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Caption: India to Africa: Living in Hand-Me-Downs, Credit: Valerie Tarico | Awaypoint
Reduce, reuse, recycle. The words "reduce" and "recycle" are common in our modern society, but what does it mean to reuse? In this episode of World...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2013
  • Length: 05:12
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Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2013
  • Length: 03:30
Caption: Man throwing cast net , Credit: Mangrove Action Project | MarinePhotobank.org
In the last edition of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill suggested reciprocity as a value on which to build our response to the environmental deg...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2013
  • Length: 05:13
Caption: Gordon Howard in conversation with a Blue Jay, Credit: Gerald Zahavi
A profile of two master bird banders (and their trainees) who converge every May on the Crown Point State Historic site along the shores of Lake Ch...

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  • Added: May 29, 2013
  • Length: 26:43
  • Purchases: 2
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Digital music is the furthest we’ve come from running needles through intricate grooves, but record orders keep coming in.

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  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 02:22
  • Purchases: 1
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On a recent visit to Kauai host Peter Neill had some chance encounters that prompted this reflection of what it means to be connected to real, mean...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2013
  • Length: 05:42
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Here, the direct physiological and psychological affects of sound on the human brain are examined.

  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 06:20
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This installment examines how humans perceive sound, and how we listen, with a number of experiments as aids.

  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 10:25
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The Island of California appeared on maps for over a century.

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  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
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Rubber Duckies aren't just an old fashioned bathtub toy.

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 01:54
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Fishing guides spend their days reading the water, seeing fish., Credit: Susan Cook
The strident opponents of a rapid, unregulated re-introduction of alewives to the St. Croix believe that at one important juncture in the river, ...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2013
  • Length: 04:40
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The lessons of D.L. Rosenhan's 40 year old study of psychiatric patients "plagerised" psychiatric diagnosis to see if they would be detected as fra...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2013
  • Length: 06:18
Caption: Breezy Point, NY. , Credit: Frank Franklin II, AP
As the power is restored, transportation comes back online, and life and order return to a semblance of normal, another storm fades from memory. Ye...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2012
  • Length: 05:49
Caption: Nemo, Nautilus and Squid. , Credit: Illustration by John Joyce © 2006
The sea has been a source of storytelling and real-time adventure tales since the beginning of narrative and most every culture has its archetypal ...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2012
  • Length: 06:18
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In our second compilation, we bring together voices from the Leopold Leadership Program to investigate the changing nature and changing goals of co...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 23:16
Caption: Getting cultural theory out of the books and putting it into your ears!
The Tympanic Eclipse is an audio series that brings cultural theory out of its stuffy scholarly tomes, and puts it into your ears. Together with e...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: :00
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Mary Finch on severe weather.

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  • Added: Sep 06, 2012
  • Length: 02:55
  • Purchases: 1
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An exploration into the life and legacy of Richard Buckminster Fuller

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  • Added: Jun 01, 2012
  • Length: 15:00
  • Purchases: 1
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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From Victorian parlors to Starbucks, pigments have defined and connected societies.

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  • Added: May 09, 2012
  • Length: 01:51
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Elon Musk, Credit: NPC
The CEO of SpaceX describes the goals of his company, which is NASA's most important customer.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2011
  • Length: 54:02
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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How does death shape our behavior? Why do we grieve? How do we cope? What do we fear? and how can we accept our own exiting? Experts share their th...

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  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 42:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Step into the weird world of relativity as we walk through the Twin Paradox with help from some great physics teachers.

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  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 09:03
  • Purchases: 2
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This is an amazing tale about a goose, two scientists and an ocean between them

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  • Added: Jan 16, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
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What would life be like without a sixth sense? Check out more in Aaron's blog www.minnesotabrown.com.

  • Added: Jun 28, 2010
  • Length: 03:45
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What do colors sound like? Sound and light are both waves or vibrations, but light is vibrating much faster. The frequencies of the visible colors ...

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  • Added: Jun 21, 2010
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 3