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In December at Schoolcraft Learning Community near Bemidji student teacher Anna Brown worked with Sara Breeze's 6th and 8th grade classes writing p...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2014
  • Length: 01:46
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Robert Bly refers to Louis Jenkins, poet from Duluth, as the contemporary master of prose poetry. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota p...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2014
  • Length: 02:10
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Joyce Sutphen is Minnesota's Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites her poem, "The Assumption." The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota ...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2014
  • Length: 02:09
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The literal translation of Julia Helene Oxenreider is: Youthful, changing soft-haired sunlight riding ox. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Min...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2014
  • Length: 03:45
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Doris Stengel grew up on the North Dakota prairie, and then moved to the woods and lakes of Minnesota. She's been a high school teacher and has men...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2014
  • Length: 02:12
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CarolAnn Russell is a Professor of English at Bemidji State University. She has published four full-length books of poetry. Russell has also been a...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2014
  • Length: 02:24
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oyce Sutphen is Minnesota's Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites her poem, "Death Incorporated". You'll hear a reference to Emily Dickenson's...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2014
  • Length: 02:07
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Moderate exposure to UV sunlight may help control blood pressure.

  • Added: Feb 01, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
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An experimental therapy to control peanut allergies may induce genetic changes in the immune system.

  • Added: Feb 01, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
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Crows form mobs to antagonize, intimidate and scare larger birds away.

  • Added: Jan 06, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: A schematic of transcranial magnetic stimulation., Credit: Credit: Eric Waserman/NIH
An experimental treatment for bulimia nervosa may help restore connections within the brain that influence eating behavior in some patients.

  • Added: Jan 02, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Wind turbines can be hazardous to birds., Credit: Andol/Wikipedia
A new GPS tracking system could warn wind power companies of oncoming birds in time to prevent deadly collisions.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2013
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Toolik Lake, in Alaska's Arctic wilderness., Credit: Copyright John C. Wingfield
Like the pioneers of the American West, the birds that are now settling the Arctic frontier in response to climate change aren’t necessarily the bi...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2013
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: California Condor with chick. , Credit: Joseph Brandt/Pacific Southwest Region U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Captive-bred California Condors lack role models to show them how to survive in the wild. But wildlife biologists are there to help them navigate t...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2013
  • Length: 01:00
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Marsh Muirhead, a writer, dentist, flight instructor, and much else besides, lives near Bemidji, MN on the banks of the Mississippi with his dog, S...

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  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 01:02
  • Purchases: 1
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Dennis Herschbach is a northern Minnesota writer whose poems have won awards in national contests. He is also the author of a number of fiction and...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2013
  • Length: 02:07
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Erin Lynn Marsh has been published in Sugarhouse Review, Post Road Magazine, and Paper Darts. She holds an MFA from Lesley University in Boston, is...

  • Added: Sep 07, 2013
  • Length: 01:38
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Erin Lynn Marsh has been published in Sugarhouse Review, Post Road Magazine, and Paper Darts. She holds an MFA from Lesley University in Boston, is...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2013
  • Length: 01:52
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Dating can be different for Muslims, Hindus and Latinos. Even once they've moved to America, some of the traditions stay alive, and some die.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2013
  • Length: 04:23
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Erin Lynn Marsh has been published in Sugarhouse Review, Post Road Magazine, and Paper Darts. She holds an MFA from Lesley University in Boston, is...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:00
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Doris Stengel grew up on the North Dakota prairie, and then moved to the woods and lakes of Minnesota. She's been a high school teacher and has men...

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  • Added: Dec 10, 2012
  • Length: 02:26
  • Purchases: 1
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More of what listeners want to know about the British novelist who produced six classic novels in a lifespan of just 47 years. She's been dead for ...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
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A Gypsy, he never lived in a house or wore a suit until age twenty. At age 18, a late-night caravan fire left him with only two, useful fingers on ...

  • Added: May 10, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
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His father was the only one of Custer's men to survive at Little Big Horn and his mother was the daughter of a Sioux chief. Viggo Mortensen played ...

  • Added: May 04, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Big business is as much of a threat to our livelihoods as out of control government, when they can do what they want and steal from us, and get awa...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 04:02