Malaria Bat Roosts
During the early 20th century, malaria was ravaging the world. We hear the story of Dr. Charles Campbell, who had a plan to cure it. But as it turns out, his big idea was… rather batty. Hosted by Simp...
13 Marras 202415min
The Sul Ross Desk
In the 1980s, a group of friends on the track team at Sul Ross State University hauled a discarded dorm room desk to the top of a mountain. They left a notebook there to keep track of their run times ...
12 Marras 202414min
San Juan Sounds (Classic)
San Juan Sounds is an iconic studio where musicians, engineers, and quite possibly a music-loving ghost carry on the island’s musical traditions, which date back hundreds of years. This episode is pro...
11 Marras 202413min
Weed Week: The International Church of Cannabis
Travel to Denver Colorado and meet Steve Berke who helped found the first International Church of Cannabis in 2015. Learn more about it here. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz....
8 Marras 20249min
Weed Week: San Francisco Cannabis Buyers’ Club
The San Francisco Cannabis Buyers’ Club was one of the first marijuana dispensaries in the country. Its members were people with AIDS, cancer, and other serious illnesses, and inside the club had stag...
7 Marras 202420min
Weed Week: Jirzankal Cemetery
An ancient cemetery in western China may hold the answer to a question asked by many a stoner: where on Earth did humans first smoke weed to get high? Learn more about the cemetery in this 2019 paper ...
6 Marras 202413min
Weed Week: Dope Lake
In 1976, an airplane carrying 6,000 pounds of smuggled weed crashed into a remote lake in Yosemite. A group of climbers had a heyday. Read John Long’s account of the crash, and check out Greg Nichols’...
5 Marras 202416min
Weed Week: Get Inside the CannaVan
Cannabis is now legal in more than half of U.S. states, but it remains federally illegal – which makes doing research on the plant extremely difficult. Today, we meet a clever group of scientists who ...
4 Marras 202416min
