We've all hit our "funny bone." Why does it feel like that? What do bicycles, footballs, and space shuttles have in common? Can you really learn while you are asleep? Why do some birds hop and others walk? These and literally thousands of other questions about the world we live in are answered in A Moment of Science.

If you are even a little bit interested in the world around you these two-minute radio programs are just for you--and you don't need to know anything about science! These vignettes remove some of the mystery from science, but not the wonder. A Moment of Science makes you think "Wow, that's neat!" and go tell somebody else about it. There's no end to the topics covered, and you the listener can add to the list by sending questions to amos@indiana.edu.

A Moment of Science is heard across the U.S., and around the globe on several international networks. The program is also available as a podcast and as a javascript widget for station websites.

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We've all hit our "funny bone." Why does it feel like that? What do bicycles, footballs, and space shuttles have in common? Can you really learn while you are asleep? Why do some birds hop and others walk? These and literally thousands of other questions about the world we live in are answered in...
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Night Lights, WFIU's weekly jazz program hosted by David Brent Johnson, focuses on jazz from the 1945-1990 era - a timespan that, as Johnson notes, "weirdly parallels Miles Davis on record and the Cold War." Covering artists such as Jackie McLean, Charles Mingus, and Nina Simone and themes ranging from jazz recordings of spirituals to avant-garde interpretations of the Great American Songbook, Night Lights also features many lesser-known talents of post-1945 jazz, such as saxophonist J.R. Monterose, trumpeter Freddie Webster, and piano/singer duo Dick and Kiz Harp.

Host David Brent Johnson also maintains a widely read jazz blog and website which contains streaming archives of all past programs at: http://nightights.blogs.wfiu.org.

Stations wishing to carry Night Lights as a weekly program can contact cboyce@indiana.edu for subscription and carriage information. Hide full description

Night Lights, WFIU's weekly jazz program hosted by David Brent Johnson, focuses on jazz from the 1945-1990 era - a timespan that, as Johnson notes, "weirdly parallels Miles Davis on record and the Cold War." Covering artists such as Jackie McLean, Charles Mingus, and Nina Simone and themes rangin...
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Ella, the Duke, MJQ, and other greats -- WFIU's Afterglow has them all.

Afterglow first airedr on WFIU sometime in the late 1970s. Host Dick Bishop took the title of the show and his theme from a Marian McPartland composition; all of the rest?the elegance, the passion, the laidback expertise, the congenial charm, and the delivery with a ?martini moon? quality to it?came from Dick himself.

In addition to his considerable knowledge and love for the jazz and American popular song that he played every Friday evening, Dick also drew on his personal relationships and encounters with many of the performers that he featured.

Since Bishop's retirement in 2005, the show has been hosted by WFIU Jazz Host/Producer David Brent Johnson. Hide full description

Ella, the Duke, MJQ, and other greats -- WFIU's Afterglow has them all. Afterglow first airedr on WFIU sometime in the late 1970s. Host Dick Bishop took the title of the show and his theme from a Marian McPartland composition; all of the rest?the elegance, the passion, the laidback expertise, t...
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From the sublime realm of Chant to the passion of an Italian Baroque violin sonata, Harmonia, a weekly 59-minute radio program, brings the music of these earlier periods to life for radio audiences, as performers of today cast new light on the music of the distant past.

Harmonia is hosted by early music scholar and performer Angela Mariani and is a production of WFIU Public Radio in Bloomington, Indiana, in conjunction with Indiana University School of Music's world-renowned Early Music Institute, with additional technical support from KOHM at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.

Harmonia brings historically informed performance to today's listeners, adding evocative commentary to illustrate, inform and entertain.

Harmonia is also available in a podcast version from: http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510243 Hide full description

From the sublime realm of Chant to the passion of an Italian Baroque violin sonata, Harmonia, a weekly 59-minute radio program, brings the music of these earlier periods to life for radio audiences, as performers of today cast new light on the music of the distant past. Harmonia is hosted by ea...
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For Moya Andrews, gardening is more than just having pretty flowers to look at-it's a passion. In Focus on Flowers she shares not only gardening tips, but some of her fervor for the esthetic of gardens, on occasion even considering gardening as a metaphor for certain aspects of life. She is a Master Gardener, and a member of the Bloomington (IN) Garden Club. In her garden she concentrates on flowers, especially perennials. Moya was born in Australia and has lived in Indiana since she joined the faculty of Indiana University in 1971.

In her professional life she has authored many research articles and textbooks and believes that caring for her garden is similar in many ways to writing and editing. The gardener must have an organizational and design plan, be able to edit out specimens and revise sections of gardens that don't work and have a vision of how each element fits into the overall landscape. A garden is always evolving, never complete or finished, but constantly surprising the owner with unexpected and unplanned combinations of flowers because of serendipity, weather and self seeded specimens.

She began gardening because she wanted to always have flowers for her house, and her goal is never to be without something blooming throughout the entire growing season. She likes to share her plants and flowers and is fond of the Chinese proverb: "The fragrance of flowers stays in the hands of those who give them."

Focus on Flowers is available as a twice weekly program for interested stations, contact cboyce@indiana.edu for subscription and carriage information.

The program is also available as a podcast from: http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510179 Hide full description

For Moya Andrews, gardening is more than just having pretty flowers to look at-it's a passion. In Focus on Flowers she shares not only gardening tips, but some of her fervor for the esthetic of gardens, on occasion even considering gardening as a metaphor for certain aspects of life. She is a Mas...
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Welcome to Kinsey Confidential - Your opportunity to ask questions and have them answered by experts in sexual health and behavior from the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University.

You can visit us online and submit your own questions at http://kinseyconfidential.org.

This program is also available as a podcast at: http://wfiu.org/podcasts/kinsey-confidential.php

We're very interested in feedback from other stations and producers, both on the production in general, and also how you decide to use it, especially for broadcast.

We're still early in the game and we want to mold this production into something that will be useful for as many stations as possible.

Locally, we're primarily promoting it as a podcast and we're trying to find a slot for it around This American Life to reach our college aged listeners, and possibly airing it additional times on our HD2 stream.

About the Host:

Dr. Debby Herbenick is a sexual health educator at The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction and the Associate Director of The Center for Sexual Health Promotion.

Debby has a PhD in health behavior from IU, a Master's degree in public health education (also from IU) and a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Debby has taught undergraduate and graduate human sexuality classes to more than a thousand students and lectures on a range of topics including sexual development, sexual enhancement, women's sexual function and adult sex education.

In addition, Debby writes regular sexual health columns for Men's Health magazine, Time Out Chicago and Velocity Weekly. She has provided expert opinion on sex and relationships for writers and producers of print and broadcast media including the San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times, LA Times, Marie Clare, Glamour, Men's Fitness, Women's Health, SELF, The Guardian, Discovery Health, The Today Show and The Tyra Banks Show.

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Welcome to Kinsey Confidential - Your opportunity to ask questions and have them answered by experts in sexual health and behavior from the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University. You can visit us online and submit your own questions at http://kinseyconfidential.org. This program is also avail...
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Crash Course in Islam is a weekly series which debunks common myths about the Islamic faith in brief, informational segments.

The series is a production of the Voices and Visions Project in partnership with WFIU Public Media from Indiana University.

Support for the series comes from the Social Science Research Council.

Learn more about the project at: http://muslimvoices.org Hide full description

Crash Course in Islam is a weekly series which debunks common myths about the Islamic faith in brief, informational segments. The series is a production of the Voices and Visions Project in partnership with WFIU Public Media from Indiana University. Support for the series comes from the Social ...
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