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Caption: Jessie Veeder (Scofield)
A reflection on earlier ranch life in winter.

Bought by WAMC


  • Added: May 16, 2011
  • Length: 05:07
  • Purchases: 1
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A very enlightening generational discussion on WELFARE

  • Added: May 14, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: James Otteson
Political freedom lies at the core of any democracy. Yet some people claim that even countries like America and England aren’t free enough. What...

Bought by KFOK-LP


  • Added: May 13, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Memorial Day Poster, Credit: Beverly & Pack
Part one of a two-hour remembrance for Memorial Day... Since the ending of the Civil War in 1865, America has lost over 700,000 soldiers. For Memor...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2011
  • Length: 44:32
Caption: Mark Lehner, Credit: pbs.org/nova
Archaeologist Mark Lehner says that his field is really about the art of observation.

Bought by Radio Newark, KRUA, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 22, 2011
  • Length: 01:16
  • Purchases: 3
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ripeness as function of rainfall

  • Added: Apr 21, 2011
  • Length: 01:48
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For over a century, U.S. farmers have strived for quantity of food. Quality, though, is at least as important.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 05:26
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Sleeping in a cave along Australia's West coast, I could hear, but not join, an ancient corroboree.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 05:28
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What catalyzes change in my life? Although fear and pain top the list, only inspiration is a sustainable fuel.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 05:36

  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 03:10
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: With Camera in Hand, Credit: Doug Brown
Being hidden in plain sight is kind of unfortunate. Lots of good things are overlooked that way. Somehow these treasures don’t grab your attention ...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2011
  • Length: 58:30
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Edward Harden Peeples, V was one of the most unlikely people to become a civil rights activist. His forebears owned upward of 250 slaves and both h...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 26:07
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When I first walked into the nursing home, I saw the residents as "living cadavers." Later I came to love them and celebrate their lives.

Bought by WAMC


  • Added: Mar 17, 2011
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Walking on a beach on Australia's east coast, I witnessed my birthday, and the birth of a new year.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2011
  • Length: 05:11
Caption: Deborah Brandt
Every day, politicians publish books telling the stories of their lives and their political views. But more often than not these “autobiographies” ...

Bought by KFOK-LP


  • Added: Mar 17, 2011
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Carol Gilligan
Do men think differently than women? Is moral reasoning inherently male? Is psychology biased against relationships and the women who value them? T...

Bought by KFOK-LP


  • Added: Feb 25, 2011
  • Length: 52:57
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Aldo Leopold, Credit: Aldo Leopold Foundation
A celebration of the life Aldo Leopold, the man who wrote “A Sand County Almanac” in 1949, and introduced Ethics as the fundamental concept that sh...

Bought by KUNM, KWMR-FM, WTIP, KUOW, KRCB-FM and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 10
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3 'This I Believe' essays from older, middle and young generations on Race

  • Added: Feb 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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Minnesota State Representative, retired teacher and author Dean Urdahl discusses the 1862 Dakota War and Its Aftermath. Urdahl not only has a fami...

Bought by WRPI


  • Added: Feb 03, 2011
  • Length: 36:06
  • Purchases: 1
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In death is the possibility of harvest - making life from the fruits of the passing season.

  • Added: Feb 03, 2011
  • Length: 05:25
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This week, Radio Curious visits with Kevin Nugent, Ph.D., author of “Your Baby Is Speaking to You: A Visual guide to the Amazing Behaviors of Your...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
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Celebrating the birthday of my 70 year old friend Louise, who is in full bloom.

  • Added: Jan 21, 2011
  • Length: 05:41
Caption: Arthur C. Danto
What is art? What is beauty? How are they related to truth? These questions lay at the core of philosophical inquiry. Host Jack Russel Weinstein of...

Bought by KFOK-LP


  • Added: Jan 12, 2011
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 1
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I've spent much of my life ruled by the long-armed reach of the clock. Now, focusing on the present moment, I'm learning to live outside time.

  • Added: Jan 05, 2011
  • Length: 05:18
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At six years old, in my family's barren living room, Santa furnished our hearts with love.

  • Added: Jan 05, 2011
  • Length: 05:48