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World-renowned soil biologist Dr. Elaine Ingham and her Soil Food Web Approach [https://www.soilfoodweb.com/] has successfully been implemented to...
- Added: Dec 05, 2022
- Length: 58:00
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
The Journey of Man, A Genetic Odyssey Around 60,000 years ago, a man – identical to us in all important genetic respects – lived in Africa. Every ...
- Added: Jul 08, 2022
- Length: 29:00
Today, we have a question from Michael in Charlestown, Rhode Island. He wants to know: does a charger still use some power when it's plugged into a...
Bought by Raven Radio and WRFA-LP
- Added: Jul 07, 2022
- Length: 03:59
- Purchases: 2
We look into the truth about compostable foodservice and packaging with Erin Levine, Resource Recovery Manager at World Centric [https://www.worldc...
- Added: Jun 27, 2022
- Length: 58:00
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
With enough pressure and heat, just about anything with enough carbon in it could become a diamond. And thankfully for us, when a scientist was ask...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Apr 08, 2022
- Length: 04:56
- Purchases: 1
In cases of emergency, lizards pop off their tails to get away. Evolution made it possible for that tail to stay on when tugged but not twisted. It...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Mar 31, 2022
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
Anything that scatters when you turn on the light...does it have a personality? Is the cockroach urge to run an indicator of a bold or timid world ...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Mar 30, 2022
- Length: 05:33
- Purchases: 1
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
In 1978, Dr. Alexander Schauss and a research assistant mixed 1 gallon of white latex paint with a pint of shiny red and created P-618 aka Baker Mi...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Feb 16, 2022
- Length: 05:06
- Purchases: 1
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
There are around 30 species of Porophyllum, the majority of which are found in Mexico and southward. Around me in the borderlands of Arizona Sonora...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:52
Xanthisma gracilis is an annual and found all over the southwest and into Mexico as well. Duh. A common name is slender goldenweed or spiny zinnia....
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 05:03
A postcard from Earth's largest living being: the Pando Aspen Grove near Fish Lake, Utah.
Bought by KTNA
- Added: Dec 13, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
In an unexpected turn of events, two predators with very different hunting styles work cooperatively. During the summer months, badgers and coyotes...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Oct 11, 2021
- Length: 04:32
- Purchases: 1
Imagine waking up from a nap to discover that you have the ability to compose music in your head. What a shock that would be! There are people who ...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WRFA-LP
- Added: Oct 11, 2021
- Length: 04:51
- Purchases: 2
Apologies--we had sound quality issues. We did not record from the bottom of a metal trash can while hiding from mystery blobs falling from the sky...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Oct 11, 2021
- Length: 04:53
- Purchases: 1
This week on the show: How do astronauts deal with their sex drives when they're up in space for months on end? And why is it so embarrassing to ...
- Added: Oct 08, 2021
- Length: 30:00
Brood X, as you might be hearing, has emerged and they are looking to do the one thing they’ve been waiting 17 years to do – mate! The loud buzzing...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jun 04, 2021
- Length: 19:04
- Purchases: 1
Sebastian (Sebo) Diaz is a rising junior at the UofA studying Biomedical Engineering.
- Added: Jun 01, 2021
- Length: 04:12
In a pitched battle against voracious tomato fruit worms, (aka. corn earworms or cotton bollworm) tomato plants have one sneaky defense...a wasp. I...
Bought by WRFA-LP and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: May 24, 2021
- Length: 05:03
- Purchases: 2
