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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
Opening
From: Sol Rezza
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Opening is a piece of radio art that has as an axis an interview the English physicist Julian Barbour and his theory about time.

  • Added: Aug 14, 2018
  • Length: 41:12
259: Healing Trauma / 260: You Had To Be There, 3/31/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Healing Trauma" - Most of us will go through something traumatic in our lives. This hour, what researchers are discovering to help peopl...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
Experience A Message From Earth—Inspired by the Voyager Gold Record
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: • The cover for the Voyager Golden Record, headed into interstellar space on Voyagers 1 and 2, Credit: NASA/JPL
It has been 40 years since Carl Sagan and others shared the best of humanity with the stars. A new online multimedia project has been created as a ...

Bought by KDNK, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Art gallery show chronicles Lake Erie's icy winter
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Cold Snap and Three Weeks, two of Christensen's pieces, Credit: Elizabeth Miller/ideastream
At this time of year, we tend to turn away from the Great Lakes, counting down the days until we can swim, fish, or go boating. But a new art exhib...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, WDET Detroit Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WBFO, and WKSU


  • Added: Feb 02, 2018
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 5
229: The Art of Reinvention / 230: Peak Performance, 12/16/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "The Art of Reinvention" - Feeling stale? Four artists tell us how they reinvented themselves and how you can too. HOUR TWO: "Peak Perf...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:58
Diamond Planets and Super Earths (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Newly discovered worlds hold wonders beyond our wildest imagination - Exploring the history of science onstage

Bought by Harford Community Radio, WJCT, WLPR , WUGA (part of GPB), KMUN and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 10
Space is Neat (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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For decades, sci-fi writers have imagined distant planets unlike our own— it turns out the real things are even weirder.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KUER, KENW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2017
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 7
Ryuta Nakajima: Squid and I
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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This week on Art Beat, we talk to Ryuta Nakajima to discuss his exhibit Squid and I, at the MMAM. Nakajima’s work investigates the origin of visual...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2017
  • Length: 15:27
“Why Did Humans Evolve Into Artists?”
From: Prairie Public
Caption: Valerius Geist
Host Jack Russell Weinstein visits with Valerius Geist, professor emeritus of environmental science, University of Calgary.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2017
  • Length: 54:02
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
Renée Fleming: Music's Ability to Heal
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Renee Fleming with Hartmut Hoell, Credit: Bob Millard
Renée Fleming along with other musicians and scientists look at the remarkable ability of music to make us whole.

Bought by KZUM, KVNF, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 3
What We Talk about When We Talk about Two Bears High-Fiving
From: The Organist
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Hermann Rorschach’s inkblot test has become ubiquitous in pop-culture as shorthand for both psychiatry and the subconscious. The first biography of...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 28:16
  • Purchases: 1
Rethinking Ink
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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Lasers, tattoo removal, and second chances.

Bought by KALW


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 20:56
  • Purchases: 1
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
Interfaith Understanding & An Artist Who Points To Peace
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Conversation with religious scholar Will Keepin and artist Paul Re who established a peace prize to honor modern day peacemakers in New Mexico.

Bought by Radio Catskill, KUNM, and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Feb 16, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
Water's Edge; The Guana Tolomato River
From: JoAnne Maffia
Series: ReFoundSound an audio blog
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The sounds of: Water; Guana Tolomato River; saltwater; September 2016; Warm; 80 degrees.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2017
  • Length: 01:01
Footsteps #2 Winter NYC
From: JoAnne Maffia
Series: ReFoundSound an audio blog
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The sounds of: Walking on packed snow, on a city sidewalk in January 2017. Cold: 19 degrees: Prospect Ave & Terrace PL: Brooklyn, NY. Early evening...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2017
  • Length: :48
Footsteps #1 Late Summer
From: JoAnne Maffia
Series: ReFoundSound an audio blog
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The sounds of: walking on sand, crushed shells and soil in late summer, 1pm: Afternoon: Hot: 80 degrees, hiking at The Guana Tolomato Reserve in S...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2017
  • Length: :48
Art That Captures the Beauty and Science of Space
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Space artist Marilynn Flynn's "Titan's Southern Summer", Credit: tharsisartworks.com
Marilynn Flynn, Simon Kregar and Rick Sternbach are masters of space art. They talk about how their work furthers science and captures the imagina...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WMUU-LP, KMUD, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Dec 20, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
302-Sensing A Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Combining Art and Science gives us a new way to appreciate the wonders of the Universe.

Bought by Radio Newark, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Big Talk: Betsy Stirratt
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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The director of the IU Grunwald Gallery of Art, Betsy Stirratt, joins Michael Glab on this week's edition of Big Talk!

  • Added: Oct 13, 2016
  • Length: 09:10
Take Care #76
From: WRVO Public Media
Series: Take Care
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Episode topics: Art therapy and gall bladder disease.

Bought by WNMU-FM, WRIR, WJCU, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Aug 03, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Untold Story of Pokemon Go and the Unrelenting Rampage of Cuteness and Community That's Taking Over St. Cloud
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack finds the city of St. Cloud inund...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jul 21, 2016
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 1