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HOUR ONE: "Tasting the past" - What food reminds you of a certain time - or maybe a particular person - in your life? This hour, we’ll meet kitchen...
- Added: May 17, 2024
- Length: :00
HOUR ONE: "Reframing the portrait" - Have you ever stood in front of a portrait at a museum and wondered what was that person thinking? Portraits h...
- Added: May 03, 2024
- Length: 01:59:01
HOUR ONE: "Deep Time: How Earth keeps time" - No one understands time like a geologist. And with the climate convulsing and the future breathing do...
- Added: Apr 19, 2024
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "Total eclipse and other wonders" - Millions of people are traveling to see the total solar eclipse. Meanwhile, the exact nature of the u...
- Added: Apr 05, 2024
- Length: 01:59:02
HOUR ONE: "The Spirit Of Jim Thorpe" - Jim Thorpe was one of the greatest athletes the world has ever known. A Native American hero who broke recor...
- Added: Oct 13, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "Rethinking David Foster Wallace" - David Foster Wallace was one of the most brilliant writers of his generation. But 15 years after his ...
- Added: Sep 15, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "Wonders Of The Human Body" - What's so wondrous about the human body? An hour on transplants, chronic illnesses and the familiar in ours...
- Added: Jun 23, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "You're Not OK. That's OK." - One of our producers created a yard sign. It reads: "You're not OK. That's OK." 300 signs later, it's causi...
- Added: Jan 20, 2023
- Length: 01:59:01
This week on Making Contact we continue with our look at a community of unhoused people in Echo Park in Los Angeles, California and how they were f...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and KMUN
- Added: Jan 10, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
It was the American botanist Soreno Watson, that named the onion collected in Tanner’s Canyon of the Huachuca Mountains to honor Sara Plummer Lemmo...
- Added: Dec 07, 2022
- Length: 04:16
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
My morning ditties are not nearly as amazing as the song of a curved bill thrasher, but they help me begin the day.
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:23
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
The botanical name for jackass clover is Wislizenia refracta and for clammy weed it’s Polanisia dodecandra. I translate those very cool names in th...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:00
HOUR ONE: "Saving Democracy from Demagogues" - Around the world, authoritarian leaders are on the rise – from Russia and Hungary to the U.S. We exa...
- Added: Aug 12, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
I’m pretty sure I first encountered the plant called mala mujer in the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson around 30 years ago. I had 10 years of ...
- Added: Aug 12, 2022
- Length: 04:30
HOUR ONE: "Whose Land Is It?" - Owning land is a big part of the American dream. But there’s a problem with that: That land is often stolen. So who...
- Added: Jul 15, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
Host Carry Kim will be interviewing Payoomkawish Elder Richard Bugbee, Instructor of Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology at Cuyamaca College through Kumey...
- Added: Jul 04, 2022
- Length: 58:00
HOUR ONE: "Writing The Climate Change Story" - Floods, wildfires, winds and extreme temperatures. This hour, the novelists and journalists who are ...
- Added: Apr 01, 2022
- Length: 01:59:01
Seals that can turn into women, men who transform into wolves… Stories about shape-shifting are among the oldest in the world. What are they trying...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WFAE, KUHF, KSPB Pebble Beach, WHRV and more
- Added: Mar 10, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
Science tells us mountains are giant piles of rock, formed millions of years ago. But that's not all they are. This hour, we'll remember a time whe...
Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUHF, KSPB Pebble Beach, WHRV and more
- Added: Mar 10, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
If plants are intelligent beings, how should we relate to them? Do they have a place in our moral universe? Should they have rights?
Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUHF, KSPB Pebble Beach, WHRV and more
- Added: Mar 10, 2022
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 6
Have you ever locked eyes with an animal in the wild? It can be a shattering experience.
Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, KUHF, WHRV and more
- Added: Mar 10, 2022
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 7
HOUR ONE: "Growing Justice" - Where does the racial justice movement need to go next? How about back to the land. HOUR TWO: "Everything is Exhaus...
- Added: Feb 25, 2022
- Length: 01:58:59
HOUR ONE: "Rewriting The Romance Script" - Love is in the air, as it has been every Valentine's Day since 496. And we're still trying to get it rig...
- Added: Feb 11, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
