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Caption: Busting the Artichoke King's racket in the Bronx
Before Prohibition hit, the New York mafia had another racket that netted millions of dollars in profits. The name of the game? Sweet, sweet baby a...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2013
  • Length: 09:56
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For the first week of March (3/2): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a nightclub that used music to help break down barri...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the past ten years, drug cartels in Mexico have been worshiping a sort of grim repress, a robed skeleton lady known as Santa Muerte, or Saint D...

Bought by KUOW and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 15, 2012
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 2
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When Matt O'Meilia was 10 years old, a rock star moved into his neighborhood. And not just any rock star. A hometown boy made good. The rock star...

Bought by KOSU and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 02, 2012
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 2
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While researching a book, author Richard Hicks was a long haul trucker for a year and a half. He shares the unique perspective that truckers have ...

Bought by KUOW, KOSU, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 02, 2012
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Alexander Karczmar, at 93, is an authority on the brain and a student of the self.
How our brains age, and why some people manage to cheat death and stay sharp.

Bought by KUT and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Oct 20, 2010
  • Length: 13:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: La Chaire Trepidante: the 19th century vibrating chair invented to relieve Parkinsons's symptoms., Credit: Christopher Goetz
Treating Parkinson's with a vibrating chair; reading the rumblings of the earth; and a hip-hop battle of cosmic proportions.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Oct 05, 2010
  • Length: 13:00
  • Purchases: 1
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What do colors sound like? Sound and light are both waves or vibrations, but light is vibrating much faster. The frequencies of the visible colors ...

Bought by KGOU, PRX to iTunes, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jun 21, 2010
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Tea, McIntosh says, is a lifestyle.
There is more to making a cup of tea than you think...

Bought by WAMC, KUOW, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 03:58
  • Purchases: 3

  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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It's one thing to hold someone up and steal their wallet - Another to convince them to give you their money and not press charges. How do con artis...

Bought by Public Radio Remix, KUT, EconomyBeat Podcast, and WILL


  • Added: Dec 18, 2009
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 4
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Do-it-Yourself goes beyond knitting. Pick up a soldering iron and some conductive thread to explore "tech crafting."

  • Added: Aug 06, 2008
  • Length: 04:41
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The ambient house pioneers The Orb talk about their sample and slice journey.

  • Added: Jun 12, 2008
  • Length: 03:30
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The set is a green wall. Your co-star is a tennis ball on a stick. Action!

  • Added: Mar 08, 2008
  • Length: 07:54
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Profile of artists in the famed Carnegie Towers fighting eviction

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX and WAMC


  • Added: Sep 18, 2007
  • Length: 05:07
  • Purchases: 2
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You can cheat a polygraph exam, but you can't cheat the examiner.

  • Added: Dec 18, 2006
  • Length: 06:30
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Tucson artist Mat Bevel muses on his sculptures, performances and the philosophy of making beauty out of trash.

  • Added: Jul 05, 2006
  • Length: 07:38
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New York City has outlawed the practice of beekeeping, but local honey is in high demand. What's an apiarist to do? Keep hives on the sly, of cou...

Bought by WBEZ, The Nature Podcast, WFUV, and WAMC


  • Added: Mar 01, 2006
  • Length: 05:14
  • Purchases: 4
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Eighteen year old Josh Dayton lives in the real world, and his own fantasy world.

Bought by WCFM and WHQR


  • Added: Jan 10, 2005
  • Length: 07:24
  • Purchases: 2
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Seattle man travels the world under his own power.

Bought by KZSC and BSR Radio


  • Added: Dec 14, 2004
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 2