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Sonnet for the Higgs Boson. The God particle.
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Upon the passing of Dr Peter Higgs, a Sonnet to explain how the Higgs boson comes into our lives.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: :49
  • Purchases: 1
The Distance of Time: An American Sonnet about Relativity
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Poetry makes everything accessible, even the Special Theory of Relativity.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: :51
Dream Sharing and Empathy
From: Katherine Bell
Series: The Dream Journal
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Does dream sharing increase empathy and insight? Today meet two English professors who say, "Yes it does!" The Science and Art of Dreaming is their...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2023
  • Length: 53:01
2023 Spring Fundraiser: Unconventional Healing / Predicting Success
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To The Best of Our Knowledge Fundraisers
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In this special fundraising edition of "To the Best of Our Knowledge," host Anne Strainchamps samples some of our best interviews about better list...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KALW, WUFT, and KRCU Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 17, 2023
  • Length: 01:23:32
  • Purchases: 4
The EXTENDED Untold Story of True Crime in Minnesota with Frank Weber
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s EXTENDED Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with forensic psychologist and mystery ...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2022
  • Length: 44:45
The Untold Story of True Crime in Minnesota with Frank F. Weber
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with forensic psychologist and mystery author Fr...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:59
The Write Question - Laura Kolbe
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Doctor and writer Laura Kolbe talks about her new collection of poems, "Little Pharma."

Bought by WETS, KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Nov 17, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
469: Poetry In A Troubled Time / 470: Our Invisible Universe, 4/4/2020
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Poetry In A Troubled Time" - Why do people turn to poetry during troubled times? Poetry is often the one language we need. Join us for a...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2020
  • Length: 01:59:00
2020 Spring Fundraiser: Changing Our Minds For The Better / Pushing Human Limits
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To The Best of Our Knowledge Fundraisers
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In this special fundraising edition of "To the Best of Our Knowledge," host Anne Strainchamps samples some of our best interviews about intelligent...

Bought by Wisconsin Public Radio (ops), Kansas Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Radio (ops), KHNS, KANW and more


  • Added: Feb 20, 2020
  • Length: 01:19:52
  • Purchases: 7
The Write Question - Jonathan Fetter-Vorm - 408
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Graphic novelist Jonathan Fetter-Vorm takes us into the world of his book, "Moonbound: Apollo 11 and the Dream of Spaceflight."

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 04, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
325: After 30 Years of Prozac / 326: Shock Value, 11/17/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "After 30 Years of Prozac" - Happy 30th birthday Prozac. We've had three decades of the drug, so why are we still depressed? HOUR TWO: ...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
185: The Art of Reinvention / 186: Get Happy, 7/15/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "The Art of Reinvention" - Artists reinvent themselves all the time. So why not consider yourself a work of art in progress? HOUR TWO: ...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:58
The National Endowment for the Arts speaks with poet Kim Roberts
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Kim Roberts
Kim Roberts brings a poet’s eye to The Scientific Method

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Fahrenheit 451
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Ray Bradbury's best work... the movie's opening credits were done with audio voiceover while antennas (and no words) grace the opening screen...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2017
  • Length: 02:12:23
An Illumination
From: Benjamen Walker
Series: Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything
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Cédric Villani won the prestigious Fields Medal for his work in 2010. He knows how to catch ideas, and he wants to teach us how as well. We also ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 07, 2015
  • Length: 18:30
  • Purchases: 2
Hark! Who Goes There? Locating the Self in the Stories We Tell (Extended Conversation w/John Eakin)
From: WFHB
Series: The Custom House
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We enlist the aid of noted scholar of autobiography, John Eakin, as we seek to answer Andrew Bird's question: where exactly does the self reside, i...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2013
  • Length: 46:06
Author Stephen Poleskie in conversation about his life, art and his book "The Balloonist."
From: Tish Pearlman
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Stephen Poleskie in conversation about his life as an artist and writer

  • Added: Aug 17, 2007
  • Length: 27:30