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Ruben Östlund’s satire on the ruling class takes us on a luxury cruise headed for disaster.

  • Added: Apr 12, 2023
  • Length: 03:33

  • Added: Jan 05, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 2
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The painful struggles between parents and children are often a subject of drama, and no surprise, given the plentiful examples of this theme in hum...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2022
  • Length: 03:34
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It’s hard for me to believe that I’ve been doing this show for 17 years, and yet I haven’t talked about one of my favorite movies, The Big Sleep, u...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 03:25
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It was the American botanist Soreno Watson, that named the onion collected in Tanner’s Canyon of the Huachuca Mountains to honor Sara Plummer Lemmo...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2022
  • Length: 04:16
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It’s fun to have favorite plants to look for on excursions into the hills. Looking back at photos and my notes, we have been checking on this parti...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 04:23
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My morning ditties are not nearly as amazing as the song of a curved bill thrasher, but they help me begin the day.

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 04:23
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There are a dozen species of Melampodium and I wonder which one Linnaeus was looking at when he honored Melampus with the genus name. And I wonder...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 04:28
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The botanical name for jackass clover is Wislizenia refracta and for clammy weed it’s Polanisia dodecandra. I translate those very cool names in th...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 04:00

  • Added: Jul 31, 2022
  • Length: 07:29
Caption: Archbishop Desmond Tutu
February 1, 2022 – A young straight ally considers his own place in activism

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  • Added: Jan 30, 2022
  • Length: 08:05
  • Purchases: 1
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The Outro Message to “Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power” is a soundscape bringing together messages from across the 21 episodes, and ne...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2021
  • Length: 07:20
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“We can’t lose sight of the fact that we need each other, especially because we don’t have precisely the same experiences, feelings, or words.” As...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2021
  • Length: 06:47
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“There is an urgency to save our time from becoming the cost of business.” Raqs Media Collective’s trio-logue binds economics to climate change, e...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2021
  • Length: 11:10
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“Resistance, and the fight for freedom are still sacred for us. We must not lose our last hope or abandon our dreams. And we want you not to lose y...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2021
  • Length: 04:51
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“Resistance, and the fight for freedom are still sacred for us. We must not lose our last hope or abandon our dreams. And we want you not to lose y...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2021
  • Length: 04:31
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“[O]urs was a struggle not to take power. But to dismantle power altogether. We made presidency an empty seat, a void, a space never to be acquired...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2021
  • Length: 11:46
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“A healthy ecosystem is a multitude of life forces. So love yourself. Be fulfilled in your meadow flower-ness, your mossiness, your grassiness, you...

  • Added: Nov 11, 2021
  • Length: 06:31
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“Not too long ago, humans and nonhumans lived in co-dependency. We intuited, breathed, and created together. Their offspring was mine and my offspr...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 03:51
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“Not too long ago, humans and nonhumans lived in co-dependency. We intuited, breathed, and created together. Their offspring was mine and my offspr...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 03:37
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“I’m scared. I’m fragile, weak, and scared.” Roy Dib smokes, checks Instagram, and looks out onto the Mediterranean while delivering a pensive mon...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 07:36
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“How do our cells become oriented to justice?” Dancer and activist Emily Johnson invites us to embody justice through song, dance, and vibration....

  • Added: Oct 21, 2021
  • Length: 08:51
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“This body is a shelter, / of networking, of systems, / which give a complete life / and responsibilities / beyond culture, classes, and language.”...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2021
  • Length: 04:23
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“Never let go of your authentic self, even if it must be in hiding for now. Protect it like a lit match in the wind. Don’t let fear blow it out.” ...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2021
  • Length: 06:21
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“Today we see that the past is the future, and what once was will be once again.” Stimson offers a powerful call-and-response to John F. Kennedy’s...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2021
  • Length: 08:22