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Your Money Swap with John Cross

WRFA Radio — Thu, 18 May 2023 19:59:37 +0000

Each week John Cross takes time to offer tips and suggestions on how to make wise spending decisions to get the most out of your financial resources.

Got Science Podcast

WRFA Radio — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 18:38:28 +0000

The Got Science? podcast features one-on-one discussions with scientists and experts about their research and how it applies to current issues like climate change, missile defense, autonomous vehicles, and more.

Nature Podcast

WRFA Radio — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 12:02:55 +0000

A podcast focusing on nature, presented by the journal Nature.

For the Wild

WRFA Radio — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 11:38:32 +0000

We join some of the brightest thought-leaders and visionaries of our time– to uplift a multitude of perspectives, to amplify grassroot voices, and to tell stories that would otherwise disappear in mainstream media. Key topics include the struggle to protect wild nature, to promote ecological renewal and resistance and to heal from the disconnection furthered by consumer culture and human supremacy.

Not only does this work aim to produce an anthology of the Anthropocene, but it also strives to support a new paradigm of earth renewal through conservation and restoration ecology.

Our work is powered by socially aware community, informed by decoloniality and Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and committed to working responsibly, at the intersection between social and environmental justice. In these challenging times when access to information about climate change and social resistance are under threat, when the criminalization of dissent is increasing and when scientists are being silenced, the free, independent media are last watchdogs for sharing the truth. This is what we aim to do with the podcast.

The Science Podcast

WRFA Radio — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 11:21:34 +0000

Each week on the Science Podcast, host Sarah Crespi delves into the latest scientific discoveries with researchers and news writers from around the globe. Learn about everything from how researchers are battling stinkbugs using samurai wasps, to the nuances of a vaccine-derived outbreak of polio in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the way DNA might be used to predict how a suspected criminal might look. In a once-a-month book segment, our books host—Kiki Sandford—interviews the authors of recently published books, such as The Perfectionists by Simon Winchester and Smell Detectives by Melanie Kiechle.

Rootstock Radio

WRFA Radio — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 19:54:12 +0000

Follow hosts Theresa Marquez and Anne O’Connor as they expose the realities of our broken food system and explore solutions put forward by our country’s brightest changemakers.

There is a need for honest—yet personable—education amid the rampant apathy, ignorance, and worse, denial about the true state of food and farming in our country today. As we face a food system that is increasingly dangerous to human and environmental health, we need to amplify the hard truth with compassionate and honest voices, balancing the doom-and-gloom with real-life solutions that contribute to a sustainable future.

With Good Reason

WRFA Radio — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:36:17 +0000

Each week on With Good Reason, our ever-curious host Sarah McConnell takes you along as she examines a wide range of topics with leading scholars. Featured guests have included Julian Bond discussing race in America, Bruce Greyson sharing his study of near death experiences, Mike Seeger exploring American folk music, Aniko Bodroghkozy tuning in on sixties television, Bryan Caplan on the “myth of the rational voter,” Nikki Giovanni reading from her poetry, and Nobel Prize winning author Toni Morrison. You may discover the traditions of the samurai warrior, hear about the ways we pre-judge others based on their accents, or laugh at the surprising history of Hawaiian shirts.

With Good Reason is offered as both a half hour and hour show via Content Depot and PRX. It is produced by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities for the Virginia Higher Education Broadcasting Consortium and is broadcast on public radio stations in Alaska, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Washington DC.

With Good Reason has won five Gabriel Awards for Best Documentary or Public Affairs Programs and is also the recipient of top honors from the Public Radio News Directors, Radio and Television Digital News Association and the Virginia Association of Broadcasters.

Best of Our Knowledge

WRFA Radio — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:23:44 +0000

Every day, faculty members at schools and universities throughout the world are making discoveries that shape our ways of thinking and redefine our understanding of today’s knowledge-driven society.

Since 1990, The Best of Our Knowledge has highlighted breakthroughs across disciplines and across the globe, putting you in touch with the men and women at the forefront of their fields.

Each week this program examines some of the issues unique to college campuses, looks at the latest research, and invites commentary from experts and administrators from all levels of education.

A Way with Words

WRFA Radio — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 11:55:15 +0000

A Way with Words is an upbeat and lively hour-long public radio show about language examined through history, culture, and family. Co-hosts Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett talk with callers from around the world about slang, grammar, old sayings, word origins, regional dialects, family expressions, and speaking and writing well. They settle disputes, play word quizzes, and discuss language news and controversies. The show is heard by more than a quarter-million listeners each week over the air and by podcast.

Read about the team that makes the program.

Big Picture Science

WRFA Radio — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 11:10:12 +0000

The world has changed since enterprising hominids chipped stones to use as tools. Today’s scientific and technological development moves faster than a speeding maglev train.

The Big Picture Science radio show and podcast engages the public with modern science research through lively and intelligent storytelling. Science radio doesn’t have to be dull. The only dry thing about our program is the humor.

Big Picture Science takes on big questions by interviewing leading researchers and weaving together their stories of discovery in a clever and off-kilter narrative style.

What came before the Big Bang? How does memory work? Will our descendants be human or machine? What’s the origin of humor? We ponder these questions daily … and expound on them weekly.

Our one-hour radio magazine reveals science as an adventure.

But wait! There’s more!

Are you a doubting Thomas? Good. Join us as we separate science from pseudoscience – and facts from the phony – in Skeptic Check, our monthly episode devoted to critical thinking.

Whether it’s astrology, Bigfoot, or the incessant onslaught of dubious medical claims, we tackle it all, wielding the skeptical tools of solid science.

It’s Skeptic Check… but don’t take our word for it!