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With the mystery fog surrounding them, the Radio Icebox crew hides in the station basement and tries to figure out a plan. Cody finally loses his ...
- Added: May 22, 2017
- Length: 30:11
It’s Thanksgiving day and the staff is in jail! A quiet holiday among friends somehow results in food poisoning, football on VHS, and a re-animate...
- Added: May 22, 2017
- Length: 26:32
It’s Halloween, and a ghost infestation has hit Radio Icebox and Jennifer has run away. It’s up to Cody to figure out the solution and get Jennife...
- Added: May 22, 2017
- Length: 23:55
A conversation with biologist and naturalist E.O. Wilson on what winning a second Pulitzer Prize meant for him and his Harvard colleagues. A look ...
- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 24:59
A new book by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Dan Egan examines Great Lakes history and current issues facing the region.
Bought by WCMU Michigan, WBFO, North Country Public Radio, and WKSU
- Added: Mar 24, 2017
- Length: :55
- Purchases: 4
In this week's episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill reads “The Fish,” a poem by Marianne Moore from a collection entitled "American Sea W...
- Added: Feb 14, 2017
- Length: 04:11
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
The practice of hunting wild birds with trained birds — for fun — is called falconry. Though it came into its own almost 1,000 years ago in England...
Bought by 'The Sea'
- Added: Feb 03, 2017
- Length: 31:40
- Purchases: 1
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Roll up your sleeve past your bicep, flex your arm at the elbow, and squeeze — or contract — your bicep muscle. Take a look at it. What do you see?...
- Added: Jan 22, 2017
- Length: 09:32
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Coccyx is a small triangle-shaped bone at the base of the spinal column in humans and other apes. Representing a vestigial tail and most commonly c...
- Added: Jan 21, 2017
- Length: 05:37
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
The word “inauguration" takes us all the way back to the politics of ancient Rome and the birds behind the words inauguration, inaugural, auspiciou...
- Added: Jan 20, 2017
- Length: 22:14
Our guest on this episode of MN Reads is Duluth author Margi Preus, whose new picture book, Storm's Coming! (2016, Minnesota Historical Society Pre...
- Added: Jan 05, 2017
- Length: 09:31
At each year's end, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This perennial favorite poem was chosen not o...
- Added: Dec 27, 2016
- Length: 04:51
Bob King, creator of the Duluth News-Tribune's Astro Bob blog, has written a great new book about how to find planets, constellations, satellites, ...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Dec 06, 2016
- Length: 18:13
- Purchases: 1
Great Lakes historian and author Michael Schumacher spoke with WTIP's Dave TerSteeg recently about his latest book, "Torn in Two, " which recounts ...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Nov 16, 2016
- Length: 25:22
- Purchases: 1
Gary Ferguson speaks about wilderness, loss, grief, and the symbolism of loons as reads from his memoir, THE CARRY HOME: LESSONS FROM THE AMERICAN ...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Nov 09, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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
Tim McDonnell grew up on the edge of the Boundary Waters and has been writing about wilderness for years. He joined WTIP's Dick Swanson to talk abo...
- Added: Aug 25, 2016
- Length: 19:35
Think of the Anthropocene as a science fiction thought experiment. We imagine future geologists looking back into the rock record, and trying to pi...
- Added: Aug 18, 2016
- Length: 36:22
Did you know that a mountain lion, known as P-22, lives in the middle of Los Angeles, that the Facebook campus in Silicon Valley provided a home fo...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 01:00:01
- Purchases: 1
(with a new book by Greenpeace Captain Peter Wilcox)
Summertime again, and what better time to pack a few books and head to the beach? In this epi...
- Added: Jul 19, 2016
- Length: 04:33
-Pulitzer Prize winning author Dan Fagin on how a small town fought against pollution and the polluters. -Marc Edwards who helped uncover the water...
- Added: Jun 03, 2016
- Length: 28:59
-Pulitzer Prize winning author Dan Fagin on his book "Tom's River: A Story of Science and Salvation" that tells the story of a how small town fough...
- Added: Jun 03, 2016
- Length: 53:56
- Purchases: 3
Fourth in a four-part series on authors who write about the ocean and the natural world.
- Added: May 24, 2016
- Length: 05:12
In the third of a four-part series on writers who have shaped his interest in the ocean and the natural world, host Peter Neill reads from essayist...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: May 16, 2016
- Length: 05:03
- Purchases: 1
Biologist Sean B Carroll talks to Craig Barfoot about his latest book, The Serengeti Rules. We find out how wolves can change the physical shape of...
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]
- Added: May 03, 2016
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 1
