Random Acts of Knowledge
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Episodes: 129
Description
Heartland Community College presents Random Acts of Knowledge, a podcast where we explore the worlds of continuing education.
The goal of each episode is to learn something new. No matter the topic, we'll pick up some random knowledge from experts who can give us a short and interesting lesson about their field.
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S3 Ep50: Learning Dungeons & Dragons
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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S3 Ep49: Connecting Greek Mythology to the modern classroom
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May 22, 2025 |
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S3 Ep48: COUNTRY Financial Scholars get jump on college at Heartland
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May 13, 2025 |
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S3 Ep47: Politics and Parole: Ronnie Carrasquillo spent 47 years in prison
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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S3 Ep46: Lincoln's Lost Speech
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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S3 Ep45: Electric cars in the 50s? Looking at the forgotten history of electric vehicles
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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S3 Ep44: Artist uses trash to create 'An Unblighted Area'
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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S3 Ep43: The uneven impact of incarceration
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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43: Service Learning: Comparing Healthcare with South Africa
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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S3 Ep42: Poet reflects on motherhood, parental loss, and memory-making
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May 13, 2024 |
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S3 Ep41: Documentary examines mental health needs of farmers
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May 01, 2024 |
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S3 Ep40: The present and potential future of AI
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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S3 Ep39: Getting a start in amateur standup comedy
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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S3 Ep38: Sustainable Ag with an Edible Windbreak
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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S3 Ep37: Justice Denied - The story of Kristine Bunch
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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S3 Ep36: Supporting the Mental Health of College Students
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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S3 Ep35: How Bloomington, Illinois became entwined with the Circus
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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S3 Ep34: 'Albatross' examines lasting effect of pollution
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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S3 Ep33: Learning Cannabis Cultivation in College
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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S3 Ep32: Illinois Communication and Theatre educators tackle the post-COVID classroom
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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S2 Ep31: Integrated Humanities: a new approach to core curriculum
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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S2 Ep30: College students going ALL IN for democracy
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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S2 Ep29: College for students with intellectual or developmental disabilities
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May 23, 2023 |
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S2 Ep28: The plight of Afghan women shown in 'With This Breath I Fly'
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May 08, 2023 |
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S2 Ep27: News Literacy
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May 04, 2023 |
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S2 Ep26: Woodcut Printmaker Cathie Crawford
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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S2 Ep25: Incarceration and Motherhood
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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S2 Ep24: Connecting Japan to the Midwest
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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S2 Ep23: Native Bees and their Environment
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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S2 Ep22: Neurodiversity in the Workplace
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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S2 Ep21: Mental Health First Aid
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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S2 Ep20: Finding and Training the Nurses of Tomorrow
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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S2 Ep19: Working on the Railroad (in the 21st Century)
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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S2 Ep18: Virtual Reality in the Classroom
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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S2 Ep17: Iranian artist pushes for change
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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S2 Ep16: Recycling: behind the scenes
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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S2 Ep15: Training service dogs and your dog
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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S2 Ep14: Zero Waste Lifestyle
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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S2 Ep13: From Homebrew to Business - Lil' Beaver Brewery
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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S2 Ep12: 'In Between the Cracks' - sculpting with moss
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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S2 Ep11: Playing Hedwig
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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S2 Ep10: Writing Romance
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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S2 Ep9: What You Believe Matters - microaggressions and bias
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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S2 Ep8: Trauma-Informed Health Care
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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S2 Ep7: Knitting a cake
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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S2 Ep6: Author finds 'Mercy in the Madness'
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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S2 Ep5: San Isidoro, 2021 - A look at COVID life across in a Spanish school
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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S2 Ep4: Guarding the Tomb of the Unknown
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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S2 Ep3: Humor in the workplace
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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S2 Ep2: 'They got the wrong guy' - Exonerations in Illinois
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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S2 Ep1: Being a woman (in Iran)
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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S1 Ep75: Painting midwestern spaces - artist Douglas Johnson
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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S1 Ep74: The unlikely lobbyist who created Illinois legislation while attending Pontiac high school
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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S1 Ep73: My COVID Year - Stitching 'Woolf Words'
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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S1 Ep72: My COVID Year - Photography and Family
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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S1 Ep71: Main Character Syndrome
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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S1 Ep70: Conscious Crafting: creative mindfulness for kids
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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S1 Ep69: From the farm to the classroom – Distinguished Alumni Award recipient Justin Rickard
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May 05, 2021 |
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S1 Ep68: Getting up to speed on equity in the workplace
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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S1 Ep67: Exercising at Home
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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S1 Ep66: True Crime podcasters offer tips
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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S1 Ep65: Intro to Welding: from hobby art to in-demand career
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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S1 Ep64: Retirement and the pandemic
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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S1 Ep63: Voter suppression in the past and present
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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S1 Ep62: Mental techniques for runners
