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Skeptic Check: Hostile Climate
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Hostile Climate, Credit: Seth Shostak
It’s a record we didn’t want to break. Carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere is at an all-time high. Meanwhile an op-ed in a leading new...

  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
Going Viral
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Going Viral, Credit: Seth Shostak
Discover how viruses go from birds to pigs to you, how fossil viruses got into your genome, whether E.T. might be a virus, and what it takes for id...

  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
Potter-Painter-Priest Johnson Loud
From: WTIP
Series: Anishinaabe Way: Lives, Words and Stories of Ojibwe People
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Johnson Loud Jr. is a potter, a painter, and an Episcopal Priest who has served his parish at Prairie Island, Minnesota for 15 years. He is from th...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 09:11
  • Purchases: 1
Seth's Wine Cellar
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Seth's Wine Cellar, Credit: Seth Shostak
In this potpourri show: from atomic clocks … to solar storms … to gold particles that might make gasoline obsolete … there are lots of science surp...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, Royalton Community Radio, KSKQ, and WNJR


  • Added: Apr 08, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Me'tis artist Christi Belcourt
From: WTIP
Series: Anishinaabe Way: Lives, Words and Stories of Ojibwe People
Caption: Angela Swedberg Vamps
Me'tis artist Christi Belcourt lives near Manitoulin Island, Ontario. She creates intricate paintings inspired by the traditional beading process a...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 05, 2013
  • Length: 07:52
  • Purchases: 1
Mummy Heart Disease
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
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Mummies from a variety of different cultures show signs of heart disease.

  • Added: Apr 02, 2013
  • Length: 01:00
Contemporary Anishinaabe Artist Carl Beam, Thunder Bay Art Gallery
From: WTIP
Series: Anishinaabe Way: Lives, Words and Stories of Ojibwe People
Caption: Thunder Bay Art Gallery Curatorial Resident Suzanne Morrissette with Carl Beam's "Exorcism."
The Thunder Bay Art Gallery is currently hosting a retrospective of the work of Anishinaabe artist Carl Beam. In this edition of "Anishinaabe Way: ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 08:45
  • Purchases: 1
Long Version - Colin Woodard Interview Parts 1 & 2
From: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow- Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Author Colin Woodard interview on Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow

  • Added: Feb 17, 2013
  • Length: 58:24
Cultural Regionalization - Colin Woodard Part Two
From: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow- Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Part Two - Generational discussion with author Colin Woodard

  • Added: Feb 17, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Cultural Regionalization - Colin Woodard Part One
From: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow- Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Author Colin Woodard discusses his recent book in generational terms on Yesterday Today & Tomorrow. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Say La Vie
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Say La Vie, Credit: Seth Shostak
Researchers discover life in a subglacial Antarctic lake. James Cameron takes the first solo dive to the deepest, darkest part of the ocean.

Bought by KAZU, WOUB, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KREV-LP, and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 11, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
Charlotte Caldwell, author of 'Voices and Visions'
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
Caption: Visions and Voices: Montana's One-Room Schoolhouses
During this program, photographer and author Charlotte Caldwell talks about the importance of preserving the stories represented by one-room school...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 05, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Mikie Show #58, Carolyn
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Woo boy another big show comes your way! This time we speak with historian, curator, author and lecturer, Carolyn O’Bagy Davis. Credited with virtu...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2013
  • Length: 28:02
Beats, Rhymes and Laughs: Culture As a Tool for Racial Justice
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Artists and creative people have always used culture as a tool for social change. On this edition, excerpts from a panel on racial justice, culture...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Travis Payer
From: WTIP
Series: Anishinaabe Way: Lives, Words and Stories of Ojibwe People
Caption: Travis Payer at Sugarbush in Spring
Travis Payer is Nebraska Ho Chunk and Bad River Ojibwe. He has lived in the Minneapolis St. Paul area his whole life and has been a Minneapolis Fir...

Bought by Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 07:05
  • Purchases: 2
American Dream - Minus My Mom
From: Radio Rookies
Series: Radio Rookies: McBurney YMCA 2012
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Rebelling against your parents is the norm for most teens in America, but for some young people who immigrate to the U.S. without one or both of th...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2013
  • Length: 06:35
Fresh Talk: Ballroom Marfa
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh TALK
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On a Spring 2012 road trip in the American Southwest, Cathy Byrd meets members of Ballroom Marfa’s creative team to talk about their vision for a D...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2013
  • Length: 16:09
Susan Zimmerman
From: WTIP
Series: Anishinaabe Way: Lives, Words and Stories of Ojibwe People
Caption: Susan Zimmerman
Susan Zimmerman is a Grand Portage band member who spent her early childhood on Hungry Jack Lake. She is an avid hunter, fisherwoman, and wild ric...

Bought by Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, and KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 21, 2012
  • Length: 06:19
  • Purchases: 3
Before the Big Bang
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Before the Big Bang, Credit: Seth Shostak
It’s one of the biggest questions you can ask: has the universe existed forever? The Big Bang is supposedly the moment it all began. But now scie...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Dec 17, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Gene Hack, Man
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Gene Hack, Man, Credit: Seth Shostak
Computers and DNA have a few things in common. Both use digital codes and are prone to viruses. And, it seems, both can be hacked. From restori...

Bought by KREV-LP and KUNM


  • Added: Dec 10, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
Doomsday Live, Part 2
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Doomsday Live, Part 2, Credit: Seth Shostak
If there is only one show you hear about the end of the world, let it be this one. Recorded before a live audience at the Computer History Museum ...

Bought by WCPN, KREV-LP, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
Doomsday Live, Part I
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Doomsday Live, Part I, Credit: Molly Bentley
If there is only one show you hear about the end of the world, let it be this one. Recorded before a live audience at the Computer History Museum ...

Bought by WCPN, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KREV-LP, and KSKQ


  • Added: Nov 26, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Justin Freeman: Words from a Pedicab Elite
From: Sam Houdek
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A local pedicabber reflects on his past three years of work.

  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 03:16
Skeptic Check: Zombies Aren't Real
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Zombies Aren't Real, Credit: Seth Shostak
Writer Guy Harrison on why Zombies might be a ghosts from our Pleistocene past, and how mathematical modeling of these mythical creatures could hel...

Bought by KUNM, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Nov 12, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
Going Global
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Going Global, Credit: Seth Shostak
Writer David Quammen on what it takes for an animal disease to become a human pandemic. Also, was hurricane Sandy a man-made disaster?

Bought by KVSC, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 3