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Brian Dunning examines some interesting beliefs around food and whether or not they are supported by science.
- Added: Apr 09, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Brian Dunning separates fact from fiction as he examines the talking points made by the many people who hate electric cars.
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 59:00
After years of study, a scientific panel proposes a formal definition of the Anthropocene, naming the spot where humanity’s fingerprints are best o...
- Added: Jul 17, 2023
- Length: 58:05
Cactus wrens were one of the first Sonoran Desert birds I learned when I arrived in Tucson to go to the University of Arizona. They are such rascal...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:44
This is Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey. Cloudy Cold days these days. Petey talks about lifesaving snow in the desert, the beauty of Sandhill C...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:52
I have a bunch of photos from Christmas tree hunts and most of them are 35 mm slides. These few here were taken over the last several years. I alwa...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 05:07
I was reading a Christmas card from some very dear friends and in the hand written portion of the card it mentioned this season as being the “holie...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:53
There are around 30 species of Porophyllum, the majority of which are found in Mexico and southward. Around me in the borderlands of Arizona Sonora...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:52
Two very interesting calls explore what happens and why it happens in retirement. We explore how attitude and emotions influence "How much is enoug...
- Added: Dec 18, 2021
- Length: 36:36
The scientific name of the band-tailed pigeon is no longer Columba fasciata, but is Patagioenas fasciata. That’s too bad because I was hoping to st...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 04:59
I grew up in Kentucky where the state flower is goldenrod. The particular species that has that honor is Solidago gigantea. I wonder how it was cho...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 05:21
Here are some morning glory photos. Above is Ipomoea ternifolia var. leptotoma and the photo below is of some floral chaos featuring the red flower...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 05:04
Rajesh Khanna, PhD, has a 20-year career in Neuroscience and Pharmacology. He was a doctoral student in the Department of Physiology at the Univers...
- Added: Jan 07, 2020
- Length: 04:41
Kiera will be a senior at the University of Arizona this fall majoring in biochemistry and molecular and cellular biology. She is currently researc...
- Added: Sep 24, 2019
- Length: 04:59
Emily is a senior at the University of Arizona studying physiology and nutritional sciences. She
currently works in the research laboratory of Dr. ...
- Added: Aug 15, 2019
- Length: 04:59
Anne-Laure is a rising senior at the University of Arizona double majoring in Natural Resources (emphasis in Wildlife Conservation and Management) ...
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 04:26
Children who experience social and emotional learning (SEL) in schools are less likely to drink alcohol, take drugs, or smoke. On the plus side the...
- Added: Jun 08, 2019
- Length: 52:25
Some people rely on Medicaid to access health care. Or they use other federal benefits, like food stamps and housing assistance, to build the found...
- Added: Jan 27, 2019
- Length: 05:52
Chuparosa is one my of favorite plants from back when we used to live outside of Tucson. I bet we had 5 or 6 of them planted at our little homestea...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:23
Learn how the Emotion Roadmap helps leaders and others to get changes in behavior.
- Added: Aug 10, 2017
- Length: 45:01
China is challenging America's historical preeminence in space exploration. At some point in the future, America may be still trying to get to huma...
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- Added: Sep 16, 2016
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 9
Evidence is mounting that a Planet 9 exists in the outer region of our solar system.
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- Added: Jul 28, 2016
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 8
Unspun honors local environmental advocates, Peggy Rebol and Dr. Jim Collins, as we look at our relationships with Mother Earth and current environ...
- Added: Apr 17, 2016
- Length: 58:30
- Purchases: 2
All life has a common core which can guide our search for life outside of our planet.
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- Added: Dec 17, 2015
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 8
"Ultraconserved elements" could be the most important parts of our genome, but scientists have no idea what they're for. And after a decade of stud...
- Added: Nov 09, 2015
- Length: 04:28
