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Quarantine 15
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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Stuck in a house packed with snacks and limited ways to exercise? Tempted to turn to Ben and Jerry for sweet, sweet solace? Experts say this is nor...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Tale of Lady Montagu
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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Smallpox… the word sounds harmless enough, but this “speckled monster” was the scourge of Western Europe throughout the 1700s. Why did it disappear...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Apr 24, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
What's in a Name?
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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Viruses cycle through many names. Recently, the World Health Organization has limited the types of words used to label viruses. However, these rule...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Apr 14, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Newton-flix
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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The bubonic plague forced a young Isaac Newton from his studies. How did he turn catastrophe into a year of wonders? For one, he didn’t have Netflix!

Bought by KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Apr 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Silver Lining
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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2020 has felt like one disaster after another. Is there light at the end of this tunnel? Luckily, history suggests calamities spark innovations tha...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Apr 06, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Other Room
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Caption: DESERT ORACLE RADIO
In which we engage in the sort of late-night desert-talk-radio conversation we need right now: Intuition, LSD, Carl Jung, the "Conscious Life" expo...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 13, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 1
F-Word: Woodstock Urges Roaming
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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"One-two-three-four/ What are we waiting for? Fifty years on, after a night spent largely on that big wet, now commercialized field in Bethel, New...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2019
  • Length: 04:00
Old Time Mix
From: Doug Hillyard
Series: Doug the Jitterbug's Audio Collage
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A show broadcast on 6/13/19 on KZCT 89.5 FM Vallejo, CA (Ozcatradio.com) which is mostly a mix of old time music...1920's dance band, blues, jazz, ...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2019
  • Length: 03:00:42
High Weirdness
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Author Erik Davis takes us on a weird, wild ride through the gnostic/network experiences of Philip K. Dick and Robert Anton Wilson in the early 197...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jun 07, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Founding Documents: The Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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The all-out op-ed battle over the U.S. Constitution.

Bought by KMUN, PRX Remix, and KRZA


  • Added: Mar 18, 2019
  • Length: 28:23
  • Purchases: 3
Skinwalker Ranch
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Parallel dimensions and the mysterious Utah ranch bought by aerospace businessman Robert Bigelow. With guest Jeremy Corbell.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 10, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Rain
From: Doug Hillyard
Series: Doug the Jitterbug's Audio Collage
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I'm tired of California wildfires. I want rain to make it green again. The climate is changing though and we have a politicians who see that, and s...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2018
  • Length: 02:57:12
Of Fire and Monsters
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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When there’s trouble on the edge of civilization—where the wilderness meets what mankind makes—well, here we encounter fierce things both natural a...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 30, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Myth of the Hero: A Conversation with Bernie Taylor
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Bernie Taylor
Bernie Taylor, naturalist and author discusses this myth and how it shapes religion and science.

  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
Culmination of the Pleiades
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Many wonders over the desert skies—both known and unknown—give reason to be out on cool autumn nights, celebrating rituals.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 09, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
TRIZ
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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If I read through a thousand invention patents, I hope I'd learn something, too. This is Episode 63 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal sho...

Bought by Enchantment Radio


  • Added: May 07, 2018
  • Length: 05:57
  • Purchases: 1
Whistle
From: Doug Hillyard
Series: Doug the Jitterbug's Audio Collage
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Sometimes in life its best to not think of the worlds troubles. You just have to whistle. So tonight three hours of whistle songs. I hope the vari...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2018
  • Length: 02:57:53
The Parsees and the forbidden stitch
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip discovers the Parsee’s of India, and a forbidden fashion technique.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
normal
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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This is not normal. This is episode 45 of a series about engineering vocabulary, phrases, acronyms, jargon, and slang.

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Nov 21, 2017
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 1
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1599 (Hour 1 & 2) - 09/21/2017
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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The impeccable British jazz critic/writer/musician Leonard Feather assembles a studio of all-stars to open this program, followed by funky guitar b...

Bought by KBBI Alaska, KCMJ Community Radio, WVBI-LP, WJSU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 01:59:57
  • Purchases: 8
The Rape of Eve: Newly Discovered Texts of Resistance
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Celene Lillie
All the origin myths of Rome are rape narratives. Dr. Celene Lillie has found resistance to Rome's culture of rape and domination in Gnostic texts...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Jun 02, 2017
  • Length: 57:57
  • Purchases: 2
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1564 (Hour 1 & 2) - 01/19/2017
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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The Charlie Hunter Trio says come as you are, as it smells like teen spirit! Hunter was influenced by Roland Kirk, of whom we hear playing multiple...

Bought by WMOT, WVBI-LP, WJSU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WKAR


  • Added: Jan 17, 2017
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 5
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1561 (Hour 1 & 2) - 12/29/2016
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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This episode we’re heavy on tropical rhythms, especially Brazilian. Canhoto da Paraiba doesn’t care about fame, just guitar. Reflective substantive...

Bought by WMOT, WJSU, WVBI-LP, WYAP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Dec 27, 2016
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 6
DC 1648
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Rockin' in the Days of Confusion
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One Loooong Set!

Bought by Harford Community Radio, WOUB, and KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 29, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
DC 1645
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Rockin' in the Days of Confusion
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Warriors and Knaves on a Stormy Monday

Bought by WOUB and KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 07, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2