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On today's show we track the evolution of smog from symbol of industrial progress to public-health catastrophe.
- Added: Oct 09, 2012
- Length: 14:19
We bring you some of our favorite segments from past Distillations episodes this week: animal communication in the Sonoran Desert and the toll of a...
- Added: Aug 04, 2012
- Length: 13:33
Reporter Ben Kreimer speaks with filmmaker Doug Hawes-Davis about his documentary entitled Facing the Storm: Story of the American Bison.
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- Added: Jul 20, 2012
- Length: 19:30
- Purchases: 1
Fish, Aquaculture, and the Industrial Revolution
- Added: Jun 13, 2012
- Length: 20:20
In the era of sailing vessels, Hog Island became well known to mariners because of the infamous Hog Island Shoals which ran parallel to the island.
- Added: Apr 24, 2012
- Length: 01:32
- Added: Apr 23, 2012
- Length: 01:30
- Added: Apr 23, 2012
- Length: 01:38
Kenneth Honeycutt tells his wife Gaye about witnessing the New London School Explosion of 1937.
- Added: Apr 06, 2012
- Length: 02:03
- Purchases: 3
Today on Don't Cha know we continue our coverage of The Big Muddy River Rendezvous that took place in Winona at Prairie Island campground in the mi...
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- Added: Dec 08, 2011
- Length: 15:23
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of "Don't Cha Know" we venture back to Prairie Island Campground in Winona, Minnesota, and partake in a lesson on fur trading. The ...
- Added: Dec 08, 2011
- Length: 18:01
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill discusses two such recent presentations of Red Sea and Arabian-Persian Gulf history.
- Added: Oct 05, 2011
- Length: 05:12
Only 120 copies of John Audubon’s Birds of America are known to exist and one complete set is stored in a climate controlled vault at the Minneapol...
- Added: Oct 03, 2011
- Length: 05:30
Since the last Ice Age ended about 12,000 years ago, human beings have traveled along the Klamath River and it tributaries in the northwest corner ...
- Added: Jun 23, 2011
- Length: 29:00
In honor of the International Year of Chemistry, today we begin the four-part series Our Chemical Landscape. These shows look at how science has sh...
- Added: May 27, 2011
- Length: 14:35
Not THAT Martha Washington, but a 29-year-old Passenger Pigeon who spent her entire life in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo. Of billions of birds f...
- Added: Apr 19, 2011
- Length: 03:00
With federal support for public transit hanging in the balance, this sound-rich series (two one-hour documentaries) examines how our personal trans...
Bought by WCPN, WBEZ, Iowa Public Radio, KUT, KXOT Public Radio and more
- Added: Apr 15, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 7
Aldo Leopold's legendary essay collection, A Sand County Almanac, has inspired countless conservationists and earned Aldo Leopold a place alongside...
- Added: Apr 07, 2011
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 2
With transportation jobs on the line, this sound-rich series (two one-hour documentaries) examines how our personal transportation choices - privat...
Bought by KVSC, WCPN, WBEZ, Iowa Public Radio, KUT and more
- Added: Mar 25, 2011
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 9
Many Mainers come to Flagstaff Lake to kayak, hunt or snowmobile. But the story of the lake is largely untold. Sixty years ago this spring, three s...
- Added: Jan 06, 2011
- Length: 08:02
- Purchases: 2
The true story of the first state to sponsor a rock concert ... nicknamed "the Governor's Pot Party"... and what became of that governor.
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- Added: Dec 22, 2010
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
In 1987, a barge filled with New York City garbage was dragged up and down the East Coast and into Mexican and Caribbean waters. Our panelists use ...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, Interlochen Public Radio, WCPN, WRPI and more
- Added: Nov 09, 2010
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 8
The Battle of Sugar Point on Leech Lake: northern MN historian, Cecelia McKeig, talks about the causes of the last 19th century armed conflict betw...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ
- Added: Oct 11, 2010
- Length: 08:03
- Purchases: 2
Evergreen Documentary: About a hundred years ago, one of the largest wildfires in US history taught Americans to fear flames. The Big Burn of 1910...
- Added: Sep 02, 2010
- Length: 29:04
The U.S. Forest Service was just about to get the Congressional ax when a monster fire saved it. During this program, Pulitzer-Prize-winning journa...
Bought by WRPI and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Aug 18, 2010
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
Asian Carp: an interview with Luke Skinner, Supervisor of the MN DNR’s Invasive Species Program.
- Added: Jul 27, 2010
- Length: 19:52
