescope sits in Big Bear Lake, high above southern California. It has just been renamed for the man responsible f...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WTJU, KRZA, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 02, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Emily Lakdawalla on the Last Orbits of Cassini
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Cassini took this photo on June 4, 2017, close to periapsis on its seventh "Grand Finale" orbit, when it passed between the planet and the rings., Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI/Emily Lakdawalla
The Cassini Mission has less than two months to go before it ends with a spectacular plunge into the beautiful ringed world. Planetary Society Sen...

Bought by Radio Catskill, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WTJU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
20 Years on Mars with Matt Golombek
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Matt Golombek and Mars rovers, Credit: NASA/JPL
When the Pathfinder lander reached Mars 20 years ago it began a Martian renaissance that has never paused. JPL scientist Matt Golombek was the mis...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WMUU-LP, KRZA and more


  • Added: Jul 12, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Happy Asteroid Day!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist concept of massive asteroid impact, Credit: NASA
Asteroid Day, June 30th, marks the anniversary of the great Tunguska impact that leveled a Siberian forest. It reminds us that a Near Earth Object ...

Bought by WTJU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WMUU-LP, KRZA and more


  • Added: Jun 28, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Julie Webster and the Art of Spacecraft Endurance
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: February 21, 1997--Julie Webster, Cassini’s manager of spacecraft operations (kneeling, right), and the rest of the mission's assembly, test and launch operations (ATLO) team pose with the spacecraft outside the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Space Simulator, Credit: NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Caltech / Bob Brown
How do you keep a dazzlingly complex spacecraft in good health after 20 years in space? That’s the challenge for Julie Webster and her team of eng...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WTJU, WMUU-LP, KRZA and more


  • Added: Jun 13, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Spectacular Jupiter!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Jupiter’s south pole imaged by the Juno spacecraft from 52,000 km above the planet., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Betsy Asher Hall/Gervasio Robles
Have you seen its stunning image of Jupiter’s south pole? The Juno orbiter is surpassing expectations and delivering surprising science. Scott Bo...

Bought by KVSC, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WTJU, KWMR, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 07, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Buzz Aldrin and Other Martians
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Apollo astronaut and engineer Buzz Aldrin, Credit: Gage Skidmore
He walked with Neil Armstrong on the moon, but that may not be his greatest legacy. Buzz Aldrin was joined by other space stars at the recent Human...

Bought by XRAY.fm, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WTJU, KWMR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: May 31, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8