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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S1 Ep61: Planning for travel during the pandemic (and saving money doing so)
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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S1 Ep60: Sprucing up for sale - tips for staging a home
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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S1 Ep59: Introduction of Ayurveda
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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S1 Ep58: Seed Science and the Monarch Butterfly
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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S1 Ep57: Spotlight on First Generation College Students
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Aug 21, 2020 |
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S1 Ep56: The sometimes-conflicted battle for women's suffrage
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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S1 Ep55: Behind the Marvel Method
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Aug 07, 2020 |
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S1 Ep54: Hair Care and Different Cultures
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Jul 08, 2020 |
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S1 Ep53: Men and mental health
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Jun 22, 2020 |
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S1 Ep52: Healthcare barriers and living with HIV
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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S1 Ep51: Building coaching skills
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May 26, 2020 |
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S1 Ep50: Better creative writing through quarantine
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May 18, 2020 |
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S1 Ep49: Mental health in the age of COVID-19
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May 11, 2020 |
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S1 Ep48: Helping vets heal through art – Distinguished Alumni Award recipient Richard Casper
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May 06, 2020 |
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S1 Ep47: From C.N.A. to M.D. - Distinguished Alumni Award recipient Dr. Seshanand Rao
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May 04, 2020 |
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S1 Ep46: Using vision boards to picture your goals
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Apr 27, 2020 |
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S1 Ep45: Keeping kids engaged at while sheltering at home
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Apr 08, 2020 |
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S1 Ep44: Work/Life Balance (while working from home)
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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S1 Ep43: Living organ donors
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Mar 12, 2020 |
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S1 Ep42: Opening educational doors with braille
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Feb 24, 2020 |
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S1 Ep41: Segregation and education in Festus, Missouri
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Feb 21, 2020 |
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S1 Ep40: Two artists build a wall
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Feb 14, 2020 |
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S1 Ep39: Race, equity and education
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Feb 07, 2020 |
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S1 Ep38: Fat Tuesday food and traditions
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Feb 03, 2020 |
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S1 Ep36: Taking a non-diet approach to health
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Dec 16, 2019 |
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S1 Ep35: Handling difficult conversations in the workplace
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Dec 09, 2019 |
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Heartland Q&A: Chris Miller
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Dec 02, 2019 |
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S1 Ep34: Training wild dogs to be guard dogs in Uganda
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Nov 20, 2019 |
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S1 Ep33: Finding a work/life balance
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Nov 06, 2019 |
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S1 Ep32: The magic of music in the movies
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Oct 28, 2019 |
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Heartland Q&A: Barb Glover
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Oct 25, 2019 |
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S1 Ep31: Lunacy: how the Moon affects things on Earth
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Oct 21, 2019 |
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S1 Ep30: Decoding the hidden language of cemeteries
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Oct 14, 2019 |
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S1 Ep29: Bats and wind turbines
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Oct 07, 2019 |
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S1 Ep28: Archaeologists take to the skies with drones
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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S1 Ep27: Building a bridge across the language divide with ESL
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Sep 27, 2019 |
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S1 Ep26: What you don't know about the Sun
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Sep 16, 2019 |
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S1 Ep25: How to keep good employees from jumping ship
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Sep 12, 2019 |
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S1 Ep24: Thinking analog with darkroom photography
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Aug 27, 2019 |
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Heartland Q&A: Joshua Crockett
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Aug 19, 2019 |
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S1 Ep23: Defeating fear in dogs
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Aug 07, 2019 |
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S1 Ep22: Breaking the barriers to LGBTQ+ healthcare
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Aug 01, 2019 |
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Heartland Q&A: Cross Country Coach Ty Wolf
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Jul 25, 2019 |
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S1 Ep21: The resurrection of the alligator snapping turtle
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Jul 22, 2019 |
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S1 Ep20: Thinking about what you buy (and how you buy it)
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Jul 09, 2019 |
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S1 Ep19: Helping writers find perspective
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Jul 01, 2019 |
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S1 Ep18: What we've forgotten about Lincoln's death
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Jul 01, 2019 |
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S1 Ep17: Apollo 11 and a return to the Moon
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Jun 20, 2019 |
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S1 Ep16: The growing workplace of aerial drones
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Jun 07, 2019 |
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S1 Ep15: Caring touch for cancer
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Jun 07, 2019 |
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S1 Ep14: A Safe Zone for LGBTQ+ students
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Apr 24, 2019 |
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S1 Ep13: The Global Art Project
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Apr 22, 2019 |
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S1 Ep12: Training Therapy Dogs
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Apr 22, 2019 |
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S1 Ep11: Poems found and typed
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Apr 09, 2019 |
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S1 Ep10: Poems from the La Brea Tar Pits
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Apr 02, 2019 |
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S1 Ep9: Demystifying your tax questions
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Mar 27, 2019 |
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S1 Ep8: Turbine Talk - Powering a College with wind
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Mar 08, 2019 |
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S1 Ep7: Mini Therapy Horses
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Feb 22, 2019 |
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S1 Ep6: Spring Break after the hurricane
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Feb 15, 2019 |
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S1 Ep5: Getting a handle on your life on paper
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Jan 15, 2019 |
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S1 Ep4: The secrets of truck driving
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Dec 05, 2018 |
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S1 Ep3: It's a bird, it's a plane.... no, it's a bird
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Dec 05, 2018 |
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S1 Ep1: The death of Viola Liuzzo
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Nov 21, 2018 |
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S1 Ep2: Why can't I stay fit? (Other than my love of pizza)
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Nov 21, 2018 |