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Unprecedented Crime: Peter Carter and Climate Science Denial

Airs at: Tue, 06/12/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
  Dr. Peter Carter is founder of the Climate Emergency Institute.  He has served as an expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change’s fifth climate change assessment in 2014. He has also presented on the implications of global climate change on food se... Read more

The Digital Divide: Brian Eno

Airs at: Fri, 06/08/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  The Digital Divide
In this episode of The Digital Divide we'll hear the third annual Andrew Carnegie Lecture at Edinburgh College of Art delivered by influential musician and producer Brian Eno. The celebrated artist discusses his life and career, the creative process and multi-dimensional ha... Read more

Losing the Nobel Prize: A Conversation with Brian Keating

Airs at: Tue, 05/22/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
  It is not unusual to have a Nobel Prize winner write a book. But what about those who lose the Nobel Prize? Not too many write that book. Dr. Brian Keating did. He is an astrophysicist who teaches at the University of California at San Diego.  He almost won the Nobel Pri... Read more

Mount St. Helens @38

Airs at: Mon, 05/28/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Every May 18, I spend time remembering the eruption of Mt. St. Helens that day in 1980. But this year I had the opportunity to commemorate the 38th anniversary of the eruption by hiking the Hummocks Trail in the blast zone on the mountain’s north face with Pacific Northwest... Read more

Silk Poems

Airs at: Thu, 05/24/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Silk is compatible with body tissues; our immune system accepts it on surfaces as sensitive as the human brain. In conjunction with Tufts University’s cutting edge research on liquefied silk, Jen Bervin mixes poetry with medical technology in the form of a silk bio-senso... Read more

An Idiot's Field Guide to US Public and Tribal Land Management

Airs at: Sat, 03/31/2018 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Threshold Shift
  To make some of this information easier to get to (less scrolling than on the episode page) here it is in a hopefully more digestible format. You can hear a somewhat impromptu interview about these topics here. All opinions expressed were my own. For clarification, there... Read more

This Land is Our Land

Produced for:  Threshold Shift
  For those who missed the Friday night airing of Threshold Shift, the audio is now streaming. Hear the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante and perspectives from... Read more

This Land is Our Land

Produced for:  Threshold Shift
  Get ready, my friends, as Threshold Shift will be coming back on air in the wee hours between Friday, March 30 and Saturday, March 31 with a VERY special episode featuring recordings by Dr. Bernie Krause recorded in Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante, and the Arctic N... Read more

This Land Is Our Land

Airs at: Sat, 03/31/2018 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Threshold Shift
Hello and welcome back to Threshold Shift. I am your host Nicole Martin. We have weathered the winter and now we are back on the air for every fifth Saturday of the year bringing you more long-form soundscape immersion. On this our first episode of 2018, we have a very spe... Read more

The Real Causes and Solutions to Depression

Airs at: Mon, 03/26/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
  Johann Hari suffered from depression since he was a child and took anti-depressants as a teenager because he was told that depression is the result of a chemical imbalance in the brain. He went on a quest to see if this is really the case. In his book,  Lost Connections:... Read more