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Black folks in nature
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Rue Mapp, founder of Outdoor Afro, leads a group on a white water adventure, Credit: Outdoor Afro
There's a mountain of statistics that suggest black Americans don’t go out in nature as much as people of other ethnicities, but one Bay Area organ...

Bought by KSKA and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 06:22
  • Purchases: 2
Wood-Fired Woes
From: Youth Express
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Diamond, Demetrius, Josh and Kevin interview Jamin Bogi (Group Against Smog and Pollution), Phil Johnson (The Heinz Endowments) and Neil Donahue (C...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 03:26
114-Rose's First Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The newest member of the NASA funded Catalina Sky Survey team, Rose Matheny, discovers her first Earth approaching asteroid.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KKRN, KALH and more


  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
113-A Dwarf Water Planet In Our Solar System
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Ceres is a small dwarf planet in our solar system which contains a large proportion of water. NASA is about to begin to explore it.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KKRN, KENW and more


  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
Robots for humanity: how technology is changing the life of one Bay Area man
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Jane and Henry Evans at their house, Credit: Angela Johnston
Then, Henry suffered from what is called a brain stem dissection. That stroke left him trapped, unable to lift a finger at first, or say a word. Bu...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 13, 2015
  • Length: 09:33
  • Purchases: 2
Robotic seals comfort dementia patients but raise ethical concerns
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Paro the seal, charging by its electronic pacifier , Credit: Angela Johnston
At the Livermore Veteran’s Hospital, there are a few animals residents can see: wild turkeys that run around the grounds, rattlesnakes that hide ou...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 13, 2015
  • Length: 08:27
  • Purchases: 2
Dr. Uwe Reinhardt, Princeton Health Economist
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with renowned Princeton Health Economist Dr. Uwe Reinhardt about the rollout of the Affor...

Bought by WJCU and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jan 13, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Dr. J and the World's Biggest Telescope
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's conception of the completed European Extremely Large Telescope, Credit: ESO
Joe Liske, host of Hubblecast, is also the top scientist on the European Southern Observatory’s European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), now und...

Bought by KWMR, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KFCF FM


  • Added: Jan 13, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 4
Silicon Valley's Prehistoric Past
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Construction site at the Calaveras Dam in the East Bay hills.
When work began to rebuild the Calaveras Dam, Paleontologist Jim Walker was called to the scene to hunt for fossils. He expected to find a few, but...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jan 12, 2015
  • Length: 05:50
  • Purchases: 1
Could a once-a-day pill end the HIV epidemic in San Francisco?
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Mural portrait of Esteban Cuaya-Muñoz at the Oakland Museum of California, by artist Brett Cooke
In November, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors approved legislation allocating $300,000 to help San Franciscans who want PrEP to get access to i...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2015
  • Length: 05:21
Cancer Luck
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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When the chemotherapy fails, ask your doctor about a lucky rabbit's foot!

  • Added: Jan 12, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
Music for Animals
From: Britt Wray
Caption: Black Prairie plays a concert for 52 wolves at Wolf Haven sanctuary in Washington State., Credit: Carli Davidson
There's a music industry for pets out there. But what kind of music do animals like? A woman who studies how non-human creatures go mad throws conc...

Bought by ABC, KVNF, 'The Sea', New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE and more


  • Added: Jan 10, 2015
  • Length: 08:23
  • Purchases: 6
01-08: From Kingdom to Kin-dom: Acting As If We Have Relatives, 1/7/2015
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Paul Stamets
From the microbes to the mammals, all life shares far more in common than what makes us different. In other words, it’s all relatives. If we knew t...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
Time Finder -- Groks Science Show 2014-12-31
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Mitzi Weinman discussed strategies for personal management.

  • Added: Jan 08, 2015
  • Length: 21:31
112-A Banner Year For Asteroid Hunters
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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2014 was a record year for the asteroid hunting community with more than 1,450 new objects being discovered.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KKRN, KMXT and more


  • Added: Jan 08, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
111-Green Meteors
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Green Meteors which have long been attributed to alien spacecraft or spy devices are in reality beautiful natural events.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KKRN, KMXT and more


  • Added: Jan 08, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
Dr. Krinsky goes to Washington -- Groks Science Show 2015-01-07
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
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Dr. Benjamin Krinsky discusses scientific policy.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jan 08, 2015
  • Length: 27:32
  • Purchases: 1
Tank to Table: Growing Food Sustainably Through Aquaponics
From: H2O Radio
Series: Journalism About Water
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Aquaponics is a food production system that combines aquaculture (raising fish in tanks) with hydroponics (cultivating plants in water) in a symbio...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: Jan 07, 2015
  • Length: 08:03
  • Purchases: 2
The Art of De-Extinction
From: Britt Wray
Caption: Will the woolly mammoth face another day?, Credit: Tyler Ingram
A group of scientists are now trying to bring extinct animals - like the woolly mammoth and passenger pigeon - back to life, in a movement called D...

Bought by WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 07, 2015
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 3
Bio-hackers Grow Their Own Ink
From: Britt Wray
Caption: Biohackers grow their own ink from soil-dwelling bacteria., Credit: La Paillasse
What does it mean to live in a world where biotech is done for and by the people? How long might it be until we are all growing our own ink, laund...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 06, 2015
  • Length: 07:15
  • Purchases: 1
Sea Rise Drowning Alaskan Village
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Kate Sheppard
We have heard the warnings for years now: climate change will someday force people to move from their homes. Sea level rise will put places from Mi...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
New Ultrafast Camera Could Help Turn Science Fiction Into Reality
From: Veronique LaCapra
Caption: This diagram shows how the new imaging technique works., Credit: Lihong Wang, Washington University
Researchers at Washington University have invented an imaging system that can take a hundred billion pictures in a second -- fast enough to record ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 06, 2015
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 1
The Exciting Year Ahead on the Final Frontier
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's conception of the Dawn spacecraft approaching Ceres in the asteroid belt., Credit: NASA/JPL
The Planetary Society’s experts look forward to a great year of firsts in the solar system and beyond. Bill Nye the Science Guy provides a status ...

Bought by KFCF FM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KWMR, and WYAP


  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 5
Esther Dyson, Founder of HICCup
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with angel investor, entrepreneur, philanthropist, cosmonaut and founder of numerous tech...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 29:58
  • Purchases: 1
Life on Mars?
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Elektro the Moto-Man and his Little Dog Sparko, created by Westinghouse Electric Company for the 1939 World’s Fair., Credit: New York City Public Library
Maria Lane, author of Geographies of Mars, relates what Percival Lowell observed on the red planet. This segment comes from BackStory's episode "Th...

Bought by Radio Newark and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 09:02
  • Purchases: 2

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