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Astronauts returning from space say they experience what's called the overview effect, a new understanding of the fragility of our planet and our n...
- Added: Dec 13, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 17
Enthusiastic book recommendations! Martha's savoring the biography of Alexander von Humboldt, the 19th-century explorer, polymath, and naturalist w...
- Added: Dec 06, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
Some TV commercials launch catchphrases that stick around long after the original ads. The exclamation Good stuff, Maynard! is still a compliment a...
- Added: Nov 29, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
This week on the show: The price of perfume, climate miseducation in schools & tourism's toll -
In the Comoros Islands, the world's demand for y...
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]
- Added: Nov 26, 2021
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
Asthenosphere, a geologist's term for the molten layer beneath the earth's crust, sparks a journey that stretches all the way from ancient Greece t...
- Added: Nov 22, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
A documentary film called My Beautiful Stutter" follows youngsters at a summer camp specifically for stutterers. It's a place for finding acceptanc...
- Added: Nov 16, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 19
Amid court-ordered busing in the 1970s, a middle-school teacher tried to distract her nervous students on the first day of class with this strange ...
- Added: Nov 08, 2021
- 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...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
In the 15th century, the word respair meant "to have hope again." Although this word fell out of use, it's among dozens collected in a new book of...
- Added: Oct 25, 2021
- 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: Oct 18, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 17
RECIPE: Instant Pot Chicken Noodle Soup
THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL TOPICS:
* (Segment 1) Sleeping Well Increases Salary
* (Segment 3) Mediterranean Diet ...
- Added: Oct 18, 2021
- Length: 59:00
RECIPE: Roasted Garlic Pumpkin Hummus
THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL TOPICS:
* (Segment 1) Is Kombucha Healthy?
* (Segment 3) Dog Ownership May Improve Longe...
- Added: Oct 18, 2021
- Length: 59:00
What happens in a classroom of refugee and immigrant youngsters learning English? Their fresh approach to language can result in remarkable poetry ...
- Added: Oct 11, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
In an unexpected turn of events, two predators with very different hunting styles work cooperatively. During the summer months, badgers and coyotes...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Oct 11, 2021
- Length: 04:32
- Purchases: 1
Imagine waking up from a nap to discover that you have the ability to compose music in your head. What a shock that would be! There are people who ...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WRFA-LP
- Added: Oct 11, 2021
- Length: 04:51
- Purchases: 2
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
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: Oct 04, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 17
RECIPE: Miriam's Lentils
THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL TOPICS:
* (Segment 1) Docs Prescribe Play Time to Kids
* (Segment 3) Pesticide In Our Cheerios?
- Added: Oct 04, 2021
- Length: 59:00
RECIPE: Chipotle Chicken Mango Salad
THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL TOPICS:
* (Segment 1) Docs Need To Unlearn Things
* (Segment 3) Study: No Level Of Alcoho...
- Added: Oct 04, 2021
- Length: 59:00
This week on On Story we’re taking a trip out west with Babaloo Mandel and Lowel Ganz, the screenwriting duo behind the classic American Western co...
- Added: Sep 30, 2021
- Length: 54:00
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
An ornithologist says there's a growing movement to change the name of a pink-footed bird currently called the flesh-footed shearwater. The movemen...
- Added: Sep 27, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
In 1971, when a new public library opened in Troy, Michigan, famous authors and artists were invited to write letters to the city's youngest reader...
- Added: Sep 20, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 17
There was a time when William Shakespeare was just another little 7-year-old in school. Classes in his day were demanding -- and all in Latin. A ne...
- Added: Sep 13, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
