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RECIPE: Eggplant Casserole THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL TOPICS: * (Segment 1) Cheese Is Good For Us? * (Segment 3) Music Helps Our Brains

  • Added: Mar 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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RECIPE: Honey Garlic Salmon THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL TOPICS: * (Segment 1) New Methods For Alzheimer’s Detection * (Segment 3) Sleep Is Vital To Formin...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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RECIPE: Zorba's Experimental Beef Brisket THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL TOPICS: * (Segment 1) Garlic Helps Memory * (Segment 3) Do Supplements Actually Work?

  • Added: Mar 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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For rock climbers, skiers, and other outdoor enthusiasts, the word "send" has a whole new meaning. You might cheer on a fellow snowboarder with "Se...

Bought by KUAT, KTSW 89.9, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), WSLR, Tri States Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17
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RECIPE: Butternut Squash Tacos w/ Avocado THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL TOPICS: * (Segment 1) Walking Speed Determines Health * (Segment 3) Antibiotics & Obe...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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RECIPE: Pineapple Shrimp Noodle Bowl THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL TOPICS: * (Segment 1) What Else Is In Our Pills? * (Segment 3) Mushrooms For Memory

  • Added: Feb 23, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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Some college students are using the word loyalty as a synonym for monogamy. Are the meanings of these words now shifting? Plus, a biologist discove...

Bought by KUAT, KTXK, KTSW 89.9, WYAP, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Feb 21, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 18
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In 1978, Dr. Alexander Schauss and a research assistant mixed 1 gallon of white latex paint with a pint of shiny red and created P-618 aka Baker Mi...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Feb 16, 2022
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
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What happens when you are the Emperor of France and your hunting party plans go completely wrong? You get attacked by rabbits. This isn't a Monty P...

Bought by WRFA-LP and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 15, 2022
  • Length: 04:47
  • Purchases: 2
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In Cockney rhyming slang, apples and pears is a synonym for "stairs," and dustbin lids means kids. Plus, sniglets are clever coinages for things we...

Bought by KUAT, KTSW 89.9, WYAP, WNIN, WSLR and more


  • Added: Feb 14, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 19
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Need a slang term that can replace just about any noun? Try chumpie. If you're from Philadelphia, you may already know this handy placeholder word....

Bought by KUAT, KTXK, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KTSW 89.9, WYAP and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 20
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National Book Award winner Barry Lopez had wise advice for young writers. First, read widely and follow your curiosity. Second, travel or learn a f...

Bought by KUAT, KTXK, KTSW 89.9, WYAP, WSLR and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17
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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
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What kind of book do people ask for most often in prison? Romance Novels? No. The Bible? No. The most requested books by far are . . . dictionarie...

Bought by KUAT, KTSW 89.9, WYAP, WSLR, WNIN and more


  • Added: Jan 24, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 18
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KBFT 89.9 FM and the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund present MN Artist Profiles a series highlighting artists and musicians of Minnesota....

  • Added: Jan 19, 2022
  • Length: 07:09
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Twice a day the River Thames recedes, revealing a muddy shoreline. Hobbyists known as mudlarks stroll the surface searching for objects that have f...

Bought by KUAT, KTXK, KTSW 89.9, WYAP, WSLR and more


  • Added: Jan 17, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 18
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RECIPE: Spicy Shrimp Tacos w/ Creamy Slaw THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL TOPICS: * (Segment 1) Online menus should put healthy food first * (Segment 3) Cardi...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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Diamond dust, tapioca snow, and sugar icebergs -- a 1955 glossary of arctic and subarctic terms describes the environment in ways that sound poetic...

Bought by KUAT, KTXK, KTSW 89.9, WYAP, WSLR and more


  • Added: Jan 10, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17
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It was a dark and stormy night. So begins the long and increasingly convoluted prose of Edwards Bulwer-Lytton's best-known novel. Today the annual ...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KUAT, KTXK, WSLR, WYAP and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
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In this segment we meet with Bois Forte Elder the "Dog Man" Maurice Champaine who share his Dog Sledding Stories.

  • Added: Jan 03, 2022
  • Length: 06:23
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Mark Hummel has been a carrier of the Harmonica Blues torch for over 50 years.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Dec 31, 2021
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 1
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Many of us struggled with the Old English poem "Beowulf" in high school. But what if you could actually hear "Beowulf" in the English of today? The...

Bought by KUAT, KTXK, KTSW 89.9, WYAP, WPCA-LP and more


  • Added: Dec 27, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 18
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What's it like to hike the Pacific Crest Trail all the way from Mexico to Canada? You'll end up with sore muscles and blisters, and great stories t...

Bought by KUAT, WYAP, WSLR, WPCA-LP, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Dec 20, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
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RECIPE: Garlic Roasted Asparagus w/ Cotija THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL TOPICS: * (Segment 1) Mediterranean Diet Secret Ingredient * (Segment 3) Hearing Ai...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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RECIPE: Winter Pasta Salad THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL TOPICS: * (Segment 1) Art Appreciation Extends Life * (Segment 3) Talcum Powder & Cancer

  • Added: Dec 20, 2021
  • Length: 59:00