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I was reading a Christmas card from some very dear friends and in the hand written portion of the card it mentioned this season as being the “holie...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:53
The vast landscapes of the southwest are to die for and every once in a while I capture one with my camera. More and more I remind myself to just t...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:56
I always want to add an extra T when I write Yucca baccata, but no, two Cs and one T is correct. The specific epithet baccata is from Latin and mea...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:59
Traveling the west with an Aeolian Harp: listening in dry lake beds, great sand dunes, and the world's largest living organism, Pando Aspen Grove /...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 07, 2022
- Length: 31:07
- Purchases: 1
Listening to The Disintegration Loops during wildfire season -- a review of William Basinski’s seminal album as a meditation on looping thoughts, p...
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- Added: Jan 07, 2022
- Length: 33:31
- Purchases: 1
From the origin of the most popular Christmas song to why men are so hard to shop for. Get comfy, because we're sharing comforting stories for the ...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRGY, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KBBI Alaska
- Added: Dec 16, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
- Added: Dec 13, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Dec 13, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Dec 13, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Dec 13, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Dec 13, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
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
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
