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Can reading poetry make you a better writer? Grant and Martha discuss how reading poetry improves your prose. Also, how linguists guess where you c...
- Added: Dec 06, 2012
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 7
Do Americans use the same sign language as the Brits? And what do Japanese people use instead of "umm?" Grant and Martha cover language shifts acro...
- Added: Nov 28, 2012
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 6
What do you call it when you roll through a stop sign without ever coming to a complete stop? A California stop, a Michigan stop -- or something el...
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- Added: Nov 21, 2012
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 1
You dream of writing the great American novel, but to make ends meet, you spend your days writing boring corporate reports. There's a difference be...
- Added: Nov 14, 2012
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 6
Listen back as KUT’s Rebecca McInroy talks about what it means to be “American” with UT Anthropology Professor John Hartigan, The Department Chair ...
- Added: Nov 08, 2012
- Length: 01:01:51
Remember the classic films Dogumentary and $3000? Those were their working titles, before they became Best In Show and Pretty Woman. We look at how...
- Added: Nov 08, 2012
- Length: 54:01
- Purchases: 5
American icon Cole Porter learned piano and violin at age six. He became very good at both, but he disliked the violin's harsh sound and so his ene...
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- Added: Nov 02, 2012
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
How do we know that there was voter fraud in ancient Athens? Pottery shards tell the tale.
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 04:03
You've been reading a book but you're just not into it. How do you quit it, guilt-free? How do you break up with a book? Also, what do you ask for ...
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 54:01
- Purchases: 6
Joseph and John Gindele are twin brothers that grew up on the unforgiving streets of Yorkville on Manhattan’s ethnic Upper East Side over 60 years ...
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- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 04:50
- Purchases: 1
Joaquin Miller and other writers have a camp on the slopes of Mt. Shasta. To that camp comes a tenderfoot newspaper editor. He catches some trout f...
- Added: Oct 29, 2012
- Length: 08:08
A youth left to his own devices goes out on a log over the Sacramento River. Then he senses he's not alone. A bear has gotten on the same log and i...
- Added: Oct 29, 2012
- Length: 12:15
Two men and a boy were taking a load of wheat to a mill and while they stopped to rest for the night one of them played the fiddle. On the other si...
- Added: Oct 29, 2012
- Length: 07:27
What kind of power did ancient Athenians have over elected officials? Eligible voters screened candidates for several positions before they took th...
- Added: Oct 26, 2012
- Length: 04:11
Waffling. Flip-flopping. We hear a lot about the pros and cons of politicians changing their minds in modern politics. So how long has that debate ...
- Added: Oct 26, 2012
- Length: 04:08
Everyone knows you don't start a sentence with "But." But why? We sort out the confusion over this little word. Also, how voice recognition technol...
- Added: Oct 24, 2012
- Length: 54:01
- Purchases: 6
What do you call a guy with a bald pate? A chrome dome? Maybe the lucky fellow is sporting a solar panel for a sex machine. Also, which would you r...
- Added: Oct 17, 2012
- Length: 54:01
- Purchases: 6
Try to imagine drinking your way through this book! That’s what author Leslie M. M. Blume has done in order to provide recipes for 144 cocktails.
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- Added: Oct 17, 2012
- Length: 13:16
- Purchases: 1
VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman and composer & arts blogger Brian Rosen explore election season songs and the history of presidential candidates’ singi...
- Added: Oct 17, 2012
- Length: 58:00
This week, forensic linguists use what they know about speech and writing to testify in courtrooms. And get out your hankies! Martha and Grant are ...
- Added: Oct 11, 2012
- Length: 54:01
- Purchases: 6
Kelden Lin, A.J. Cook and Jenny Hong spent six weeks at Phillips Exeter Academy's Summer Session in Exeter, New Hampshire. As part of their Broadca...
- Added: Oct 10, 2012
- Length: 04:06
How did the word "gay" go from meaning "happy" to "homosexual"? Martha and Grant discuss the evolution of this word. Also, why are elementary schoo...
- Added: Oct 04, 2012
- Length: 54:01
- Purchases: 6
Excerpts from the oral histories collected by the Santa Fe Living Treasures' committee as part of its work honoring community elders.
- Added: Oct 01, 2012
- Length: 27:43
Remember getting caught sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G? Grant and Martha wax nostalgic on some classic schoolyard rhymes. What do you call your o...
- Added: Sep 27, 2012
- Length: 54:01
- Purchases: 6
The tales of Paul Bunyan and his friends have captivated Minnesotans for over 100 years. Statutes of the lumberjack can be found in the towns of A...
- Added: Sep 25, 2012
- Length: 05:56
