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Get in the truck, we're taking a night drive to the Dragoon Mountains in Cochise County, Arizona. Get ready for the weird times.
New soundscapes b...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Jan 22, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
- Scent number 20: Chanel No. 5 Perfume -
Walker brings us back to her startup days when the coveted perfume Chanel No. 5 helped her close many bu...
- Added: Jan 15, 2021
- Length: 02:54
Let’s make equations musical. Instead of visualizing equations on a graph, let’s listen to them on the piano, merging all our math and music knowl...
- Added: Dec 29, 2020
- Length: 49:30
- Added: Nov 17, 2020
- Length: 03:14
"Could Donald Trump be charged with a crime for knowingly exposing others to an infectious disease? He could if that disease was hepatitis. If th...
- Added: Oct 06, 2020
- Length: 04:00
Even starting a piece that's 639 years long is an act of incredible optimism.
- Added: Aug 04, 2020
- Length: 07:54
Tania Chairez is a social entrepreneur and educator who grew up undocumented under the threat of Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona. In this episode, Ta...
- Added: Jul 09, 2020
- Length: 12:40
When one white woman working in Hollywood received a surprise residuals check, she skipped the bank and deposited it straight to Twitter. She offer...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 18, 2020
- Length: 03:56
- Purchases: 3
An all-new quarantine episode of Desert Oracle Radio from our secure desert compound, where we are noting the return of the wildlife, the blue skie...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Apr 17, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
The F-Word is released bi-monthly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. (00:03:30)
"A bridge is only as strong as its weakes...
- Added: Mar 27, 2020
- Length: 03:30
Leonard Slatkin on Schoenberg.
- Added: Feb 13, 2020
- Length: 06:30
Some people with chronic pain now rely on medical marijuana in place of opioid painkillers. But, in the absence of formal medical guidance, many pa...
- Added: Jan 19, 2020
- Length: 24:49
They say girls shouldn’t go to school. And by "they", we mean Boko Haram.
- Added: Dec 12, 2019
- Length: 28:59
Two weird trips to Death Valley: 1849 and 1949. Giants, aliens, underground cities of gold!
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Feb 15, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
A harsh visit to the desert of the Bible: a place of banishment and horror, where ostriches and demons dance in the abandoned cabins.
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Feb 15, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
If Oumuamua is a "scout," then for what cosmic army? And other dealings with strange things in the skies.
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Jan 21, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
What happens when a civilization collapses? You can't go camping in Joshua Tree, that's what.
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Jan 14, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
A special live edition of The Moth at Cooper Union in NYC, "Moth Eaten: Adventures in Food". Best-selling author Adam Gopnik and his wife have an o...
Bought by Marfa Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR), Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KRCB 104.9, KBRP Community Radio and more
- Added: Jul 27, 2018
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 38
Novelist Walter Mosley examines the power of language to break and form bonds; an artist connects with her father when he sends her coins he finds ...
Bought by Marfa Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR), WYSO, KCLU, KCRW and more
- Added: Jul 04, 2018
- Length: 53:56
- Purchases: 34
Cool as a cucumber curved with quite the camber. This is Episode 61 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or f...
- Added: Apr 12, 2018
- Length: 05:14
Picture this: a lightning bolt shoots out about 10 gigawatts of power. This is Episode 58 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favor...
- Added: Mar 18, 2018
- Length: 03:44
Quarter for your thoughts about quaternions?
This is Episode 57 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny...
- Added: Mar 11, 2018
- Length: 05:01
We can fall deeply, madly in love with late-night radio. This doesn't happen with any of the visual mediums. Never with a screen. Thing is, radi...
- Added: Nov 13, 2017
- Length: 02:50:05
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Tragedy n. “goat song” Named for the dramatic plays of the ancient Greeks, characterized by a protagonist whose flaw or error in judgment leads to ...
- Added: Feb 21, 2017
- Length: 16:26
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
If you’ve made a serious faux pas and need to acknowledge it with humility, you might be said to be “eating crow” or “eating humble pie.” In this e...
- Added: Jan 25, 2017
- Length: 18:43
