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Desi Stanerson
From: KXCI
Series: Thesis Thursday
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My name is Desi Stanerson and I am a Senior in Biomedical Engineering with a double major in Molecular and Cellular Biology. My current research is...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2020
  • Length: 04:47
561-Hannes Is Back
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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During the monsoon rainy season, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate, Hannes Groeller took a vacation in his native Austria. Returning to begin the fa...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WLPR and more


  • Added: Oct 23, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Dr. Ron Epstein- Genetically Modified Food
From: Barry Vogel
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Genetically engineered food products are an issue that concerns many. In more recent years, Mendocino County has gone so far as to pass a resolutio...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
The Write Question - Fred Provenza - 368
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Fred Provenza discusses his book, "Nourishment: What Animals Can Teach Us about Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom."

Bought by Prairie Public, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 28, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Spectrum 12/04/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: A hyperloop dream for Europe - Amsterdam to Barcelona in about an hour. Wouldn't it be great if Europe had its very ow...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum 11/13/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Your breath smells like emotional tension - Follow us into a darkened German cinema to talk about how the stuff we breathe...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Nov 14, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
ThinkPlanet — a conversation with Dr. John Hausdoerffer
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
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Dr. John Hausdoerffer is dean of the Western Colorado University School of Environment and Sustainability.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Oct 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
ThinkBusiness — a conversation with Christopher Caskey
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkBusiness
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Christopher Caskey is a scientist and entrepreneur with an innovative business idea to tackle two environmental problems in rural Colorado at once:...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Oct 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Spectrum 10/09/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: How do you "graduate" astronaut school? We ask Europe's newest astronaut. Also, the strange story of a roaring Himalayan flo...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum 05/22/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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Spectrum: Inside out - On the show this week: Hike Elba's trails without ever leaving the armchair, Germany's young hackers aren't really hack...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: May 22, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Indigenous Learning Models
From: Generation Justice Admin
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Hear professor Dr. Shawn Secatero of the Navajo Nation, an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico, explain his Indigenous learning mod...

Bought by WDBM


  • Added: May 17, 2018
  • Length: 13:23
  • Purchases: 1
Spectrum 05/15/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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On this week’s show, it’s all about insects… An unbelievable collection of data gathered by the entomological society in Krefeld shows that the bio...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: May 16, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
The (Carbon) Price is Right
From: Cooler Earth
Series: Cooler Earth Podcast
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Carbon pricing has emerged as a market based policy solution to climate change. The general idea is that by making it more costly to pollute, we wo...

  • Added: May 04, 2018
  • Length: 33:20
The Past American Voice of Poet Kenneth Irby
From: New Letters on the Air
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The late poet Kenneth Irby (1936-2015) traveled the States before settling in Lawrence, where he spent his teaching and writing career at the Unive...

Bought by WNMU-FM, WNJR, and WNJR


  • Added: Jan 31, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Write Question - Seth Kantner - 269
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Seth Kantner talks about growing up in rural Alaska -- 100 miles above the Arctic Circle -- and the essays in his collection 'Swallowed by the Grea...

Bought by KWMR, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KGLT, Spokane Public Radio, KSJD and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
A Recipe is a Story: Heid E. Erdrich
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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Hide Erdrich is an author of poetry and recently, a cookbook entitled Original Local: Indigenous Foods Stories and Recipes from the Upper Midwest. ...

  • Added: May 24, 2016
  • Length: 50:26
The Write Question - Ken Ilgunas - 249
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Ken Ilgunas talks about his adventures while hiking nearly 2,000 miles along the proposed route of the Keystone XL Pipeline

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KGLT, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KSJD and more


  • Added: May 16, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 7
Organic, free range, cage free, we make buying eggs simple.
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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Mark Floegel from GPUS slices through the fog of confusion over organic, free range or nasty eggs.

  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 01:51
The Allegheny Front Earth Day Special
From: The Allegheny Front: Reporting on the Environment
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A 29-minute special including interviews, sound-rich features and historical clips about the history of Earth Day.

Bought by Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting


  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
What are Parebens? Look in your Bathroom
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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Gill Deacon hosts a CBC radio program and decided to write a book about toxins in makeup.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2016
  • Length: 02:17
The Write Question - Marty Essen - 230
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Marty Essen talk about his book 'Endangered Edens: Exploring the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica, the Everglades, and Puerto Rico.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KGLT, KCMJ Community Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KSJD and more


  • Added: Jan 05, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Building a bridge between northern Minnesota communities
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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U of MN landscape architecture professor John Koepke recently received a 'mini-grant' from the U of MN Institute on the Environment to plan a trail...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2015
  • Length: 22:42
Access to Water: What's it like to worry about every drop?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Access to water has been declared an international human right, but it may be increasingly difficult to enforce. This episode explores how countrie...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 20:03
Culture Clique Presents: "Winona LaDuke"
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Winona LaDuke is an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) enrolled member of the Mississippi Band Anishinaabeg who lives and works on the White Earth Reservation...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2015
  • Length: 39:31
The Write Question - Liz Carlisle - 225
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Liz Carlisle talks about and reads from Lentil Underground: Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America

Bought by KGLT, KSJD, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 16, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 4