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Permaculture is a design method focused on using space efficiently, working with nature, and sustaining resources rather than depleting them. It ai...
- Added: Jan 25, 2013
- Length: 07:45
Playworks is a national non-profit based in Oakland with the goal of bringing “organized play” to schools. But what exactly is “organized play”? An...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 03:20
A weekend with the West Virginia Re-enactors Association, as they re-create the Battle of Droop Mountain.
- Added: Jan 14, 2013
- Length: 06:04
Spending too much time on Facebook or compulsively checking your smartphone might seem innocuous. But, as more people find it difficult to put the...
Bought by WAMC and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 07, 2013
- Length: 05:55
- Purchases: 2
After almost 30 years, the McTwist still perplexes skaters—and sends them to the hospital. Tony Hawk and other skaters recount the history of the t...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 05:25
- Purchases: 1
There’s a lot of talk this time of year about the “holiday season,” but the holidays mean something different to every family. One scholar uses her...
- Added: Dec 14, 2012
- Length: 02:36
This week on War News Radio, “Peace News in Wartime”, we discuss the role of Morocco in the Arab Spring. Then, we learn about the process of establ...
- Added: Dec 12, 2012
- Length: 30:01
The German “eiswein” tradition was created almost by accident. This sweet, powerful wine was discovered when winemakers tried to save grapes that f...
- Added: Dec 09, 2012
- Length: 05:05
A robotics competition for 9- to 14-year-olds is a sneaky way to get kids excited about science. Allison Quantz followed one team into competition ...
- Added: Dec 07, 2012
- Length: 02:45
The device that inspired a generation-- a prototype of one of the first portable transistor radios -- has just been accepted into the Smithsonian's...
- Added: Dec 01, 2012
- Length: 02:43
Singer-songwriter and fiddler Sara Watkins has been tearing up the U.S. tour circuit this year, with plans to hit the overseas stage in January. W...
- Added: Nov 16, 2012
- Length: 04:44
This week, correspondent Teresa Chin takes us on a tour beneath the Monterey Bay to explore the sights and creatures of the deep. Cruise a shipwrec...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 12:54
A look at the career of the legendary saxophonist
- Added: Nov 06, 2012
- Length: 06:00
Robert Zemeckis talks comic relief, the finer points of injuring a leading man, and the seductive qualities of motion-capture technology.
- Added: Nov 04, 2012
- Length: 09:01
If you’ve already visited a haunted house or plan to do so on Halloween, chances are you’ll see something designed to scare you that’s been created...
- Added: Oct 30, 2012
- Length: 05:53
Helen Hunt talks honesty, trepidation, and being the new kid on the block.
- Added: Oct 28, 2012
- Length: 11:17
Filmmaker Peter Nicks talks access, compassion, and letting the audience think for itself.
- Added: Oct 26, 2012
- Length: 21:01
San Francisco is in transition. According to the Department of Building Inspection, there are 56 major developments in various stages of the approv...
Bought by WAMC and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Oct 22, 2012
- Length: 04:09
- Purchases: 2
Human impact on the Great Lakes has forever changed the original ecosystem and has led to profound changes in the fisheries that have developed the...
- Added: Oct 17, 2012
- Length: 22:58
Writer/director Martin McDonagh and star Sam Rockwell talk the impact of violence, the difference between stage and screen, and why Rockwell would ...
- Added: Oct 15, 2012
- Length: 10:32
Stephen Chbosky talks being reborn, taking notes, and the mysteries of the grilled sticky.
- Added: Sep 30, 2012
- Length: 13:16
Ask a lobsterman in Maine how long his family has been fishing and he might say five generations. What if you heard one hundred?
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 05:47
Sgt. Matthew Pennington was injured while serving on combat duty in Iraq. He showed signs of PTSD, but is working toward recovery by promoting self...
- Added: Sep 21, 2012
- Length: 06:11
- Purchases: 2
The Brave New Workshop has helped launch the careers of humorists such as Al Franken and Tom Davis, the first head writers for Saturday Night Live...
- Added: Sep 15, 2012
- Length: 05:01
Each year, stroke affects approximately 120,000 women under the age of 45. For many young women, the idea of having a stroke at such a young age se...
- Added: Sep 14, 2012
- Length: 05:14
