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My Iron Lung
From: Radio Diaries
Caption: Martha Lillard in an iron lung in the 1950s., Credit: Courtesy of Martha Lillard
Martha Lillard is one of the last two people in the United States who depend on an iron lung to breathe.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: May 30, 2023
  • Length: 12:41
  • Purchases: 2
Toronto Business Journal: Michael Cremo, alternative archeologist and Vedic scholar, discusses Human Devolution
From: Ray Samuels
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Michael Cremo, alternative archeologist and Vedic scholar, discusses Human Devolution

  • Added: Jun 02, 2021
  • Length: 01:46:29
Randall Fuller, author of "The Book That Changed America"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Bob Kustra interviews Randall Fuller who's written an historical take on how Darwin's Theory of Evolution ignited leaders and thinkers in the US in...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Oct 22, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Historical Speech Acoustics
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Pericles' Funeral Oration., Credit: Philipp von Foltz/1852
How did historical leaders once address crowds of thousands, unaided by modern amplification

Bought by KENW and WLPR


  • Added: Jun 05, 2015
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 2
Did a WWII nuclear experiment make the U of C radioactive?
From: WBEZ
Series: Curious City
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Um, No. But did the Manhattan Project’s Enrico Fermi consider the risk to Chicago?

Bought by XRAY.fm, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 19, 2013
  • Length: 10:03
  • Purchases: 3
Sectional Strangeness
From: KVNF
Series: Belief Systems and Other B.S.
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Peculiarities of United States land surveying.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jan 17, 2006
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 1