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Brian Dunning examines some interesting beliefs around food and whether or not they are supported by science.

  • Added: Apr 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Sonnet for Wink, Wink -Susan Cook- There are places here on earth where a wink at the wro...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: :52
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: 'shipwrecked, lost everything, all's well...", Credit: Edgar Cook
Poems are solace in times of not knowing. Today, a Sonnet for What Will Be Well. "There are events that narrowly avoid crossing our paths, eve...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 01:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Brian Dunning takes a look at some haunted houses and separates the historical facts from the ghost stories.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Brian Dunning separates fact from fiction as he examines the talking points made by the many people who hate electric cars.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Brian Dunning examines the evidence that humans are warming the earth.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Two stories about parents doing everything they can for their kids.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: May 26, 2023
  • Length: 51:00
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: 49:59
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Sep 23, 2022
  • Length: 49:09
  • Purchases: 1
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After two kids and more than ten years of marriage, Jenni and Sarah were lying in bed one night when Sarah shared she was a woman born in a man’s b...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:47
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In episode two, Jack and Susan share how they went from a reluctant first encounter to 30 years of marriage.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2022
  • Length: 16:18
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There are around 30 species of Porophyllum, the majority of which are found in Mexico and southward. Around me in the borderlands of Arizona Sonora...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 04:52
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The loose rock fandango can get pretty elaborate with elements of modern dance, hokey pokey, ballet and of course some jazz hands thrown into the m...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 05:00
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A postcard about wildfire from the Sierra Nevada.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A postcard from Earth's largest living being: the Pando Aspen Grove near Fish Lake, Utah.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A fountain of youth, Hermeto Pascoal, a clock store - written and recorded by Eleanor Tullock

  • Added: Feb 02, 2021
  • Length: 20:00
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: The Wind
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Investigating subversion - written and voiced by Emily Pratt. Emily and I get trapped in a necropolis in São Paulo, then speak to bassists Joe Lal...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2021
  • Length: 25:31
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A quest to find the difference between a hobo, a tramp and a bum. We head to the train yard and ask around. Then, receive some clues on a cassette ...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2021
  • Length: 19:42
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In mainstream media and government narratives, youth are blamed for being careless during the pandemic. Tune in for a montage of youth voices who s...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2020
  • Length: 11:54
Caption: Breathing: American Sonnets in Gulf of Maine Books window, Credit: Susan Cook
Some years back The House of Representatives' healthcare bill denied maternity care and denied health insurance to 18 to 25 year olds. Back then...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 12, 2020
  • Length: 01:07
  • Purchases: 1
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Well, I spent so much time jabbering about my conversion to a desert rat and monsoon believer that I left some stuff out and so here is what I left...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2019
  • Length: 04:55
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I don’t know any poultry fanciers that don’t have a guinea fowl story or two or three. Chickens are where it usually starts as they are the gateway...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2019
  • Length: 05:10
Caption: Refinery Healing Walk, Credit: Isabella Zizi
We’ll meet Making Contact Community Storytelling Fellow and environmental and indigenous leader Isabella Zizi. In this piece, Zizi talks about how ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WRIR


  • Added: Jul 23, 2017
  • Length: 11:16
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Why haven't pharmaceutical companies and oil corporations been asked to make health insurance lower by reducing drug costs or refusing federal subs...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 02:43
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The Senate and House Healthcare bills will replace Obamacare subsidies with tax breaks for the wealthy. Meanwhile oil and gas companies continue to...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2017
  • Length: 02:54