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A busy New York City couple takes up biannual week-long liquid-only fasts to clear out clutter and and touch some deeper truths.

  • Added: Jun 20, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
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Your daily 90-second dose of real science for real people! Like… how can we heal our environment… is there a better alternative to spanking our kid...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2024
  • Length: 34:30
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Adam Met is a behind-the-scenes climate policy powerhouse. He also happens to be the bass player in the award winning indie pop group AJR. During M...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Adam Met is a behind-the-scenes climate policy powerhouse. He also happens to be the bass player in the award winning indie pop group AJR. During M...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Citizens quickly took Fidel Castro up on his offer to leave Cuba from the Port of Mariel if they had someone to pick them up. From Spring to early ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 1
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Citizens quickly took Fidel Castro up on his offer to leave Cuba from the Port of Mariel if they had someone to pick them up. From Spring to early ...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2024
  • Length: 52:00
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Citizens quickly took Fidel Castro up on his offer to leave Cuba from the Port of Mariel if they had someone to pick them up. From Spring to early ...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
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Citizens quickly took Fidel Castro up on his offer to leave Cuba from the Port of Mariel if they had someone to pick them up. From Spring to early ...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2024
  • Length: :30
Caption: Timely, In Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Israel's New West Bank Air War Killing Rising Number of Palestinian Childr...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
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Happy (almost) Summer Solstice! In celebration of the planetary moment of the longest day and the shortest night of the year in the Northern Hemi...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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This week on World Ocean Radio we are hailing the alewife: a species of herring found in the west Atlantic where they thrive along shore and season...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2024
  • Length: 05:09
Caption: Chesa Boudin
If you look at the data, you'll probably notice that traditional incarceration-focused criminal justice approaches are both extremely expensive and...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Bruce Piasecki
Generally speaking, the exclusive guiding principle for corporate success seems to be making obscene amounts of money. But what if corporations rec...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Sault Ste. Marie Waterfront, Credit: Amy Williams
Ideas that build cities require connections that build relationships. Canals and bridges are means that bring the peoples and stewards of the Great...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2024
  • Length: 58:32
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A flock of shorebirds flying wingtip to wingtip seems to act like a single organism, rolling and twisting in exquisite patterns. Flocks like these ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 17, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
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Birds were one of the earliest subjects for human artists. A cave painting in France over 30,000 years old shows the unmistakable outline of an owl...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
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When a hawk is about to capture a songbird, the songbird has one last trick: a fright molt. It’s when a bird loses feathers due to sudden stress. T...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
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The slim, 4½-inch Blue-gray Gnatcatcher is found over much of the East and Midwest and in parts of the West, too. It actively searches trees and bu...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
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When a bird of prey flies over, a flock of crows may dive-bomb the predator and give it a noisy escort out of town. An Eastern Kingbird, like this ...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
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In general, the bigger the bird, the higher the number of feathers. Someone counted the feathers on a Tundra Swan and came up with 25,216. At least...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
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Sam ‘Ohu Gon is the Senior Scientist and Cultural Advisor for the Nature Conservancy of Hawai‘i. He's something of a rare combination: academically...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
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Visit a shallow wetland in summer, and you might see this slender, black-and-white shorebird with outrageous red legs. The Black-necked Stilt uses ...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
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By carrying more people in a single vehicle, mass transit can use less energy than cars. Taking steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions can help t...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
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Black-crowned Night-Herons feed primarily on fish, but they will consume everything from earthworms to clams to eggs of nesting birds and refuse at...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
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Shorebirds' lives take them to many places other than the shore. Most of the shorebirds we see along our coasts migrate to the Arctic in summer. He...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2024
  • Length: 01:45