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The genus Artemisia is in the sunflower family Asteraceae and there are over 200 species found around the world in the northern hemisphere. Well, t...

  • Added: May 19, 2022
  • Length: 05:05
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Our one flowering wildflower on this wonderful day was the very pretty perennial called penny cress or candy tufts. It is the former Thlaspi fendl...

  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 04:36
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There are 2 species of walnuts here in the borderlands of southern Arizona; the Arizona walnut (Juglans major) that I talked about and a species ca...

  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 04:34
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You know you haven’t been hiking or botanizing out in the desert or grassland enough when you look to the roadsides for interesting plants, but I’l...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2019
  • Length: 05:13
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Most of us spend close to half of our waking adult lives at work, but I would venture to guess that less than five percent of narrative films take ...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 03:56
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A young black man yearns to reclaim the old San Francisco house that he grew up in, but which his father lost, in this film about home, friendship,...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 03:39
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On this show I want to cover two films about people trying to do something no one else has done; both of them played in theaters during the past ye...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 04:26
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Elisabeth Moss dominates the screen as a crash-and-burn rock star in Alex Ross Perry’s latest provocative drama.

  • Added: May 16, 2019
  • Length: 03:54
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Argentine filmmaker Lucrecia Martel has become my favorite living director. That might sound extravagant to say about someone who has only made fou...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2018
  • Length: 08:38
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I’m not sure I can add a whole lot more about jojoba (Simmondsia chinesis) other than what you hear in this show, except that it is now in its own ...

  • Added: Dec 22, 2017
  • Length: 05:20
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Though Sonoran Desert millipedes are nocturnal, this is the time of year when you see them out and about on muggy overcast days.

  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 04:56
Caption: Jesse Jackson speaks at the IIM, Credit: IIM Calcutta
Jessie Jackson was recently spotted in Calcutta, India. But why?

  • Added: Mar 05, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
Caption: Anirvan & Barnali during a tour, Credit: Sandip Roy
It turns out that a community best known for winning spelling bees also has some radical skeletons in its closet.

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  • Added: Aug 19, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
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