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Jonathan Elmer, director of Indiana University's College Arts and Humanities Institute discusses Herman Melville's novella, Benito Cereno, a master...
- Added: Jun 05, 2013
- Length: 29:46
WTIP's Dave Seaton chatted recently with the delightful Mary Roach, author of quirky science books like "Stiff," "Bonk," and "Packing for Mars." H...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Mar 30, 2013
- Length: 22:04
- Purchases: 1
Aaron Wenger is a retired educator. He is an engineer that became an educator. He is KAXE's staff physicist, and a poet.
A daily reminder that, in...
- Added: Sep 12, 2012
- Length: 02:37
Ron Capps helps returning service members write their way home. [27:06]
Bought by WRVO
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 27:38
- Purchases: 1
Dr. David Levy, neurosurgeon and author, discusses the role that prayer can play in the healing relationship between physician and patient.
- Added: Jun 22, 2012
- Length: 29:29
Physicians have long been compared with detectives, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, was himself a physician. This episode f...
- Added: Jun 22, 2012
- Length: 28:52
During this program, science writer Jim Robbins talks about the importance of trees and reads from 'The Man Who Planted Trees: Lost Groves, Champio...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: May 06, 2012
- Length: 29:02
- Purchases: 1
Radio Curious discusses the close relationship we humans have with other primates, with Dario Maestriprieri, author of “Games Primate Play: An Unde...
- Added: Apr 30, 2012
- Length: 29:02
Poet James Richardson has called himself an "accidental aphorist," but his well-crafted works are no accident. He reads from his 2010 book, BY THE ...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Feb 01, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
A report on Tuenti, a unique blend of American and Spanish content that is competing with Facebook in Spain
- Added: Nov 14, 2011
- Length: 05:15
During the first half of this program, Marc Hendrix talks about his book, 'Geology Underfoot in Yellowstone Country.' In the second half, KC Glaste...
Bought by KREV-LP and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Jun 07, 2011
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
Well-regarded amongst fellow poets, Gjertrud Schnackenberg talks in this rare interview with NEW LETTERS magazine editor Robert Stewart about the t...
- Added: Mar 23, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Jesse Cohen discussed the best American science writing in 2010.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Oct 14, 2010
- Length: 25:23
- Purchases: 1
Host Francesca Rheannon spends the hour with poet Philip Schultz talking about his poetry, his method of teaching writing — and his dyslexia. His l...
Bought by WXXI
- Added: Aug 11, 2010
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 1
How do we make the big decisions in our lives? Who to vote for?-or who to choose as a life mate or form an opinion about politics or war? Most of ...
- Added: Jun 08, 2010
- Length: 58:01
Brynie's latest book is the focus of this program: BRAIN SENSE: THE SCIENCE OF THE SENSES AND HOW WE PROCESS THE WORLD AROUND US.
Bought by WFIU and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Apr 29, 2010
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
What would you do when a seemingly unhappy or self entertaining bull is running full speed, headed right for you… and what does your pet mean to yo...
- Added: Jan 26, 2010
- Length: 29:02
What is the importance forgetting has played throughout human history? What will be the effects on society, relationships and humanity now that so...
- Added: Jan 12, 2010
- Length: 58:22
The conclusion of Tom Stoppard's crash course in landscape gardening, literature, and chaos theory. Plus, a special BBC play about a heart transpla...
Bought by WCPN, WRVO, Nevada Public Radio, KUOW, KRCB-FM and more
- Added: Jan 12, 2010
- Length: 01:57:58
- Purchases: 6
A crash course in mathematics, landscape gardening, literature, and chaos theory, courtesy of Tom Stoppard.
Bought by WCPN, WRVO, Nevada Public Radio, KUOW, WBEZ and more
- Added: Jan 04, 2010
- Length: 01:57:58
- Purchases: 6
Why do you buy what you buy? What do you hope to gain from it and will it make you a happier, sexier and more successful person? In these days of e...
- Added: Dec 07, 2009
- Length: 29:00
The development of the large human head and broad shoulders provide many evolutionary benefits for our species but also require assistance for a sa...
- Added: Nov 30, 2009
- Length: 29:00
The message of Fahrenheit 451 in the age of DVD and electronic books: We run the risk that the literary and intellectual canon of the coming centur...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 03:34
Robert Harris's novel Pompeii does an incredible job of teaching about Roman Civil engineering and waterworks, although make no mistake, this alway...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:44
Friedman goes inside his son's head to write first person examination of Tourette's Syndrome
- Added: Aug 13, 2009
- Length: 33:31
