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The Field Trip Podcast: Wildfires
From: The Field Trip Podcast
Caption: The Field Trip Podcast logo, Credit: Mike Smith
Here's the first episode in our “Summer Dispatches” series, in which reporter Megan Molteni braves the scarred landscape of Colorado Springs after...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2012
  • Length: 13:57
Thousands look to the skies for Endeavour's victory lap
From: Valerie Hamilton
Caption: Space fans give SS Endeavour a thousand-camera salute, Credit: Marcus Teply
Space shuttle Endeavour took a final victory lap over California landmarks Friday, piggybacked on top of a NASA 747 on its way to retirement at the...

Bought by KPIK-LP and KMUZ


  • Added: Sep 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:08
  • Purchases: 2
West Nile and Birds
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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This year’s outbreak of the West Nile virus is breaking records, with over 1500 cases reported so far. One researcher believes that decreasing the ...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Sep 07, 2012
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 1
Not Just for the Birds
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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One key to curtailing the West Nile virus? Birds.

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Sep 07, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Electrofishing survey on Lake Superior
From: WTIP
Series: Dr. Seth Moore - Grand Portage Tribal Wildlife Biologist
Caption: Grand Portage Trust Lands technician Roger Deschampe watches for stunned fish, Credit: Carah Thomas
In this feature, WTIP North Shore Community Radio reporter/producer Carah Thomas accompanies Dr. Moore on an electrofishing survey of Susie Island,...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 24, 2012
  • Length: 09:35
  • Purchases: 2
SMERCK
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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SMERCK introduces a new wonder drug in a effort to help the world be well

  • Added: Aug 23, 2012
  • Length: 02:03
"Human Genome and Alzeimer's"
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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The human genome may be the best avenue to date in the battle against Alzheimer’s Disease. It is also the focus of the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroima...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2012
  • Length: 09:22
It may not sound like medicine...
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The growing field of music therapy found recent success in the treatment of former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Her therapists sang or played...

Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 06, 2012
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 3
Feature Report - SPH2 Breakthrough
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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An IU School of Medicine cancer research team is in process of refining a new drug that would target the protein SHP2, a protein that contributes t...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 08:23
PA Denies Doctor's Request to Examine Fracking-Health Link
From: Reid Frazier
Series: Breaking the Land: Marcellus Shale and the Gas Age
Caption: Amy Pare, a doctor in Washington County, Pennsylvania, has been trying to get the state to examine possible links between gas development and health problems. , Credit: Reid R. Frazier
Concerns about the health effects of hydraulic fracturing prompted a Washington County, PA doctor to ask the state to take a closer look at a group...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2012
  • Length: 01:45
Feature Report - Bloomington Hopes to Crack Code for America
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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Bloomington is in the running for a year-long partnership with Code for America, a national service organization that assigns "tech" talent to loca...

  • Added: Jul 13, 2012
  • Length: 09:02
I've Got Rhythm—Does Cancer?
From: With Good Reason
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About 12 percent of women develop breast cancer. But years of studies have shown that for female flight attendants, nurses, factory workers, and ot...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 09, 2012
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 2
EcoReport - June 28, 2012
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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Environmental headline news plus WFHB Assistant News director Joe Crawford brings us a report on Indiana’s impaired waterways.

  • Added: Jul 03, 2012
  • Length: 28:02
Computer Talk Radio (June 30th-July 6th, 2012)
From: Benjamin Rockwell
Series: Computer Talk Radio (54 Minute)
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Computer Talk Radio weekly show for the broadcast week starting June 30th, 2012. Benjamin Rockwell, the bespectacled host, opens with news items l...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
Why Your Dog Can Get Vaccinated Against Lyme Disease And You Can’t
From: Curt Nickisch
Caption: Canine vaccines protect against Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme. The human one was discontinued., Credit: Jesse Costa
Modern science has given us a vaccine to protect against Lyme disease, the most common tick-borne illness in the United States. But we don't use it.

Bought by WABE and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 29, 2012
  • Length: 07:26
  • Purchases: 2
An answer to the American education crisis
From: With Good Reason
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A psychologist and education specialist is finishing up a major study that looks at how teenage brains respond to mental exercises. His findings su...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 11, 2012
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1
Feature Report - Venus Between Us
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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For those of us who will not be around 105 years from now, this is our last chance to see the planet Venus pass between earth and the sun. The astr...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 08:19
The Field Trip Podcast: Taxidermy
From: The Field Trip Podcast
Caption: The Field Trip Podcast logo, Credit: Mike Smith
In this episode, we visit Leah Wade at San Francisco's Quiet Science Taxidermy Studio to learn about the art of making the dead live again ... sort...

Bought by KMXT and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 27:11
  • Purchases: 2
Feature Report - I’m Too Young For This @#!%
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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John D. Shearer is an artist from Indiana that won his battle over a rare form of brain cancer. His multi-media show entitled “I’m Too Young For Th...

  • Added: May 31, 2012
  • Length: 09:37
Millenialism -- Groks Science Show 2012-05-23
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Prof. Richard Landes discussed the history of millenial movements.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WRNC-LP, KMXT, and KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 29:05
  • Purchases: 4
Friday is Don’t Fry Day
From: Iowa News Service
Caption: PRX default Piece image
DES MOINES, Iowa - This Friday, May 25, is "Don't Fry Day" to raise awareness about skin cancer prevention. Chuck Reed with the Iowa chapter of the...

  • Added: May 22, 2012
  • Length: 01:04
Fastest On Earth Hour Long Program
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Fastest On Earth
Caption: Inside Technology
IEEE Spectrum Radio takes your listeners around the globe to find the fastest things on earth.

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KMXT, Marfa Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 17, 2012
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 13
EcoReport - May 10, 2012
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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In today’s feature report, EcoReport’s Dan Young speaks with Environmental Sciences Professor Vicky Meretsky about climate change, species extincti...

  • Added: May 10, 2012
  • Length: 29:10
Dead Zones
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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A renowned marine biologist is studying a silent killer in oceans and bays. Allison Quantz has the story.

Bought by KENW


  • Added: May 10, 2012
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 1
Undergraduate Research in the Hard Sciences at Miami
From: Joe stampson
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A deeper look into the recent news of the Goldwater Scholarship Award being given to Prashant Rajan, and using that as a vehicle to further explore...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 04:05

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