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A recent release of an environmental report provides insight in to the Mississippi River's condition.
- Added: Oct 12, 2012
- Length: 05:18
One of ranching’s most basic materials is in high demand right now. With the price of hay doubling for some smaller operations along the Front Rang...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and Aspen Public Radio
- Added: Sep 24, 2012
- Length: 03:45
- Purchases: 2
Many foster children live in several homes during a short span of time. All of the disruption has been correlated to poor academic performance.
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 02:26
As part of the NewsHour's American Graduate series, correspondent Spencer Michels reports on Techbridge, an after-school program based in Oakland, ...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 09:42
In Shelbyville, Ind., Melissa Lakes and the Student Achievement Center provide at-risk students with technology-enhanced hands-on learning. But it ...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 08:56
How does violence affect students' ability to learn? That's what eighth-grader De'Qonton Davis and his classmates set out to investigate as part of...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 09:04
Join Mr. Money as he teaches the neighborhood kids about finance.
- Added: Jun 14, 2012
- Length: 04:02
When you think of climate change, you might think of melting ice shelves. Heat waves. Shrinking habitat for animals and plants. You might not think...
Bought by Aspen Public Radio, WAMC, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Apr 10, 2012
- Length: 03:36
- Purchases: 3
Whitebark pine trees, once a feature of the mountainous west, are under attack. Nearly two-thirds have died from beetle attacks and other causes, h...
Bought by WAMC
- Added: Mar 17, 2012
- Length: 05:56
- Purchases: 1
Caves may lie beneath our radar, but they play an important role in many Southeastern U.S. ecosystems. They filter water and shelter diverse wildli...
Bought by WAMC and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Mar 15, 2012
- Length: 03:44
- Purchases: 2
In this installment, Gabriel Spitzer discovers how an ancient specimen might rewrite prehistory, and maybe medical books, too.
Bought by KUT and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Mar 07, 2012
- Length: 08:25
- Purchases: 2
Just when we thought the presidential campaign couldn't get any stranger...it did. This program looks at the most bizarre campaign week and rhetor...
- Added: Mar 03, 2012
- Length: 56:10
Misogyny is alive and well in 2012. No surprise ( After all,as you'll hear in this program, even the music of the "peace and love" sixties was fill...
- Added: Feb 23, 2012
- Length: 56:50
The Reagan Centennial Year is officially over...but the invocation of Ronald Reagan's name by those claiming to be his ideological soulmate and th...
- Added: Feb 06, 2012
- Length: 55:31
Thanks to George Carlin, Pacifica Radio and the Supreme Court we all know the 7 words you CAN'T say on television. (The case is currently back in t...
- Added: Feb 01, 2012
- Length: 54:59
In 1958, legendary journalist, Edward R. Murrow, told his colleagues that they had a choice: to use television to "teach"...or they could render te...
- Added: Jan 09, 2012
- Length: 56:00
Most people know me (if they know me at all) as Dan Rather's writer on the CBS Evening News for 24 years. This is my untold story of being the New...
- Added: Jan 02, 2012
- Length: 56:09
A "newsical" program offering context and perspective on the ethics of our times. A DJ samples music from 5 other artists for mashup and is hailed ...
- Added: Dec 19, 2011
- Length: 57:50
Most Civil War scholarship focuses on generals and their armies. But historians at a recent conference explored how water, heat, and horses affecte...
- Added: Jun 13, 2011
- Length: 02:31
A look at concerts in the Kennedy White House, narrated by Richard Dreyfuss.
Bought by KUCB, WGBH Radio Boston, WAMC, KUOW, WGUC and more
- Added: Jan 18, 2011
- Length: 08:14
- Purchases: 7
A look at changes in art policy during the Kennedy Administration, narrated by Richard Dreyfuss.
- Added: Jan 18, 2011
- Length: 08:25
- Purchases: 6
The story of two brilliant and celebrated composers whose music was lost during the Holocaust. 'Message In A Bottle is a Gold World Medal winner at...
Bought by WRPI and KXOT Public Radio
- Added: Oct 04, 2010
- Length: 53:23
- Purchases: 2
On this edition, we look at the crisis in K through 12 education. While the Obama administration pushes states to “Race to the Top,” teachers, pare...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 29:00
On this edition, we’ll hear part two of a documentary called Heavy Weather, produced by freelancer Barbara Bernstein. She’ll look at how climate c...
- Added: Apr 23, 2010
- Length: 29:00
On this edition, we’ll hear part one of a documentary called Heavy Weather, produced by freelancer Barbara Bernstein. She’ll explore the connection...
Bought by The Neighborhood
- Added: Apr 13, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
