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February 17, 2024 All Birds Great and Small
For the past twenty years, wildlife bird rehabilitator Annie Mardiney has rescued thousands of birds. "They're hungry all the time!"

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16 min
January 16, 2024 Sacred Ground and the Little Brother of War
A conversation with Hutke Fields, the Principal Chief of the Natchez Nation. "You have to listen to everything, including Mother Earth" A taste of the Natchez Language, the no-holds-barred game of Stickball, and what it feels like to be chosen.

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14 min
January 08, 2024 Remembering Where We’re From – the Maori of Aotearoa
New Zealand's Maori are a living example to indigenous peoples worldwide of how to reclaim and rediscover their rich cultural heritage and their land.

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23 min
January 07, 2024 Hatsumode
Hatsumode is the ritual first visit of the year to a Japanese Shinto or Buddhist temple.

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3 min
January 06, 2024 Day of the Kings
In Haiti, the feast of the Epiphany is celebrated in both Catholic and Vodou traditions.

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3 min
January 05, 2024 Food Fit For Kings
Three Kings Day is a festival for the palate.

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3 min
January 02, 2024 Mummers Parade - History
The flamboyance of the Mummers' Parade arose from the masquerade balls of Philadelphia society.

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3 min
January 01, 2024 Mummers Parade - String Bands
Revered in Philadelphia since 1902.

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3 min
December 31, 2023 Hogmanay
According to Scottish legend, visitors to your door on the night of Hogamanay, will determine your luck for the New Year.

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3 min
December 30, 2023 Tokyo's Year End Fire Watch
"Be careful with fire!" is the call heard throughout Tokyo neighborhoods on the last two evenings of the year.

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3 min

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Each weekday, Pulse of the Planet provides its listeners with a two-minute sound portrait of Planet Earth, tracking the rhythms of nature, culture and science worldwide and blending interviews and…