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Three Letters Met on Broom Bridge
From: Samuel Hansen
Caption: Broom Bridge Plaque, Credit: Francesco Perini
Every October 16th hundreds of people gather in Dublin for a walk from Dunsink Observatory to Broom Bridge that celebrates Ireland's greatest mathe...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 20, 2015
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 1
#64 - The Last of the Iron Lungs
From: HowSound
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Julia Scott says "participant observation" is a valuable reporting tool, even if it means climbing into an "iron lung" which looks like something o...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 13:25
#61 - The Elusive Digital Stradivarius
From: HowSound
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David Schulman usually produces non-narrated stories on music. Recently, he stepped out of his usual style to produce a narrated science story focu...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 16:30
  • Purchases: 1
Seeing With Sound
From: Meg Cramer
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This story explores the ways that blind people can use echolocation to navigate spaces and look at what's around them, and the neurological connect...

Bought by Hark!, WABE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Troy Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Jul 16, 2013
  • Length: 06:59
  • Purchases: 9
The Poison Squad: A Chemist’s Quest for Pure Food
From: Sruthi Pinnamaneni
Caption: The Poison Squad dining room in the basement of the Bureau of Chemistry, Credit: FDA
Meet Harvey Washington Wiley, the mastermind behind this experiment where young government employees were fed poison-laced foods months on end. He...

Bought by WHYY, New Hampshire Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Hark!, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Jul 16, 2013
  • Length: 08:03
  • Purchases: 8
Hacker Scouts
From: Jon Kalish
Caption: Gigi Mancuso-Jackson with her mom Rebecca at a Hacker Scouts open lab. Gigi is holding a mousebot, a small robot she soldered together from a kit.
The DIY/maker movement is creating formal opportunities for kids who like to make things with their hands.

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WNIJ, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WTIP, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Jul 15, 2013
  • Length: 06:40
  • Purchases: 7
52 Hz
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
Caption: A humpback whale surfacing, Credit: Craig Shank
52 Hz is the name given to a mysterious whale that vocalizes at a different frequency than other whales. Some refer to him as "The World's Lonelies...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Hark!, KALW, New Hampshire Public Radio, WTIP and more


  • Added: Jul 15, 2013
  • Length: 07:00
  • Purchases: 6
Sailing The High Seas 2.0
From: Jason Albert
Caption: Wing sails on San Francisco Bay, Credit: Jason Albert
90% of the world's goods are carried by cargo ships. And the oceans they sail on are streaming with wind: High tech wing sails used on America's Cu...

Bought by Hark!, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WTIP, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 15, 2013
  • Length: 06:41
  • Purchases: 5
Engineering Gotham From Below
From: Bishop Sand
Caption: This is a look up from the 86th Street Station construction site.
The New York City Subway is a complex system that keeps NYC running and it is still being built. Hear the reasons for the initial construction, the...

Bought by Hark!, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KFAI Minneapolis, WTIP, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 14, 2013
  • Length: 08:43
  • Purchases: 5
Tracking the 'Secret' Life of Soot
From: Reid Frazier
Caption: Daniel Tkacik studies soot particles from vehicles in his temporary lab: the Fort Pitt Tunnel in Pittsburgh. , Credit: Image: Reid R, Frazier
In recent years, scientists have found that particles like soot and other pollution live a ‘secret life’ once released into the atmosphere, picking...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Troy Public Radio, Hark!, WNIJ, Louisville Public Media and more


  • Added: Jul 14, 2013
  • Length: 05:54
  • Purchases: 8
Remaking the Science Fair
From: Adam Hochberg
Caption: Eighth-graders Owen Alibozek and Kyle Gazzillo were among the 3rd place winners at the 2013 Massachusetts State Science and Engineering Fair.
Volcanoes fueled by baking soda and vinegar. Carnations dipped in colored water. Those are popular projects at school science fairs, but do they re...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Hark!, WABE, Troy Public Radio, WNIJ and more


  • Added: Jul 12, 2013
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 18
Space Crafty
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
Caption: Cameron Smith testing out his homemade, hand-sewn space suit, Credit: Julie Sabatier
The maker movement is taking off and the private space industry is booming right now. So, naturally, some fearless do-it-yourselfers are crafting t...

Bought by WDBM, Marfa Public Radio, Hark!, New Hampshire Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Jul 12, 2013
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 7
The Last of the Iron Lungs
From: Julia Scott
Caption: Martha Lillard, 65, uses her iron lung to breathe at night., Credit: Julia Scott
Sixty years after polio was eradicated in America, a dozen survivors still rely on their iron lungs to breathe. Come inside the machine Martha Lill...

Bought by KPIK-LP, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, KOSU, Hark! and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2013
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 14
Cicada Confidential
From: Louisa Jonas
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From the red eyes of a periodical cicada looking out: a bug's first person rendition from emergence til death.

Bought by KSJD, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WTIP, Radio Newark, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Jun 19, 2013
  • Length: 07:42
  • Purchases: 8