All Pieces for WBEZ

 
Out of the Shadows: Adopting the Fight
From: WBEZ
Series: Out of the Shadows
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How a family's effort to provide for their mentally ill child turns into a custody battle with the state.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 28, 2011
  • Length: 07:29
  • Purchases: 1
Out of the Shadows: A son's mental illness divides a family
From: WBEZ
Series: Out of the Shadows
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How a child's mental illness forces a family to celebrate birthdays and take vacations separately in order to stay together.

Bought by WABE, KPVL, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 28, 2011
  • Length: 07:38
  • Purchases: 3
Out of the Shadows: A family's struggle to find normalcy for their mentally ill child
From: WBEZ
Series: Out of the Shadows
Caption: Joey's family works together to provide a support network for the bipolar teen.
A family reshapes itself to accommodate their mentally ill son.

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Oct 28, 2011
  • Length: 12:13
  • Purchases: 1
Out of the Shadows: Trading the couch for the curandero
From: WBEZ
Series: Out of the Shadows
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According to the latest Youth Risk Behavior Survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, over 15 percent of Latino youth in the Unit...

Bought by KZYX and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 28, 2011
  • Length: 11:02
  • Purchases: 2
Out of the Shadows: Wearing the wrong skin
From: WBEZ
Series: Out of the Shadows
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Straight or gay, coming to terms with one's sexuality is one of the biggest hurdles a teenager crosses. Transgendered people often face ridicule th...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2011
  • Length: 19:29
Out of the Shadows: A mother's quest for state resources
From: WBEZ
Series: Out of the Shadows
Caption: Julian's mother found help through a little-known and hard to obtain solution.
When a mentally ill child becomes unmanageable at home, his mother digs deep into the system to find state funding that will pay for his residentia...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Oct 28, 2011
  • Length: 11:46
  • Purchases: 1
How our police force deals with mentally ill children
From: WBEZ
Series: Out of the Shadows
Caption: Officer Julie Joyce is often a first-responder to mentally ill children, Credit: Courtesy of Julie Joyce
Exploring how first responders often have a say in the futures of mentally ill kids.

Bought by KZYX, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 28, 2011
  • Length: 09:02
  • Purchases: 3
The Rise of Bipolar Disorder in Children
From: WBEZ
Series: Out of the Shadows
Caption: (flickr/groverweb)
Bipolar children and their families talk about their experiences with the disorder; doctors talk about how and why Bipolar diagnoses have increased...

Bought by WABE and KZYX


  • Added: Oct 28, 2011
  • Length: 08:07
  • Purchases: 2
Ana's Story
From: WBEZ
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One girl's struggle with mental illness.

  • Added: Oct 28, 2011
  • Length: 02:54
Out of the Shadows: How public schools are failing mentally ill kids
From: WBEZ
Series: Out of the Shadows
Caption: Nykea and Artie McGriff have struggled with Chicago Public Schools to provide adequate education for their son, Arthur.
A closer look at how, despite grant funding, many kids are still slipping through the cracks.

Bought by KPVL and KZYX


  • Added: Oct 28, 2011
  • Length: 05:52
  • Purchases: 2
Clever Apes: Reimagining Robots
From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes
Caption: Heinrich Jaeger demonstrates the jamming effect, which led to a soft robot., Credit: (WBEZ/Gabriel Spitzer)
What if the next generation of robots looks less like a humanoid, and more like a slug?

Bought by WTJU, KFAI Minneapolis, KUT, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 19, 2011
  • Length: 08:25
  • Purchases: 5
Clever Apes: Godspeed, Tevatron
From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes
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We remember the legacy of the Tevatron, the particle collider that was shut down in September of 2011.

Bought by KUT and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Sep 30, 2011
  • Length: 08:24
  • Purchases: 2
Clever Apes: Biological weapons
From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes
Caption: www.wbez.org/cleverapes
After the anthrax attacks of 2001 the government chartered 13 high-security labs to study some of the world's most dangerous germs. Clever Apes got...

Bought by KUT, Vocalo.org, PRX Remix, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Sep 14, 2011
  • Length: 08:35
  • Purchases: 4
Clever Apes: Deep listening
From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes
Caption: Don White captures surround sound in downtown Chicago by mimicking human ears., Credit: WBEZ/Gabriel Spitzer
Believe it or not, with just two little ears, humans hear in 3-D, and Clever Apes has captured it on tape.

Bought by KUER, WTJU, KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 08:22
  • Purchases: 6
Clever Apes: New dimesions
From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes
Caption: Diagram of the holometer at Fermi Lab
In this episode, stories of two researchers: one measuring the shape of music, and another hunting for signs that the world is flat.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Aug 10, 2011
  • Length: 08:40
  • Purchases: 1
Clever Apes: Trick of the lgiht
From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes
Caption: Lisa Utschig holds a vial of the protein active in photosynthesis.
In this installment, we consider why photosynthesis remains a puzzle to science. And we’ll find out how a research team at Argonne National Laborat...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KUT


  • Added: Aug 02, 2011
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 2
Clever Apes: Toolmakers
From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes
Caption: A chimp at the Lincoln Park Zoo uses a stick to fish for food., Credit: Michael De Bonis/WBEZ
Humans have an incredible ability to fashion tools that make our lives easier and advance the goals of science, but we're not the only species maki...

Bought by KUT, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KVMR, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 07, 2011
  • Length: 08:32
  • Purchases: 4
Clever Apes: Origin stories
From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes
Caption: Bill Stanley and the skull of a new genus he helped identify.
As scientists figure out the world, they often turn back the clock to understand the beginnings of things... The Big Bang, patient zero, the chicke...

Bought by WTJU and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: May 26, 2011
  • Length: 08:40
  • Purchases: 2
Clever Apes: Seeking the grail
From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes
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There are certain questions that get scientists really excited – discoveries that are big, tantalizing, and often, far out of reach. Even if they’r...

Bought by WDBM, WTJU, KUT, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: May 18, 2011
  • Length: 08:40
  • Purchases: 4
Clever Apes: Deconstructing Disgust
From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes
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What is disgust, and where does it come from? Host Gabriel Spitzer explores why we've evolved with this emotion and what it says about us.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 27, 2011
  • Length: 08:45
  • Purchases: 1

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