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The writer John Nichols first achieved national fame at age 24 with 'The Sterile Cuckoo', but went on to a second act when he moved to Taos, New Me...
- Added: Dec 09, 2023
- Length: 27:14
Our last episode of the Space Oddities Podcast is a hodgepodge of stories dealing with space related marketing ideas, a couple of which you may rem...
- Added: Nov 22, 2022
- Length: 13:11
episode 5: Disinformation and media manipulation are everywhere. Nobody can really know what’s going on in a ‘fog of war’. You’ll hear from displa...
- Added: Sep 16, 2022
- Length: 15:21
episode 4: Not surprisingly, in a time of war, most of the funding available to science in Ukraine is gone. You’ll hear how Canada can help rebuild...
- Added: Sep 16, 2022
- Length: 19:09
episode 2: How can you conduct research under extremely difficult conditions, such as they are in Ukraine? A sociologist and researcher at the Cen...
- Added: Sep 16, 2022
- Length: 19:25
episode 3: The war in Ukraine is proving to be a real-time lab study of staying one step ahead of the hackers and finding ways to protect and prese...
- Added: Sep 16, 2022
- Length: 20:30
episode 1: It's the early days of the war. Scientists in Canada and France offer a helping hand to Ukrainian colleagues. A research scientist at t...
- Added: Sep 16, 2022
- Length: 19:59
Narratives are all around us. These big meta-stories tell us who we are as a nation and the values we share. Narratives help us explain why things ...
- Added: Sep 26, 2021
- Length: 02:12
In Montana, two ranchers adopted ‘Delilah.’ They’re among the growing number of people actually getting paid to adopt wild horses and burros.
- Added: Nov 11, 2020
- Length: 15:40
In Arizona, two incarcerated men rehabilitate wild donkeys for adoption.
- Added: Nov 11, 2020
- Length: 18:19
Like many low-wage immigrant workers in Los Angeles, Aleja "Lee" Plaza spends her days taking care of the elderly — emptying bedpans, giving sponge...
- Added: Jul 27, 2019
- Length: 07:35
Like many kids who come from working class immigrant families, Kateri Gutierrez felt a lot of pressure to get ahead. After a brief stint trying to ...
- Added: Jul 21, 2019
- Length: 07:05
Generation Z has been called a lot of things: The internet generation. The Instagram generation. And as some say: the activist generation. Claire H...
- Added: Jun 24, 2019
- Length: 08:29
Carlos Samaniego created Mariachi Arcoiris de Los Ángeles, or Mariachi Rainbow, back in 2000 for a pride event. Almost two decades later, the group...
- Added: Jun 17, 2019
- Length: 06:53
- Added: Jan 17, 2019
- Length: 24:10
- Purchases: 1
Hour 8 “Crossroads” (1968-1978)
We follow Bernstein as he leaves the Philharmonic in 1968 to concentrate more on composition. With overtones of S...
Bought by Colorado Public Radio, 'The Sea', KAAD-LP, and WRGY
- Added: Aug 14, 2018
- Length: 58:04
- Purchases: 4
Bernstein: The Composer, Part 1 (of 2)
Bernstein’s role as a composer is often overshadowed by his roles as conductor and teacher. This hour will...
Bought by Colorado Public Radio, 'The Sea', KAAD-LP, WWNO, and KUAF Public Radio
- Added: Aug 14, 2018
- Length: 57:27
- Purchases: 5
With her nonprofit One Simple Wish, Danielle Gletow is bringing the joy of childhood to the lives of foster kids, one wish at time.
Bought by WOUB
- Added: May 30, 2017
- Length: 14:45
- Purchases: 1
There is no chocolate industry without Africa. African cocoa is bountiful and painful, cyclical and dynamic. In this episode, we get two snapshots ...
- Added: May 19, 2017
- Length: 42:08
Scientists at the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida, are leading a new experiment that will help uncover the effects of oil spills on fis...
- Added: Feb 15, 2017
- Length: 08:20
The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.
- Added: Dec 31, 2015
- Length: 04:38
The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.
- Added: Dec 31, 2015
- Length: 02:47
The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.
- Added: Dec 31, 2015
- Length: 04:11
The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.
- Added: Dec 28, 2015
- Length: 06:52
A look inside the labs, treatment facilities, and homes of those closest to heart disease.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KHNS, MPR News Stations, Maine Public Radio, KCPW Salt Lake City and more
- Added: Nov 02, 2015
- Length: 59:03
- Purchases: 6
