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Brian Dunning examines some interesting beliefs around food and whether or not they are supported by science.
- Added: Apr 09, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Brian Dunning separates fact from fiction as he examines the talking points made by the many people who hate electric cars.
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 59:00
This week on the show:
Can't sleep? You're not alone. A recent report highlights how much sleep we'll lose each year as temperatures continue to ri...
Bought by WXDU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and Radio Kansas
- Added: Sep 16, 2022
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 3
Cactus wrens were one of the first Sonoran Desert birds I learned when I arrived in Tucson to go to the University of Arizona. They are such rascal...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:44
This is Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey. Cloudy Cold days these days. Petey talks about lifesaving snow in the desert, the beauty of Sandhill C...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:52
I have a bunch of photos from Christmas tree hunts and most of them are 35 mm slides. These few here were taken over the last several years. I alwa...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 05:07
I was reading a Christmas card from some very dear friends and in the hand written portion of the card it mentioned this season as being the “holie...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:53
There are around 30 species of Porophyllum, the majority of which are found in Mexico and southward. Around me in the borderlands of Arizona Sonora...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:52
- Added: Dec 13, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
I spent so much time jabbering about my conversion to a desert rat and monsoon believer that I left out some fun stuff.
Native bees that buzz poll...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 04:43
I grew up in Kentucky where the state flower is goldenrod. The particular species that has that honor is Solidago gigantea. I wonder how it was cho...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 05:21
I like the phrase in Arizona Flora about the Loasa family Loasaceae ; it is “remarkable for the diversity and peculiar structure of the hairs.” And...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 05:05
Why be buried in a casket when you can be buried as a tree? Bios urns are giving people a second shot at life after death.
- Added: May 06, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Recycling is so important, there should be a holiday to celebrate it. Well, now there is and many countries are getting involved.
- Added: Apr 26, 2021
- Length: 02:30
San Antonio, TX builds the largest land bridge to protect wildlife and motorists from accidents.
- Added: Mar 11, 2021
- Length: 02:33
Anne-Laure is a rising senior at the University of Arizona double majoring in Natural Resources (emphasis in Wildlife Conservation and Management) ...
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 04:26
In 2018, Fresh Art International broadens engagement in the Caribbean, traveling to the Dominican Republic for Tilting Axis 4, the fourth annual me...
- Added: Nov 05, 2018
- Length: 50:04
In the second part of the two part series on Fly Fishing, Tom continues his conversations at the Fly Fishing Show. He talks to expert fly tier Rob...
- Added: Aug 05, 2018
- Length: 01:03:02
Comet C/2018 M1 (Catalina) is eternal in the sense that it will likely wander the vast space between the stars in our Milky Way Galaxy until the e...
Bought by KGLP, KENW, WLPR , KKRN, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more
- Added: Jul 19, 2018
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 7
A partnership of humans and computers will help to minimize the damage when asteroid hunters find a space rock with our number on it.
Bought by KENW, WTIP, KKRN, KRWG, and KUPR low power FM
- Added: Mar 22, 2018
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 5
In this age in which science is being advanced by large teams of scientists with budgets in the millions to billions of dollars, it is gratifying t...
Bought by KENW, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, and KKRN
- Added: Aug 03, 2017
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 5
The plight of the Delta Smelt is currently dependant on mankind’s desire and ability to revive the health of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in Ca...
- Added: Jul 29, 2017
- Length: 04:39
Value of our estuaries and other inland water bodies are recognized while fishing, boating, swimming or viewing nature from a great vantage spot. T...
- Added: Jul 29, 2017
- Length: 05:16
For those of you that haven't noticed, water conflict is a topic that keeps on showing up in our lives. Each time water demand bumps up against wat...
- Added: Jul 29, 2017
- Length: 04:24
He saw it coming. John thought that water would not be an issue but the County and State of Washington had not quite worked out how groundwater tha...
- Added: Jul 29, 2017
- Length: 05:58
