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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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Joanna Hogg continues her semi-autobiographical portrait of the artist, a young woman filmmaker in 1980s England exploring grief.

  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 03:25
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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
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Your host dreams of "Cthulhu Con." A bunch of Brooklyn Musicians dream of "Brand Aid." Plus: a lecture on the concept of the unreliable narrator.

Bought by KALW, PRX Remix, WRIR, and KUOW


  • Added: Mar 22, 2011
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 4
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A young man seeking enlightenment once travelled far away to a distant land and climbed a tall mountain where a wise old man was known to dispense ...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2009
  • Length: :46
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
on the day before their marriage his bride-to-be told him about all of her previous affairs.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2008
  • Length: :28
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A Short Essay by Peter Neill, Director of the World Ocean Observatory

  • Added: Aug 22, 2008
  • Length: 03:27
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A Short Essay by Peter Neill, Director of the World Ocean Observatory

  • Added: Aug 22, 2008
  • Length: 03:41
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Short Essay by Peter Neill, Director of the World Ocean Observatory

  • Added: Aug 22, 2008
  • Length: 04:05
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Budding reporter learns a lesson in "reporting."

  • Added: May 09, 2008
  • Length: 04:15
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Short essay by Peter Neill, Director of the World Ocean Observatory

  • Added: Apr 30, 2008
  • Length: 05:42
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Short essay by Peter Neill, director of the World Ocean Observatory

  • Added: Nov 28, 2007
  • Length: 05:10
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What does it mean to say that America is becoming a fascist state?

  • Added: May 30, 2007
  • Length: 05:45
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a 4-minute primer about intellectual property

  • Added: Dec 21, 2006
  • Length: 04:21
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Thanks to two California doctors, we may finally be able to abolish the barbaric practice of capital punishment.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2006
  • Length: 02:49
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Your brain uses your words to build or break your day

  • Added: Nov 27, 2005
  • Length: 02:36
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I have one month in which to write a 50,000-word novel--and this is the month.

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  • Added: Nov 15, 2005
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 1
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Teens bring extravangant minds to school daily, and deserve the best back.

  • Added: Oct 28, 2005
  • Length: 03:57
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You can grow more intelligence at pretty much any age.

  • Added: Sep 26, 2005
  • Length: 09:45
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New efforts to form a Labor Party could very well revive the slump;ing labor movement.

  • Added: May 05, 2005
  • Length: 03:27