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Without their beeps and chimes, all of your modern conveniences would be very hard to use

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
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What Charles Dickens has to do with those insurance commercials on TV.

Bought by WFYI, KUOW, The Story, KUT, and North Country Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 28, 2012
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 5

  • Added: Aug 28, 2012
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 4

  • Added: Aug 28, 2012
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 5
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Find out how Europe's largest children's hospital is experimenting with the use of birdsong.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jan 23, 2012
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 1
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Better (and less expensive) cancer treatment started with a sensei and ball of blue yarn...

Bought by KUOW and North Country Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 10:20
  • Purchases: 2
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Not the kind of place that makes your divorce or custody battle any easier.

Bought by KUOW, North Country Public Radio, and KUT


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 3
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I bet you think could pantomime changing lanes with an imaginary steering wheel. But you'd be very, very wrong. You’d probably kill a bunch of imag...

Bought by North Country Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 1
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What happens to a city when its purpose is stripped away virtually overnight?

Bought by North Country Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
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A building’s worth is an infinitesimal fraction of the worth a person’s life. But a building is still a living thing in a way.

Bought by North Country Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
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What we can learn from architects who lived thousands of years ago: make buildings last longer.

Bought by North Country Public Radio and HowSound


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2

  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Imagine you're a country with 17 timezones. Your citizens want cassette players, but your factories only make tanks. What do you do?

Bought by North Country Public Radio and Third Coast Festival/Re:sound


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2

  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
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The inscription on the granite reads, “This soil and the air space extending above it shall not be a part of any nation...”

Bought by North Country Public Radio, KUOW, and The Story


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 3

  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 3
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The story of the guy who etched his name in 1,000 slabs of San Francisco concrete--and the reporter who spent years tracking him down.

Bought by The Story and North Country Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
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One could argue that check cashing stores do a lot of things that are just plain wrong. But given so many people use them, what are they doing right?

Bought by North Country Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 3
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Without their beeps and chimes, all of your modern conveniences would be very hard to use.

Bought by North Country Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 1
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The Periodic Table knew what our universe was made out of even before we did.

Bought by KUOW, North Country Public Radio, and KZYX


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 3
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Even though he was deaf, Beethoven wrote some of the greatest works of music of all time. So when Chris Downey started losing his sight, he didn't...

Bought by KUOW and North Country Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 2
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Tompkins, Tiananmen, Tahrir...why do revolutions always start in public squares?

Bought by North Country Public Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Photo by: Miran Rijavec, Flickr
An audio Collage about "Materialism" constructed of the first 200 responses when searching 'materialism' in youtube.

  • Added: Apr 29, 2011
  • Length: 08:09
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An audio doodle about this phrase: "Humankind is preceded by forest, and followed by desert." Forest versus city / tree versus car / then versus now.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 1
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Massive wind turbines generate half of island's electricity.

  • Added: Mar 15, 2008
  • Length: 11:02