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Constant Wonder - Can Iceland's Elves Save the Planet?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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A belief in elves–or in the possibility of elves–could change the way we care for our planet.

Bought by KUHF, GCR (Global Community Radio), KFCF FM, RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 22, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 5
Countries Shaped by Threats, Little Free Libraries, Video Games and Violence
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1 - How Perceived Threat Shapes Countries; Topic 2 - Little Free Libraries Bring Free Books to Neighborhoods Near You; Topic 3 - Video Games ...

Bought by KOWS and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Nov 02, 2020
  • Length: 51:50
  • Purchases: 2
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
Spectrum 10/08/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Hands and feet You know what's better than five fingers? Six. We look at this strange new research and talk to a "polydact...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
Syrian doctor escapes war, but faces new challenges in Germany
From: Catherine Girardeau
Caption: Dr. Abdelwahhab Azzawi, Credit: Courtesy of Abdelwahhab Azzawi
A profile of Syrian opthamologist, activist and poet Abdelwahhab Azzawi. He escaped two war zones and made it to freedom in Germany. But there are ...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2017
  • Length: 13:23
Life of the Law #104: Heroin Town
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: addiction, alexander kim, canada, cited podcast, Crosstown Clinic, Dave Murray, diacetylmorphine, Dianne Tobin, fentanyl, gordon katic, Health Canada, Helsinki declaration, heroin, heroin addiction treatment, Kevin Thompson, legal heroin, NAOMI, NPA, over, Credit: Travis Lupick
Doctors usually treat heroin addiction with methadone, but it doesn’t work for everyone. So what do you do? At a small clinic in Vancouver BC, they...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2017
  • Length: 48:30
RACING TO ZERO -- Diana Fuller and Chris Beaver Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Diane Fuller & Chris Beaver, San Francisco, CA 9/12/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Chris Beaver and Diana Fuller talk garbage, waste, and full-circle recycling.

  • Added: Sep 21, 2016
  • Length: 14:32
Finding Center
From: Hebah Fisher
Series: Kerning Cultures
Caption: Teeba Alkhudairi, hooping in Dubai desert
Horse whisperers, Muslim astronomers, hula hoopers find their spiritual and physical centers.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 25, 2016
  • Length: 27:10
  • Purchases: 1
"The River of Doubt" by Candace Millard
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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This river is a tributary of the mighty Amazon. It snakes through one of the world’s most treacherous jungles and it’s where President Teddy Roosev...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 29, 2015
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 1
Curing Violence Like an Infectious Disease
From: Tiny Spark
Series: Tiny Spark
Caption: Dr. Gary Slutkin and Autry Philips, Credit: Bill Healy
American communities are still reeling from recent gun violence, including the June mass shooting at a church in Charleston, S.C., and the gang vio...

Bought by KRZA and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 01, 2015
  • Length: 12:06
  • Purchases: 2
Born to Run: Is Nearly Barefoot Best?
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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As runners gear up for race season, Christopher McDougall's book is timely. He spurred on the barefoot running revolution several years ago with hi...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and Radio Newark


  • Added: May 22, 2015
  • Length: 09:57
  • Purchases: 2
Climate Change Is Tough on Penguins: Author Fen Montaigne
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Fen’s book, “Fraser’s Penguins: A Journey to the Future in Antarctica,” shows his passion for this otherworldly place and many of its two-footed in...

Bought by Radio Newark, KCMJ Community Radio, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Feb 10, 2015
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 3
Rare male midwife warns his profession is at risk in France
From: Sarah Elzas
Series: Wo/men's work
Caption: Midwife Nicolas Dutriaux holds a model of a pelvis he uses with patients., Credit: Sarah Elzas
Midwife Nicolas Dutriaux says the gender balance of his profession has lead to its marginalization.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 16, 2014
  • Length: 04:10
  • Purchases: 2
Reaching Mars is not the only ISRO success!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Mission specialists cheer at ISRO
India's Mangalyaan orbiter has reached Mars, but the mission means as much for the women of India as it does for science.

  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
Author Charles Mann and Life in the New World
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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In “1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus,” science writer Mann describes what some of the North and South American nations looked ...

Bought by WTJU, KCMJ Community Radio, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Aug 25, 2014
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 3
The Mikie Show #69 Vicki
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Episode sixty-nine has arrived in a totally cybernetic way! Join us as we speak with Vicki Brown, a Ph.D. in Research Methodology and a rockin’ vio...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2014
  • Length: 28:02
13.5: England Bells (Standard Length)
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds (Standard Length)
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The story of the church bells in England during WWII. (Note: This is the intro to episode 13: The Sounds of East London)

  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
Healing Power of Curcumin (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Some people eat ginger to calm their stomachs, and Peter Rabbit’s mother gave him a dose of chamomile tea to cure his ailments. One Virginia resear...

Bought by KENW, WABE, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WXDU


  • Added: Jan 24, 2014
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 4
Following in Darwin's Footsteps: Two Young Women Scientists Forge Their Futures in the Galapagos
From: Veronique LaCapra
Caption: Maricruz Jaramillo (standing) and Samoa Asigau wait for their ride back to the Charles Darwin Research Station after an early morning of catching birds in an agricultural area on Santa Cruz Island., Credit: Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio
What motivates young people to become scientists? Meet Maricruz Jaramillo and Samoa Asigau, two young women scientists from opposite sides of the P...

Bought by KMUN, Cards Against Humanity: The Good News Podcast, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WNIJ and more


  • Added: Jul 26, 2013
  • Length: 06:34
  • Purchases: 14
Cosmologist Roger Penrose and "The Road to Reality"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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A British mathematical physicist, Roger is one of the world’s leading scientists. He speaks of black holes, religion and twistor theory. Our conver...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: May 30, 2013
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 1
In India, Everyone Wants To Be An Engineer
From: Bianca Vazquez Toness
Caption: Students study math at a cramschool in Kota, Rajasthan, India, Credit: Bianca Vazquez Toness
Getting into the top engineering schools in India is statistically harder than breaking into Harvard. So hard that students study for two years in ...

Bought by Outer Voices, KUOW, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 20, 2013
  • Length: 06:22
  • Purchases: 3
Author Anthony Brandt and "The Man Who Ate His Boots"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Anthony, no stranger to faraway places himself, tells the harrowing history of the search for the Northwest Passage in "The Man Who Ate His Boots."...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 17, 2013
  • Length: 10:11
  • Purchases: 1
Interview with the man who landed the Curiosity Rover on Mars
From: Michael Nevradakis
Series: Dialogos Interview Series
Caption: The Dialogos Interview Series, produced by Dialogos Radio, Credit: Michael Nevradakis
An interview with Dr. Pericles Papadopoulos, the NASA scientist who landed the Curiosity Rover on Mars.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2013
  • Length: 24:38
13: The Sounds of East London
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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From bells to restaurants, and glasses to songwriting this episode explores the people and sounds of London's East end.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: 16:25
  • Purchases: 1
International Testing in Science and Math
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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In response to international tests that show American students lagging, a number of programs supporting the study of science, technology, engineeri...

Bought by KENW, KFAI Minneapolis, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 3