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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
This episode is a reminiscence sparked by some photos taken over 60 years ago. I’m pretty sure my father took the photos, because I can’t remember ...
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 04:42
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
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
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
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
This week on the show: How do astronauts deal with their sex drives when they're up in space for months on end? And why is it so embarrassing to ...
- Added: Oct 08, 2021
- Length: 30:00
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
There is no getting around it, every summer monsoon when the borderlands come to life it is so exciting!
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 05:23
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
Sebastian (Sebo) Diaz is a rising junior at the UofA studying Biomedical Engineering.
- Added: Jun 01, 2021
- Length: 04:12
After being declared the dirtiest city in the world in 2015, Paris takes action by launching a monthly “No Car Day."
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 02:32
A well-known fruit with a not-so-well-known history.
- Added: Apr 19, 2021
- Length: 02:30
One of the original 13 Freedom Riders, what Charles Person faced during the Civil Rights Movement was far worse than his time as a Marine in Vietnam.
- Added: Jan 13, 2021
- Length: 01:26:58
Only 11 years old on Bloody Sunday, JoAnne faced the charging horses and the swinging batons of the state troopers.
- Added: Jan 13, 2021
- Length: 01:06:54
Freedom Rider, Dave Dennis, never thought about getting involved in the Civil Rights Movement but he did want a date with a pretty young lady.
- Added: Jan 13, 2021
- Length: 01:31:59
Her mugshot has been called one of the most iconic in American history. The pretty white southern woman who defied Jim Crow and fought for civil ri...
- Added: Jan 13, 2021
- Length: 01:23:34
The little girl who went to school with federal marshals as escorts has something to say about what she went through and what we are going through ...
- Added: Jan 13, 2021
- Length: 01:02:02
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
I am a senior majoring in Neuroscience and Psychology with a minor in Mathematics at the University of Arizona. I work in the CEN lab of Dr. Fellou...
- Added: Jul 28, 2020
- Length: 04:51
This week on the show: Virus clouds, blood clots and Germany re-opens, oh my!
In this episode, a host's wife gets the results of her COVID-19 ant...
- Added: May 07, 2020
- Length: 30:00
TC Tolbert talks with Sarah Gonzales about Queer Joy
- Added: Jan 02, 2020
- Length: 04:17
“It was chaos, it was total chaos.” When the Berlin Wall unexpectedly fell in 1989, it triggered a time of massive flux for the newly reunited capi...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO
- Added: Oct 02, 2019
- Length: 19:45
- Purchases: 2
This week on the show: Sex, cats and race -
Germans are having less sex. Wherefore? The memories of a dead cat can’t be transferred to a new, cl...
- Added: Sep 25, 2019
- Length: 30:00