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River of Renewal, Myth & History in the Klamath Basin Since the last Ice Age ended about 12,000 years ago, human beings have traveled along the Kl...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
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Originally Broadcast: November 8, 2006 This Is Your Brain On Music: The Science of a Human Obsession The understanding of how we humans experienc...

  • Added: Dec 22, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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Originally Broadcast: November 1, 2006 This Is Your Brain On Music: The Science of a Human Obsession The understanding of how we humans experienc...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Rahima Banu and her mother in 1975, Credit: Daniel Tarantola/WHO
Only one human disease has ever been completely eradicated: Smallpox. Rahima Banu, a woman from rural Bangladesh, was the last person in the world ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: May 19, 2023
  • Length: 09:37
  • Purchases: 1
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Activists were angry that a museum held the skulls of enslaved people. Then they discovered it also had remains of Black children killed in 1985.

  • Added: May 14, 2023
  • Length: 56:58
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Can anti-racist scientists create racist science?

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 55:48
  • Purchases: 1
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Follow the money that props up racist science, and you'll find it all leads back to one man.

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 01:03:24
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How race was invented to support racism.

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 33:44
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The Journey of Man, A Genetic Odyssey Around 60,000 years ago, a man – identical to us in all important genetic respects – lived in Africa. Every ...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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Blood, an Epic History of Medicine and Commerce Human blood has been compared historically and sociologically to a river that defines human societ...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
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A 3 generation family farm business discusses farming

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 23:15
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A generational discussion about nursing as of 2003

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 24:08
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Bio-Hazard: The Chilling Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World — Told From Inside by the Man Who Ran it Biological w...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2020
  • Length: :00
Caption: Paul Halpern
There always seems to be a peculiar twist in understanding our world. How it works. Just when we think of have a grip on it, like a greased pig, it...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Synanon and the Tunnel Back to the Human Race.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2019
  • Length: 44:34
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The Narcotic Farm and the Promise of Salvation

  • Added: Jun 04, 2019
  • Length: 32:11
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The disputed origin story of one of the 20th century’s most important inventions.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 30:06
  • Purchases: 1
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One of America's most bizarre food battles

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 16, 2017
  • Length: 20:52
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Illustration from Obstetric tables depicting the correct use of forceps in 1850., Credit: Spratt, G. (George). Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Once upon a time all births were natural. A lot has happened since then.

  • Added: Oct 07, 2016
  • Length: 01:01:12
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Paula Bernstein and Elyse Schein share 100 percent of their DNA. Separated at birth, the twins were both adopted and raised by loving families. The...

Bought by WDBM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, American Voices, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 19, 2016
  • Length: 15:05
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: An Alchemist in his Studio, Thomas Wijck. , Credit: CHF Collections
This episode explores the colorful (and sometimes risk-filled) history of pigments and painters, and the conservators who save paintings from the r...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Jul 22, 2014
  • Length: 30:34
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Crisco and chicken nuggets, Credit: CHF collections and Evan Amos, Wikimedia Commons.
Have you ever wondered how chicken nuggets are made? Or what propylene glycol monostearate, monocalcium phosphate, or other listed ingredients are ...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, WTJU, RadioFreePalmer, and WYAP


  • Added: Jul 22, 2014
  • Length: 27:24
  • Purchases: 4
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The microphone has changed the entire world into everything we know and love today, so it only makes sense that there's a museum for it.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 04:29
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The microphone has changed the entire world into everything we know and love today, so it only makes sense that there's a museum for it.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 20:26
  • Purchases: 1
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NASA's Chief historian, Bill Barry discusses the impact each generation has had on the space program.

Bought by KVSC and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jul 23, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2