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Max Henning, Neuroscientist and President of Novus Think Tank [https://www.maxahenning.com/], sheds light on why the future of humanity depends upo...
- Added: Jan 16, 2023
- Length: 58:00
World-renowned soil biologist Dr. Elaine Ingham and her Soil Food Web Approach [https://www.soilfoodweb.com/] has successfully been implemented to...
- Added: Dec 05, 2022
- Length: 58:00
This episode is a reminiscence…something I seem to be doing a lot of lately…and also a plea for getting our children and grandchildren out of doors...
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 04:02
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
Today, we have a question from Michael in Charlestown, Rhode Island. He wants to know: does a charger still use some power when it's plugged into a...
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- Added: Jul 07, 2022
- Length: 03:59
- Purchases: 2
Host Carry Kim will be interviewing Payoomkawish Elder Richard Bugbee, Instructor of Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology at Cuyamaca College through Kumey...
- Added: Jul 04, 2022
- Length: 58:00
We look into the truth about compostable foodservice and packaging with Erin Levine, Resource Recovery Manager at World Centric [https://www.worldc...
- Added: Jun 27, 2022
- Length: 58:00
I wrote this song about Lycium fremontii when I was managing the native plant nursery of Desert Survivors on West Starr Pass in Tucson. The nursery...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 05:01
Every time I pull a reference book or field guide off the shelf to read about a recently seen insect I seem to run across a quote by the famous ent...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 05:09
This week on the show: A much-needed update for our COVID vaccines — and also, if it turned out tires were absolutely horrible for our health... w...
- Added: Jun 10, 2022
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: An unusual experiment has cats staring at cat faces, while Dutch researchers go full sci-fi and "brain scan" an image out o...
- Added: May 20, 2022
- Length: 30:00
Tecoma stans angustata is in the Bignonia family Bignoniaceae and there are a bunch of species of Tecoma starting here in the borderlands with our ...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:51
This week on the show: He outran it for two years. But this week, COVID caught up with Gabe.
- Added: Apr 16, 2022
- Length: 30:00
With enough pressure and heat, just about anything with enough carbon in it could become a diamond. And thankfully for us, when a scientist was ask...
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- Added: Apr 08, 2022
- Length: 04:56
- Purchases: 1
In cases of emergency, lizards pop off their tails to get away. Evolution made it possible for that tail to stay on when tugged but not twisted. It...
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- Added: Mar 31, 2022
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
Anything that scatters when you turn on the light...does it have a personality? Is the cockroach urge to run an indicator of a bold or timid world ...
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- Added: Mar 30, 2022
- Length: 05:33
- Purchases: 1
I’ve known barn owls since I was a kid in Kentucky and I always saw them in barns roosting or nesting up high in the rafters. I remember finding a ...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:43
One of the most magical moments of my childhood was when I first dug up potatoes in a garden and we later had some for dinner. I was awe struck! Th...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:59
This week on the show: As support drops for COVID-19 measures, the people who are violently opposed to them are gaining strength.
- Added: Feb 18, 2022
- Length: 30:00
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...
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- Added: Feb 16, 2022
- Length: 05:06
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I have a bunch of photos from Christmas tree hunts and most of them are 35 mm slides. These few here were taken over the last several years. I alwa...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 05:07
There are around 30 species of Porophyllum, the majority of which are found in Mexico and southward. Around me in the borderlands of Arizona Sonora...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:52
Xanthisma gracilis is an annual and found all over the southwest and into Mexico as well. Duh. A common name is slender goldenweed or spiny zinnia....
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 05:03
This week on the show: Omicron won't be a wave, it'll be a wall, says Germany's top virologist. And the best response is to lock things down — aga...
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- Added: Dec 25, 2021
- Length: 30:00
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A postcard from Earth's largest living being: the Pando Aspen Grove near Fish Lake, Utah.
Bought by KTNA
- Added: Dec 13, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
