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HOUR ONE: "The Art of Reinvention" - Artists reinvent themselves all the time. So why not consider yourself a work of art in progress?
HOUR TWO: ...
- Added: Jul 14, 2017
- Length: 01:58:58
John Tipton looks at the Rosetta Spacecraft’s September 2016 landing on a comet orbiting Jupiter.
- Added: Jun 20, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Kim Roberts brings a poet’s eye to The Scientific Method
Bought by WNJR
- Added: May 04, 2017
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
Mary Shelley’s novel of 1818, Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus, seems to me to clang like a hammer blow against a bell that tolls our self-i...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Dec 19, 2016
- Length: 01:00:01
- Purchases: 1
Louis the German divides the Rhine and the doomed space shuttle Challenger is used by the Department of Defense on its last successful (classified)...
- Added: Sep 20, 2016
- Length: 02:20:46
On page 148 of Gubar’s latest book, Reading & Writing Cancer: How Words Heal, published this May by W. W. Norton, she writes: “It seems unlikely th...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Aug 02, 2016
- Length: 58:47
- 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
Nobel Prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek argues that beauty is at the heart of the logic of the universe, a principle that has guided his pionee...
- Added: Apr 16, 2016
- Length: 27:26
- Added: Apr 04, 2016
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Imagine a future where deadly tornadoes are a part of daily life. That's writer Kate Messner's world in "Eye of the Storm." 5th graders from Belved...
- Added: Mar 28, 2016
- Length: 20:10
An in-depth conversation with author Gavin Francis about his book, the human body and his life as a doctor. A beautiful conversation about celebrat...
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]
- Added: Sep 11, 2015
- Length: 24:05
- Purchases: 1
What if you could change not just how much you know, but your actual intelligence? (And more...)
- Added: Jun 05, 2015
- Length: 53:57
- Purchases: 6
Young adult author Stuart Gibbs has lived a life of adventure as well as having written several books. Read more about him at http://stuartgibbs.co...
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 15:38
Evolutionary biologist Sean B. Carroll shares his findings on the friendship between writer Albert Camus and biologist Jacques Monod.
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 13:25
Nancy Schoenberger chronicles the tempestuous romance of Liz & Dick in her book Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of...
- Added: Jul 03, 2014
- Length: 53:58
- Purchases: 4
The year is 2053. Neurosurgeon and scientist, Dr. Hagan Maerici, is to designing "neuromorphic artificial intelligence." This is the setting for Dr...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 23, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Dr. Stephen Palumbi discusses The Extreme Life of the Sea.
Bought by WMUU-LP, KKWE Niijii Radio, KFOK-LPFM, and KPVL
- Added: Apr 16, 2014
- Length: 25:16
- Purchases: 4
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will introduce World Ocean Journal, a new bi-annual e-magazine on ocean culture, issues and ...
- Added: Jan 15, 2014
- Length: 04:55
During this program, Christopher White talks about and reads from his book 'The Melting World: A Journey Across America’s Vanishing Glaciers.'
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WCWP, KSJD, and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Oct 22, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
We have a way of talking about STEM fields as the opposite of the humanities–but it’s hard to have one without the other.
- Added: Sep 10, 2013
- Length: 53:53
- Purchases: 3
Poet James Richardson has called himself an "accidental aphorist," but his well-crafted works are no accident. He reads from his 2010 book, BY THE ...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Jul 18, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
We enlist the aid of noted scholar of autobiography, John Eakin, as we seek to answer Andrew Bird's question: where exactly does the self reside, i...
- Added: Jul 06, 2013
- Length: 46:06
Jonathan Elmer, director of Indiana University's College Arts and Humanities Institute discusses Herman Melville's novella, Benito Cereno, a master...
- Added: Jun 05, 2013
- Length: 29:46
Ron Capps helps returning service members write their way home. [27:06]
Bought by KPIP-LP and WRVO Public Media
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 27:38
- Purchases: 2
Dr. David Levy, neurosurgeon and author, discusses the role that prayer can play in the healing relationship between physician and patient.
- Added: Jun 22, 2012
- Length: 29:29
