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Episode 1: Footprints
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: A Brief History of the American Southwest for Kids
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We begin 23,000 years ago at what is today called White Sands National Park with footprints discovered in the sands that tell a story of a mom, her...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 04, 2023
  • Length: 20:24
  • Purchases: 2
Le Quatro Volte Review
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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The endlessly cyclical nature of life is depicted as four different stories in a sleepy Italian village.

  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 03:28
Asclepias Lemmonii
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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It’s fun to have favorite plants to look for on excursions into the hills. Looking back at photos and my notes, we have been checking on this parti...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 04:23
Condalia correllii in the Borderlands
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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What a fun discovery in the desert east of Douglas, Arizona. There is just something about these large spinescent shrubs in the buckthorn family, R...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 04:22
Coral Bells
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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The genus Heuchera is found in the saxifrage family, Saxifracaceae, with 80 other genera that includes the genus Saxifraga and its 400 species. Yikes!

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 04:16
Bigtooth Maple
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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The bigtooth maple is no longer in its own family of Aceraceae, but is in Sapindaceae. Molecular taxonomy keeps us plant geeks on our toes.

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 04:29
The Melampus Daisy
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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There are a dozen species of Melampodium and I wonder which one Linnaeus was looking at when he honored Melampus with the genus name. And I wonder...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 04:28
Fall Festival of Fall Blooming Asteraceae
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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It's true that every year I jump and shout about the fall blooming plants in the Aster family (Asteraceae) and I proclaim that there should be a fe...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 04:19
Mountain Oxeye and Red Bordered Satyrs, Oh My!
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Fall gets me excited and fall color is a crazy combination of blooming plants and plants with leaves changing color as they prepare to go dormant. ...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 05:03
Watersheds and Fire
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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This time on The Children's Hour we learn about watersheds, and what happens to them after a wildfire. Watersheds which provide the water source fo...

Bought by KECG, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), Allegheny Mountain Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Nov 07, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 10
20221107: Watersheds and Fire, 11/7/2022
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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This time on The Children's Hour we learn about watersheds, and what happens to them after a wildfire. Watersheds which provide the water source fo...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
Little Free Libraries
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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There are more than 100,000 Little Free Library sites worldwide. We learn about them from Little Free Library Inc's Shelby King. We've also got boo...

Bought by KECG, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KSTK, WUTC and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 10
20221031: Little Free Libraries, 10/31/2022
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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There are more than 100,000 Little Free Library sites worldwide. We learn about them from Little Free Library Inc's Shelby King. We've also got boo...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
Whales
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
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This time on The Children's Hour, we learn about the largest animal on earth, that still can be found swimming in our oceans today: whales.

Bought by KECG, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), Allegheny Mountain Radio, WUTC and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 9
20220926: Whales, 9/26/2022
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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This time on The Children's Hour, we learn about the largest animal on earth, that still can be found swimming in our oceans today: whales.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
Exoplanets
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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The Kids Crew talk with an exoplanetologist and find out if there's life on other planets, and how we can join the hunt to find new ones. Mixed wit...

Bought by KECG, KCHU, Allegheny Mountain Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Jun 27, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 13
20220627: Exoplanets, 6/27/2022
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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The Kids Crew talk with an exoplanetologist and find out if there's life on other planets, and how we can join the hunt to find new ones. Mixed wit...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
The Universe
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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This time on The Children's Hour, we go far out into space with Dr. Katie Mack, a theoretical astrophysicist whose current focus is on the timeline...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KSTK, KRSC and more


  • Added: May 23, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 8
20220523: The Universe, 5/23/2022
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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This time on The Children's Hour, we go far out into space with Dr. Katie Mack, a theoretical astrophysicist whose current focus is on the timeline...

  • Added: May 20, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
Fungus Among Us
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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On this episode of The Children’s Hour we explore mushrooms with mycology educator and author, Peter McCoy.

Bought by KECG, KCHU, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KSTK and more


  • Added: Mar 07, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 10
20220307: Fungus Among Us, 3/7/2022
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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On this episode of The Children’s Hour we explore mushrooms with mycology educator and author, Peter McCoy.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
20220103: Porcupines, 1/3/2022
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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This week on The Children’s Hour we learn all about porcupines from the leading researchers in New Mexico, kids in the Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring ...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
Governing A State
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
Caption: NM Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signs a bill for universal pre-k education
The Kids Crew interview New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham about her job, leading during a pandemic, and how governors can help address the...

Bought by KCHU, RadioFreePalmer, KSTK, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 11
20210906: Governing A State, 9/6/2021
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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The Kids Crew interview New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham about her job, leading during a pandemic, and how governors can help address the...

  • Added: Sep 07, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
The Brain
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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The Children's Hour Kids Crew dig into brain science with neuroscientists Nick Aase and Ingrid Lane from the Mind Research Network at the Universit...

Bought by KCHU, RadioFreePalmer, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KSTK, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Aug 23, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 11