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Picture this: a domed city with conveyor belt sidewalks and self-driving cars in the middle of the Minnesota wilderness? Does this futuristic city ...
- Added: Aug 29, 2024
- Length: 05:58
It’s a dry spring – 1984 in Wisconsin – and all these suspicious fires are popping up. A conservation warden named Dave is pretty sure it’s arson, ...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 13:18
HOUR ONE: "Plants As People" - If plants are intelligent beings, how should we relate to them? Do they have a place in our moral universe? Should t...
- Added: Aug 20, 2021
- Length: 01:58:59
With a little help, carbon eating, coast protecting marshes are on the mend
Bought by KMUN, WFHB, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KICI Iowa City, WFHB and more
- Added: May 06, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 6
We hear a lot in the news about the Antarctic ice sheet melting – but what else threatens a place so cold, so remote, and so seemingly barren? In t...
- Added: Jul 05, 2017
- Length: 21:32
Sargeant Mountain Pond in Acadia National Park is the oldest pond on the east coast. Fittingly, it's amassed its fair share of lore. Two friends ad...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 05, 2013
- Length: 07:00
- Purchases: 1
In this episode we investigate the science beneath our streets. First how a team of amateur speleologists are keeping Howe Caverns safe. Then a loo...
- Added: Apr 30, 2013
- Length: 16:35
- Purchases: 2
In this episode we see old bones made new again. First the ongoing restoration of Philadelphia's 19th Street Baptist Church. Then a discussion abou...
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 17:11
This week's stories are all about being outsiders. Stories by Judith Gardner, Frank Fusco, and Alan Reese. True stories told by the Southerners who...
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 29:00
On today's show we track the evolution of smog from symbol of industrial progress to public-health catastrophe.
- Added: Oct 09, 2012
- Length: 14:19
We bring you some of our favorite segments from past Distillations episodes this week: animal communication in the Sonoran Desert and the toll of a...
- Added: Aug 04, 2012
- Length: 13:33
Rolf came to Kenya in 1973 in search of "Real Africa" and he found it. Few people know that Rolf is now a proud Kenyan citizen. I interviewed him a...
- Added: Jun 15, 2012
- Length: 13:28
American Idol Architect
- Added: Dec 02, 2011
- Length: 08:44
In honor of the International Year of Chemistry, today we begin the four-part series Our Chemical Landscape. These shows look at how science has sh...
- Added: May 27, 2011
- Length: 14:35
When will I get over my obsession with Walden Pond? As a 20something interested in connecting to nature, is Thoreau the best example?
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Mar 23, 2011
- Length: 10:18
- Purchases: 1
The true story of the first state to sponsor a rock concert ... nicknamed "the Governor's Pot Party"... and what became of that governor.
Bought by KLCC
- Added: Dec 22, 2010
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
Peter Mattox alone in the woods, contemplates wilderness in America.
- Added: Jun 27, 2006
- Length: 04:36