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Tinkering
From: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow- Phil Mariage
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Three generations discuss how tinkering has changed

  • Added: Apr 28, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Photo Styles
From: Dave Cook
Series: Photography: Everything Essential
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This episode will cover seven different photographic styles and elements that make each of them unique and interesting.

  • Added: Apr 02, 2013
  • Length: 08:49
Fresh Talk: Marcos Lutyens
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh TALK
Caption: Marcos Lutyens, Credit: Cathy Byrd
In Kassel, Germany, Cathy Byrd meets documenta(13)artist Marcos Lutyens for a Hypnotic Session in the Reflection Room.

  • Added: Dec 17, 2012
  • Length: 21:54
My Particular Wishes
From: Patricia McMillen
Caption: Narrator at Matsushima Bay, Japan, Credit: Sam Bader
Meditations on aging, death, and end-of-life health care

  • Added: Nov 10, 2012
  • Length: 10:00
99% Invisible #15- Sounds of the Artificial World (Directors Cut)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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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
The Tympanic Eclipse
From: Britt Wray
Caption: Getting cultural theory out of the books and putting it into your ears!
The Tympanic Eclipse is an audio series that brings cultural theory out of its stuffy scholarly tomes, and puts it into your ears. Together with e...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 49:12
99% Invisible #57- What Gave You That Idea (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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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
99% Invisible #55- The Best Beer in the World (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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They made it perfect--but not for you.

Bought by Vermont Public Radio, KUOW, North Country Public Radio, and KUT


  • Added: Aug 28, 2012
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 4
99% Invisible #54- The Colour of Money (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Australia made its money better. Why can't the US?

Bought by WFYI, KUOW, North Country Public Radio, WFPL News, and KUT


  • Added: Aug 28, 2012
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 5
The Internet in Sepia
From: Helena de Groot
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The internet through the eyes of an inhabitant of the past... Music by my friend pq (You'll never Find us Here) and Sol Rezza on freemusicarchive.org

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: May 01, 2012
  • Length: 02:49
  • Purchases: 1
Alder Hey's Dawn Chorus
From: Ed Prosser
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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
A Conversation with Meejin Yoon.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works Podcast
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Meejin Yoon talks about creating work at the intersection of art, architecture, landscape, and technology. [27:29]

  • Added: Jan 20, 2012
  • Length: 27:29
99% Invisible #30- The Blue Yarn
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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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
99% Invisible #39- Darth Vader Family Courthouse (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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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
99% Invisible #37- The Steering Wheel (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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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
99% Invisible #36- Super Bon Bonn (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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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
99% Invisible #35- Elegy for WTC (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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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
99% Invisible #34- The Speed of Light for Pyramids (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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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
99% Invisible #33- A Cheer for Samuel Plimsoll (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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This simple graphic design has saved thousands of lives.

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


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
99% Invisible #31- The Feltron Annual Report (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Information designer Nicholas Felton has figured out how to graph the un-graphable: a year in his life.

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


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 3
99% Invisible #28- Movie Title Sequences (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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There's more to the Art of the Title than meets the eye.

Bought by North Country Public Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
99% Invisible #27- Bridge to the Sky (Director's Cut)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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There are rules that dicate how high you can build. Bradford Gilbert just didn't believe in them.

Bought by KUOW and North Country Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 2
99% Invisible #26- Chicago's Jailhouse Skyscraper (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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If you want to stand out as a skyscraper in Chicago, you've got your work cut out for you.

Bought by KUOW and North Country Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
99% Invisible #25- Unsung Icons of Soviet Design (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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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
99% Invisible #23- You Are Listening To (Standard 4:30 Version Only)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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When open-source data becomes a thing of beauty.

Bought by KUOW and North Country Public Radio


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