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Learn a bit about the women and men of the IIP who monitor icebergs in the northern reaches of our Atlantic ocean.
- Added: Jan 15, 2019
- Length: 02:59
The U.S. Navy attempted to develop a shark attack repellant after many sailors were attacked during WWII. The first step was the formation of a “Sh...
- Added: Jul 19, 2018
- Length: 24:15
Science education occurs in juvenile detention centers, as part of the schooling available to young people there so that they can receive their hig...
- Added: Jun 12, 2018
- Length: 40:25
Apache plume (Fallugia paradoxa) is very common around out little homestead. There are thickets of it all along the banks of the Ol’ Guajolote. It ...
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 11:28
How can we harness the power of games for education? In Part 1 of the episode, the podcast explores how the PAX South 2017 gaming conference inspi...
- Added: May 05, 2018
- Length: 40:18
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
Velvet mesquite is the predominate native mesquite of southern Arizona. If you go west toward California, you will start running into western honey...
- Added: Jan 17, 2018
- Length: 05:18
In 1993, a man in Steamboat Springs, Colorado was found dead in his home. He’d been burned with a stun gun, hit with a shovel, and shot several tim...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 20:56
- Purchases: 2
I don’t think there is anything more heartbreaking than seeing a road killed pet. Well, honestly, I have a hard enough time with road killed wildli...
- Added: Dec 31, 2017
- Length: 05:28
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
This week on Art Beat, we talk to Ryuta Nakajima to discuss his exhibit Squid and I, at the MMAM. Nakajima’s work investigates the origin of visual...
- Added: Oct 27, 2017
- Length: 15:27
Perry Mason themes galore and further trial episodes of the young lady who apportioned axe chops between her father and step-mother... and 911 was ...
- Added: Sep 28, 2017
- Length: 02:20:37
Too Much Emotional Intelligence
- Added: Sep 05, 2017
- Length: 02:00
Plastic on the Waxworm Menu
- Added: Aug 22, 2017
- Length: 02:00
“If you’re listening to this while driving a car, obviously, leave your eyes open.” In this special appendix to our recent episode on psychoacousti...
- Added: Jun 15, 2017
- Length: 08:35
There's a flipside to dehydration that kills athletes and otherwise healthy people every year. And it's on the rise.
- Added: Jun 01, 2017
- Length: 29:55
- Purchases: 2
- Added: May 12, 2017
- Length: 02:00
- Added: Mar 28, 2017
- Length: 02:00
Arizona poppy, Mexican poppy and summer poppy are some of the common names for the beautiful annual wildflower Kallstroemia grandiflora.
- Added: Mar 19, 2017
- Length: 04:56
I suspect I talk about point-leaf manzantia (Arctostaphylos pungens) every February, as it is the time of year when I’m feeling florally deprived a...
- Added: Mar 16, 2017
- Length: 05:08
March 11, 2017 Inca doves are found all along the borderlands and southward into Mexico. The common name should probably be Aztec dove, as the Inca...
- Added: Mar 16, 2017
- Length: 05:26
Petey loves Platanus wrightii and daydreams of streets lined in huge unruly sycamores. He’s a dreamer.
Of course sycamores in the wild are magnifi...
- Added: Mar 15, 2017
- Length: 04:53
Avocados vs. the Butterflies
- Added: Mar 02, 2017
- Length: 02:00
Why Newts Don’t Wear Glasses
- Added: Feb 21, 2017
- Length: 02:00
