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Humorist and author Roy Blount Jr. talks with National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton.
Bought by WKAR and Michigan Radio
- Added: Oct 30, 2019
- Length: 54:29
- Purchases: 2
In Minnesota, freezing winters and big snowfalls come with the territory. But three feet of snow on Halloween? That was a day to remember. In this ...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Oct 08, 2019
- Length: 33:50
- Purchases: 1
Josh Patterson loved taking photographs of rare finds in the Mojave Desert. But on one trip, things didn’t go as planned.
- Added: Oct 08, 2019
- Length: 16:28
- Purchases: 2
Ralph, the philosophy professor, tries to apply logic to everything.
- Added: Sep 17, 2019
- Length: 14:04
Derek Smalls formerly of the band formerly known as Spinal Tap discusses new CD Smalls Change (meditations on ageing) Lukewarm Water tour in 2019 o...
- Added: Sep 16, 2019
- Length: 32:26
Tom Gasko has been a vacuum repairman for some 35 years, but his passion for vacuums extends far beyond that and into a collection of hundreds and ...
- Added: Sep 13, 2019
- Length: 02:21
Who says classical music needs to be stuffy? This week, music with a sense of humor.
- Added: Aug 23, 2019
- Length: 58:30
Like a scaly cheetah, galloping crocs were a terror both on land and in the water. Good thing they lived 100 million years ago.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSFR
- Added: Aug 06, 2019
- Length: 04:15
- Purchases: 2
A collaborative "Short List" poem which sheds light on the thoughts, secrets, senses of humor and lives of eight and nine-year-olds. Can you figure...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 03, 2019
- Length: :48
- Purchases: 1
The Great Northern Radio Show broadcast live on April 13th, 2019 from the Historic Chief Theater in Bemidji Minnesota.
- Added: Jun 25, 2019
- Length: 02:02:33
In 1804 Dr. Troxler discovered he could make pastel dots on paper disappear if he stared at them for long enough. Blink, and they would reappear. T...
- Added: Jun 05, 2019
- Length: 03:24
Need to string some wire through your house or clean a particle accelerator? You might need a science ferret.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: May 28, 2019
- Length: 03:09
- Purchases: 1
Can Flatworms remember how to find food after re-growing their heads? Science rolled up its sleeves and found out.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: May 14, 2019
- Length: 04:47
- Purchases: 1
The internet claims lobsters are immortal. Amy pulls a Dana Scully and debunks the heck out of that idea.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Mar 26, 2019
- Length: 04:35
- Purchases: 1
Jumping out of an airplane without a parachute?! We explore a study that explains how sometimes, if you look at the data in just the right way, bac...
- Added: Mar 19, 2019
- Length: 02:40
Amy and Trace went on an epic field trip around our home town of Spokane and found all sorts of canned gems, like a whole chicken, silkworms and ch...
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 07:53
Science writer Mary Roach talks with author and actor Benjamin Busch.
Bought by WKAR, WCMU Michigan, WKAR, and WDET Detroit Public Radio
- Added: Sep 21, 2018
- Length: 54:31
- Purchases: 4
During the last 8 years, this program has gone where no other radio program has gone before - probably because they know better. I've tackled the t...
- Added: Sep 11, 2018
- Length: 59:00
A euology for the great St. Ann pothole, Deborah.
[A Satire Piece on the State of Roads in New Orleans, LA]
- Added: Sep 10, 2018
- Length: 05:06
Super powers that cause others to shrug and think, "who cares." The super power to move clouds with your eyes, to turn oxygen into carbon dioxide...
- Added: Sep 03, 2018
- Length: 03:32:49
Broadcast 8/23/18 on Ozcatradio.com and KZCT-FM Vallejo, CA this show is with the theme "Animals". Yes, an easy theme, but inspired by traveling a...
- Added: Aug 24, 2018
- Length: 02:58:58
Folklore, myths, and magic -- what can we learn from alternative truths? The professionals weight in.
- Added: Aug 17, 2018
- Length: 10:10
Are we coming together or going to pieces? Coming into greatness or going to hell in a handbasket? Do the people in your life come and go, talking ...
- Added: Jul 10, 2018
- Length: 59:01
This is a satirical commercial for Chicharonis, a type of junk food we hope never exists.
- Added: Apr 03, 2018
- Length: 01:00
"Row Row Row Your Boat…Or Not" and "A Ballroom Dancer, A Shark, And A PR Problem"
A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: It was suppos...
Bought by KSTK
- Added: Mar 08, 2018
- Length: 27:59
- Purchases: 1
