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If you could speak again with a loved one who has passed away, would you? With recent advances in artificially intelligent grief tech, this questio...
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- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 58:23
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If you could speak again with a loved one who has passed away, would you? With recent advances in artificially intelligent grief tech, this questio...
- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 58:23
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
Self-help has existed in some form since the dawn of human civilization and has grown into a robust industrial complex. But does self-help really m...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KTSW 89.9, Troy Public Radio, KGOU, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more
- Added: Jan 04, 2024
- Length: 58:23
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The rise of the wellness industry and marketing of wellness products moves us away from the individualized practices that actually make us feel hea...
Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Boise State Public Radio, WXXI Rochester and more
- Added: Nov 22, 2023
- Length: 58:23
- Purchases: 8
Jess speaks from her experience conducting deep ocean research to answer questions raised by UCS scientists and staff about the recent disasters of...
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 19:00
The Nocturnists’ Emily Silverman tells a story about how medical school satisfied much of her curiosity about the human body—but how some mysteries...
- Added: May 05, 2023
- Length: 44:24
I hope we all get all of our monsoon fixes this season. One of those for me and maybe you too will be toads calling from puddles.
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 04:01
I started my nursery/horticulture career in the spring of 1980 at Desert Trees Nursery northwest of Tucson. It was and still is a wholesale nursery...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:16
Our one flowering wildflower on this wonderful day was the very pretty perennial called penny cress or candy tufts. It is the former Thlaspi fendl...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:36
When I was a boy vultures were called buzzards. It’s an interesting common name that came across the ocean with early British colonists who had no ...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:03
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
The vast landscapes of the southwest are to die for and every once in a while I capture one with my camera. More and more I remind myself to just t...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:56
- Added: Dec 13, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
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
I revealed most of my personal chicken history in this show. It is an ongoing saga, though I am much more in control of my crazy love for chickens....
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- Added: Jun 19, 2019
- Length: 04:46
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The next earthquake is likely to happen when you least expect it. Relatively infrequent events are hard to plan for. Geologist Lori Dengler advise...
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- Added: May 10, 2018
- Length: 01:28
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- Added: May 10, 2018
- Length: 01:30
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At one point when I was reading about the age of water I came across some research indicating that some of the water molecules we drink could be 4....
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:09
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
