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Backpacks... for Dragonflies?
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Dragonfly wearing a "telemetry backpack"
Why itsy-bitsy-teeny-weeny backpacks may be the key to understanding how animals capture prey.

  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 03:43
Biodiesel On the Hudson
From: Willis Arnold
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Two biodiesel enthusiasts discuss their involvement in the Hudson Valley biodiesel community.

  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 04:47
Bruised
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Brain injuries have been in the news a lot lately - with soldiers and sports heroes suffering from acquired brain injuries, science and the public ...

Bought by KDNK and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Mar 26, 2013
  • Length: 06:32
  • Purchases: 2
In Preparation for Sleep
From: Sarah Lawrence College Radio
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Daily routines can become monotonous, but when dealing with mental illness these tasks can feel insurmountable. Student producer Alanna Duncan take...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2012
  • Length: 02:19
2012 11 9 AGOS Island Stories The Scotch Bonnet Republic Part 5
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Harbor on Silver Lake, Ocracoke Island, NC, Credit: Charles McGuigan
Ocracoke Island North Carolina is like a republic unto itself, much like Key West, the Conch Republic. On the Scotch Bonnet Republic islanders have...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2012
  • Length: 24:36
Island Stories: Virginia's Restless Archipelago Part 3
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: Colony of American oyster catchers., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Some 40 years ago the Nature Conservancy began buying up the barrier islands of Virginia and the riparian areas on the mainland. Today they own all...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2012
  • Length: 27:13
Tinnitus
From: Elaine Vitone
Series: Pitt Medcast
Caption: Some tinnitus sufferers experience their phantom frequencies as buzzing or chirping sounds, like the song of a cicada (here, converted mathematically into graph form)., Credit: Photo Researchers
This dramatic soundscape uses interviews, narration, sound effects, and music to explain the emerging neuroscience of tinnitus - a ringing, buzzing...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2012
  • Length: 09:40
Life of chimp research and 'adventure' for Midwestern scientific duo
From: Veronique LaCapra
Caption: A chimpanzee sounds its call in the Goualougo Triangle., Credit: Ian Nichols
For more than a decade, Washington University anthropologist Crickette Sanz and Lincoln Park Zoo research conservationist David Morgan have lived a...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2012
  • Length: 03:50
The Field Trip Podcast: Wetlands
From: The Field Trip Podcast
Caption: The Field Trip Podcast logo, Credit: Mike Smith
We’re back with another installment of our “Summer Dispatches” series, this time starring Field Trip Correspondent Nicole Jones as she figures out ...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Oct 09, 2012
  • Length: 09:29
  • Purchases: 1
Show Me The Money: Volcano Edition
From: Terrascope Youth Radio
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Terrascope Youth Radio's Alexandros Zervos tests Eitan Stern-Robbins' knowledge of Super Volcanos.

  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 05:53
An Extra-Chilly Successor To Hubble
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Scientists working on the Webb Telescope say it's so revolutionary, it’s like “our generation’s Apollo.”
Come winter, your neck of the woods may be cold. But guess how frigid the James Webb Space Telescope will be when it launches in 2018? 400 degrees ...

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


  • Added: Jan 20, 2012
  • Length: 06:22
  • Purchases: 4
Riddles from the Border Regions, 12/03/11
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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THIRD OF NINE ...

Bought by KRCB-FM


  • Added: Dec 01, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Exhibition explores the nexus of art and science
From: Veronique LaCapra
Caption: Artist Brigham Dimick with part of “Waxworks 2,” a series of three self-portraits that include observation hives with live honeybees., Credit: (UMSL/Terry Suhre)
There's an unusual art exhibition going on right now at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. The exhibition showcases three artists from the St....

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 29, 2011
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 1
Nonprofit Narrows Science Gap Between U.S. And Africa
From: Curt Nickisch
Caption: Seeding Labs' founder Nina Dudnik speaks with a visiting African fellow during a laboratory tour., Credit: Anne Allmeling
The gap between science in the U.S. and Africa is as wide as the ocean between them. But a nonprofit startup is trying to be a good Samaritan with ...

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


  • Added: Sep 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:19
  • Purchases: 3
Sustainable Cities: There's an App for That!
From: Denis Du Bois
Series: Energy Priorities
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Sustainable urban development is a whole new way of thinking for American cities. Technology is emerging to help planners, architects and residents...

Bought by WFIU


  • Added: Sep 01, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
History of music therapy
From: Adi Narayan
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This is the first of a 3-part documentary examining the history of music therapy and it's applications.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2011
  • Length: 07:54
Sound & Vision: Why Deaf People See Differently
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: The secret behind Gallaudet's circular classrooms lies in something called "visual attention.", Credit: Gallaudet University
Deaf people don't see better... they see differently.

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


  • Added: Jun 28, 2011
  • Length: 03:17
  • Purchases: 3
"Please Call Stella": Capturing English, from Afrikaans to Zulu
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: The Speech Accent Archive is the brainchild of GMU's Steven Weinberger, Credit: Rebecca Sheir
A look -- and listen -- inside the world's largest online database of English accents.

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


  • Added: Jun 24, 2011
  • Length: 05:19
  • Purchases: 4
Cicadas: the science behind the invasion
From: Veronique LaCapra
Caption: Two cicadas hang upside down on a branch, facing in opposite directions, to mate., Credit: Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio
They’re back. And if they’re out in your neighborhood, they’re pretty hard to miss. I’m talking about the periodical cicadas. In the past few week...

Bought by WAMC and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jun 17, 2011
  • Length: 03:11
  • Purchases: 2
below
From: Will Dewees
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A group of ordinary people ponder a dairy question.

  • Added: May 02, 2011
  • Length: 03:33
Experiencing Antarctica
From: Andrew Hiller
Caption: A view from the tent, Credit: Cari Corrigan
There are places in Antarctica so thick with meteorites that you can find them like a child would shells on the beach. Others plunge into the ice ...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Aug 31, 2010
  • Length: 08:50
  • Purchases: 1
Wolf: The Dispossessed, Part 4
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: Red wolf howling
Kim Wheeler is called the wolf lady. She heads up the Red Wolf Coalition and has told me wondrous things about these animals. Their existence, long...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2010
  • Length: 24:20
Coho Survival
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Can we save Coho salmon from "the vortex of extinction?"

  • Added: Mar 23, 2010
  • Length: 05:10
Something Left To Give
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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At 53, Dr. Bruce Churchill was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease.

Bought by Public Radio Remix and KUOW


  • Added: Jan 10, 2010
  • Length: 07:03
  • Purchases: 2
Always Been With Me
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Amy has battled bipolar disorder all her life. She’s tried 25 different medications, but nothing has been able to stabilize her mood.

Bought by KFAI


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 07:49
  • Purchases: 1