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High school students in Alabama share some favorite slang terms. If someone tells you to touch grass, they're telling you to get a reality check --...
- Added: Oct 10, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
Enthusiastic book recommendations! Martha's savoring the biography of Alexander von Humboldt, the 19th-century explorer, polymath, and naturalist w...
Bought by KUAT, RADIOLEX, WYAP, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KTSW 89.9 and more
- Added: Oct 03, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 17
RECIPE: Tangy Turkey Tostadas
THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL TOPICS:
* (Segment 1) FDA Says Some Hearing Aids Don’t Need Prescription
* (Segment 3) Fruits & ...
- Added: Sep 27, 2022
- Length: 59:00
RECIPE: Chicken Marbella
THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL TOPICS:
* (Segment 1) Tattoo Ink Health Concerns
* (Segment 3) Racial Biases in Health Care
- Added: Sep 27, 2022
- Length: 59:00
A documentary film called My Beautiful Stutter" follows youngsters at a summer camp specifically for stutterers. It's a place for finding acceptanc...
Bought by KUAT, RADIOLEX, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KTSW 89.9, WYAP and more
- Added: Sep 26, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 19
There are word nerds, and then there's the woman who set up a folding chair on sidewalks throughout the country, cheerfully dispensing tips about g...
Bought by KUAT, RADIOLEX, WYAP, KTSW 89.9, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and more
- Added: Sep 19, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
We use the term Milky Way for that glowing arc across the sky. But how people picture it varies from culture to culture. In Sweden, that starry ban...
Bought by KUAT, RADIOLEX, KTSW 89.9, WSLR, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and more
- Added: Sep 12, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
A caller wonders if she's being hypersensitive about the way her boss addresses her in emails. Can the use of an employee's first name ever reflect...
Bought by KUAT, RADIOLEX, WYAP, WSLR, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and more
- Added: Sep 05, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
The words tough, through, and dough all end in O-U-G-H. So why don't they rhyme? A lively new book addresses the many quirks of English by explaini...
- Added: Aug 29, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 17
RECIPE: Mediterranean Chicken
THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL TOPICS:
* (Segment 1) Microplastics In Your Tea
* (Segment 3) Red Meat Not Bad?
- Added: Aug 28, 2022
- Length: 59:00
RECIPE: Sesame Tofu w/ Broccoli
THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL TOPICS:
* (Segment 1) Good Health News For Coffee & Walnut Lovers
* (Segment 3) Rethinking Typ...
- Added: Aug 28, 2022
- Length: 59:00
RECIPE: Spinach & Chicken Tortilla Casserole
THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL TOPICS:
* (Segment 1) Dish Sponge Germs
* (Segment 3) Dementia Prevention Study
- Added: Aug 28, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Author Angela Tedesco talks about community-supported agriculture and the new book "Finding Turtle Farm"
- Added: Aug 25, 2022
- Length: 08:01
This week on A Way with Words: Language is always evolving, and that's also true for American Sign Language. A century ago, the sign for "telephone...
- Added: Aug 22, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
This week on "A Way with Words": When there's no evening meal planned at home, what do you call that scramble to cobble together your own dinner? S...
- Added: Aug 15, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
This is the time of year when you see desert millipedes out and about on muggy overcast days. Sometimes even crossing the two lane blacktop roads n...
- Added: Aug 12, 2022
- Length: 04:03
I’m pretty sure I first encountered the plant called mala mujer in the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson around 30 years ago. I had 10 years of ...
- Added: Aug 12, 2022
- Length: 04:30
How long can a newly married woman be called a bride? Does bride apply only as long as her wedding day, or does it extend right on through the coup...
- Added: Aug 08, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 17
A librarian opens a book and finds a mysterious invitation scribbled on the back of a business card. Another discovers a child's letter to the Toot...
- Added: Aug 01, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 17
Whether it's a Rubik's cube or a round of Wordle, why do so many of us find puzzles irresistible? A new book celebrates the allure and psychologica...
- Added: Jul 25, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
RECIPE: Turkey Hummus Sliders
THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL TOPICS:
* (Segment 1) Binge Drinking Up In Seniors
* (Segment 3) Post-Surgery Brain Function Risk
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 59:00
You know that Yogi Berra quote about how Nobody ever comes here; it's too crowded? Actually, the first person to use this was actress Suzanne Ridge...
- Added: Jul 18, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 17
Throwing cheese and shaky cheese are two very different things. In baseball, hard cheese refers to a powerful fastball, and probably comes from a s...
Bought by KUAT, KTXK, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KTSW 89.9, RADIOLEX and more
- Added: Jul 11, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
The Journey of Man, A Genetic Odyssey Around 60,000 years ago, a man – identical to us in all important genetic respects – lived in Africa. Every ...
- Added: Jul 08, 2022
- Length: 29:00
When a teenager went a week without talking as part of a school project, he noticed a surprising side effect: Instead of rehearsing a response to w...
Bought by KUAT, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KTXK, KTSW 89.9, WYAP and more
- Added: Jul 04, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 17
