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Author Gerald Niemi talks about the new book "The Breeding Birds of Minnesota"

  • Added: May 02, 2024
  • Length: 07:39
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The Wonderful World of Wine (WWW) Episode 262 The Wonderful World of Wine (WWW): Uncorking the truth about wine and health with Tony Edwards.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2024
  • Length: 34:53
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Caption: Still from PC game Auralux: Constiellations , Credit: E McNeill
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
Caption: Cover art by Alex Wild (www.alexanderwild.com): Argentine ants (Linepithema humile), an aggressive pest species introduced by human commerce to California, attack a native Pogonomyrmex harvester ant. Native ants in many places around the world have disapp, Credit: Alex Wild
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
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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
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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
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James Rollins is a prolific novelist who lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

  • Added: Dec 15, 2016
  • Length: 09:17
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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
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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
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-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
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-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...

Bought by WSKG, KEDT, and WXDU


  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 3
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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
Caption: Ideas Books: Frank Wilczek
Nobel Prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek argues that beauty is at the heart of the logic of the universe, a principle that has guided his pionee...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2016
  • Length: 27:26
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Audubon is best known for his 435 paintings of American birds. He came here as a young man in the early 1800s from France with a talent for self-ta...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 04, 2015
  • Length: 09:47
  • Purchases: 1
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An in-depth conversation with author Gavin Francis about his book, the human body and his life as a doctor. A beautiful conversation about celebrat...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Sep 11, 2015
  • Length: 24:05
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Oliver Sacks
On December 4, 1985 Studs sat down with famed neurologist and author Oliver Sacks. Although the interview was supposed to center on his newest publ...

Bought by Radio Catskill, KCMJ Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KPIP-LP, KVNF and more


  • Added: Aug 31, 2015
  • Length: 01:22:29
  • Purchases: 6
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Young adult author Stuart Gibbs has lived a life of adventure as well as having written several books. Read more about him at http://stuartgibbs.co...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2015
  • Length: 15:38
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Evolutionary biologist Sean B. Carroll shares his findings on the friendship between writer Albert Camus and biologist Jacques Monod.

  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 13:25