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2022 Fall Fundraiser: Empathizing With Nature / Choice In The Food Industry
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To The Best of Our Knowledge Fundraisers
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In this special fundraising edition of "To the Best of Our Knowledge," host Anne Strainchamps samples some of our best interviews about humans in n...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KCPW Salt Lake City, Kansas Public Radio, KRCU Public Radio, and Wisconsin Public Radio (ops)


  • Added: Aug 11, 2022
  • Length: 01:22:43
  • Purchases: 5
Constant Wonder - Tasteblind, Seeing Music in Color
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Topic 1: Danielle Reed explores the wide genetic differences in taste buds. Topic 2: Musician Annie Dickinson sees music in color.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 16, 2021
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 1
2020 Fall Fundraiser: Empathizing With Nature / Bubbles To Barrel-Aging
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To The Best of Our Knowledge Fundraisers
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In this special fundraising edition of "To the Best of Our Knowledge," host Anne Strainchamps samples some of our best interviews about humans in n...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, Wisconsin Public Radio (ops), NET Radio (Nebraska), KCPW Salt Lake City, KWMU St. Louis and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2020
  • Length: 01:19:32
  • Purchases: 8
477: Weird World Of Mushrooms / 478: Is Capitalism Broken?, 5/2/2020
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Weird World Of Mushrooms" - They can heal you. They can also kill you. This hour, take a trip into the wild world of toadstools. HOUR ...

  • Added: May 01, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:58
2019 Fall Fundraiser: Empathizing With Nature / Choice In The Food Industry
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To The Best of Our Knowledge Fundraisers
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In this special fundraising edition of "To the Best of Our Knowledge," host Anne Strainchamps samples some of our best interviews about humans in n...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KVSC, WUFT, KCPW Salt Lake City, Wisconsin Public Radio (ops) and more


  • Added: Sep 06, 2019
  • Length: 01:22:41
  • Purchases: 6
383: Weird World Of Mushrooms / 384: Discovering America's Black DNA, 6/8/2019
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Weird World Of Mushrooms" - They can heal you. They can also kill you. This hour, take a trip into the wild world of toadstools. HOUR ...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:58
Farming in Harmony With Nature: John Chester and The Biggest Little Farm
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
Caption: John and Molly Chester's Farm
The award winning documentary The Biggest Little Farm is the focus of Dave's conversation with film maker turned farmer John Chester. He and his wi...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: May 30, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
2019 Spring Fundraiser: Pushing Human Limits / Bubbles To Barrel-Aging
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To The Best of Our Knowledge Fundraisers
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In this special fundraising edition of "To the Best of Our Knowledge," host Anne Strainchamps samples some of our best interviews about human endur...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Radio (ops), WITF, KCPW Salt Lake City, Interlochen Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 01:17:35
  • Purchases: 9
285: In Search Of Real Food / 286: How To Think Like A Scientist, 6/30/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "In Search Of Real Food" - Supermarkets are designed to make you think you have a lot of choices. But do you? This hour, reclaiming real ...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:57
This Is Crohn's Disease
From: Jack Rodolico
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A patient with a nasty case of Crohn’s disease visits the best doctor in the world. That patient is this radio producer's wife.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Here and Now, KFAI Minneapolis, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 09, 2014
  • Length: 18:15
  • Purchases: 4
How The Tractor Ruined Farming
From: Erik Olesund
Caption: Matt and his dad Larry on the combine. Colorado, 1979
Food has become cheaper and more abundant in the last 150 years, largely thanks to technological advances. Irrigation, fertilizer, pesticides, and ...

Bought by KSJD


  • Added: Jun 29, 2014
  • Length: 22:01
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio Chuck Benbrook Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Is organic food worth a higher price at the check out? Chuck Benbrook, Ph.D., Washington State University, helps us do the food math. Join Food Sl...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
Food Sleuth Radio Niki Strealy Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Chronic diarrhea can be debilitating and isolating, and as many as five percent of the population, or 15 million Americans may suffer from the cond...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
Food Sleuth Radio, Jay Feldman Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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What are the environmental and public health effects of GMO crops, related herbicides and pesticides? How can we protect our loved ones and our foo...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
Variations On A Bagel
From: Alison Bruzek
Caption: The bagels in question.
Uncovering what makes a New York Bagel so special and how a worldwide chain like Dunkin' Donuts competes in the city.

  • Added: Sep 12, 2013
  • Length: 05:17
The Seed Underground
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Janisse Ray
Across the country, a renaissance of local food, local farming and place based culinary traditions is taking hold. Yet, something small, critically...

  • Added: Aug 07, 2012
  • Length: 28:57
For Teen, Loneliness, Weight Go Together
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Tipping the Scales: Examining Obesity in New Hampshire
Caption: Tony before his weight loss
In Part I of our series, Tipping the Scales, we look at how obesity affected one young man's life -- and how he got a grip on it.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2011
  • Length: 05:41