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Recap 2023 And Wine Trends For 2024
From: Mark Lenzi
Series: The Wonderful World of Wine (WWW)
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The Wonderful World of Wine (WWW) Episode 254 Exploring all things wine with you! Recap 2023 and looking ahead with wine trends for 2024.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jan 06, 2024
  • Length: 35:07
  • Purchases: 1
Utopian Dinner Table: How to feed the world in 100 years
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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You'll hear about ongoing food insecurity issues from food scholar Raj Patel, and hopeful solutions from families in the Black Creek community gard...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jan 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caffeine Withdrawal Headaches
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
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A listener asks: Why do I get a headache if I go without coffee?

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, KENW, and WLPR


  • Added: Dec 30, 2017
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Tale of Honeybee Brown (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Between a changing climate and an invasion of parasites, it’s a tough time for the little honeybee. A Norfolk woman’s quest to give bees a home may...

Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WOUB and more


  • Added: Apr 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:22
  • Purchases: 6
Decolonizing Dinner
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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There's a lot of talk about food these days, from farmer's markets to the local food movement. But in some communities, there's a whole different c...

Bought by KUAF Public Radio, WRGY, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KENW


  • Added: Nov 18, 2016
  • Length: 32:45
  • Purchases: 4
Fisheries Recovery
From: Susanne Bard
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A new report finds that global fisheries could boost both sustainability and annual catch.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, WLPR , and KENW


  • Added: Apr 05, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 4
Bread Mold Battery
From: Susanne Bard
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Could fungi be a key to safer and longer lasting lithium ion batteries?

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, WLPR , and KENW


  • Added: Mar 30, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 3
Disease Fighting Beer Hops
From: Susanne Bard
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Scientists are isolating and synthesizing the chemical compounds that make hops bitter, and studying their medicinal properties.

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, WLPR , and KENW


  • Added: Mar 15, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 3
Wine’s Fruity “Nose”
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
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You can thank fruit flies for your favorite wine’s fruity “nose”.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, KSFR, Radio Baha'i, WLGI and more


  • Added: Nov 23, 2015
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 7
Forget the robots, meat processing is still a human's job
From: Harvest Public Media Group
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The answer to the lack of robots in meat processing gives insight into the limits of robotic technology, and the economics of what it takes to put ...

Bought by WABE and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 11, 2015
  • Length: 04:07
  • Purchases: 2
Defining "Local" in Colorado
From: Hannah Leigh Myers
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A look at the broad use and various meanings of the term "local" on Colorado products

  • Added: Jul 10, 2015
  • Length: 04:53
Coffee: Trouble Brewing?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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It’s the second most-traded commodity in the world after oil but how much do you think about your cup of coffee? From coffee farmers in Colombia to...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WRIR, and KVSC


  • Added: Mar 19, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Ice Cream Bar: Frozen for years by SF's permitting process
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: The Ice Cream Bar, Credit: Thomas Hawk
Juliet Pries, the owner of the Ice Cream Bar in Cole Valley, talks about the massive red tape she had to deal with to open her business.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 04:06
Fructose & Hunger
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Chemical structure of fructose., Credit: (That kiwi guy/Wikipedia)
Does the sugar fructose fool us into eating more calories than we need?

Bought by WXDU and KMXT


  • Added: Dec 11, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 2
Yaupon Tea
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Yaupon tea is brewed from the leaves of Ilex vomitaria., Credit: Mary Vaux Wolcott
Can you get a caffeine fix without growing your carbon footprint?

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Wine's Fruity Nose - Thanksgiving 2014
From: Susanne Bard
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You can thank fruit flies for your favorite wine’s fruity “nose”.

Bought by WVTF, WKSU, and KMXT


  • Added: Nov 23, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 3
Lactose Intolerance Genetics
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: The practice of cheesemaking goes back many centuries in various cultures around the world. (A page from the 14th century Medieval handbook Taccuino Sanitatis from the Biblioteca Casanatense in Rome, Italy)
Central Europeans developed a dairying culture at least 4,000 years before they evolved the ability to digest milk.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 01, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Inside Scoop on Serving at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Alan DeValerio was a White House butler for Presidents Carter and Reagan., Credit: Alan DeValerio
"The Butler" didn't do it - or so says real-life White House butler Alan DeValerio.

  • Added: Jul 27, 2014
  • Length: 06:15
A fresh food oasis in the Tenderloin
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Fahdl Radman,center, with advisors (l to r) Scott Schaffer and Larry Brucia of Sutti Associates, and Jessica Estrada of the Tenderloin Healthy Corner Store Coalition., Credit: Melanie Young
In San Francisco’s Tenderloin, getting healthy fare often isn’t an option. Without a full service grocery store in the neighborhood, residents rely...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 14, 2014
  • Length: 05:45
  • Purchases: 1
Olive Oil vs. Pollution
From: Susanne Bard
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Olive oil may help protect the cardiovascular system against the ill-effects of air pollution in cities.

  • Added: May 21, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
Odor Discrimination
From: Susanne Bard
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The human nose may be capable of distinguishing one trillion unique odors.

  • Added: Mar 24, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
Cocoa Benefits
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Cocoa Powder, Credit: Susanne Bard
The heart-healthy benefits of dark cocoa are the work of gut bacteria.

  • Added: Mar 24, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
Peanut Acclimation
From: Susanne Bard
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An experimental therapy to control peanut allergies may induce genetic changes in the immune system.

  • Added: Feb 01, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
Let's Travel Long Island
From: Let's Travel! Radio
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September show, Discover Long Island's Wine Country, presents an interesting overview on the exploding phenomenon of wine production on Long Island...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2013
  • Length: 01:20:37