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The Monarch Highway
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: I-35 is a designated butterfly habitat, Credit: Matthew Schneeman
Since 2017, the Federal Government has been exploring way to promote the Monarch Butterfly habitat along interstate 35.

  • Added: Apr 16, 2024
  • Length: 06:19
How a group of volunteers helped create the Border Route Trail
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: 1971 Rovers on Rose Lake Overlook
Minnesota is known for its 10,000 lakes and maybe more specifically, for its canoe culture through the pristine lakes of the Boundary Waters. Over ...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
Immunocompromised in a COVID Weary World
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Lindsay Ryan, an immunosuppressed physician explains what navigating her life – and her workplace – is like in this COVID-fatigued world.
An immunosuppressed physician explains what navigating her life – and her workplace – is like in this COVID-fatigued world.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 07, 2022
  • Length: 14:43
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: Dr. Charlene Drew Jarvis and Ernest Jarvis
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Dr. Charles Drew, pictured in a lab at Howard University in 1942, was known as the father of blood banking for pioneering the way we store and transport blood today., Credit: Dr. Charlene Jarvis
In the 1940s, Dr. Charles Drew was a surgeon and blood scientist, and today he is known as the “Father of Blood Banks.” His daughter, Dr. Charlene ...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:55
  • Purchases: 2
Top of Mind - Juneteenth, Chestnut Trees, Fashion Bonding
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Juneteenth; Topic 2: Chestnut Trees; Topic 3: Fashion Bonding

Bought by KOWS, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 22, 2021
  • Length: 51:34
  • Purchases: 4
Top of Mind - Housing and Urban Heat, Alcohol Cancer, Boy Bands
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Housing and Urban Heat; Topic 2: Alcohol Cancer; Topic 3: Boy Bands

Bought by KSTK, RadioStPete Florida, KOWS, GCR (Global Community Radio), RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: May 24, 2021
  • Length: 51:47
  • Purchases: 6
Mars Rover with Jennifer Anderson
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
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Winona State University professor of geoscience and astronomer Jennifer Anderson talks with us about the latest Mars rover recently launched.

  • Added: Dec 02, 2020
  • Length: 27:08
Like the Banks of a River: Deborah Foutch's Fiber & Mixed Media Art
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Rooted Earth by Deborah Foutch, Credit: Photo Courtesy of Deborah Foutch
Minneapolis artist Deborah Foutch creates rich and complex work with fiber and mixed media that expresses her love of the natural world. Her Soil H...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Nov 27, 2020
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 1
Top of Mind-Spirit Bears-Forever Chemicals-Cakes
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Spirit Bears. Topic 2: Forever Chemicals. Topic 3: Cake Artist

Bought by KOWS


  • Added: Nov 24, 2020
  • Length: 52:19
  • Purchases: 1
Collecting Scientific History, Fighting Dirty Money, Choice Overload
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Collecting scientific artifacts. Topic 2: How to fight dirty money. Topic 3: Are more choices better or worse?

Bought by KOWS


  • Added: May 26, 2020
  • Length: 49:28
  • Purchases: 1
George Takei, Emojis, Proprioception
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Actor and author George Takei. Topic 2: Emojis and the law. Topic 3: Proprioception.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and KOWS


  • Added: Apr 06, 2020
  • Length: 48:53
  • Purchases: 2
Frozen River Film Fest 2019: Decoding The Driftless
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this episode of Art Beat we continue our coverage of the 2019 Frozen River Film Festival. This time around I talk to one of the Emmy winning pro...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2019
  • Length: 29:18
StoryCorps: Zoe Courville and Lora Koenig
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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When Dr. Lora Koenig and Dr. Zoe Courville met in the middle of the Greenland ice sheet while doing climate research, their friendship helped them ...

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio, WEZU, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and WVBI-LP


  • Added: Mar 15, 2018
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 4
Mr. and Mrs. Fish
From: Matt Frassica
Series: The Briny
Caption: Jeff and Deb Sandler, Credit: Jeff and Deb Sandler
Jeff and Deb couldn't stand each other when they first met. Four decades later, they've traveled the world teaching kids about marine biology. Alon...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 10, 2017
  • Length: 18:24
  • Purchases: 1
This is what a concussion sounds like
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Features
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When you hear about concussions in the news, it's often about a football player. But kids get concussions too. In one recent year, nearly a quarter...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Sep 15, 2017
  • Length: 05:38
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 25: Ordinary Giants
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Science journalist Lynda Mapes takes us deep into a New England forest, where one tree is telling the story of climate change. This is the final ep...

Bought by KUER and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 04, 2017
  • Length: 16:38
  • Purchases: 2
The Reset
From: Trace Elements
Series: Trace Elements
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Jordy Cernik was diagnosed with Cushing's Syndrome a few weeks after his first child was born. He went through two pituitary operations, an adrenal...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 06, 2016
  • Length: 13:36
  • Purchases: 1
Ovarian transplants are on infertility's cutting edge
From: Robin Amer
Caption: Ralph and Katy Panek were able to have children thanks to a donated ovary from Katy’s twin sister Carol Enoch., Credit: Courtesy of Carol Enoch
Thirty-six-year-old twins Carol Enoch and Katy Panek are physically identical in every way but one: Katy was born without ovaries. She never menstr...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, and KUER


  • Added: Apr 05, 2016
  • Length: 10:29
  • Purchases: 3
Infant Loss
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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A sensitive discussion among medical professionals about infant loss

  • Added: Oct 10, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
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
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 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
Going plastic free (almost)
From: Veronica Simmonds
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My sincere but silly attempt to live without plastic for a week.

  • Added: Aug 27, 2013
  • Length: 06:36
Mental Health Intervention & You
From: New Jersey Radio Exchange Network
Caption: Cynthia Alston, Psychiatric Clinical Specialist & Nurse Practioner
Cynthia Alston, Psychiatric Clinical Specialist & Nurse Practioner in Mental Health & Psychiatry speaks about the abusive medication for Mental Dis...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2013
  • Length: 02:29
Fly Away Drones
From: War News Radio
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News and features on global conflict.

  • Added: May 23, 2013
  • Length: 07:39