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American religions like sports, the arts, corporate life and house-hold pets - leave us with a goopy kind of gradualism.
Since the Earth's crisis ...
- Added: Jan 20, 2024
- Length: 29:00
Here are as many new-to-me bands and some new releases from some of my friends I've already made through Up Close And Acoustic, as I can fit into a...
Bought by KTNA
- Added: Jan 03, 2024
- Length: 59:59
- Purchases: 1
In which we engage in the sort of late-night desert-talk-radio conversation we need right now: Intuition, LSD, Carl Jung, the "Conscious Life" expo...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Mar 13, 2020
- Length: 01:00:00
- Purchases: 1
13th, a 2016 documentary directed by Ava DuVernay, starts with some alarming facts. The U.S., with 5% of the world’s population, houses 25% of the ...
- Added: Feb 05, 2019
- Length: 04:49
Boxing films have been a popular genre since the very beginning of motion pictures, and those who like them usually have a favorite. Probably the m...
- Added: Feb 05, 2019
- Length: 03:58
There are teen movies, and then there are movies about teens. That’s a distinction that I just made up. My idea is that teen movies are what film c...
- Added: Feb 05, 2019
- Length: 04:17
Sorry to Bother You is the kind of thing you might say when you’re a little afraid that someone might not appreciate what you’re about to ask. It’s...
- Added: Feb 05, 2019
- Length: 04:07
Engineers Sadhan and Pius continue an ongoing series of discussions on the fundamentals of mechanical engineering. Today they talk about what they ...
- Added: Dec 14, 2018
- Length: 41:26
A work of art can express many things, and one of the most challenging tasks for an artist is to reflect on the making of art itself—in other words...
- Added: Nov 27, 2018
- Length: 04:42
HOUR ONE: "Roadtrippin'"' - What makes a road trip something special? It's not the destination. HOUR 2: "Artificial Creativity" - Scientists are ...
- Added: Jul 05, 2018
- Length: 01:58:58
Now that states have written engineering into K-12 science and technology learning standards, more institutions are thinking about how to run stand...
- Added: Jun 24, 2018
- Length: 28:02
Berberis fremontii is in the Barberry family or Berberidaceae…that’s fun to pronounce. Fremont barberry has quite a range north of the Salt River i...
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 05:16
What is mechanical engineering? Engineer Sadhan Sathyaseelan joins the show again from The University of Texas to wonder out loud about all the imp...
- Added: May 15, 2018
- Length: 42:04
Whip-smart and scary, yet seemingly off-the-cuff, Unsane is Steven Soderbergh’s latest contribution to genre film, in this case the suspense thrill...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 03:58
I often hear people make the mistake of assuming that the main character of a movie should be likeable or sympathetic. This idea is a hold-over fro...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 04:11
There have been three films this year featuring the rescue of British troops from Dunkirk, and two about Winston Churchill. I’m not sure why this w...
- Added: Jan 17, 2018
- Length: 04:32
There have been quite a few dramatic films on the theme of the death penalty, most of them making an eloquent case against it, and some of them rea...
- Added: Dec 09, 2017
- Length: 03:26
The Florida Project is a film of rootlessness and dysfunction, so unusual that nothing could have prepared me for its kind of honesty.
- Added: Dec 09, 2017
- Length: 04:31
The talented writer and actress Greta Gerwig proves that she can also excel in the director’s chair, in her debut film, Lady Bird. The film begins ...
- Added: Dec 09, 2017
- Length: 03:35
Drawn from over 100 hours of footage from the National Geographic archives that was long believed to be lost, and featuring a gorgeous musical scor...
- Added: Dec 09, 2017
- Length: 04:14
Among the films of Federico Fellini are a few that have achieved classic status, and deservedly so, such as La Strada, La Dolce Vita, and 8 ½. But ...
- Added: Oct 26, 2017
- Length: 04:45
In 1996, Nick Gold, a British music producer, asked the American guitarist Ry Cooder to come to Havana and help him record a few sessions with some...
- Added: Sep 06, 2017
- Length: 04:43
In the early years of the 20th century, a film genre was invented that became hugely popular: the adventure serial.
- Added: Apr 13, 2017
- Length: 03:59
In southeastern Arizona Datura wrightii is the preferred source of nectar for the moth Manduca sexta and you may also notice that the caterpillar, ...
- Added: Mar 19, 2017
- Length: 05:22
Host, Richard Hadlock devotes an entire program to the Blues featuring creative guitarists including the late BB King and Leadbelly among others.
Bought by WJAB
- Added: Jun 25, 2015
- Length: 57:43
- Purchases: 1