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From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: Conductor Thierry Fischer, Credit: Kousaku Nakagawa
We’ll hear symphonies that contain everything, including a wonderful new release of the Symphony of a Thousand by Gustav Mahler on today’s What’s New.

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  • Added: Jan 23, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Velvet mesquite is the predominate native mesquite of southern Arizona. If you go west toward California, you will start running into western honey...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2018
  • Length: 05:18
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I don’t think there is anything more heartbreaking than seeing a road killed pet. Well, honestly, I have a hard enough time with road killed wildli...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2017
  • Length: 05:28
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There have been quite a few dramatic films on the theme of the death penalty, most of them making an eloquent case against it, and some of them rea...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2017
  • Length: 03:26
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Soderbergh, one of our best and most versatile directors, announced about four years ago that he was retiring from making movies and was going to f...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2017
  • Length: 04:24
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The talented writer and actress Greta Gerwig proves that she can also excel in the director’s chair, in her debut film, Lady Bird. The film begins ...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2017
  • Length: 03:35
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Drawn from over 100 hours of footage from the National Geographic archives that was long believed to be lost, and featuring a gorgeous musical scor...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2017
  • Length: 04:14
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Recorded live to tape from the streets, businesses, trade shows, homes, garages, work spaces, factories and classrooms, The UnCommonCore Podcast ex...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2017
  • Length: 55:54
Caption: Chris Heuretz, author of The Sacred Enneagram and Suzanne Stabile and Ian Morgan Cron, co-authors of "The Road Back to You."
This week we explore the enneagram. It is becoming a big deal. What is this enneagram and why are counselors and spiritual directors finding it so ...

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  • Added: Nov 27, 2017
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 2
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This is not normal. This is episode 45 of a series about engineering vocabulary, phrases, acronyms, jargon, and slang.

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  • Added: Nov 21, 2017
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 1
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Organize your to-do list efficiently! This is episode 44 of a series about engineering vocabulary, phrases, acronyms, jargon, and slang.

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  • Added: Nov 06, 2017
  • Length: 04:46
  • Purchases: 1
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Keep your hands clean when you write professional publications. This is episode 43 of the Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorit...

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  • Added: Oct 31, 2017
  • Length: 05:07
  • Purchases: 1
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Among the films of Federico Fellini are a few that have achieved classic status, and deservedly so, such as La Strada, La Dolce Vita, and 8 ½. But ...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:45
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One who hugs apples? Or average planar linear heat generation rate?

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:11
  • Purchases: 1
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Describing revolute joints.

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 02:52
  • Purchases: 1
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Not to be confused with biological polymorphism, polymorphism in programming languages can add robustness to your engineering code.

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 1
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When you put something on a pedestal, it becomes a prime target for pigeons. Or to put it another way – if a certain movie consistently shows up on...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2017
  • Length: 05:52
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The green dodo (Dodoneaea viscosa var. angustifolia) was a very common landscape plant around Tucson back when I first started working in a wholesa...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 05:18
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Ousmane Sembéne was a very important figure in the history of film. Born in Senegal, he attained prominence as a novelist in his 20s and 30s, but w...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: 04:25
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One can view much of the silent era in movies as a process in which filmmakers gradually unearthed a narrative language appropriate to the new art ...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: 03:23
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Those who only know Maggie Smith from her roles in later life—such as, most famously, in the Harry Potter films and Downton Abbey, I recommend chec...

  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 03:43
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In the early years of the 20th century, a film genre was invented that became hugely popular: the adventure serial.

  • Added: Apr 13, 2017
  • Length: 03:59
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In southeastern Arizona Datura wrightii is the preferred source of nectar for the moth Manduca sexta and you may also notice that the caterpillar, ...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2017
  • Length: 05:22
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Herbie Mann rides again from the Village Gate, Charlie Mariano re-create the vibe you woulda heard on jazz radio in the ‘70s, an alternative to the...

Bought by KUPR low power FM, WYAP, WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WJSU and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2016
  • Length: 01:59:57
  • Purchases: 6
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On this episode of Culture Clique, we visit with Dr. Dean Peterson, Director of the Precambrian Research Center and the University of Minnesota Du...

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  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 28:12
  • Purchases: 1