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The four Iraqis you’re about to hear tell a story of a remembered landscape. It’s a story about how war blackened the city of Baghdad, split its ne...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2013
  • Length: 06:47
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of including Anita Humes and the Essex.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2013
  • Length: 02:51:29
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Chuck Lakin has a unique hobby. He builds coffins. For living people.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 06:15
  • Purchases: 1
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Finding each other, when it just might be too late.

  • Added: Mar 24, 2013
  • Length: 04:19
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Also skinny and running songs and a bunch of music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of

  • Added: Mar 24, 2013
  • Length: 02:46:54
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Just one week of sleep deprivation alters the expression of at least 711 different genes.

  • Added: Mar 23, 2013
  • Length: 01:00
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Low-voltage electricity may help guide bees to the right flowers.

  • Added: Mar 23, 2013
  • Length: 01:00
Caption:  Chicago Kent College of Law indoor baseball player, M. Ryan, 1910, Credit: Library of Congress
Just in time for March Madness, we're taking on the history of college sports. It's a subject that has provided some especially heated controversie...

Bought by WFPL News, WOUB, and WTJU


  • Added: Mar 22, 2013
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Debbie Lum, San Francisco, CA 3/11/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Filmmaker Debbie Lum talks facing her fears, keeping the conversation going, and why she ended up as a character in her own documentary.

  • Added: Mar 20, 2013
  • Length: 14:25
Caption: Bernard Holyfield (R) and Charles Barlow
Bernard Holyfield (R) tells his friend Charles Barlow (L) about a painful memory from his childhood in the 1960s.

  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 02:18
Caption: Wedding ceremony, 1908., Credit: LOC
Later this month, the Supreme Court will hear challenges to two major laws on marriage -- California's Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Ma...

Bought by WFPL News, WOUB, WMMT, and WTJU


  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Researchers have identified a molecule that could help turn on newborn babies’ immune systems.

  • Added: Mar 14, 2013
  • Length: 01:00
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Sure and 'tis a fine road we travel this week--off the beaten path, and around a world of musical customs & collaborations, all hailing from the Em...

Bought by KFOK-LP


  • Added: Mar 13, 2013
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 1
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March 05, 2013 edition. Tomorrow Your Heart is a weekly syndicated radio program featuring girl groups and female-fronted music from the 1960s, hos...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 08, 2013
  • Length: 57:33
  • Purchases: 1
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Fur seals sleep with on half of their brain at a time.

  • Added: Mar 08, 2013
  • Length: 01:00
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Did our ability to digest alcohol first emerge at the dawn of civilization or millions of years earlier?

  • Added: Mar 04, 2013
  • Length: 01:00
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Scientists have reproduced a human ear using a 3-D printer.

  • Added: Mar 04, 2013
  • Length: 01:00
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March 04, 2013 edition. Tomorrow Your Heart is a weekly syndicated radio program featuring girl groups and female-fronted music from the 1960s, hos...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 55:30
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There's a song out there that could make you crash your car... but in the most relaxing way possible.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 19:07
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Stephanie Powell Watts
2012 Ernest J. Gaines Award Winner Stephanie Powell Watts knows what it's like to be an African American Jehovah's Witness in the South. She talks ...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Ancient people had beneficial bacteria to fight dental plaque that is absent in modern populations.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2013
  • Length: 01:00
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One injection has eliminated the symptoms of Type I diabetes in dogs – for four years and counting.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2013
  • Length: 01:00
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Understanding the chemical composition of tomatoes could help manufacturers decrease the sugar content of processed foods.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2013
  • Length: 01:00
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MRI scans of beatboxers show that they’ve unwittingly borrowed sounds from exotic languages.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2013
  • Length: 01:00
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A newly discovered but long-extinct whale species may have eaten sharks.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2013
  • Length: 01:00