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The glossary in the back of a flora is full of wonderful words that you may never had heard or seen before, especially if you’re not a botanist. I ...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 05:13
I originally learned the botanical name of this native plant as Eupatorium greggii, but it is now Conoclinum dissectum. It’s neat that the tribute ...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 05:13
The photos are mine of a chiltepin at our our home. It’s one of several we have in pots. They are great in the ground too, but I love the way they ...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:52
Wandering through a woodland.
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 05:16
I concentrated on a few fall bloomers in the Aster family that have yellow flowers and I bet you thought of other species that should have been inc...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:31
Twenty years ago, in 2001, the internet was really taking off—the steady increase in internet use was accelerating, especially among young people. ...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:42
Thomas Vinterburg’s Oscar-winning comedy tells of four men who decide to use a small amount of alcohol to reinvigorate their jobs and personal live...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:24
The traditional way of beekeeping preserved by a Macedonian woman runs up against the modern motive for profit at all costs, in this gorgeous docum...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:24
Ken Loach and Paul Laverty present another great film about working class life: a portrait of an English family having to find a way to support the...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:23
The latest film by the darkly absurdist Swedish director Roy Andersson tackles the vexing subject of religion.
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:22
Werner Herzog presents a portrait of his friend, the journalist and travel writer Bruce Chatwin; while Patricio Guzmán examines the mountain range ...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:23
Getting old is the source of fear in a new horror movie by Natalie Erika James, about a woman on the edge of dementia whose daughter and granddaugh...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:21
A dying man experiences the tragic dualism of past and present, in Andrei Tarkovsky’s autobiographical masterpiece The Mirror.
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 03:36
A film by Channing Godfrey Peoples tells of a single mother (Nicole Beharie) in an African American neighborhood in Fort Worth, Texas, who wants he...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:19
In an industrial town in China, the lives of four people (three young, one old) intertwine on a day darkened by hostility, powerlessness, and reven...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:30
In his first western, Tom Hanks plays an itinerant news reader from Texas who tries to transport a young girl who was an Indian captive to her rela...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:33
Transposing Jack London’s autobiographical novel to Italy, Pietro Marcello highlights the conflict of socialist idealism with the individualistic d...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:05
Berberis fremontii is in the Barberry family or Berberidaceae…that’s fun to pronounce. Fremont barberry has quite a range north of the Salt River i...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 05:03
In July of 2002 I produced an episode about the summer monsoon and spadefoots. It was so much fun to write and record. In July of 2013 I re-recorde...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 04:35
The scientific name of the band-tailed pigeon is no longer Columba fasciata, but is Patagioenas fasciata. That’s too bad because I was hoping to st...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 04:59
This is a rambling episode about the summer monsoon in the borderlands of southeastern Arizona. I know that I’ve rambled on like this for many year...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 04:45
I’m so lucky to live in the land of the ornate box turtle (Terrepene ornata luteola). For me it has been a wonderful journey with turtles, from my ...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 04:52
There is no getting around it, every summer monsoon when the borderlands come to life it is so exciting!
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 05:23
I spent so much time jabbering about my conversion to a desert rat and monsoon believer that I left out some fun stuff.
Native bees that buzz poll...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 04:43
This episode is a reminiscence sparked by some old photos. I’m pretty sure my father took the photos, because I can’t remember him ever being witho...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 04:42