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Henrietta Lacks' Immortal Cells
From: David Kattenburg
Caption: Henrietta Lacks, Credit: Courtesy: Lacks family & Estate
David Kattenburg speaks about Henrietta Lacks and medical racism in America with Dorothy Roberts. Roberts is Professor of Law and Sociology at the ...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2023
  • Length: 34:56
National Writers Series: Mary Roach
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Three
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Kendra Carr of Interlochen Public Radio talks with science writer Mary Roach.

Bought by WNMU-FM, Michigan Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Nov 11, 2021
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 3
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
Farming - recorded 4/2003
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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A 3 generation family farm business discusses farming

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 23:15
Nursing recorded 1/2003
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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A generational discussion about nursing as of 2003

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 24:08
The Write Question - Jack Nisbet - 409
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Writer and naturalist Jack Nisbet discusses his book, "The Dreamer and The Doctor: A Forest Lover and a Physician on the Edge of the Frontier."

Bought by Prairie Public, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 04, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Real Dr. Strangelove
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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The birth of Armageddon

Bought by KKRN, KCHW, WCPN, KKRN, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 20
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
Twisters and Storm Chasers – the Best of the Best
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Brantley Hargrove is the author of "The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras.” It’s a true story of a Denveri...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2018
  • Length: 09:56
Bill Schutt discusses "The Himalayan Codex"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Bill Schutt a vertebrate zoologist, college professor and author. Learn more about him at https://www.billschutt.com/.

  • Added: Jun 13, 2017
  • Length: 11:33
337-Lucy
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Lucy Spacecraft, named after the human fossil Lucy, will revolutionize our knowledge of the origins of our solar system.

Bought by KUPR low power FM, KKRN, KENW, Radio Newark, and WLPR


  • Added: Mar 09, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
James Rollins discusses "The Seventh Plague"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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James Rollins is a prolific novelist who lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

  • Added: Dec 15, 2016
  • Length: 09:17
296-Tilted History
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Where you are from and where you live has been influenced by changes in the tilt of the Earth's axis of rotation relative to its orbit around the Sun.

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


  • Added: Oct 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
277-Old Girl
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Imagine a telescope old enough for Senior Citizen discounts, which has traveled between mountains, and started life with a metal mirror measuring o...

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


  • Added: Aug 13, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Historian Richard Rhodes, author of “John James Audubon: The Making of an American”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Audubon is best known for his 435 paintings of American birds. He came here as a young man in the early 1800s from France with a talent for self-ta...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 04, 2015
  • Length: 09:47
  • Purchases: 1
Science and the Supernatural in the 17th Century
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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Once upon a time science and the supernatural were not so far apart.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 01:42:26
Behaving Against Our Interests: Paul Ehrlich #110
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Today it could be argued that human beings daily act against our own self-interests. How? Biologist Paul Ehrlich and fellow scientists tell us we a...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Bandon Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KRZA, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 6
Science writer Mary Roach talks about "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Mary has developed a career specializing in popular science and doing it with respect and wit. Since the publication of her first book “Stiff,” she...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 04, 2015
  • Length: 09:15
  • Purchases: 1
States of Mind: Mental Illness in America
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: A woman in a "state of hysteria.", Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Recent estimates suggest that more than 50% of Americans will suffer from a “mental disorder” at some point in their lifetime, making the once “abn...

Bought by WEZU, WXDU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and WRIR


  • Added: Jul 18, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
The River in the Atlantic Ocean
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The Gulf Stream was essential to the early exploration of the New World and continues to influence our climate, weather, environment, and shipping ...

Bought by WJCT, XRAY.fm, KVSC, WEZU, WLIW and more


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
248: The Oranjemund Shipwreck
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Diamond mining on the Namibian coast., Credit: DeBeersGroup.com
Ownership of cultural discoveries such as shipwrecks has long been debated by governments, historical institutions, private business and salvers an...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2013
  • Length: 05:18
Starry-Eyed: A History of the Heavens
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: Depiction of the 1833 Leonid meteor storm, in Bible Readings for the Home Circle (1889).
On this episode of BackStory, we’re examining Americans’ ongoing fascination with the skies above us. How have people made sense of comets, eclipse...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WABE, KBRP Community Radio, KREV-LP, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Aug 09, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
Not Just for the Birds
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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New research shows one key to curtailing West Nile disease may lie in increasing the diversity of birds.

Bought by WCNY, WCWP, Radio Newark, and WTJU


  • Added: Jul 03, 2013
  • Length: 53:26
  • Purchases: 4
Patent Pending: A History of Intellectual Property
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: 1814 wood engraving of two types of locking mechanisms., Credit: (Library of Congress).
Can genes be patented? Are downloaders inhibiting musical creativity – or enhancing it? This week’s BackStory explores how Americans have viewed “i...

Bought by WUFT, XRAY.fm, WSKG, KUOW, WRPI and more


  • Added: May 17, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 12
Edna the Engineer and National Security
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
Caption: Secretaries, housewives, waitresses, women from all over central Florida are getting into vocational schools to learn war work. Typical are these in the Daytona Beach branch of the Volusia county vocational school., Credit: National Archives and Records Administration
A recent science test showing that American girls are lagging behind boys has brought women in science back into the national conversation. More th...

Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Radio Newark, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 4