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We're joined by the co-editors of Reviews in Digital Humanities, Dr. Roopika Risam and Dr. Jennifer Guiliano. Dr. Risam is the Chair of Secondary a...
Bought by KNCT FM
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
We take our voices for granted, but it's truly miraculous that we communicate complex thoughts simply by moving our mouths while exhaling. A fascin...
- Added: Mar 14, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 17
Some people work hard to lose their accent in order to fit in when they move somewhere else. But others may be homesick for the sounds they grew up...
- Added: Mar 07, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
RECIPE: Eggplant Casserole
THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL TOPICS:
* (Segment 1) Cheese Is Good For Us?
* (Segment 3) Music Helps Our Brains
- Added: Mar 02, 2022
- Length: 59:00
RECIPE: Honey Garlic Salmon
THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL TOPICS:
* (Segment 1) New Methods For Alzheimer’s Detection
* (Segment 3) Sleep Is Vital To Formin...
- Added: Mar 02, 2022
- Length: 59:00
RECIPE: Zorba's Experimental Beef Brisket
THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL TOPICS:
* (Segment 1) Garlic Helps Memory
* (Segment 3) Do Supplements Actually Work?
- Added: Mar 02, 2022
- Length: 59:00
For rock climbers, skiers, and other outdoor enthusiasts, the word "send" has a whole new meaning. You might cheer on a fellow snowboarder with "Se...
Bought by KUAT, KTSW 89.9, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), WSLR, Tri States Public Radio and more
- Added: Feb 28, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 17
RECIPE: Butternut Squash Tacos w/ Avocado
THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL TOPICS:
* (Segment 1) Walking Speed Determines Health
* (Segment 3) Antibiotics & Obe...
- Added: Feb 23, 2022
- Length: 59:00
RECIPE: Pineapple Shrimp Noodle Bowl
THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL TOPICS:
* (Segment 1) What Else Is In Our Pills?
* (Segment 3) Mushrooms For Memory
- Added: Feb 23, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Some college students are using the word loyalty as a synonym for monogamy. Are the meanings of these words now shifting? Plus, a biologist discove...
Bought by KUAT, KTXK, KTSW 89.9, WYAP, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and more
- Added: Feb 21, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
In 1978, Dr. Alexander Schauss and a research assistant mixed 1 gallon of white latex paint with a pint of shiny red and created P-618 aka Baker Mi...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Feb 16, 2022
- Length: 05:06
- Purchases: 1
What happens when you are the Emperor of France and your hunting party plans go completely wrong? You get attacked by rabbits. This isn't a Monty P...
Bought by WRFA-LP and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Feb 15, 2022
- Length: 04:47
- Purchases: 2
In Cockney rhyming slang, apples and pears is a synonym for "stairs," and dustbin lids means kids. Plus, sniglets are clever coinages for things we...
- Added: Feb 14, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 19
Need a slang term that can replace just about any noun? Try chumpie. If you're from Philadelphia, you may already know this handy placeholder word....
Bought by KUAT, KTXK, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KTSW 89.9, WYAP and more
- Added: Feb 07, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 20
National Book Award winner Barry Lopez had wise advice for young writers. First, read widely and follow your curiosity. Second, travel or learn a f...
- Added: Jan 31, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 17
This week, web series creator-turned cable TV sensation Issa Rae on her journey from YouTube to HBO, her desire for diversity on television and her...
- Added: Jan 26, 2022
- Length: 54:00
What kind of book do people ask for most often in prison? Romance Novels? No. The Bible? No. The most requested books by far are . . . dictionarie...
- Added: Jan 24, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
KBFT 89.9 FM and the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund present MN Artist Profiles a series highlighting artists and musicians of Minnesota....
- Added: Jan 19, 2022
- Length: 07:09
Twice a day the River Thames recedes, revealing a muddy shoreline. Hobbyists known as mudlarks stroll the surface searching for objects that have f...
- Added: Jan 17, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
RECIPE: Spicy Shrimp Tacos w/ Creamy Slaw
THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL TOPICS:
* (Segment 1) Online menus should put healthy food first
* (Segment 3) Cardi...
- Added: Jan 12, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Diamond dust, tapioca snow, and sugar icebergs -- a 1955 glossary of arctic and subarctic terms describes the environment in ways that sound poetic...
- Added: Jan 10, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 17
It was a dark and stormy night. So begins the long and increasingly convoluted prose of Edwards Bulwer-Lytton's best-known novel. Today the annual ...
- Added: Jan 04, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 16
In this segment we meet with Bois Forte Elder the "Dog Man" Maurice Champaine who share his Dog Sledding Stories.
- Added: Jan 03, 2022
- Length: 06:23
Mark Hummel has been a carrier of the Harmonica Blues torch for over 50 years.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Dec 31, 2021
- Length: 58:23
- Purchases: 1
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