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Feathers are amazing structures. But after about a year, constant use and exposure to the elements mean they have to be replaced. So how do you rep...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Today kicks off Coral Reef Awareness Week. Coral reefs are hotspots of biodiversity, but they’re threatened by warming ocean temperatures, pollutio...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
This American Kestrel evolved to nest in tree cavities or small caves in cliffs. We humans have made life difficult for kestrels. Development has s...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
A movie runs at 24 frames per second, just right for humans to sense as normal speed. Pigeons process the visual world several times faster. The fr...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Many people would tell you that hearing birdsong puts them in a good mood. Recently, scientists have tried to put numbers to this effect that many ...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Many woodpeckers chisel out deep cavities in tree trunks in order to lay their eggs and raise their brood. The cavities hollowed out by the birds v...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Language from inside a monastery. A Benedictine monk in the Episcopal Church shares terms from his world: For example, corporate prayer refers to p...
Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, KTXK, WSLR, WPCA-LP, RADIOLEX and more
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 16
Amid discussion of renaming birds that are named after people, ornithologist J. Drew Lanham forms a “committee of one” to choose his own names for ...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Eagle Cliff in New Hampshire’s Franconia Notch State Park is an important nesting site for Peregrine Falcons. Each year, popular climbing routes in...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Researchers studying birds called Japanese Tits, relatives of the chickadees and titmice in North America, noticed that mates raising chicks togeth...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
The spider’s web is an intricate piece of precision engineering. Made from large proteins, it’s sticky, stretchy, and tough. So it’s no surprise th...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Male Great Egrets have special long feather plumes called aigrettes, which they use in courtship displays in the spring. These beautiful big birds ...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Artist David Shepard designs aloha shirts with illustrations of Hawai‘i's native flora and fauna. David actually trained as a botanist, and one of ...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Tiny Marsh Wrens live in wetlands, usually within cattails, reeds, or bulrushes. After choosing his territory, the male weaves up to 15 dome-shaped...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
In this episode, J. Drew Lanham shares how his grandmother’s personal names for the birds helped shape his own relationships with birds. Names such...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
As singers go, American Robins are exceptional. They’re often the first birds to sing in the morning, and the last you’ll hear in the evening. Whil...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
If you’re new to birding, you might be baffled by names like Couch’s Kingbird, Wilson’s Warbler, and Townsend’s Solitaire. These birds were named i...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
The American Music Fairness Act sound great but it is a money grab to pay musicians more money because the streaming services will not. The proble...
Bought by KHNS, KWIT, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KRZA, WOUB and more
- Added: Jun 16, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
After this year's thrilling spell-off in the National Spelling Bee, we try to tease out the definitions of some of the words that won the contest.
Bought by KRPS
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
Forget the bedroom: the kitchen is where relationships are made and broken. Journalist Ella Quittner reveals the many ways the kitchen causes probl...
- Added: Jun 12, 2024
- Length: 54:00
RECIPE: Spicy Honey Corn Flake Baked Chicken
THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL TOPICS:
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* (Segment 3) WHO warns a...
- Added: Jun 11, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Cool songs from the Rock and Roll Era. Closet Classics and more, rock and roll records from the 1950's to present day.
- Added: Jun 10, 2024
- Length: 03:45
This Week In Rock and Roll History is a weekly one hour look back at the songs, the artists, and the stories behind the music of the rock and roll ...
- Added: Jun 10, 2024
- Length: 57:12
One of the most powerful words you'll ever hear -- and one of the most poignant -- isn't in dictionaries yet. But it probably will be one day. The ...
Bought by KTXK, KTSW 89.9, WHCP-LP Cambridge, WPCA-LP, WNIN and more
- Added: Jun 10, 2024
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 15
When a cover is done there's a question if the words should change. If the singer is a different gender than the original singer, should the prono...
Bought by KTRL, KHNS, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KWIT, KRZA and more
- Added: Jun 08, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 7
