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The Lower 9th Ward's Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle of today is what is called a “ghost swamp”. Until the 1960s, it was a full of cypress trees, ...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2014
  • Length: 18:02
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Horrible music, incredible wait times and an inscrutable labyrinth of phone prompts: We've all experienced the frustrations of being on hold. Even ...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2014
  • Length: 07:20
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In December 2012, a two-ton instrument built to detect cosmic rays ascended into the Antarctic sky, carried by a balloon the size of a football fie...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 14:00
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Math unfairly gets a bad rep in popular culture, but what's so scary about it? Mathematics professor John. E. McCarthy attempts to demystify mathem...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 13:51
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Dr. Bradley Jolliff describes how lunar samples and orbiters provide insights into the history of Earth's closest neighbor.

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Feb 17, 2014
  • Length: 13:12
  • Purchases: 1
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Robert Jevne lives, works, and talks about himself in the third person in the greater Jacobson area. This manner of speaking is most likely an outg...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
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Julie Hart grew up in Rochester, Minnesota. She went to Carlton College, and has been pursuing her education ever since...to the ends of the earth....

  • Added: Sep 04, 2013
  • Length: 02:15
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James C. Henderson is a graduate of Metropolitan State University's Creative Writing program, and Hamline University's MFA program. He lives in New...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2013
  • Length: 03:18
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Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2013
  • Length: 07:38
Caption: Ruji C., Credit: Ruji C.
Klaatu from the podcast "GNU World Order" interviews me about e-cigarettes, and we get some unintentional vocal effects on his track due to feedbac...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2013
  • Length: 21:08
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Angela Foster is a Pine City poet who, with her sister Candace Simar, has written a book of poems and essays, "Farm Girls," which was recently publ...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2013
  • Length: 01:55
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Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2013
  • Length: 03:30
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One month after the Mayan apocalypse of 2012, the Generation Anthropocene team of Leslie Chang, Mike Osborne, and Miles Traer chat about the relati...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2013
  • Length: 23:30
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It’s the end of 2012, and producers Mike Osborne, Leslie Chang, and Miles Traer get together to chat about the past year of Generation Anthropocene...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2013
  • Length: 31:18
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The lessons of D.L. Rosenhan's 40 year old study of psychiatric patients "plagerised" psychiatric diagnosis to see if they would be detected as fra...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2013
  • Length: 06:18
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Bobby speaks with, author and independent health researcher, Matt Stone about his contrarian views in regards to many fad diets and his new book, "...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2012
  • Length: 41:40
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Aaron Wenger is a retired educator. He is an engineer that became an educator. He is KAXE's staff physicist, and a poet. A daily reminder that, in...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2012
  • Length: 02:37
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Where does water come from? We know from science that water evaporates from the ocean reservoir, is captured in clouds, fog and rain, descends to s...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Minus 15 Percent Fat Free Milk Is Theoretically Possible

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Sep 03, 2010
  • Length: 01:37
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Prof. Stephen Pyne discussed the history of Voyager.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KMXT


  • Added: Aug 18, 2010
  • Length: 24:56
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
We read that pollutants are causing a sex change in fish.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jun 18, 2010
  • Length: 01:13
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
The Day The Earth Stood Still

  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: :50
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Go Where The Girls Are

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 01:06
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Don't look for this in medical journals.

  • Added: May 16, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Do people who live together gradually acquire the same habits?

  • Added: May 14, 2010
  • Length: 01:41