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Self-help has existed in some form since the dawn of human civilization and has grown into a robust industrial complex. But does self-help really m...
- Added: Jan 04, 2024
- Length: 58:23
From: KRCL
This is a 1 on 1 interview with Author Dan Levitt, and Radioactive's Nick Burns.
From Levitt's Website
"For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse ...
- Added: Sep 19, 2023
- Length: 12:04
The Invisible World of Manuscripts
- Added: Aug 15, 2023
- Length: 02:00
episode 3: The war in Ukraine is proving to be a real-time lab study of staying one step ahead of the hackers and finding ways to protect and prese...
- Added: Sep 16, 2022
- Length: 20:30
In today’s EXTENDED Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with forensic psychologist and mystery ...
- Added: Aug 03, 2022
- Length: 44:45
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with forensic psychologist and mystery author Fr...
- Added: Aug 03, 2022
- Length: 29:59
Emily speaks with Professor Cindy Weinstein and Dr. Bruce Miller, authors of the book Finding the Right Words, which explores literature, grief, an...
- Added: Mar 22, 2022
- Length: 42:46
Topic 1: Before we had encrypted emails and security envelopes, people would protect their correspondence with fancy folding. Topic 2: How have J.R...
Bought by KSTK, RADIOLEX, KOWS, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WYAP
- Added: Nov 23, 2021
- Length: 51:39
- Purchases: 5
Writer and naturalist Jack Nisbet discusses his book, "The Dreamer and The Doctor: A Forest Lover and a Physician on the Edge of the Frontier."
Bought by Prairie Public, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Dec 04, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
In Time Out Of Joint, Phillip K. Dick envisioned the same future that NASA did, even if we didn't get there. San Diego Air and Space Museum provide...
- Added: Oct 04, 2019
- Length: 24:08
Kingsolver takes us to 1950s Belgian Congo via the Prices, a missionary family. David Holway from UCSD gives us the rundown on local ant species wh...
- Added: Oct 04, 2019
- Length: 22:44
Shane Haggard and Lisa Will from San Diego City College discuss what would happen to the Earth after a meteor knocks the moon closer to us, and wha...
- Added: Sep 30, 2019
- Length: 22:43
This week on the show: Alexander von Humboldt is still alive -
He was the most famous scientist in the world when he was alive. And then he was ...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Sep 10, 2019
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
How accurate was Vonnegut when he described the end of the world? We tackle climate science with climate researchers from the Scripp’s Institute of...
- Added: May 01, 2019
- Length: 24:57
- Added: Nov 12, 2018
- Length: 02:00
Ben Goldfarb shares his enthusiasm for the largest rodent in North America via a discussion about his book, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Lives of ...
Bought by 'The Sea', Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Oct 22, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
The (Real) Science of Frankenstein
- Added: Jun 13, 2018
- Length: 02:00
Bill Schutt a vertebrate zoologist, college professor and author. Learn more about him at https://www.billschutt.com/.
- Added: Jun 13, 2017
- Length: 11:33
James Rollins is a prolific novelist who lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
- Added: Dec 15, 2016
- Length: 09:17
Bob King, creator of the Duluth News-Tribune's Astro Bob blog, has written a great new book about how to find planets, constellations, satellites, ...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Dec 06, 2016
- Length: 18:13
- Purchases: 1
Did you know that a mountain lion, known as P-22, lives in the middle of Los Angeles, that the Facebook campus in Silicon Valley provided a home fo...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 01:00:01
- Purchases: 1
On page 148 of Gubar’s latest book, Reading & Writing Cancer: How Words Heal, published this May by W. W. Norton, she writes: “It seems unlikely th...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Aug 02, 2016
- Length: 58:47
- Purchases: 1
-Pulitzer Prize winning author Dan Fagin on how a small town fought against pollution and the polluters. -Marc Edwards who helped uncover the water...
- Added: Jun 03, 2016
- Length: 28:59
-Pulitzer Prize winning author Dan Fagin on his book "Tom's River: A Story of Science and Salvation" that tells the story of a how small town fough...
- Added: Jun 03, 2016
- Length: 53:56
- Purchases: 3
Biologist Sean B Carroll talks to Craig Barfoot about his latest book, The Serengeti Rules. We find out how wolves can change the physical shape of...
- Added: May 03, 2016
- Length: 07:21
