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A Green Idea to Power Rural Nepal
From: Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Series: Ways & Means Podcast
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Researchers are investigating a method of creating power from fast moving streams in Nepal. Sometimes these micro-hydro minigrids work and sometime...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jan 14, 2020
  • Length: 16:08
  • Purchases: 1
From Frogs To Wands of Destiny: The Invention of the Home Pregnancy Test
From: Mother
Caption: Meg Crane's home pregnancy test prototype, 1968., Credit: Courtesy of Bonhams.
Pregnancy tests weren't always the neat, little plastic wands we have in drug stores today.

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


  • Added: Nov 22, 2015
  • Length: 10:20
  • Purchases: 3
Shellfish
From: Hillary Sanders
Series: Peril on the Salish Sea
Caption: Shellfish larvae at Penn Cove Shellfish Farm., Credit: Hillary Sanders
Shellfish farmers, researchers, and chefs share their concerns about water contamination in the Sound and the danger is poses to shellfish.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 29, 2014
  • Length: 07:52
  • Purchases: 1
Futurework
From: Spectrum Radio
Caption: FUTUREWORK: How Technology Will Redefine the Culture of Work
IEEE Spectrum Radio explores what the workplace will look like and what the meaning of work will be 30 years into the future.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KHNS, KTSW 89.9, WUFT, KUER and more


  • Added: Apr 11, 2014
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 54
Sticking a thermometer in a dinosaur's mouth
From: Laurence Yeung
Series: Measure Twice, Cut Once
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Today, we measure the body temperature of something that's been dead for 170 million years. Our guest is Dr. Robert Eagle, a researcher at UCLA.

  • Added: Feb 16, 2012
  • Length: 12:16
Engineers of the New Millennium: Sustainable Design for the Future
From: Spectrum Radio
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Sustainable Design for the Future, from IEEE Spectrum Magazine and the National Science Foundation. Sustainable planning – of buildings and communi...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, KZYX, KISU, WNYC, KZYX and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Engineers of the New Millennium: The Global Water Challenge
From: Spectrum Radio
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One Hour Radio Special presented by The National Science Foundation and IEEE Spectrum Radio exploring emerging global water issues.

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WEKU, KGOU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 28, 2009
  • Length: 58:52
  • Purchases: 13
Oyster Larvae Dying Off at Alarming Rates
From: KUOW
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The oyster industry in the Pacific Northwest could be facing serious trouble.

  • Added: Aug 25, 2008
  • Length: 05:16
How to Eat a Low-Carbon Diet
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Is local food necessarily low-carbon?

Bought by WRVO Public Media, KVNF, KGOU, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 24, 2008
  • Length: 04:38
  • Purchases: 4
Model Terrorist
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
Software designer developes terrorist avatars for specialist training

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Dec 19, 2006
  • Length: 08:35
  • Purchases: 1
American Chestnuts Roasting Again?
From: The Environment Report
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Saving the American Chestnut

  • Added: Nov 17, 2006
  • Length: 04:51
Is the Price Right?
From: KUOW
Series: Food for Thought: Farmed Salmon and the Future
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Looking at the cost of purchasing farmed salmon versus wild salmon.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Mar 06, 2006
  • Length: 07:46
  • Purchases: 1
Recovering a Cultural Icon
From: KUOW
Series: Food for Thought: Farmed Salmon and the Future
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Looking at salmon as a cultural icon.

Bought by KTNA and KSUT


  • Added: Mar 06, 2006
  • Length: 07:36
  • Purchases: 2
Marine Harvest
From: KUOW
Series: Food for Thought: Farmed Salmon and the Future
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A look at a fish farm opened after a moratorium was lifted.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Mar 06, 2006
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 1
Personalized Medicine
From: Steve Herman
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Researchers in Japan are moving out of the lab the technology for personalized medicine

  • Added: Dec 03, 2005
  • Length: 06:25
Ask the Librarian: Who's got better eyesight -- the jumping spider or the hawk?
From: Jackson Braider
Series: Ask the Librarian
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A schoolbook claims jumping spiders have better eyesight than hawks: is that true?

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and WUAL


  • Added: Nov 12, 2004
  • Length: 04:25
  • Purchases: 2
Ask the Librarian: Will green tea treat my high blood pressure?
From: Jackson Braider
Series: Ask the Librarian
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Does green tea help with high blood pressure?

Bought by Raven Radio and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Aug 06, 2004
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 2