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It happens every year, temperatures drop for some needed relief from summer, kids go back to school, leaves start changing, and the fall season is...
- Added: May 26, 2020
- Length: 33:56
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
104-year-old Gil Seltzer speaks with his granddaughter, Sarah Seltzer, about what it was like to be part of a top-secret deception unit in World Wa...
- Added: Aug 15, 2019
- Length: 02:59
Sheikh Mohammed Al-Hilli discusses Arbaeen: The Walk, the first book in English about the annual pilgrimage to the shrine of Imam Husayn.
Bought by WETS
- Added: Oct 16, 2018
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 1
Connecting art with streaming social media and news technology, Whithervane designers Cezanne Charles and John Marshall invite us to think about th...
- Added: Sep 17, 2018
- Length: 11:20
A domed city of the future right here in Minnesota? It almost happened. On this episode of Art Beat we talk with filmmaker Chad Freidrichs, directo...
- Added: May 04, 2018
- Length: 32:47
The paleo diet aims to take nutrition back to the basics—to the way Paleolithic people ate. But prehistoric people didn’t eat boneless chicken brea...
- Added: Mar 01, 2018
- Length: 16:34
- Purchases: 3
In a world where specializing in one sport is becoming more and more common, Marisa Romeo bucks that trend. She uses her talents to play both lacro...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 07, 2017
- Length: 03:53
- Purchases: 1
This week on Art Beat, we talk to Ryuta Nakajima to discuss his exhibit Squid and I, at the MMAM. Nakajima’s work investigates the origin of visual...
- Added: Oct 27, 2017
- Length: 15:27
The Minnesota Mandolin Orchestra has 25 mandolins and plays a combination of specially composed mandolin music and tunes everybody has heard. Lon H...
- Added: Jul 27, 2017
- Length: 07:59
Hermann Rorschach’s inkblot test has become ubiquitous in pop-culture as shorthand for both psychiatry and the subconscious. The first biography of...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Jun 15, 2017
- Length: 28:16
- Purchases: 1
Dr Cable explains why scientists often assume that water is needed to sustain life. She explains why most life, like us, likely is carbon-based, an...
- Added: May 12, 2016
- Length: 14:27
Dr. Kelsi Singer shares some of the incredible discoveries that she and the NASA New Horizons team are making. We also discuss a contentious issue—...
- Added: May 12, 2016
- Length: 14:35
Bringing wolves back to the West has tested the legal system’s tolerance for restoring wild places Especially when humans live nearby. This year...
- Added: Nov 07, 2014
- Length: 16:25
- Purchases: 2
This feature looks at the greening of Prather Ranch, a sustainable cattle hay and farming operation in Northern California. Through a partnership ...
- Added: Jul 07, 2013
- Length: 10:25
When sea creatures get sick, there's one way to find out what's wrong: perform a necropsy.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 10, 2012
- Length: 07:04
- Purchases: 1
Vermont boat builder Douglas Brooks has spent years studying and apprenticing in Japan to learn the art of traditional Japanese boat building. He v...
- Added: Jun 26, 2012
- Length: 14:14
What do you do when they tell you your child is in a persistive vegetative state, tell you to put her in a nursing home and go on with your life? Y...
- Added: Mar 05, 2009
- Length: 04:30
Interviews with four transformational activists
- Added: Oct 21, 2008
- Length: 57:51
If Hillary hadn't had that emotional moment in New Hampshire, how would this have affected her campaign? Counterfactual reasoning helps us better ...
Bought by KENW, WEZU, and KCPW Salt Lake City
- Added: Jul 08, 2008
- Length: 02:33
- Purchases: 3
Homebrew Tech Club makes a comeback in the 21st century with cellphones.
- Added: Jul 20, 2007
- Length: 09:28
- Added: Mar 22, 2007
- Length: 06:02
Civilian Autos Using Military Night Vision Technology
- Added: May 26, 2006
- Length: 05:41
Barbados planners envision power plants run on sugar cane
- Added: Jan 31, 2006
- Length: 06:05
Anchorage's Kathryn Petros takes a look at the teen social life on St. Paul Island in the Pribilofs.
- Added: May 23, 2005
- Length: 02:48
- Purchases: 2
