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This episode is a reminiscence…something I seem to be doing a lot of lately…and also a plea for getting our children and grandchildren out of doors...
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 04:02
I wrote this song about Lycium fremontii when I was managing the native plant nursery of Desert Survivors on West Starr Pass in Tucson. The nursery...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 05:01
Every time I pull a reference book or field guide off the shelf to read about a recently seen insect I seem to run across a quote by the famous ent...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 05:09
Tecoma stans angustata is in the Bignonia family Bignoniaceae and there are a bunch of species of Tecoma starting here in the borderlands with our ...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:51
There are many questions related to dark-ness, so many that it is difficult choosing where to start from.
- Added: Mar 28, 2022
- Length: 03:37
I’ve known barn owls since I was a kid in Kentucky and I always saw them in barns roosting or nesting up high in the rafters. I remember finding a ...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:43
One of the most magical moments of my childhood was when I first dug up potatoes in a garden and we later had some for dinner. I was awe struck! Th...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:59
I have a bunch of photos from Christmas tree hunts and most of them are 35 mm slides. These few here were taken over the last several years. I alwa...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 05:07
You know you haven’t been hiking or botanizing out in the desert or grassland enough when you look to the roadsides for interesting plants, but I’l...
- Added: Sep 24, 2019
- Length: 05:13
Berberis fremontii is in the Barberry family or Berberidaceae…that’s fun to pronounce. Fremont barberry has quite a range north of the Salt River i...
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 05:16
Hmm, I’m not doing a very good job of keeping up with botanical names. Either that or I’m making them up as I go. The current and correct name for ...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:13
Chuparosa is one my of favorite plants from back when we used to live outside of Tucson. I bet we had 5 or 6 of them planted at our little homestea...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:23
A morning or two after I recorded this show I heard a scaled quail calling, so now I have both species calling starting at dawn and then off and on...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:20
Cool as a cucumber curved with quite the camber. This is Episode 61 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or f...
- Added: Apr 12, 2018
- Length: 05:14
I was incorrect about the species of Acalypha in this show. The correct name is A. phleoides (the former A. lindheimeri), not neomexicana as I stat...
- Added: Dec 31, 2017
- Length: 05:16
We have had 4-wheel drive vehicles for many years and we’ve always found it to be a great tool that can take the worry out of some roads. I just ha...
- Added: Dec 30, 2017
- Length: 05:16
- Added: Dec 22, 2015
- Length: 15:26
- Purchases: 1
Using creative adaptation to overcome the bugs in our systems
- Added: Sep 03, 2014
- Length: 24:35
This week on State of the Human, we're looking at obsessions, the helpful and the debilitating.
Bought by WMUU-LP, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and CHSR-FM 97.9
- Added: Jun 25, 2014
- Length: 58:46
- Purchases: 3
My sincere but silly attempt to live without plastic for a week.
- Added: Aug 27, 2013
- Length: 06:36
Episode 2 - 12/4/12 - An investigation into the case of Italian seismologists being convicted of manslaughter, more academic news, and the inside s...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 23:35
- Added: Jun 22, 2012
- Length: 07:34
- Added: Dec 26, 2010
- Length: :18
- Purchases: 1
Tells the stories of how American youth think about their daily impact on our planet.
Bought by KVMR, KZYX, KXOT Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUNM and more
- Added: Aug 17, 2009
- Length: 51:29
- Purchases: 10
This is a sweet segment on one of the smallest but best known little birds.
Bought by KDUR, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and Remix Radio
- Added: May 14, 2009
- Length: 28:54
- Purchases: 3
