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There are 1.8 billion monthly menstruators worldwide. Better understanding the science behind period blood, as well as cultural stigma and period p...
- Added: Feb 01, 2024
- Length: 58:23
In surrogate partner therapy, a therapist, a surrogate partner and a client work together to understand and help resolve the client’s challenges wi...
- Added: Oct 04, 2023
- Length: 58:23
I grew up in the land of the black walnut, Juglans nigra. And if you grew up in the eastern US, then you did too. It has a very large range in east...
- Added: Aug 12, 2022
- Length: 03:59
Avant interviews Pamela Schwartz, executive director at the Orange County Regional History Center. She shares her approach to collecting and curati...
- Added: Jan 25, 2022
- Length: 27:08
Who’s really threatened – kids who are assumed to be cisgender and heterosexual or LGBTQ students?
- Added: Oct 29, 2021
- Length: 03:30
What happens when these topics are left out?
- Added: Sep 30, 2021
- Length: 06:00
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: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 05:03
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 spent so much time jabbering about my conversion to a desert rat and monsoon believer that I left out some fun stuff.
Native bees that buzz poll...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 04:43
This episode is a reminiscence sparked by some old photos. I’m pretty sure my father took the photos, because I can’t remember him ever being witho...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 04:42
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
I like the phrase in Arizona Flora about the Loasa family Loasaceae ; it is “remarkable for the diversity and peculiar structure of the hairs.” And...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 05:05
This episode focuses on the social impact of Ernest Green’s life journey—a different type of travel experience--and his role in the civil rights mo...
- Added: Nov 25, 2020
- Length: 37:07
Blaire, a DACA a student at Humboldt State University and a long-time resident, speaks of her frustration of not having the same privileges as her ...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Mar 12, 2019
- Length: 03:35
- Purchases: 1
Yolanda is a DACA student at HSU; she worries about being able to finish her schooling. She also went to Washington DC to lobby with Scholars Witho...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Mar 12, 2019
- Length: 02:59
- Purchases: 1
Juan, a DACA student at Humboldt State University talks about his struggles with learning English. He not only did learn English, he now has an ins...
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- Added: Feb 25, 2019
- Length: 02:56
- Purchases: 1
Brenda of Centro del Pueblo gives her own State of the Union address concerning immigrants, legal or otherwise.
- Added: Feb 25, 2019
- Length: 02:54
Geologist Lori Dengler talks about NOAA's National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program. This program provides and facilitates vital warning systems a...
Bought by Radio Newark
- Added: May 10, 2018
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
How will we know a tsunami may be coming?
Other than feeling the ground shake, we rely on tsunami warning centers to alert us about potential risk...
Bought by Radio Newark
- Added: May 10, 2018
- Length: 01:49
- Purchases: 1
The next earthquake is likely to happen when you least expect it. Relatively infrequent events are hard to plan for. Geologist Lori Dengler advise...
Bought by Radio Newark
- Added: May 10, 2018
- Length: 01:28
- Purchases: 1
Beautiful walks along the beach are possible any time of the year on the northcoast.
Lori Dengler encourages us to be mindful of the unexpected "...
Bought by Radio Newark
- Added: May 10, 2018
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
- Added: May 10, 2018
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Charles Miles talks about the wrongful incarceration of his son.
- Added: Feb 27, 2018
- Length: 05:00
On this episode of the California Innocence Project, Guy Miles shares his story about a bad identification leading to wrongful conviction -- and 18...
- Added: Feb 07, 2018
- Length: 04:59
A moment of transformation from the Passacaglia movement of Symphony No. 5 in D Major by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1938).
- Added: Jun 30, 2017
- Length: 10:20
