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Top of Mind - Children under Fire, Money to the Homeless, Brown Fat
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Even amidst the pandemic, gun violence persisted across the US. Topic 2: What if we just gave newly-homeless people several thousand dolla...

Bought by RADIOLEX, RadioStPete Florida, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KOWS, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 8
Top of Mind - Music of Spheres, Go FlyEase, Prison Pell Grant
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Music of Spheres; Topic 2: Go FlyEase; Topic 3: Prison Pell Grant

Bought by KOWS, RADIOLEX, WYAP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KTNA


  • Added: Jul 20, 2021
  • Length: 51:30
  • Purchases: 5
Zoonotic Viruses and Their Origins
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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There’s a lot we don’t know about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus but there is a consensus that it came from animals. This is called zoonosis. H...

  • Added: May 14, 2021
  • Length: 04:18
GN_4.37_Cooperative Drugs
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Health care in America has always run at a high cost. In Utah, hospitals are taking action to make pharmaceuticals affordable for all.

  • Added: Apr 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Top of Mind - Perception of Time, Spinosaurus, First Millennial Saint
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1 - Perception of Time; Topic 2 - Spinosaurus; Topic 3 - First Millennial Saint

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WMUU-LP, KOWS, and WYAP


  • Added: Mar 31, 2021
  • Length: 51:46
  • Purchases: 4
Top of Mind - Star of David, Immigration
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1 - Star of David; Topics 2 and 3 - Immigration

Bought by WMUU-LP, WXDU, RadioStPete Florida, and KOWS


  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 51:52
  • Purchases: 4
Deaths of Despair
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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Overdoses have spiked during the pandemic. One of the reasons is a breakdown in the community support so critical to keeping people off drugs. Soci...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 04:21
Top of Mind - The Better Half, Cashless Society
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1 and 2 - The Better Half; Topic 3 - Cashless Society

Bought by WYAP, RadioStPete Florida, and KOWS


  • Added: Jan 25, 2021
  • Length: 51:54
  • Purchases: 3
Parks, Hearts, and Family Leave
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: The Complicated Relationship Between City Parks and Crime Rates. Topic 2: Despite an Incredible History, the Future of Heart Disease Treat...

Bought by KOWS and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 04, 2020
  • Length: 50:19
  • Purchases: 2
Mental Health Pandemic
From: Rebecca McInroy
Series: See You Now
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COVID-19 will have a mental health impact on everyone. In this special episode of SEE YOU NOW we hear from four healthcare leaders with a different...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2020
  • Length: 59:14
Dr. Michael Osterholm on Covid-19: "We Will Get Through This But We'll Never Go Back to Normal"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Conversations on COVID-19
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Michael Osterholm, PhD, is director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy and author of the book, Dead...

Bought by KSRQ and KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle


  • Added: Mar 31, 2020
  • Length: 15:48
  • Purchases: 2
Resolving Conflict around Perceived Mental Illness
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
Caption: Melissa Toni, Credit: Courtesy: Mad in America
This Peace Talks Radio program discusses lessening the stigma around commonly named mental illnesses such as depression, schizophrenia, and psychos...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM


  • Added: Feb 25, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Treating America’s Opioid Addiction: Part 1
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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The Narcotic Farm and the Promise of Salvation

  • Added: Jun 04, 2019
  • Length: 32:11
300 E Eager St: The release door of the Baltimore Jail
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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My first experience with Baltimore City Jail, I think I was 17 years of age, and it just seems like it’s been repeatedly ever since. I’ve been in a...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 18, 2019
  • Length: 04:20
  • Purchases: 1
Prescription for Integrity
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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They've tried us all different kids of ways, but they know that we are strictly professional.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 04, 2019
  • Length: 04:21
  • Purchases: 1
Is 20-Something Too Late For A Guy To Get The HPV Vaccine?
From: Side Effects Public Media
Caption: Jake Harper, 29, is Side Effects Public Media's resident hypochondriac. His newest health anxiety stems from the human papillomavirus, or HPV., Credit: Brian Paul/Side Effects
A generation of young men missed out on the HPV vaccine. Now, Side Effects Public Media's 29-year-old correspondent wonders if that’s putting him a...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2016
  • Length: 03:23
Live from the USS Bataan - at Sea
From: WCWP
Series: Taking Care of Business with Richard Solomon
Caption: Helicopter Landing, Credit: Richard A. Solomon
Arriving on a Super Stallion Helicopter in the Atlantic Ocean, Richard Solomon meets the crew of the USS Bataan (LHD-5) and is granted behind the s...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
Emotional Resilience - How to Survive and Thrive in Challenging Times
From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel
Caption: Looking out for you
Challenges come in many forms both personal and professional. An expert in the field of emotional intelligence, Geetu Bharwaney, has combined the k...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2016
  • Length: 59:09
Ninety Three Men
From: Scott Christy
Caption: Research Vessel Atlantis
An American scientific research ship responds to a sinking boat full of refugees in the Mediterranean.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 08, 2016
  • Length: 08:31
  • Purchases: 1
A Big Test for LightSail 2
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: LightSail 2 successfully deployed its sails in the May 23rd Day In The Life Test, Credit: Jason Davis
The Planetary Society’s solar sail spacecraft was in the middle of a critical test as we spoke with the Society’s Bruce Betts and Jason Davis. Mat...

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


  • Added: May 23, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
The Write Question - Jeremy N. Smith - 221
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Jeremy N. Smith talks about his book Epic Measures, the true story of a 20-year, 500-scientist, $100-million moonshot attempt to track and quantify...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KCMJ Community Radio, KGLT, Spokane Public Radio, KSJD and more


  • Added: May 18, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 6
Reading Water, Seeing Fish: The Alewive Controversy
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Fishing guides spend their days reading the water, seeing fish., Credit: Susan Cook
The strident opponents of a rapid, unregulated re-introduction of alewives to the St. Croix believe that at one important juncture in the river, ...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2013
  • Length: 04:40
Are you afraid of climate change?
From: Generation Anthropocene
Series: Generation Anthropocene
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Michael Shellenberger addresses climate change through the eyes of his Breakthrough Institute and offers up some ideas that some see as controversi...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 19:48
RISE: Part I Sounding the Waters
From: Claire Schoen
Series: RISE: Climate Change and Coastal Communities
Caption: Rising sea levels and extreme weather conditions threaten the nation's coastal towns, Credit: Jan Sturmann
The San Francisco Bay is a place of beauty and biological diversity. But sea level rise and extreme weather will change human life along its coastl...

Bought by WHRV, KAAD-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WHRV, WRIR and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
RISE: Part II Facing the Rising Tide
From: Claire Schoen
Series: RISE: Climate Change and Coastal Communities
Caption: Steve Mello is a farmer on Tyler Island in the San Francisco Bay Delta, Credit: Jan Sturmann
Rising waters threaten the lands of a farmer and of a developer, yet they and their families dismiss all warnings of danger. Why are so many of us ...

Bought by WHRV, KAAD-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WHRV, WRIR and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18