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Ecology
 
 
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Friday, April 17, 2009 at 11:00 am

Writer and naturalist Bernd Heinrich takes us deep into the heart of summer to see what plants, animals, and all of nature are up to during the longest days.

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Tuesday, March 31, 2009 at 11:00 am

The 19th-century botanical journeys of the great John Muir, and how those trails and plants look today.

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Monday, November 10, 2008 at 11:00 am

We talk with Dr. Stuart Pimm, a Duke University ecologist who has travelled the world studying exactly how species go extinct – and how to bring them back from the brink.

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Thursday, August 21, 2008 at 11:00 am

A new take on the tuna — the world’s favorite fish — and why we’re in danger of loving it to death.

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Recent Shows
Poker: America’s Game
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Poker and American history. How the game of presidents, cowboys, gangsters, and online gamblers helped shape America.

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Google vs. Murdoch
Thursday, November 19, 2009 image

Rupert Murdoch wants to block the search giant from scooping free content from his newspapers. We’ll look at the staredown.

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On Point Blog
Michael Wolff and Jeff Jarvis on Murdoch v. Google

We had a rousing discussion about Google vs. Murdoch, and what it says about the whole future of news, with Michael Wolff, Jeff Jarvis, and Steven Brill. Here’s what Wolff and Jarvis had to say about the delusions of both Murdoch and Google.

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Video: Google CEO Eric Schmidt

Last week, host Tom Ashbrook was on stage with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, asking him about some of the biggest technology and business issues of our time.

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California, here we come! And we need your questions!

On Point is headed west!
No, no. Not for good. Only for one show. But it’s a very special show!  The NPR station in Thousand Oaks, California – KCLU – is celebrating their 15th anniversary. We’re lucky to have been on their airwaves for nearly seven years, and they invited us out west to host a live [...]

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