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Two stories about local government.
Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)
- Added: Aug 17, 2022
- Length: 52:00
- Purchases: 2
I’m not sure I can add a whole lot more about jojoba (Simmondsia chinesis) other than what you hear in this show, except that it is now in its own ...
- Added: Dec 22, 2017
- Length: 05:20
It’s the way that folks at the Bisbee farmers Market say, “Oh, you grow the bellota.” that makes me think of that common name as an honorific name ...
- Added: Aug 03, 2017
- Length: 05:02
Desert Rosemallow is the official common name I think, though I see it called Coulter’s Hibiscus as well.
- Added: Aug 03, 2017
- Length: 05:34
Though Sonoran Desert millipedes are nocturnal, this is the time of year when you see them out and about on muggy overcast days.
- Added: Aug 03, 2017
- Length: 04:56
Responding to his editor about why he wrote his most famous children's novel, E.B. White replied in characteristic good humor.
- Added: Feb 03, 2016
- Length: :58
They rock and roll them. We're talking about those boulders we all see in the woods. Geologists call them "erratics."
- Added: Dec 17, 2014
- Length: 03:53
In Episode 18 of Behind The Thread, we look at wages around the world. Sokny Say of the Free Trade Union of the Workers of the Kingdom of Cambodia ...
- Added: Nov 21, 2014
- Length: 40:07
This is the premier story for Storyville, about Storyville. University of New Orleans' Robin Baudier looks back on this historic district, and what...
- Added: Sep 25, 2013
- Length: 04:52
Since their rise with the release of the 1978 game Space Invaders, video arcades have evolved alongside home gaming systems.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Apr 09, 2012
- Length: 01:49
- Purchases: 3
On the 240th anniversary of Paul Revere's famous ride, re-visiting the Longfellow poem. What did Longfellow get right or wrong? Who rode that night...
Bought by KUT and Prairie Public
- Added: Mar 21, 2011
- Length: 10:14
- Purchases: 2
Garbage is not generally the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about fuel sources. However, commentator Mark Blackmon says that where he...
- Added: Sep 01, 2010
- Length: 02:52
