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Embracing the Unknown: How Uncertainty Unlocks Wisdom in Our Later Years
From: Paul VOGELZANG
Caption: The Not Old Better Show
📣 Exciting Episode Release! 🎧 🌟 Join us on The Not Old Better Show as we explore 'Embracing the Unknown: Wisdom in Uncertainty' with acclaimed auth...

Bought by WHFR


  • Added: Dec 18, 2023
  • Length: 30:47
  • Purchases: 1
Reel Discovery: Good Night Oppy
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Reel Discovery
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On the latest Reel Discovery, Kristin explores the Red Planet with twin rovers and their crew in the documentary Good Night Oppy.

Bought by KKRN, Spokane Public Radio, and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Jack, the Engineer & the River of Glue
From: Page Flippers
Series: Page Flippers Take on the World
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Meet Jack, an eight-year-old kid who loves dancing, drawing, and doing math! When a glue bottle explodes in the library, Jack has to think on their...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2022
  • Length: 20:54
Robotics Competitions after 2021, with Dan Mantz
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
Caption: A student robotics team works on a robot., Credit: REC Foundation
The Robotics Education and Competition (REC) Foundation has been running robotics programs for youth for years, including the widespread global com...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2021
  • Length: 37:29
Proving Einstein Right, Saving Coral Reefs, and Healthy Whining
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Proving Einstein Right: Daring Expeditions that Changed How We Look at the Universe. Topic 2: Scientists Lured Fish Back to Dying Coral Re...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2020
  • Length: 52:13
Reel Discovery: Spaceship Earth
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Reel Discovery
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On the latest Reel Discovery, Kristin explores a scientific story with an unexpected history in Spaceship Earth.

Bought by KSRQ and KKRN


  • Added: May 08, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Reel Discovery: The Aeronauts
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Reel Discovery
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On the latest Reel Discovery, Kristin takes to the skies with Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne in The Aeronauts.

Bought by WOUB, KKRN, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 05, 2019
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Transgendered - 2012 Full Hour Program
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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This is the full hour generational discussion on Transgendered featuring an older, middle and younger guest.

  • Added: Aug 04, 2017
  • Length: 51:27
10 x 10: Traffic Circle
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Outside/In
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Outside/In takes you on a journey to a 10-x10 plot and uncover the secrets you’d never know to find. This time, we look for signs of extraordinary ...

Bought by XRAY.fm and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 23, 2016
  • Length: 16:00
  • Purchases: 2
Flight Anxiety (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Summer travel is in full swing, which means many of us will be headed to the airport in the coming weeks. While most people do know that flying is ...

Bought by KENW, WABE, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 04, 2016
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps: Carolyn Shoemaker and Phred Salazar
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Carolyn Shoemaker (left) and her son-in-law, Phred Salazar (right)
Astronomer Carolyn Shoemaker remembers her late husband, renowned astrogeologist Gene Shoemaker, whose ashes are buried on the Moon.

  • Added: Jul 11, 2016
  • Length: 02:16
StoryCorps: Hans Walters and Martha Hiatt
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Hans Walters and his wife, Martha Hiatt
Hans Walters talks to his wife, Martha Hiatt, about going from heavy metal frontman to shark researcher and supervisor at the New York Aquarium.

Bought by WDBM


  • Added: Jul 11, 2016
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 1
Photosynthesis in Polka Dots
From: Devika Bakshi
Caption: Molly Bang in her studio at home in Falmouth, Massachusetts.
Making science come alive, in pictures.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 10, 2015
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 2
Take Care #3
From: WRVO Public Media
Series: Take Care
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Episode topics: Gout - it's origins, causes and current treatment and the importance of patient-centered care and how new training initiatives are ...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Jun 15, 2015
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Robots: a hands-on approach to STEM education
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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California eighth graders are ranked 45th in the country in math, according to the most recent scores on the National Assessment of Educational Pro...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and Radio Newark


  • Added: Jun 05, 2015
  • Length: 07:05
  • Purchases: 2
Dragons of Inaction Feature
From: With Good Reason
Series: Earth Day Specials
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Today, about half of all Americans believe in human-caused climate change, and yet, few Americans modify their behaviors in any serious ways. Allis...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KCMJ Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KKRN, WEZU and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2015
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 6
Bio-hackers Grow Their Own Ink
From: Britt Wray
Caption: Biohackers grow their own ink from soil-dwelling bacteria., Credit: La Paillasse
What does it mean to live in a world where biotech is done for and by the people? How long might it be until we are all growing our own ink, laund...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 06, 2015
  • Length: 07:15
  • Purchases: 1
Day Job 6: The Mind Reader
From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job: How Musicians Pay The Rent (2014 Series)
Caption: Ivan Galvez of Picoso, Credit: Joshua McNichols / Day Job
Ivan Gálvez plays timbales with the Seattle band Picoso. He also scans my brainwaves with an electroencephalogram machine at the hospital where he ...

Bought by KZYX, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 11, 2014
  • Length: 11:16
  • Purchases: 3
Snipe Hunt
From: Jennifer Jerrett
Caption: A Wilson's snipe mid flight, Credit: NPS / Neal Herbert
A mysterious sound sends us on a snipe hunt in Yellowstone National Park.

Bought by KALW, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 19, 2014
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 3
Washington Aims To Be The Healthiest State
From: Sallie Bodie
Caption: Sallie and Sharon on the MS-150
NO ONE LIKES A BAD GRADE, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO HEALTH. HOW DOES WASHINGTON STATE RANK AMONG OTHERS IN THE COUNTRY? REPORTER SALLIE BODIE H...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2014
  • Length: 04:04
Science Straight Up (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
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There’s a national conversation about promoting science education for students, but what about science after graduation? Allison Quantz has the sto...

Bought by WABE, WXDU, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 31, 2014
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 3
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
Teaching Intelligence (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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As the son of the great civil rights attorney, Oliver Hill Sr., Oliver Hill Jr. knows a thing or two about fighting for equality. He says that toda...

Bought by KENW, WABE, and WXDU


  • Added: Jan 24, 2014
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 3
East Coast Volcanoes (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
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Hundreds of millions of years ago, tectonic plates were shifting and volcanoes erupted along the Eastern Coast of the United States. But discoverie...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 16, 2013
  • Length: 02:47
  • Purchases: 1