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Blue Dimensions I15: Jazz Is Dead — or is it?
From: Bluesnet Radio
Series: Blue Dimensions
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"Jazz Is Dead" - an appealing project of multi-instrumentalist producers Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad and guests. Charlie Parker with so...

Bought by KHNS, KJZX-Austin, WMOT, KKRN, KMXT and more


  • Added: Apr 08, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Protecting the Herd
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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All contagions come to an end. But how? Herd immunity is inevitable. How we get there is up to us.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Apr 06, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Mask
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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Masks are not just for villains and superheroes! For centuries, we have depended on face masks for protection. From handkerchiefs to the N-95, how ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Apr 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 2
Gaming For a Cause
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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Spending your quarantine gaming? Learn how you and your computer can help scientists search for a cure to the new coronavirus! All while you sleep!

Bought by KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Apr 06, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Newton-flix
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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The bubonic plague forced a young Isaac Newton from his studies. How did he turn catastrophe into a year of wonders? For one, he didn’t have Netflix!

Bought by KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Apr 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
Soapy Surfactants
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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Is washing our hands with soap really the best we can do to protect ourselves from coronavirus? Let's take a look at the history and chemistry of s...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Apr 06, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Silver Lining
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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2020 has felt like one disaster after another. Is there light at the end of this tunnel? Luckily, history suggests calamities spark innovations tha...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Apr 06, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Talk On The Wild Side with Harry Hutchins: Practice Barred Owl Calls in the Shower
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Conversations on COVID-19
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In their weekly natural history talk, Harry Hutchins and Phenologist John Latimer talk about signs of spring and how to call in Barred Owls.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2020
  • Length: 13:46
FMEA
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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You want to prevent catastrophe, eh? Well, engineers, do FMEA. This is Episode 86 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fa...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2020
  • Length: 04:48
Blue Dimensions I13: Connie Han, The Iron Starlet of the piano
From: Bluesnet Radio
Series: Blue Dimensions
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Piano Fever! With pianist Connie Han's new album "Iron Starlet," plus music from pianists Lisa Hilton, Miki Hayama, and the late McCoy Tyner

Bought by KLCC, WMOT, WRGY, KKRN, Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 25, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
Blue Dimensions I09: Michelle & Michele
From: Bluesnet Radio
Series: Blue Dimensions
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New Music From Two Michelles: singer Michelle Lordi, now writing songs too, and Michele Rosewoman, pianist and composer invoking West African spiri...

Bought by KHNS, WMOT, KKRN, WRGY, Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 26, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
acetal
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Engineers take a ton of tests. They're thinking: Can I pass it all? They do, and they build tons of things, and some are made of acetal. This is...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2020
  • Length: 03:25
resonance
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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If you can't decide, and you're on the fence, get knocked right off, by some resonance. This is Episode 84 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an info...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2020
  • Length: 04:47
Blue Dimensions I07: Pascal Bokar's "Afro Blue Grazz" music on "American Trails"
From: Bluesnet Radio
Series: Blue Dimensions
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"Afro Blue Grazz" from singer-scholar Pascal Bokar

Bought by KHNS, WMOT, KKRN, Royalton Community Radio, KMUN and more


  • Added: Feb 12, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
potentiometer
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Ah, potentiometers. So much potential use, right? This is Episode 83 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, o...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2020
  • Length: 04:59
Blue Dimensions I03: "The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait Of Four Icons" from Christian McBride
From: Bluesnet Radio
Series: Blue Dimensions
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Music from "The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait Of Four Icons" by Christian McBride. The work has been issued by Mack Avenue Records. Also, ...

Bought by KMUN, KHNS, GCR (Global Community Radio), WMOT, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Blue Dimensions I01: Herlin Riley's Optimisim Is Perpetual
From: Bluesnet Radio
Series: Blue Dimensions
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New Orleans jazz today, from drummer Herlin Riley's "Perpetual Optimism" album - and Ron Brendle's tribute to bassists, the AACM's Great Black Musi...

Bought by KMUN, WMOT, KKRN, Royalton Community Radio, KJZX-Austin and more


  • Added: Dec 31, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
In The Good Old Days When Times Were Bad: Good Old Songs From Dolly Parton
From: Bluesnet Radio
Series: Bluesnet Radio Special Presentation
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one hour of classic Dolly Parton songs that you don't hear much these days

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, WHRV, Troy Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 09, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Blue Dimensions H49: New Music From Pianists George Cables and David Kikoski
From: Bluesnet Radio
Series: Blue Dimensions
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The latest from venerable pianist George Cables - - and from another sparkling pianist, David Kikoski.

Bought by WMOT, KKRN, Royalton Community Radio, KMUN, KHNS and more


  • Added: Dec 04, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
calculus
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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This challenge will not tackle us; we'll tackle it, we'll win, this calculus. This is Episode 80 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2019
  • Length: 06:39
Blue Dimensions H44: "Modern Ancestors" from the magical Carmen Lundy
From: Bluesnet Radio
Series: Blue Dimensions
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new album "Modern Ancestors" from Carmen Lundy, "Trilogy 2" from Corea, McBride, and Blade, and Bill Cole's music for Yoruba proverbs

Bought by WMOT, KKRN, Royalton Community Radio, KMUN, WJSU and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Blue Dimensions H43: The "Travelin' Woman" Mary Lane, and Kendrick Scott Oracle makes a wall become a bridge
From: Bluesnet Radio
Series: Blue Dimensions
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music from Chicago blues singer Mary Lane's first album since 1994, "Travelin' Woman," and Kendrick Scott Oracle's "A Wall Becomes A Bridge."

Bought by WMOT, KKRN, Royalton Community Radio, KMUN, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Oct 23, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
What We're Reading, September 2019
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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E.R. Ramzipoor's The Ventriloquists; Sarah Pinsker's A Song for a New Day; Brad Meltzer children’s book series Ordinary People Change the World, hi...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2019
  • Length: 59:59
Blue Dimensions H37: Roxy Coss's "Quintet" and Miles Davis's "Rubberband"
From: Bluesnet Radio
Series: Blue Dimensions
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featuring the album "Quintet" from saxophonist and composer Roxy Coss, and previously unissued music from Miles Davis on the album "Rubberband"

Bought by WMOT, KKRN, Royalton Community Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMUN and more


  • Added: Sep 11, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Blue Dimensions H36: Rock-Steady Monk Tunes from Pianist Monty Alexander
From: Bluesnet Radio
Series: Blue Dimensions
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Pianist Monty Alexander offers reggae-fied versions of Thelonious Monk classics on his new album "Wareika Hill"

Bought by WMOT, KKRN, Royalton Community Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMUN and more


  • Added: Sep 04, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11