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Caption: UNESCO Slave Route: Resistance, Liberty, Heritage
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, part two of the four-part Slavery: Heritage and Identity series, we discuss trans-Atlantic slavery in the con...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2020
  • Length: 05:10
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This week on World Ocean Radio we review a new book by photographer George Steinmetz with essays by Andrew Revkin. "The Human Planet: Earth at the ...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2020
  • Length: 04:34
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This week on World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill asks us to look to the ocean during these turbulent times of social unrest, to recognize the ocean ...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2020
  • Length: 05:13
Caption: Lines of sargassum can stretch for miles along the surface of the Sargasso Sea. The clumps of floating algae are often concentrated by the strong winds and wave action associated with the Gulf Stream, Credit: Ocean Explorer | NOAA
This week on World Ocean Radio we discuss the Sargasso Sea--a verdant, vital, biodiverse ecosystem that supports a great diversity of life, provide...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2020
  • Length: 05:25
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World events have made 2020 a more difficult year than it was already shaping up to be. Ocean systems have never been more challenged than today, a...

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  • Added: Jun 08, 2020
  • Length: 04:08
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Caption: The sun is setting on fossil fuels , Credit: @zburival on Unsplash
This week on World Ocean Radio we assert that the age of oil is over: from the rise of renewable energy production worldwide to the reevaluation of...

  • Added: May 19, 2020
  • Length: 05:23
Caption: Taken during the November 2015 run of the Sally Ride EarthKAM aboard the International Space Station. Students on Earth programmed the camera aboard the orbiting laboratory to snap pictures around the globe., Credit: NASA/EarthKAM.org
This week concludes the nine-part ocean literacy series, a framework for formal and informal education to help us better understand the ocean's inf...

  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 04:35
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Explore the influence the Reformation and Counter-Reformation had on the world of music including the work of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
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Explore the development of imitation, or canon, as a tool of harmony and musical in the works of Josquin Deprez and Johannes Ockeghem.

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
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Discover the music of the 15th Century French composer Guillame Du Fay and how the lines that defined secular and sacred music began to blur in the...

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
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Discover the writings of French theorist, poet, philosopher and composer Philippe de Vitry.

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
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Troubadors, or trouveres, were French composers and performers of secular lyrical poetry and song beginning in the late 11th Century.

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
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Hildegard of Bingen was a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, abbess, polymath, and a literal visionary of the 12th Century.

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Learn about anonymity and authorship in the Middle Ages.

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 1
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Learn about one of the first music theorists in our Western musical tradition.

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
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Discover how the practice of writing down music began.

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
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Explore the earliest examples of written music in history.

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  • Added: Apr 21, 2020
  • Length: 02:58
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Caption: The Lena River, some 2,800 miles (4,500km) long, is one of the largest rivers in the world. The Lena Delta Reserve, an important refuge and breeding ground for Siberian wildlife, is the most extensive protected wilderness area in Russia. The Lena empties , Credit:  @USGS
"The ocean makes Earth habitable." So states the fourth Ocean Literacy principle, a series of fundamental concepts to help us better understand the...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2020
  • Length: 04:20
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Washington Post reporter and new Minnesota transplant, Christopher Ingram has written a book about his family's transition from the east coast to r...

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  • Added: Feb 08, 2020
  • Length: 05:58
  • Purchases: 1
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Children's Librarian Tracy Kampa tells us about these prestigious awards.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2020
  • Length: 13:37
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This week on World Ocean Radio we explore the lessons of the ocean and the concept of adversity: adversity at sea due to weather, unpredictability,...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2019
  • Length: 05:09
Caption: Meguro River, Tokyo, Japan , Credit: Photo by Zhaoli Jin
This week on World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reflects on the magic of water and the ways it defines our urban spaces. This episode focuses on To...

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2019
  • Length: 04:35
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There has never been a better time to become a citizen scientist: curious individuals interested in collecting data to build toward solutions, expa...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2019
  • Length: 04:49
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Computer viruses today pose a very real threat. However, it turns out that their origins are actually very non-threatening. Today, we are going to ...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2019
  • Length: 29:11
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The outlaw ocean, a space apart, hidden from view, a place of rampant criminality and exploitation. This week on World Ocean Radio we offer part on...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2019
  • Length: 05:07