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On this episode, we discussed the book "Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion in America," which investigates the rise, fall, and retur...
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- Added: Feb 17, 2024
- Length: 28:28
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In this episode and the next, World Ocean Radio reports on the status quo, business-as-usual, tunnel vision conclusions at COP28 in Dubai, hosted b...
- Added: Feb 14, 2024
- Length: 04:51
A November visit to Gloucester Massachusetts for an Ocean Literary Conference (NEOSEC 2023) afforded W2O staff an opportunity to take a field trip ...
- Added: Feb 13, 2024
- Length: 05:20
On this episode, we talked about the new book "Well of Souls," which dives further into the earliest history of the banjo than anyone has gone befo...
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- Added: Feb 10, 2024
- Length: 29:32
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In this episode, we talk with New York Times columnist David Brooks, about his new book - How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and...
- Added: Feb 08, 2024
- Length: 29:30
From the 1940s to the 1990s, several jazz composers undertook several large-scale orchestral compositions that portrayed the journey of black peopl...
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- Added: Feb 08, 2024
- Length: 59:03
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An audio postcard highlighting native bees -- including nuances of their behavior, life history and ecological importance.
- Added: Feb 06, 2024
- Length: 01:28
The influences of Africans and Black Americans on food and agriculture is rooted in ancestral African knowledge and traditions of shared labor, wor...
- Added: Feb 05, 2024
- Length: 28:30
February is Black History Month, officially recognized by President Gerald Ford in 1976. It was about time. The 1960s had seen crucial economic gai...
- Added: Feb 03, 2024
- Length: 03:00
On this episode, we looked at the autobiography of Stuart Braithwaite, founder of the long-running post-rock band Mogwai. We listened to some of th...
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- Added: Feb 03, 2024
- Length: 28:29
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On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we explore political division. Research shows that polarization isn’t just something we see in politics or wi...
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- Added: Feb 02, 2024
- Length: 29:00
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While peanut butter is one of my favorite foods, I can’t say that I have given much thought to the peanut as a crop, or paid any attention to its r...
- Added: Feb 02, 2024
- Length: 54:00
This week on Earth Eats, beans and corn and cornbread and bean poetry and planning for the apocalypse of your imagination.
- Added: Feb 02, 2024
- Length: 54:00
The United States has a goal to power the country with 100% clean electricity by 2035. Unfortunately, our energy regulations are not set up to make...
- Added: Feb 01, 2024
- Length: 14:31
We all want to live full, healthy lives. But climate change is threatening a growing number of people’s lives and well-being. Professor of public h...
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- Added: Feb 01, 2024
- Length: 11:20
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If you live in the U.S. Mountain West, the Pacific Coast of the Americas, or large parts of Australia or southern Europe, there’s a good chance a m...
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- Added: Feb 01, 2024
- Length: 13:08
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There are 1.8 billion monthly menstruators worldwide. Better understanding the science behind period blood, as well as cultural stigma and period p...
- Added: Feb 01, 2024
- Length: 58:23
This week's guest is Maritsa Georgiou, award winning journalist and national correspondent for Scripps News. Maritsa's reporting on the planned rem...
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- Added: Jan 31, 2024
- Length: 28:22
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French Seduction: An American’s Encounter with France, Her Father, and the Holocaust.
In a passionate blend of autobiography and cultural history,...
- Added: Jan 26, 2024
- Length: 23:35
This is the first of five episode charting the life, career and influence of filmmaker Whit Stillman during the rise of a new American auteur movem...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 54:00
Refrigerants are in every refrigerator, freezer and air conditioner, and the world is on track to make a lot more of them in the years to come. The...
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- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 14:21
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Carbon dioxide—CO2—is the greenhouse gas you’ve probably heard most about. But it turns out, methane is an incredibly important greenhouse gas too....
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- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 12:02
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You probably know that today’s climate change is caused by certain gases—what scientists call greenhouse gases—that human activity has been adding ...
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- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 13:36
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This week - Remembering.
In light of Holocaust Remembrance Day this week, we hear from those who survived the atrocities of Nazi Germany. We also h...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 29:59
Devastating weather and water events abound worldwide. Rain, flooding, strong winds, extreme high tides, coastal erosion and inundation have caused...
- Added: Jan 24, 2024
- Length: 05:25
