Todays' Daily Audio Program
Harvesting Ice the Old Fashioned Way
Every year at this time, folks in Tully, New York, harvest ice out of a frozen lake with horsepower and antique tools.
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This Month's Feature Story
Did Dinosaurs Have Feathers?
Visit with Paleobiologist Sterling Nesbitt in his lab at Virginia Tech and you get to travel back in time to the Triassic Period....More
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Pulse Picks: Issues in the News
"Welcome to Paradise!" A pair of binoculars dangling from his neck, ornithologist Reggie Donatelli stands on the lawn of the Fazenda Rio Negro and invites me to survey the surroundings. ...More
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Audio Adventures
Rare birds and frogs, a cool evening breeze, stinging trees, leeches. Its all in a day's work for climate researchers in a cloud forest. Experience a day in the life of a scientist in the Australian highlands with this immersive audio-visual adventure.
Four hundred years apart, they are bound by a mission to rescue our world, aided by the mysterious presence of the mounds. Thousands of these ancient earthworks once dotted the landscape of North America. We still don't know why they were created. Sacred Mounds suggests they are as important today as when they were made over a thousand years ago.
Sacred Mounds weaves the stories of two men, each a stranger in a strange land. With the help of two remarkable women, they must find a way to save our planet and return home.
