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Brian Dunning takes on a bevy of student questions with topics ranging from nuclear waste to fad diets to drinking one's own urine.
- Added: Apr 19, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Wake up and view the solar eclipse, last one 'til 2044. If you think really has no significance except crazy superstition, think again. Ancient voi...
- Added: Apr 05, 2024
- Length: 02:30
Okaay, April Fools Day is upon us, so let's have a little fun and nominate some of your national leaders for the biggest fool prize, and of course...
- Added: Mar 27, 2024
- Length: 02:59
The old saying "necessity is the mother of invention" may be true, but it leaves out an important component -- the real "mothers" and "aunts" and "...
- Added: Mar 12, 2024
- Length: 03:00
Celebrating Humanature’s 100th Episode.
Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)
- Added: Mar 08, 2024
- Length: 50:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Feb 21, 2024
- Length: 03:03
Christmas traditions around the world have different origins and different meanings -- not all Santa and elves, sometimes funny, many surprising.
- Added: Dec 19, 2023
- Length: 03:00
We talk about some iconic movies from the 1970s, and their infamous villains–the killer hillbilly and his degenerate rural family.
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 37:16
In this episode we talk about who the instigators of terror are in horror movies, and why it matters whether they are from urban or rural areas
- Added: Dec 13, 2023
- Length: 36:38
Thanksgiving is coming up – and once again turkey will be the star of the show. But there’s always an issue with side dishes. No worries, a busines...
- Added: Nov 16, 2023
- Length: 02:30
Congress is wrangling over the Farm Bill, which includes over $3 billion for giant agriculture corporations and multimillionaire "farmers" who don'...
- Added: Sep 08, 2023
- Length: 02:57
August is the month when we mark Women's Equality Day, when the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote passed in 1920. But we're still behi...
- Added: Aug 23, 2023
- Length: 02:30
Recollections of what brought people joy when they were 18. Composed in an Exquisite Corpse style. Produced in celebration of the 18th birthday of ...
- Added: Aug 14, 2023
- Length: 08:14
I said I wasn’t gonna do it, but in the end I gave in. Went to see the Barbie movie. She’s still tall, thin, white, sporting signature long blond h...
- Added: Aug 02, 2023
- Length: 03:00
From the dinner table to the dark web.
Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jun 29, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
This is a 2-way interview with Sophia A. McClennen, a scholar of satire and politics and author of Trump Was a Joke, How Satire Made Sense of a Pr...
- Added: Jun 22, 2023
- Length: 20:53
Two and one-half minute commentary on D-day in 1941, and the only woman who made the landing at Normandy.
Bought by KVNF, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KRZA and more
- Added: May 12, 2023
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 8
May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Didn’t know we celebrated such a thing? You’re not alone. Lesser known than Black History Month or ...
Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.
- Added: Apr 22, 2023
- Length: 02:59
- Purchases: 1
Commentary from Martha Burk, who led the women's protest at the Masters Golf Tourney 20 years ago this week. What's changed?
- Added: Mar 29, 2023
- Length: 03:01
Let’s stop the abortion debate right now. We already know how. Eliminate the need for abortion. If all babies were planned and could be cared for, ...
- Added: Mar 16, 2023
- Length: 02:53
Historian Alison Rose Jefferson discusses her book ‘Living The California Dream: African American Leisure Sites During The Jim Crow Era’. She demon...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Feb 07, 2023
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 1
In 1898, a farmer dug up a stone engraved with a Nordic language in a field in Kensington, Minnesota. People have been arguing about it ever since...
- Added: Feb 02, 2023
- Length: 25:48
KQAL's Jiovani Bermudez meets with Mai'a Williams to discuss her project, Blooming Underground. Blooming Underground is a centers on their relation...
- Added: Jan 18, 2023
- Length: 26:03
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
Join host Hanif Abdurraqib for a special episode of Object of Sound, from PRX and Sonos, reflecting back on the year in music.
December is the per...
- Added: Dec 08, 2022
- Length: 52:00
- Purchases: 11