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Brian Dunning delves into urban legends surrounding three of the greatest classical composers as well as the renowned Stradivarius violin.
- Added: May 09, 2024
- Length: 59:00
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
We're joined by the co-editors of Reviews in Digital Humanities, Dr. Roopika Risam and Dr. Jennifer Guiliano. Dr. Risam is the Chair of Secondary a...
Bought by KNCT FM
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
This week, web series creator-turned cable TV sensation Issa Rae on her journey from YouTube to HBO, her desire for diversity on television and her...
- Added: Jan 26, 2022
- Length: 54:00
The history of women has existed as long as humans have, but it was not until the last half of the 20th Century that women’s history received recog...
- Added: Oct 06, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Berberis fremontii is in the Barberry family or Berberidaceae…that’s fun to pronounce. Fremont barberry has quite a range north of the Salt River i...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 05:03
I spent so much time jabbering about my conversion to a desert rat and monsoon believer that I left out some fun stuff.
Native bees that buzz poll...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 04:43
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
Imagine arriving by boat in a rural town of 150,000 people where two rivers join in central China. Imagine be...
- Added: Sep 01, 2021
- Length: 29:00
We talk with artist and educator Agnes Chavez, who explores the interrelationship between art, science, technology and nature as a process and tool...
- Added: Oct 20, 2020
- Length: 59:00
In this year's celebration of Black History Month and the 50th Anniversary of Africana Studies at the University of New Mexico, author and journali...
- Added: Aug 14, 2020
- Length: 50:32
This week on the show we talk about vegan rock stars.
- Added: Mar 06, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 7
This week we talk about wild conspiracies we found on reddit.
- Added: Mar 06, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
Listen to an interview with author Steven Tow.
- Added: Feb 27, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 7
This week in space, Blue Origin gets ahead of the competition by, well, not competing, nobody can find India's lunar lander, and we discuss how ast...
- Added: Nov 01, 2019
- Length: 16:54
On the eastern slope of the Continental Divide, about an hour’s drive east of San Jose, Costa Rica, is the Rain Forest Aerial Tram, a tramway that ...
- Added: Jul 09, 2019
- Length: 29:00
The transcendent experience of street basketball is the topic of two conversations with Onaje X. O. Woodbine, author of Black Gods of the Asphalt: ...
- Added: Feb 26, 2019
- Length: 29:00
A piece about the history of one of the most overlooked things, drag.
- Added: Dec 05, 2018
- Length: 02:02
Cuales son los peligros de cruzar el desierto en el verano?
- Added: Aug 02, 2018
- Length: :30
Hi-Phi Nation stays overnight at the Brooklyn Public Library during the 2018 Night of Philosophy. From 7pm to 7am on a Saturday night, thousands of...
- Added: Jul 25, 2018
- Length: 45:13
Big wave surfers are in a class of their own. But Geologist Lori Dengler encourages sticking with giant waves generated by big storms. On this segm...
Bought by Radio Newark
- Added: May 10, 2018
- Length: 01:31
- Purchases: 1
New year, new Engineering Word Of The Day. Or in this case, new acronym of the day, standing for "new product development". This is Episode 50 of E...
Bought by WETD
- Added: Jan 02, 2018
- Length: 05:07
- Purchases: 1
It Takes One to Know One
- Added: Jan 02, 2018
- Length: 02:00
Teachers at all-girls schools might have insights on how to engage more young people – especially girls – into engineering. Several teachers at The...
- Added: Oct 29, 2017
- Length: 52:36
Doug & Dave speak with an expert on the languages of business, finance and accounting and talk to an adventurous soul who found the courage to leav...
- Added: Oct 14, 2017
- Length: 25:29
Doug & Dave speak with an expert on the languages of business, finance and accounting and talk to an adventurous soul who found the courage to leav...
- Added: Oct 13, 2017
- Length: 50:58
