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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
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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
Caption: The letters Cherie inherited, Credit: Cherie Louise Turner
Cherie inherits a stack of 33 letters, written by her grandfather, who died during the Korean War, and who Cherie’s family never talked about. Befo...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2021
  • Length: 19:47
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Congratulations, you people! It is Fall. You made it. Might take another month or two, until you really notice, but summer is officially over. It'...

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  • Added: Sep 17, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sometimes, story is the best form of medicine.
When have you felt like an outsider? And when have you felt like you truly belonged? Today’s SUPERHUMAN storyteller, Raj Aggarwal, reveals to us o...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 26:49
Caption: Sometimes, story is the best form of medicine.
If unable to care for yourself, who would you choose as your guardian angel? After a harrowing health scare, Alexandra Drane shares her SUPERHUMAN...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 36:26
Caption: Sometimes, story is the best form of medicine.
What would you do if your life took a turn and you were suddenly given more time to be alive? In this SUPERHUMAN story, Dr. David Fajgenbaum faces...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 46:29
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The Father is a film about an elderly man suffering from dementia. It started in 2012 as a French play by Florian Zeller, and last year Zeller dire...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2021
  • Length: 04:51
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A man’s last hours are spent being moved from hospital to hospital within the maze of the Romanian health care system, in this devastating portrait...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2021
  • Length: 04:17
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Riz Ahmed plays a rock drummer who loses his hearing and must come to terms with being a deaf person, in Darius Marder’s moving drama.

  • Added: Aug 05, 2021
  • Length: 04:11
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The film version of August Wilson’s play about a jazz recording session in 1927 features Viola Davis in the title role, and Chadwick Boseman as the...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2021
  • Length: 04:48
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Catherine Deneuve plays a famous actress in conflict with her daughter, played by Juliette Binoche, in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s first film made outside ...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2021
  • Length: 04:10
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In a Leningrad hospital, two women deal with the aftereffects of their experiences in World War II, in a powerful examination of trauma by a young ...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2021
  • Length: 04:28
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Minari, the latest film from writer-director Lee Isaac Chung, tells the story of an immigrant Korean family’s struggle to make a new life in the Un...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2021
  • Length: 04:07
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Alice Rohrwacher’s two-part fable portrays the fragility of goodness in a corrupted world.

  • Added: Aug 05, 2021
  • Length: 04:39
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A Danish action film starts out looking like just another revenge drama, but then pulls the rug out from under the audience in a delightful way.

  • Added: Aug 05, 2021
  • Length: 04:25
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On this new episode of YBYG, Mike gives you the buzz on Hornet Nests in trees and the ground! Plus your 'Buzzy' phone calls!!

  • Added: Jul 29, 2021
  • Length: 54:59
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Sharing our top five pieces of legislation submitted by students.

  • Added: Jul 21, 2021
  • Length: 20:47
Caption: DESERT ORACLE RADIO
Heat domes and sultry Palm Springs mornings, weird ravens and odd dreams of wildlife appearances. The brain boils in the desert summer. It boils ou...

  • Added: Jul 04, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: OutCaster Lil
What's lost when kids don't learn about the homophobic context in which the pandemic unfolded?

  • Added: Jun 30, 2021
  • Length: 08:37
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Night has fallen on the desert, the desert at its most brutal. The punishing desert, the earthly purgatory, the sun-blasted wilderness so many hero...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
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When Kyla was eleven years old, she started pulling out her eyelashes

  • Added: Jun 17, 2021
  • Length: 11:38
Caption: Diana Opong & Kristin Leong, Credit: Photo by Jessica Peterson & Keri Zierler
Race and Identity at Home is a narrated public radio audio feature exploring parenting in multicultural families with Kristin Leong and Diana Opong...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2021
  • Length: 17:47
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The scientific name of the ringtail is Bassariscus astutus. It’s in the Procyonidae, the same family as our local borderlands’ critters the raccoon...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:56
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The genus Artemisia is found in the sunflower family Asteraceae and there are over 200 species found around the world in the northern hemisphere. W...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2021
  • Length: 05:04