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"Ratatouille Too" takes us to hilarious loft dinner party in New York City. After days of preparation, Gregg and his girlfriend are ready to ente...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 11:06
Caption: The Folklorist Next Door, Credit: Jeannelle Ramirez
"El dia que se apareció el diablo" takes us back to a time when "the devil" appeared on the poor side of the tracks. The terrifying experience lead...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2023
  • Length: 12:18
Caption: John Bailey with a cart full of TaB, Credit: John Bailey
After years of languishing at the far end of the soda aisle, TaB has at last fallen victim to a decision by its parent company, Coca-Cola, to end p...

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  • Added: Oct 13, 2022
  • Length: 11:50
  • Purchases: 1
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This episode is a reminiscence sparked by some photos taken over 60 years ago. I’m pretty sure my father took the photos, because I can’t remember ...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2022
  • Length: 04:42
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In search of inefficiency in an overly efficient digital world, Jakob Lewis entered the ‘typosphere,’ an online community of typewriter enthusiasts...

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 27:43
  • Purchases: 1
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This is the time of year when you see desert millipedes out and about on muggy overcast days. Sometimes even crossing the two lane blacktop roads n...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2022
  • Length: 04:03
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I’m pretty sure I first encountered the plant called mala mujer in the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson around 30 years ago. I had 10 years of ...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2022
  • Length: 04:30
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This episode is a reminiscence…something I seem to be doing a lot of lately…and also a plea for getting our children and grandchildren out of doors...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2022
  • Length: 04:02
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One of my very first pieces ever: A chronicle of my adventures doing sound for an Elvis Tribute Artist and a large ish gospel Church in Madison WI....

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  • Added: Jul 14, 2022
  • Length: 06:18
  • Purchases: 1
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I wrote this song about Lycium fremontii when I was managing the native plant nursery of Desert Survivors on West Starr Pass in Tucson. The nursery...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2022
  • Length: 05:01
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Every time I pull a reference book or field guide off the shelf to read about a recently seen insect I seem to run across a quote by the famous ent...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2022
  • Length: 05:09
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As a lifelong photographer and filmmaker, Harald Rumpf has spent decades exploring the cities that his subjects call home. In this retrospective of...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 12, 2022
  • Length: 28:14
  • Purchases: 1
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Tecoma stans angustata is in the Bignonia family Bignoniaceae and there are a bunch of species of Tecoma starting here in the borderlands with our ...

  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 04:51
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What hopes do we hold for a climate changed world - and can hope be trusted to guide our way? Kyla Brettle turns on the coffee machine, opens the b...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2022
  • Length: 06:14
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There are many questions related to dark-ness, so many that it is difficult choosing where to start from.

  • Added: Mar 28, 2022
  • Length: 03:37
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Another true story: a group of ladies go out of their way to be charitable with a young mother. A micro narration in a minute or so.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2022
  • Length: 01:00
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We are living in stressful times and getting out of the house, if only to your back yard, is always a good idea. Native flora and fauna can cure th...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 04:59
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I’ve known barn owls since I was a kid in Kentucky and I always saw them in barns roosting or nesting up high in the rafters. I remember finding a ...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 04:43
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One of the most magical moments of my childhood was when I first dug up potatoes in a garden and we later had some for dinner. I was awe struck! Th...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 04:59
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I have a bunch of photos from Christmas tree hunts and most of them are 35 mm slides. These few here were taken over the last several years. I alwa...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 05:07
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A postcard from Lake Titicaca, Peru.

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A postcard from Los Angeles, California

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A postcard from Canyonlands, Utah.

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Heuchera is found in the saxifrage family, Saxifracaceae, with 80 other genera that includes the genus Saxifraga and its 400 species. Yikes!

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 05:06
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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