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On this date in 1969, as many North Dakotans were sound asleep, a severe storm ripped through Ramsey county. Approximately six miles wide and nine miles long, the storm’s path of damage started in the Webster area and moved southeast. Hailstones the size of hens eggs ripped through farms, with damage to buildings, equipment, and crops.

Dr. Jack Russell Weinstein joins Ashley Thornberg for a final Philosophical Currents, reflecting on the segment's origins and their shared learning experience.

Dr. Bob Newman joins the National Nature Assessment, Chandler Esslinger discusses homelessness on Prairie Pulse, and Chuck Lura introduces new bird-watching resources.

In their final "Philosophical Currents," Dr. Jack Russell Weinstein and Ashley Thornberg reflect on the segment's origins, their journey, and valuable lessons from exploring philosophy in daily life.

This new work from North Dakota State University Press, Lynched — it’s not a feel-good book. “The fact that we were a nation where lynching was a common occurrence should never be forgotten or excused,” say the authors, Doreen Chaky and Adrienne Stepanek, of Williston.

When was the last time you laid back and savored the cosmos on a warm summer night? The stars, of course, are brightest during a clear night with a new moon. There was a new moon on July 5, so we are heading toward a full moon on July 21.

Episode 15 features Luke Bulla, a fiddle player and longtime member of Lyle Lovett's Large Band, playing a live set from Medora, North Dakota. Plus, acclaimed singer-songwriter Aoife O'Donovan talks with Tom about her 2023 album, "Age of Apathy," and we talk to the folks behind the success story of the Maddock Opera House in Maddock, North Dakota.

In 1918 a farm boy from McLean County, Clell Gannon, entered the Art Institute of Chicago, full of hope. Two or three years later, disillusioned and debilitated by diphtheria and influenza, he was back in Bismarck. In 1924 he published (with a pay-to-play publisher, Gotham Press of Boston) his book of poems, Songs of the Bunch Grass Acres. Wherein he declares,

This time of year, the prairie landscape is awash in color. Two of the more commonly known wildflowers, prairie coneflower and purple coneflower, will soon be flowering across the state.

Dr. Michael Patrick Cullinane discusses the presidential race. Arlene Krulish, a Bush Fellow, talks with Ashley Thornberg about improving healthcare and fighting drug addiction on reservations.