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KFAI's MinneCultureSeeking Freedom in MinnesotaWhen freedom seekers stepped off the steamboat in St. Paul, local people of color met them at the landing. Underground Railroad agents worked as barbers, musicians, laundresses, steamboat stewards and cooks. Some of these residents had never been enslaved and grew up in eastern cities. Others fled the South to settle in Minnesota — a territory that was supposed to be free, yet tolerated slavery within its borders. Local sheriffs and Southern enslavers spent weeks offering bribes to find people sheltered in places like the church belfry, the ice cream saloon, a horse stable hayloft and the home of William and...
2025-05-0831 min
ErfolgsgeflüsterAlles erreicht – und trotzdem unglücklich?„Ich hatte alles – und war trotzdem unglücklich.“Angelika Steiger-Cöslin war ganz oben: Vorständin in einem internationalen Konzern, hohes Gehalt, schickes Haus, Anerkennung. Doch innerlich war sie leer.Diese Podcastfolge ist eine Geschichte über Mut, Veränderung und die Kraft des Mindsets.Angelika spricht offen über ihren radikalen Bruch mit dem alten Leben, ihren Weg in die Selbstständigkeit – und sogar über ihre Selbstheilung von einer schweren Krankheit.Ihre Geschichte zeigt, warum Erfolg nicht immer Glüc...
2025-03-2636 minKFAI's MinneCultureSeason 9 premieres March 27!Season 9 of MinneCulture drops on March 27. This season features:lots of local food historystories about life and commerce along the Mississippi Rivera Minnesota woman who developed a new form of contact tracing for tuberculosisa barber and fiddler who helped run the Underground Railroad in Minnesotaa haunting story about Minnesota's 20th century sterilization programa jingle for pickles that will get stuck in your head....and so much more!Stories by Michelle Bruch, Gina Favano, John Gwinn, Lydia Moran, Sheila Regan, Matthew Schneeman, and Alison Young. Hosted by John Gebretatose. Edited by Julie...
2025-03-1801 minKFAI's MinneCultureMinnesota vs. Big TobaccoMinnesota was the first state to take Big Tobacco to trial in 1998. The biggest lawsuit in the state’s history forced the tobacco industry to take down cigarette billboards and release millions of internal documents that filled a Minneapolis warehouse.When vaping e-cigarettes gained popularity among youth in the late 2010s, the Minnesota Attorney General’s office sued again, this time against market leader Juul Labs and the company’s Big Tobacco investor Altria. The lawsuit lifted thousands of new tobacco documents into the public archive.KFAI's Michelle Bruch talked...
2024-03-1430 minKFAI's MinneCultureSeason 8 premieres Feb 22!MinneCulture is BACK for season 8! This season, we are bringing you 7 brand new audio documentaries about the people, places, and cultural phenomena that make Minnesota...well, Minnesota. Make sure you're subscribed to MinneCulture so you don't miss any of these fascinating stories about our state. Season 8 is produced by Michelle Bruch, Joe Friedrichs, Britta Greene, Todd Melby, James Napoli, Sheila Regan, Kira Schukar, and Kyle Shiely. Hosted by John Gebretatose and edited by Julie Censullo. MinneCulture is a production of KFAI. Support for MinneCulture is provided by the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.
2024-02-0901 minKFAI's MinneCultureA More Humane SocietyThe history of the Animal Humane Society offers a jaw-dropping glimpse into Minneapolis life in the late 1800s. This was a time when horses struggled to pull loads up Lowry Hill and dogs at the pound were drowned in the Mississippi River. As part of a national movement, the humane society formed to prosecute cruelty to animals — and they prosecuted cruelty to children too. Investigating hundreds of cases, humane agents became the state’s first social workers and probation officers. This story traces Minnesota’s relationship to animals, from the workhorse era to the pandemic-puppy era. Produced by Michelle Bruch...
2023-03-1626 min
Twisted Tales of Madness and Murder Presents:Grabbing A BeerThe night is young, the bar is busy, and Alex is stuck waiting on David to arrive. Life has already been unfairly cruel, and he can't afford to sit here forever. But when the man of the hour arrives, Alex is left wondering if the strained relations between David and his wife have hit a breaking point, and if his friend may have fallen off the edge of no return. Beer is flowing, plans are put on hold, and two friends realize that you should never judge a book by its cover. You never know what lurks between the...
2023-02-1520 min
Was denkst du denn?Gebrochene Fußnoten... von Umbrüchen, Wandlungen und plötzlichen Lebensereignissen
Jedes Leben ist beständig im Wandel, ob wir das jetzt wollen oder nicht. An manchen Stellen erleben wir aber auch Bruchlinien. Manches davon sieht nur von außen aus wie ein plötzliches Ereignis. Manches davon tritt plötzlich in unser Leben und reißt Stücke heraus. Und manchmal wünschen wir uns, ein Bruch sorgt möge dafür sorgen, dass wir rauskommen aus unserem Alltagstrott, dass wir uns nochmal völlig neu erfinden können. Von all diesen Brüchen und Wandlungen handelt diese Podcastfolge.
Wo habt ihr in...
2022-07-151h 09
This is U.S. SustainabilityE5: Soil Health, featuring a soil scientist, a cotton farmer and an organic farmerWhat is soil heath? Why is it important? And how can it be improved? Tune in to the latest episode of This is U.S. Sustainability to find out.
We speak to Professor Michelle Wander, a soil scientist at the University of Illinois whose entire career has been dedicated to understanding soil stewardship, and we hear from two award-winning farmers:
Cotton farmer Barry Evans, Field to Market’s Farmer of the Year
A third-generation cotton grower in the Texas panhandle, the heart of America’s historic Dust Bowl, Barry has experienced the dangers of b...
2021-12-2228 min
Nice Games Club - a gamedev podcast!"Stephen, his arms wide!" Redundancy; Arcades [Nice Replay]#170"Stephen, his arms wide!" Roundtable2020.04.14Ellen Burns-Johnson joins us once again in the virtual club house to discuss Redundancy and Arcades! Ellen teaches us about how we learn, Mark balances the game, Martha only plays the best character, and Stephen has a revelation.Photo Credit: Michelle Bruch, from this Southwest Journal Article about the DonutronRedundancy0:13:01Mark LaCroixGame DesignUI / UXThe Forgetting Curve hypothesis by Hermann Ebbinghous - Wikipedia
2021-02-1700 min
Total Movie RecallTMR 045 – Labyrinth This week on Total Movie Recall, Steve and Ryan put on their codpieces and fret over the innocence of teenage girls around David Bowie. Don’t get us wrong, we love this movie, but why does this charming children’s tale have a character named after the part of the anatomy responsible for transporting sperm? And why do so many sequences resemble sperm? And if all of these things are symbols for sperm, what does the Bog of Eternal Stench represent? We shudder to think… Labyrinth (1986) d. Jim Henson w. Terry Jones
2020-11-021h 32Nice Games Club - a gamedev podcast!"Stephen, his arms wide!" Redundancy; ArcadesEllen Burns-Johnson joins us once again in the virtual club house to discuss Redundancy and Arcades! Ellen teaches us about how we learn, Mark balances the game, Martha only plays the best character, and Stephen has a revelation.Photo Credit: Michelle Bruch, from this Southwest Journal Article about the Donutron0:13:01RedundancyThe Forgetting Curve hypothesis by Hermann EbbinghousWikipediaThe Distributed Practice learning strategyWikipedia0:50:39ArcadesWhy You Can't Call It a "Barcade"Brenna HouckEaterDino Dash Abdel ShahiedYouTube
2020-04-1400 min