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radioBang Episode 1511
From: Chuck Woodford
Series: radioBANG
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Don't have time to travel to enjoy the outdoors? Don't worry, Mother Nature may be coming to you.

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: Sep 09, 2015
  • Length: 01:42
  • Purchases: 1
radioBang Episode 1510
From: Chuck Woodford
Series: radioBANG
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All hail the Halophyte Plant, creating biofuel from the deepest oceans and the driest deserts.

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: Sep 09, 2015
  • Length: 01:53
  • Purchases: 1
radioBang Episode 1509
From: Chuck Woodford
Series: radioBANG
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An Argentinian car mechanic may have just changed the birth process for millions of babies worldwide.

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: Sep 09, 2015
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Wilson Matthews and Jeanne Yeatman
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Wilson Matthews (L) and Jeanne Yeatman (R)
Flight nurses Wilson Matthews and Jeanne Yeatman talk about their work aboard emergency response helicopters and their attempts to save a child who...

Bought by WTJU and Blue Mountain Radio


  • Added: Jul 24, 2015
  • Length: 02:08
  • Purchases: 2
The Politics of Teaching Climate Change
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Into the Earth
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Discover what happens when science education collides with business and government.

Bought by KVSC and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 10, 2015
  • Length: 09:34
  • Purchases: 2
How a warming Arctic affects Yellowstone grizzlies
From: gretchen king
Caption: A bear in Yellowstone National Park in April 2013, Credit: . Jim Peaco, National Park Service
For some bears, weird spring weather was a wake-up call. For humans, not so much.

  • Added: May 15, 2015
  • Length: 08:47
TICKS and LYME DISEASE - Are YOU at Risk? with Dr. Alan Eaton
From: Jay Scott
Series: Big Buck Registry's Deer Hunting Podcast
Caption: Dr. Alan Eaton checks deer registration stations for the Black Legged Tick, Credit: Dr. Alan Eaton
Have you ever found a tick on you after a day in the field or deep woods? Most of us have and many hunters have been bitten by ticks. Ticks carry s...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2015
  • Length: 01:35:39
Save the Vaquitas!
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Elements by Open Orchard Productions
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High schooler William Whittenbury attacks the dire situation of the endangered porpoise - the vaquitas. William hopes to change the fate of the vaq...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2015
  • Length: 04:03
Interchange - A Measure of Choice: Vaccine Opposition and Public Health
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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"A Measure of Choice" explores the reasons that some parents are choosing not to vaccinate their children. The so-called “anti-vax” movement has be...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:44
Born Blue
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions
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Countless emotions fill a baby delivery room: elation, exhilaration, apprehension. But excitement can shift to sheer panic if the baby is delayed t...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2015
  • Length: 03:46
Coral reefs cry out to their fish for help
From: Meisa Salaita
Series: Small Matters
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Sometimes a little bit of protection can mean the difference between everything and nothing. We head now to the middle of the Pacific Ocean, where...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 23, 2015
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 1
Bringing Up Babies
From: Josh Clement
Series: All Things Natural With Ed Kanze
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I've raised baby possums, raccoons, skunks, robins, starlings, and great-horned owls. Which are the most cuddly and fun to be around? The answer ma...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
Shorter days can trigger Seasonal Affective Disorder--a psychiatrist explains
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Seasonal Affective Disorder is a type of depression triggered by shorter days and reduced light. Loyola University Medical Center psychiatrist talk...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 06, 2014
  • Length: 12:56
  • Purchases: 1
The Ebola Agenda
From: John Brice
Series: Commentary by John C. Brice, J.D.
Caption: Commentary by John C. Brice, JD
Ebola is Airborne and the Government knows it. But they're telling you it isn't. And they're not closing off air traffic from the affected countr...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2014
  • Length: 04:59
Why Ebola Should Be Treated As Though It Is Airborne
From: John Brice
Series: Commentary by John C. Brice, J.D.
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Several reasons are presented which individually and collectively demonstrate why Ebola should be treated as though it is airborne.

  • Added: Oct 04, 2014
  • Length: 04:16
Episode 006
From: John Brice
Series: The EDM Hour
Caption: DANCE music you can LISTEN to!
Brand new Electronica, Techno, Tech House, Trance, Psy-Trance, House, and Deep House tracks!

  • Added: Oct 04, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:00
Author Katy Butler and “Knocking on Heaven’s Door”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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In this enlightening memoir about her parents’ deaths, the author lays out some of the difficulties in having the so-called good death when teamed ...

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


  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 2
Meet Joe Palca: A Radio Story About Making Radio Stories
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Joe Palca tracks a story at NPR, Credit: Photo courtesy of Joe Palca
Joe Palca is one of the best science storytellers out there. As an NPR science correspondent he’s covered all sorts of obscure topics, from soccer-...

Bought by WTJU, Radio Newark, and WTJU


  • Added: Jul 22, 2014
  • Length: 09:03
  • Purchases: 3
Fukushima, 3 Years Later
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
Caption: Fukushima Survivor, Kenichi Hasegawa, Credit: Greenpeace
March 11 marks three years since the Fukushima nuclear disaster. It might be more accurate to say it marks three years since the start of this ongo...

Bought by Accessible Media Inc.


  • Added: Jul 07, 2014
  • Length: 08:45
  • Purchases: 1
Nano-warriors: Pitting chemistry against cancer
From: Meisa Salaita
Series: Small Matters
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Sometimes people find their passion early in life… and then don’t stray from the course. This story is about just such a person, and what her devo...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Jun 17, 2014
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 1
Language Seen, Not Heard
From: Hold That Thought
Series: On Language
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What can American Sign Language reveal about how humans learn any language, whether spoken or seen?

Bought by KVNF and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: May 12, 2014
  • Length: 10:40
  • Purchases: 2
Meet Golden Gate Park’s hairiest denizens
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: The bison of Golden Gate Park., Credit: Laura Klivans
Betsy. Buttercup. Bambi. Those are not Disney characters but three of the eight female bison that live at the bison paddock in Golden Gate Park. Sa...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 1
PTSD by any other name
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Host Ed Ayers talks with psychotherapist Edward Tick about the history of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD.

Bought by KVNF and Radio Newark


  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 11:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Beat: Robert Jevne - "Disappearing"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Robert Jevne lives, works, and talks about himself in the third person in the greater Jacobson area. This manner of speaking is most likely an outg...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
The Film MIDWAY, The Truth about Birds & Plastic
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
Caption: An albatross shot on Midway island during production., Credit: Kris Krüg
Set on the island of Midway in the north Pacific, it’s about birds and plastics and oceans; not a good combination. B.C. based cinematographer Jan ...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2013
  • Length: 03:43

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