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Many of us struggled with the Old English poem "Beowulf" in high school. But what if you could actually hear "Beowulf" in the English of today? The...
- Added: Dec 27, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
What's it like to hike the Pacific Crest Trail all the way from Mexico to Canada? You'll end up with sore muscles and blisters, and great stories t...
Bought by KUAT, WYAP, WSLR, WPCA-LP, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and more
- Added: Dec 20, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 16
RECIPE: Garlic Roasted Asparagus w/ Cotija
THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL TOPICS:
* (Segment 1) Mediterranean Diet Secret Ingredient
* (Segment 3) Hearing Ai...
- Added: Dec 20, 2021
- Length: 59:00
RECIPE: Winter Pasta Salad
THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL TOPICS:
* (Segment 1) Art Appreciation Extends Life
* (Segment 3) Talcum Powder & Cancer
- Added: Dec 20, 2021
- Length: 59:00
RECIPE: Carrot, Smoked Salmon & Avocado Salad
THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL TOPICS:
* (Segment 1) Can We Inherit Trauma?
* (Segment 3) Low Sodium Diets
- Added: Dec 20, 2021
- Length: 59:00
Astronauts returning from space say they experience what's called the overview effect, a new understanding of the fragility of our planet and our n...
- Added: Dec 13, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 17
Enthusiastic book recommendations! Martha's savoring the biography of Alexander von Humboldt, the 19th-century explorer, polymath, and naturalist w...
- Added: Dec 06, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
Some TV commercials launch catchphrases that stick around long after the original ads. The exclamation Good stuff, Maynard! is still a compliment a...
- Added: Nov 29, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
This week on the show: The price of perfume, climate miseducation in schools & tourism's toll -
In the Comoros Islands, the world's demand for y...
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]
- Added: Nov 26, 2021
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
Asthenosphere, a geologist's term for the molten layer beneath the earth's crust, sparks a journey that stretches all the way from ancient Greece t...
- Added: Nov 22, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
A documentary film called My Beautiful Stutter" follows youngsters at a summer camp specifically for stutterers. It's a place for finding acceptanc...
- Added: Nov 16, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 19
Amid court-ordered busing in the 1970s, a middle-school teacher tried to distract her nervous students on the first day of class with this strange ...
- Added: Nov 08, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
We use the term Milky Way for that glowing arc across the sky. But how people picture it varies from culture to culture. In Sweden, that starry ban...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
In the 15th century, the word respair meant "to have hope again." Although this word fell out of use, it's among dozens collected in a new book of...
- Added: Oct 25, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
The words tough, through, and dough all end in O-U-G-H. So why don't they rhyme? A lively new book addresses the many quirks of English by explaini...
- Added: Oct 18, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 17
RECIPE: Instant Pot Chicken Noodle Soup
THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL TOPICS:
* (Segment 1) Sleeping Well Increases Salary
* (Segment 3) Mediterranean Diet ...
- Added: Oct 18, 2021
- Length: 59:00
RECIPE: Roasted Garlic Pumpkin Hummus
THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL TOPICS:
* (Segment 1) Is Kombucha Healthy?
* (Segment 3) Dog Ownership May Improve Longe...
- Added: Oct 18, 2021
- Length: 59:00
What happens in a classroom of refugee and immigrant youngsters learning English? Their fresh approach to language can result in remarkable poetry ...
- Added: Oct 11, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
In an unexpected turn of events, two predators with very different hunting styles work cooperatively. During the summer months, badgers and coyotes...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Oct 11, 2021
- Length: 04:32
- Purchases: 1
Imagine waking up from a nap to discover that you have the ability to compose music in your head. What a shock that would be! There are people who ...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WRFA-LP
- Added: Oct 11, 2021
- Length: 04:51
- Purchases: 2
The history of women has existed as long as humans have, but it was not until the last half of the 20th Century that women’s history received recog...
- Added: Oct 06, 2021
- Length: 29:00
This week on "A Way with Words": When there's no evening meal planned at home, what do you call that scramble to cobble together your own dinner? S...
- Added: Oct 04, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 17
RECIPE: Miriam's Lentils
THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL TOPICS:
* (Segment 1) Docs Prescribe Play Time to Kids
* (Segment 3) Pesticide In Our Cheerios?
- Added: Oct 04, 2021
- Length: 59:00
RECIPE: Chipotle Chicken Mango Salad
THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL TOPICS:
* (Segment 1) Docs Need To Unlearn Things
* (Segment 3) Study: No Level Of Alcoho...
- Added: Oct 04, 2021
- Length: 59:00
This week on On Story we’re taking a trip out west with Babaloo Mandel and Lowel Ganz, the screenwriting duo behind the classic American Western co...
- Added: Sep 30, 2021
- Length: 54:00
