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The scientific name for our gopher snake (or gophersnake. I’ve seen it written both ways) is Pituophis catenifer. The genus name looks like a combi...
- Added: Aug 12, 2020
- Length: 05:30
Since producing this episode of Growing Native we have encountered Jatropha macrorhiza a couple more times. A recent sighting was over near the New...
- Added: Aug 08, 2020
- Length: 05:17
In the movie Good Will Hunting, Will is a janitor at MIT--he solves some impossible math problems and shocks the professors. That origin story is t...
- Added: Aug 05, 2020
- Length: 05:00
Raspberries are in the rose family, Rosaceae, the genus Rubus and with six species in Arizona. Five are native species and one introduced. Rubus id...
- Added: Jul 29, 2020
- Length: 05:17
In the episode, our hosts analyze the real implications of Star Wars technology. From the widely-known Light-saber to the concept of artificial gra...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer and Belfast Community Radio
- Added: Jul 27, 2020
- Length: 13:20
- Purchases: 2
In this installment of STEM Radio, our hosts discuss Space Weather and weather in space. They cover the topics of Solar Winds, Comets, and the effe...
Bought by Belfast Community Radio
- Added: Jul 18, 2020
- Length: 12:58
- Purchases: 1
San Miguelito (Antigonon leptopus) is quite the Mexican native plant. I read that it’s found in habitat not only in Sonora and Chihuahua and southw...
- Added: Jul 16, 2020
- Length: 05:19
In these episodes, Dr. Rhett Allain and Adam Cortez discuss the many purposes and origins of Fire.
Bought by Belfast Community Radio
- Added: Jul 11, 2020
- Length: 12:45
- Purchases: 1
The Bighorn Fire in the Catalina Mountains near Tucson, AZ. started on June 5th of 2020 and as I sit and write this a few weeks later on June 30th ...
- Added: Jul 01, 2020
- Length: 05:16
In this episode of STEM Science Radio, our hosts explore the complex nature of math paradoxes.
Bought by Belfast Community Radio and WYAP
- Added: Jun 29, 2020
- Length: 12:37
- Purchases: 2
The miller moths that showed up at our little homestead are the adult of the army cutworm (Euxoa auxiliaris) and they migrate from lower areas and ...
- Added: Jun 23, 2020
- Length: 05:26
Every time I pull a reference book or field guide off the shelf to read about a recently seen insect I seem to run across a quote by the famous ent...
- Added: Jun 11, 2020
- Length: 05:19
These day trips of ours into the hills are so renewing. The particular canyon that I talking about is very close to our home and within 30 or 40 mi...
- Added: Jun 08, 2020
- Length: 05:13
Johnny D and Bacpac's Phoenix Sound continued...More Arizona soul, jazz, rock, rockabilly and roots artists this 3rd of 6 in a series with “The Pho...
- Added: May 27, 2020
- Length: 58:01
The desert bighorn is found in the arid regions of the western and southwestern US and across the border in Mexico. Its scientific name is Ovis can...
- Added: May 22, 2020
- Length: 05:08
Might it be possible to teach a pigeon how to "read" a label for a person who can't read? Is there the possibility of a future where pigeon service...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: May 20, 2020
- Length: 04:15
- Purchases: 1
Searching our pantry and chest freezer has been quite an adventure. We’ve even found some unlabeled items in the freezer. “What do you suppose that...
- Added: May 18, 2020
- Length: 05:22
We have always tried to get out to hike and picnic in wild places around us here in Cochise County, Arizona. I still go out by myself to botanize a...
- Added: May 18, 2020
- Length: 05:02
There are several species of Marah found in the western US, but only M. gilensis in Arizona. I call it wild cucumber, but another common name is ma...
- Added: May 18, 2020
- Length: 04:39
There are 13 species of oaks found in Arizona and they range from 3,000 to 8,000 feet in elevation across the state. The only one I haven’t seen in...
- Added: May 18, 2020
- Length: 05:07
Bees like sugary nectar. Turns out, it might just be their own buzzing that makes flowers sweeter.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: May 14, 2020
- Length: 03:26
- Purchases: 1
Trying to destroy coronavirus? The World Health Organization says get to scrubbing! Twenty seconds at the sink should do it. But what if you don’t ...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: May 13, 2020
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
Pandemic: quite a BUZZ word these days. We stay home, wear masks, and wash hands like crazy. But what would bees do? Hint: dance party! Written and...
- Added: May 13, 2020
- Length: 03:00
Mistranslation? Awkward. Surprisingly, it was a classic mistranslation after the Franco-Prussion War that prompted the acceptance of biosafety. Now...
- Added: May 07, 2020
- Length: 03:00
With a little help, carbon eating, coast protecting marshes are on the mend
Bought by WFHB, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KICI Iowa City, WFHB, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]
- Added: May 06, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 5
