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Fifty Words Written After Learning the Arctic Bowhead Whale Can Live up to Two Hundred Years

Published On Jan 29,2013 | Posted In Episodes | Music, Footnotes & Ephemera | Uncategorized >>

Tags: 19th century, 20th Century, 21st century, animals, Artic, Bowhead Whales, Environmentalism, Nantucket, north pole, Whales, Whaling

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After Party

Music in this one is: Happy Land, off of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis’ score for The Proposition. (Which is a great western). Becalmed, off of Brian Eno’s Another Green World. (Which is a great, great record). Charu’s Theme. Which … Continue reading →

Published On Sep 14,2012 | Posted In Episodes | Music, Footnotes & Ephemera | Uncategorized >>

Tags: 19th century, California, Donner Party, horrible deaths, Nevada, sierra nevada, West

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Episode 53:
Guinea Pigs

Published On May 08,2013

Tags: 20th Century, animals, astronomy, horrible deaths, NASA, Space Program, Technology

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