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Point-of-Sale Social Networking Gets People Talking about Your Product When They Are Ready to Buy

From: Nancy Lin

Forget about point-of-sale displays. What if you could get people talking about your products right before they are ready to buy? Takuro Yoshida, C...

Latitude News Podcast #6 — The Shady Trade in American Horsemeat

From: Latitude News

Caption: This racehorse never should have been eaten. , Credit: Ken Terpenning

Are Europeans eating drugged-up American horses?

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WFPL News

TOMS Shoes - A Closer Look

From: Amy Costello
Series: Tiny Spark

TOMS shoes promises that if you buy a pair of its canvas slip-ons, they'll give a pair to a child in need. The company's "Buy One, Give One" busine...

Bought by KUOW, HowSound, and Public Radio Remix

Sticking a thermometer in a dinosaur's mouth

From: Laurence Yeung
Series: Measure Twice, Cut Once

Today, we measure the body temperature of something that's been dead for 170 million years. Our guest is Dr. Robert Eagle, a researcher at UCLA.

Afghan Railways: From the Great Game to the Modern Silk Road

From: War News Radio

News and features on the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WBEZ, and WAMC

Anatomy of a Crackdown: Florida gets tough on assisted living facilities

From: Kenny Malone
Series: Neglected to Death

Caption: Reporter Kenny Malone spent Christmas Morning at Shalom Manor, an assisted living facility just west of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. , Credit: Kenny Malone/WLRN Staff

I met Paul Encin on Christmas Morning at Shalom Manor, a 35-bed assisted living facility just west of Fort Lauderdale. Paul suffers from Paranoid S...

Bought by Public Radio Remix, KUOW, and WAMC

The Five Percent Rule

From: Sally Herships

Caption: A U.S. soldier smokes a cigarette in Afghanistan. Members of the armed forces are one-and-a-half times more likely to smoke than civilians. , Credit: JOEL SAGET/AFP/Getty Images

The military has failed to comply with its own tobacco pricing restrictions, selling millions of dollars of tobacco-based products to service membe...

Bought by KUT, Public Radio Remix, WRST-FM Oshkosh, HowSound, KUOW and more

Exiting

From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift

How does death shape our behavior? Why do we grieve? How do we cope? What do we fear? and how can we accept our own exiting? Experts share their th...

Bought by Public Radio Remix

Medical Translation in a City of Immigrants

From: Sarah Kramer
Series: Interpreting Health: Language and Cultural Barriers for Immigrants at NYC Hospitals

Caption: Interpretation Sign, Credit: Sarah Kate Kramer

One out of four New Yorkers doesn't speak or understand complex sentences in English. But at some point in their lives, every one of them will need...

Bought by KVNF and WAMC

Part 5: The Science Behind Dioxin Delays

From: The Environment Report
Series: Dioxin Delays

Caption: Imerman Park sits on the flood plain of the Tittabawassee River. Signs along the trail warn visitors about dioxin contamination in some of the park's soil., Credit: Shawn Allee

Shawn Allee looks at a dioxin and soil study and how the science might influence other clean-ups around the country.

Part 4: Hunters Warned After Dioxin Delays

From: The Environment Report
Series: Dioxin Delays

Caption: Fish advisories dot the banks of the Tittabawassee and Saginaw Rivers. Various forms or pollution, including historical dioxin pollution from Dow Chemical, have led to warnings to avoid certain species of fish and limit consumption for them. Pregnant w, Credit: Shawn Allee

Shawn Allee finds old dioxin pollution from a Dow chemical plant poses a health risk today.

Behind The Scenes of a Nuclear Power Plant

From: WRVO

Caption: Jasmyn Belcher and Ryan Morden, about to enter the Nine Mile Point Nuclear facility in Oswego, NY

Not many people get the chance to explore a nuclear power plant...but we did, and we lived to tell about it.

Foolproofing Portable Generators

From: WEKU

When severe weather strikes, like last winter's ice storm, Kentuckians rely on portable generators for power. But dozens of people die every year f...

Foolproofing Portable Generators

From: Charles Compton

Whether they're prompted by ice storms in Kentucky or hurricanes along the Gulf Coast, during electrical outages, many Americans turn to portable g...

Insurance Scams in Massachusetts

From: Karen Brown

Caption: Gary Cloutier, small business owner, uninsured, Credit: Karen Brown

An unfortunate byproduct of the health insurance mandate in Massachusetts -- the marketing of health plans that don't add up.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and WAMC

Washington Execution: Victims' Families

From: KUOW
Series: State of Execution

Surviving family members in capital murder cases often endure years of legal appeals.

What is Salvia?

From: WHPC

An investigative look at Salvia, and it's potential as a drug

Food Bank Hopes to Grow Interest in Gardening

From: WRVO

Caption: Bucket gardens, Credit: Jasmyn Belcher

Food Bank motivates needy families to grow their own produce

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, NPR Station Showcase with PRX, and New Hampshire Public Radio

Dirty Politics

From: Center for Public Integrity

An investigation into opposition research and presidential campaigns

Bought by PRX Election Podcast

Demand for Food Stamps Grows as Economy Struggles

From: Mary Rose Madden

This Federal entitlement is not as effective as it could be.

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX

Quest_Farm Bill and School Lunches

From: KQED
Series: QUEST

What will it take to get healthy meals in School cafeterias? For starters, a new national farm policy.

Bought by KVMR

After Oil

From: WFYI

When we look at all the things that made America what it is, It's fair to say that for the last hundred years or so, America has been shaped, more ...

Bought by KZYX, WILL, Marfa Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, 90.5 WSNC and more