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Caption: Not my neighbor's hamster.
A woman and her hamster.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
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He's not just the Santa Claus-looking guy who walks his dog every day on my street--he's Larry Bauer: carpenter, man-of-letters.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Let the games begin, it's time for Watch Your Langauge

  • Added: Jun 27, 2012
  • Length: 30:40
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Wonder Woman, the only A-list female superhero, has been MIA while every other guy in a cape and cowl is getting his shot at stardom. What gives?

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUOW, WAMC, New Hampshire Public Radio, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Oct 20, 2011
  • Length: 06:33
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Photo from lookmind.com (http://lookmind.com/illusions.php?id=1868&cat=3)
Invisibility – it’s the stuff of fantasy and Hollywood movies (we’re looking at you, Harry Potter), and now it’s a reality. Well, kind of. Read th...

Bought by KUOW and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 29, 2011
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Local composer Cheryl Leonard recording the sound of Antarctica in 2009
When we imagine Antarctica, we often think of an empty place: big expanses of ice, almost no other people on the entire continent. It might even se...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Aug 29, 2011
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: SFMOMA conservator Paula de Cristofaro points out where Matisse corrected a mistake., Credit: Photo courtesy of SFMOMA
** This is an extended version of the SFMOMA piece ** Reporter Nicole Passerotti joined San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) conservators M...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2011
  • Length: 12:19
Caption: Paula de Cristofaro treating Matisse’s “Portrait of Sarah Stein” in the SFMOMA conservation lab., Credit: Photo courtesy of SFMOMA
Art conservators work behind the scenes at museums. Though they’re sometimes confused with curators, who acquire works for a collection, conservato...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2011
  • Length: 05:23
Caption: Trinity Ordona and Desiree Thompson
Trinity Ordona and Desiree Thompson have been married for 22 years; their first ceremony occurred in 1988. But their same-sex marriage was not acce...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jun 15, 2011
  • Length: 02:18
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Photograph of the first fraternity on the West Coast.
It turns out fraternities are not just popular in pop culture, but are as old as America itself. Dr Laurie Wilkie and Dr Grahaeme Hesp offer a hist...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Feb 12, 2011
  • Length: 04:10
  • Purchases: 1
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Tracy Tingley is a hula hooper in Portland, Maine. She found hooping just before leaving her job as a financial advisor.

Bought by Public Radio Remix, KUT, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WMPG


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 05:36
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Virtual Goods (via Viximo.com homepage), Credit: Viximo.com
Why are real people paying real money for products that don’t exist? And can this monetize networking sites? Jim Cosco gets to the bottom of it wit...

Bought by WILL


  • Added: Dec 16, 2009
  • Length: 06:25
  • Purchases: 1
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Gerbail Krishnamurthy tells his daughter Kalpana about his first meal in America.

Bought by KFOK-LP and WBEZ


  • Added: May 16, 2005
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 2
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A crunchy-granola environmentalist professes a love for New Jersey.

Bought by WFYI and WCAI / WNAN


  • Added: Jun 11, 2004
  • Length: 02:54
  • Purchases: 2
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Two New York girl-d.j.'s bake cookies as they mix dance beats

Bought by WAMC


  • Added: Sep 08, 2003
  • Length: 02:54
  • Purchases: 1