Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMaking Films with Sky Hopinka
Venture into the mind of Sky Hopinka, member of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin and MacArthur Genius Grant recipient. He and host Dylan Thuras discu…
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Classic: Million Dollar Point
We visit Vanuatu in the South Pacific and go underwater to visit a very strange place from a very strange episode at the end of World War II.
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Medical Clowning Program
The history of medical clowning extends back to Ancient Greece and the time of Hippocrates and is taught in workshops throughout the world.
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The Plant
This former meat-packing plant in Chicago, Illinois is now a site where people work to create a new kind of community in the city’s post-industrial r…
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Classic: Post Office Bay
Post Office Bay on the Galapagos Islands is a post office that runs on luck and the goodwill of visitors. It has a knack for bringing strangers toget…
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Classic: The World’s Quietest Room
Experience the Orfield Anechoic Chamber: a room inside a concrete bunker that was once known as the quietest place on earth.
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Classic: Re-up Your Luck
We explore the power luck has on us all, rational or not, through the unlikely places people go to re-up.
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Classic: Nepali Folk Musical Instrument Museum
This secluded museum beats the drum for the preservation of Nepal's musical heritage.
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Classic: Dude Chilling Park
A renegade art project in Vancouver galvanized a small community, pitted residents against city government, and ultimately resulted in a new name for…
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Classic: The Tank
An industrial water tank-turned-concert hall in the high deserts of Colorado is nothing less than a sonic wonder of the world.
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