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Emergency medicine and helicopter flight physician Mike Abernethy recounts an unexpected run-in at his local Walmart that made him feel as if he’d ...
- Added: May 04, 2023
- Length: 46:55
OB/GYN Jackie Howitt and pediatrician Gretchen Volk bring us into the deserted airport where they first met in April 2020 on their way to offer COV...
- Added: May 02, 2023
- Length: 53:32
At my age I should being thinking more of getting rid of clutter rather than adding to it. I like to tell our daughters Katy and Sarah that some da...
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 04:23
The riparian woodland Ms. Mesquitey and I were hiking in is at around 6,000 ft. in elevation. I think that may be the upper limits of the elf owls'...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:33
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
Our one flowering wildflower on this wonderful day was the very pretty perennial called penny cress or candy tufts. It is the former Thlaspi fendl...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:36
There are 2 species of walnuts here in the borderlands of southern Arizona; the Arizona walnut (Juglans major) that I talked about and a species ca...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:34
The scientific name of the ringtail is Bassariscus astutus. It’s in the Procyonidae, the same family as our local borderlands’ critters the raccoon...
- Added: Jun 01, 2021
- Length: 04:56
We revisit Sarah Aronson's interview with Doug Chadwick from 2017. Wildlife biologist and author Doug Chadwick engages in a lively discussion aroun...
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- Added: Jan 26, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
So many native plants are ready for some of that monsoonal moisture and I am too. Come on summer rains!
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 04:55
Mala Mujer or Cnidoscolus angustidens is an interesting plant in Euphorbiaceae, the spurge family. It’s found in southeastern Arizona and south in...
- Added: Jun 19, 2019
- Length: 05:09
Well, I’m not sure I can add a whole lot more to this true story, but here are a few ringtail facts that are fun. Okay, fun for nature geeks like y...
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 05:10
I suppose the thinking is that any wildflowers blooming along the side of the road will beautify that road and who cares what’s in the hydro-seed m...
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 05:09
At one point when I was reading about the age of water I came across some research indicating that some of the water molecules we drink could be 4....
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:09
A generation of young men missed out on the HPV vaccine. Now, Side Effects Public Media's 29-year-old correspondent wonders if that’s putting him a...
- Added: Aug 22, 2016
- Length: 03:23
For some bears, weird spring weather was a wake-up call. For humans, not so much.
- Added: May 15, 2015
- Length: 08:47
Episode 3 - 2/23/13 - What would happen if someone stole the One True Kilogram? How would the world go about replacing – or displacing – it? Today,...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 12:52
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
Episode 1 - 10/16/12 - The latest headlines in academia, a bake sale for planetary science, and The Thesis Defense: A game show where the questions...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 15:41
- Added: Jun 22, 2012
- Length: 07:34
- Added: Mar 16, 2012
- Length: 07:08
- Added: Dec 26, 2010
- Length: :18
- Purchases: 1
