Episodios

  • Book explores the hidden artistry of prosthetic eyes in Iowa City

    Book explores the hidden artistry of prosthetic eyes in Iowa City
    Aug 19 2025
    A conversation with Dan Roche, author of Eyes By Hand, and Iowa City ocularist Lindsay Wagner-Pronk.
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    48 m
  • Crash course in tree identification

    Crash course in tree identification
    Aug 16 2025
    Anyone can appreciate the beauty of a tree, but to understand trees and care for them properly, it’s important to go a little deeper.
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    48 m
  • Efforts to bring back prairie grass that once covered 85% of Iowa

    Efforts to bring back prairie grass that once covered 85% of Iowa
    Aug 15 2025
    Prairie experts Jim Pease and Mark Muller talk about what we can learn from the prairie and the wildlife that live in it.
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    48 m
  • A look into the butter cooler with the Iowa State Fair butter sculptor

    A look into the butter cooler with the Iowa State Fair butter sculptor
    Aug 14 2025
    Today, a conversation with Iowa State Fair butter sculptor Sarah Pratt. And, we talk with the owner of a new boozy bookstore in West Branch.
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    48 m
  • The 1937 novel 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' still moves readers today

    The 1937 novel 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' still moves readers today
    Aug 13 2025
    For the Talk of Iowa Book Club, a conversation about Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God.
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    48 m
  • The role of ag in the U.S. becoming a global superpower

    The role of ag in the U.S. becoming a global superpower
    Aug 12 2025
    Author Peter Simons discusses his book Global Heartland: Cultivating the American Century on the Midwestern Farm. Then, an ISU wildlife extension specialist offers a new resource for Iowans who want to support wildlife.
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    48 m
  • How fireflies light up our summer nights

    How fireflies light up our summer nights
    Aug 9 2025
    Today, entomologist Zach Schumm demystify these bio-luminescent insects.
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    48 m
  • Iowa native explores the interplay between education and mental health in new memoir

    Iowa native explores the interplay between education and mental health in new memoir
    Aug 7 2025
    The author of a new memoir, Learning in the Free Fall: A Testimony of Mental Health, Poverty and Race in America, shares her experience in America's education system.
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    48 m