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In this episode we investigate the science beneath our streets. First how a team of amateur speleologists are keeping Howe Caverns safe. Then a loo...
- Added: Apr 30, 2013
- Length: 16:35
One month after the Mayan apocalypse of 2012, the Generation Anthropocene team of Leslie Chang, Mike Osborne, and Miles Traer chat about the relati...
- Added: Apr 14, 2013
- Length: 23:30
If you build it, they will come. Or, at least that's what the Bloomington Community Orchard hopes! And, we're cooking an all-vegan Cinco de Mayo.
- Added: Apr 11, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Robert Jevne discusses his former love of the Chicago Cubs in a lighthearted tone and how their incessant losing seasons defeated his passion for b...
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- Added: Apr 04, 2013
- Length: 01:02
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There is a breed of modern day treasure hunters who need the Internet, a knack for orienting and solving puzzles, and a sense of adventure. They w...
- Added: Mar 28, 2013
- Length: 04:29
In this episode we see old bones made new again. First the ongoing restoration of Philadelphia's 19th Street Baptist Church. Then a discussion abou...
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 17:11
Mitch Skinner looks at the use of bikes as a symbol for freedom and for protest.
- Added: Mar 05, 2013
- Length: 04:58
This week's stories are all about being outsiders. Stories by Judith Gardner, Frank Fusco, and Alan Reese. True stories told by the Southerners who...
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Michael Sistig Creates the Anti Ark at El Segundo Beach. The open air art installation consists of shipping containers, an emaciated polar bear and...
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 07:48
Two recipes using kale, a snack and a salad. Brad Dunn talks dessert wine. Harvest Moon Flower Farm sells bouquets that are uniquely local and seas...
- Added: Feb 06, 2013
- Length: 29:00
WTIP's Ann Possis visited with Washburn, Wisc., musician and artist Marlin Ledin Jan. 18 about his project to record the ice sounds of Lake Superio...
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 20:32
- Purchases: 2
In Kassel, Germany, Cathy Byrd meets Swiss artist Christian Philipp Müller to talk about Swiss Chard Ferry, his gardening project for documenta (13).
- Added: Dec 17, 2012
- Length: 19:50
When Provincetown artist Marian Roth learns that a seaside hot dog stand is about to be razed because of coastal erosion, she sees the chance to tu...
- Added: Dec 12, 2012
- Length: 05:22
- Added: Dec 06, 2012
- Length: 04:29
WTIP's Ann Possis visited recently with polar adventurer, educator and guide Eric Larsen about his upcoming adventure, Cycle South. Eric, the first...
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- Added: Nov 27, 2012
- Length: 14:21
- Purchases: 1
Otters are painting at the Great Lakes Aquarium! WTIP's Bob Carter chatted recently with Tara Lieberg, otter keeper at the aquarium in Duluth, abou...
- Added: Oct 17, 2012
- Length: 15:38
Buck Benson of WTIP chatted recently with Dr. Sam Wasser, director of the Center for Conservation Biology at the University of Washington, about an...
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- Added: Oct 10, 2012
- Length: 21:52
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On today's show we track the evolution of smog from symbol of industrial progress to public-health catastrophe.
- Added: Oct 09, 2012
- Length: 14:19
People used to think alarm calls made by birds just meant "danger, danger!" But it turns out, birds are more specific than that. They can even aler...
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- Added: Oct 03, 2012
- Length: 08:10
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A Crash Course in Camping - By Noel Clark: In 2007 the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources researched why people in Minnesota were spending l...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 01:34
We bring you some of our favorite segments from past Distillations episodes this week: animal communication in the Sonoran Desert and the toll of a...
- Added: Aug 04, 2012
- Length: 13:33
From: Deborah Van Fleet
While much of Iowa is now dealing with drought, last summer Hamburg, IA residents held up to 17 feet of floodwater at bay. Eight feet of dirt was ...
- Added: Jul 23, 2012
- Length: 03:54
Ramps, the first edible sign of spring, are popping up throughout the woods of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. But this wild cousin of garlic and o...
- Added: Jul 13, 2012
- Length: 03:25
Rolf came to Kenya in 1973 in search of "Real Africa" and he found it. Few people know that Rolf is now a proud Kenyan citizen. I interviewed him a...
- Added: Jun 15, 2012
- Length: 13:28
A Home for the Wild, by Mark Sheely: While lion and tiger cubs are cute and cuddly, they grow up and pack on five hundred pounds, or more. Yet some...
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- Added: Jun 15, 2012
- Length: 01:28
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