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Can living in a more enriching environment increase your ability to learn and make you more relaxed? Dr. Kelly Lambert set out to answer this quest...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jan 21, 2020
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
Either way you spell it, you either love that black candy or can't get away fast enough. Amy dives into why.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Dec 03, 2019
- Length: 06:27
- Purchases: 1
Trend setting science from 1975. We can't tell you anything else, it would spoil the surprise!
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Nov 24, 2019
- Length: 05:11
- Purchases: 1
I’m telling you, late summer and fall are great times to get out into the hills, especially if you want to find interesting plants. While you’re ou...
- Added: Sep 24, 2019
- Length: 05:02
Cliffrose is the star of this show. It also goes by the common name quinine bush or the scientific name of Purshia mexicana. If you look at a map o...
- Added: Sep 24, 2019
- Length: 10:12
This episode will have you outside with a sharpened stake, a hammer, a slab of metal and an empty coffee can. That's right, we're going to be talki...
- Added: Sep 11, 2019
- Length: 05:58
Sending a little love to our listeners in the Southern Hemisphere. It might be summer here, but it's the middle of winter down south. Turn on some ...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jul 16, 2019
- Length: 04:29
- Purchases: 1
So many native plants are ready for some of that monsoonal moisture and I am too. Come on summer rains!
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 04:55
I revealed most of my personal chicken history in this show. It is an ongoing saga, though I am much more in control of my crazy love for chickens....
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 19, 2019
- Length: 04:46
- Purchases: 1
This chemical is no joke. Amy talks about how 1930's scientists discovered the explosive and insanely dangerous compound while trying to find a mor...
- Added: Feb 19, 2019
- Length: 04:25
Why do we do the things we do while in public? Simple actions like using the restroom or riding the bus get a lot more complicated when thinking ab...
- Added: Jan 16, 2019
- Length: 20:19
Learn a bit about the women and men of the IIP who monitor icebergs in the northern reaches of our Atlantic ocean.
- Added: Jan 15, 2019
- Length: 02:59
Science education occurs in juvenile detention centers, as part of the schooling available to young people there so that they can receive their hig...
- Added: Jun 12, 2018
- Length: 40:25
Apache plume (Fallugia paradoxa) is very common around out little homestead. There are thickets of it all along the banks of the Ol’ Guajolote. It ...
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 11:28
A morning or two after I recorded this show I heard a scaled quail calling, so now I have both species calling starting at dawn and then off and on...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:20
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
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
We have had 4-wheel drive vehicles for many years and we’ve always found it to be a great tool that can take the worry out of some roads. I just ha...
- Added: Dec 30, 2017
- Length: 05:16
This week on Art Beat, we talk to Ryuta Nakajima to discuss his exhibit Squid and I, at the MMAM. Nakajima’s work investigates the origin of visual...
- Added: Oct 27, 2017
- Length: 15:27
Arizona poppy, Mexican poppy and summer poppy are some of the common names for the beautiful annual wildflower Kallstroemia grandiflora.
- Added: Mar 19, 2017
- Length: 04:56
Radio Curious visits with Roger Brandt, the manager of visitor services and education at the Oregon Caves National Monument, one of the few marble ...
- Added: Oct 21, 2014
- Length: 29:01
When you live on a computer, every hair on your head is numbered — every click, too, every date and breakup, every want and need. Christian Rudder,...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Oct 13, 2014
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 1
Somewhere in the midwest are two of the most unnatural sounding rooms in the world, which some say were used to test the hearing of rabbits.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 14, 2013
- Length: 22:01
- Purchases: 1
An interview with Pinback founders Zach Smith and Rob Crow featuring music from their latest release "Information Retrieved" and all mixed up in th...
- Added: Nov 16, 2012
- Length: 58:31
Treating Parkinson's with a vibrating chair; reading the rumblings of the earth; and a hip-hop battle of cosmic proportions.
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- Added: Oct 05, 2010
- Length: 13:00
- Purchases: 1
