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Random Acts of Knowledge — 140 episodes · page 1 of 2
S4 Ep10: Ready for the Workplace: Everyday Professional Skills
S4 Ep9: Women in Leadership: Connecting Power to Purpose
S4 Ep8: So you want to drive a big rig? - Inside the trucking industry
S4 Ep7: Dr. Wendy Pearlman on the Voices of Refugees
S4 Ep6: Student Profile: Oksana Perestoronia, displaced by war and finding a new life as a nurse
S4 Ep5: From worms to squids and more: STEM Anatomy Workshops for kids
S4 Ep4: Documentary chases the cultural impact of tornadoes
S4 Ep3: Peer Supports Specialists can provide a missing piece for addiction recovery
S4 Ep2: Beyond the Verdict: Barton McNeil
S4 Ep1: Navigating the barriers of reentry after incarceration
S3 Ep52: Heartland Q&A: Whitney Rapp
S3 Ep51: The ongoing case of Jamie Snow
S3 Ep50: Learning Dungeons & Dragons
S3 Ep49: Connecting Greek Mythology to the modern classroom
S3 Ep48: COUNTRY Financial Scholars get jump on college at Heartland
S3 Ep47: Politics and Parole: Ronnie Carrasquillo spent 47 years in prison
S3 Ep46: Lincoln's Lost Speech
S3 Ep45: Electric cars in the 50s? Looking at the forgotten history of electric vehicles
S3 Ep44: Artist uses trash to create 'An Unblighted Area'
S3 Ep43: The uneven impact of incarceration
43: Service Learning: Comparing Healthcare with South Africa
S3 Ep42: Poet reflects on motherhood, parental loss, and memory-making
S3 Ep41: Documentary examines mental health needs of farmers
S3 Ep40: The present and potential future of AI
S3 Ep39: Getting a start in amateur standup comedy
S3 Ep38: Sustainable Ag with an Edible Windbreak
S3 Ep37: Justice Denied - The story of Kristine Bunch
S3 Ep36: Supporting the Mental Health of College Students
S3 Ep35: How Bloomington, Illinois became entwined with the Circus
S3 Ep34: 'Albatross' examines lasting effect of pollution
S3 Ep33: Learning Cannabis Cultivation in College
S3 Ep32: Illinois Communication and Theatre educators tackle the post-COVID classroom
S2 Ep31: Integrated Humanities: a new approach to core curriculum
S2 Ep30: College students going ALL IN for democracy
S2 Ep29: College for students with intellectual or developmental disabilities
S2 Ep28: The plight of Afghan women shown in 'With This Breath I Fly'
S2 Ep27: News Literacy
S2 Ep26: Woodcut Printmaker Cathie Crawford
S2 Ep25: Incarceration and Motherhood
S2 Ep24: Connecting Japan to the Midwest
S2 Ep23: Native Bees and their Environment
S2 Ep22: Neurodiversity in the Workplace
S2 Ep21: Mental Health First Aid
S2 Ep20: Finding and Training the Nurses of Tomorrow
S2 Ep19: Working on the Railroad (in the 21st Century)
S2 Ep18: Virtual Reality in the Classroom
S2 Ep17: Iranian artist pushes for change
S2 Ep16: Recycling: behind the scenes
S2 Ep15: Training service dogs and your dog
S2 Ep14: Zero Waste Lifestyle
S2 Ep13: From Homebrew to Business - Lil' Beaver Brewery
S2 Ep12: 'In Between the Cracks' - sculpting with moss
S2 Ep11: Playing Hedwig
S2 Ep10: Writing Romance
S2 Ep9: What You Believe Matters - microaggressions and bias
S2 Ep8: Trauma-Informed Health Care
S2 Ep7: Knitting a cake
S2 Ep6: Author finds 'Mercy in the Madness'
S2 Ep5: San Isidoro, 2021 - A look at COVID life across in a Spanish school
S2 Ep4: Guarding the Tomb of the Unknown
S2 Ep3: Humor in the workplace
S2 Ep2: 'They got the wrong guy' - Exonerations in Illinois
S2 Ep1: Being a woman (in Iran)
S1 Ep75: Painting midwestern spaces - artist Douglas Johnson
S1 Ep74: The unlikely lobbyist who created Illinois legislation while attending Pontiac high school
S1 Ep73: My COVID Year - Stitching 'Woolf Words'
S1 Ep72: My COVID Year - Photography and Family
S1 Ep71: Main Character Syndrome
S1 Ep70: Conscious Crafting: creative mindfulness for kids
S1 Ep69: From the farm to the classroom – Distinguished Alumni Award recipient Justin Rickard
S1 Ep68: Getting up to speed on equity in the workplace
S1 Ep67: Exercising at Home
S1 Ep66: True Crime podcasters offer tips
S1 Ep65: Intro to Welding: from hobby art to in-demand career
S1 Ep64: Retirement and the pandemic
S1 Ep63: Voter suppression in the past and present
S1 Ep62: Mental techniques for runners
S1 Ep61: Planning for travel during the pandemic (and saving money doing so)
S1 Ep60: Sprucing up for sale - tips for staging a home
S1 Ep59: Introduction of Ayurveda
S1 Ep58: Seed Science and the Monarch Butterfly
S1 Ep57: Spotlight on First Generation College Students
S1 Ep56: The sometimes-conflicted battle for women's suffrage
S1 Ep55: Behind the Marvel Method
S1 Ep54: Hair Care and Different Cultures
S1 Ep53: Men and mental health
S1 Ep52: Healthcare barriers and living with HIV
S1 Ep51: Building coaching skills
S1 Ep50: Better creative writing through quarantine
S1 Ep49: Mental health in the age of COVID-19
S1 Ep48: Helping vets heal through art – Distinguished Alumni Award recipient Richard Casper
S1 Ep47: From C.N.A. to M.D. - Distinguished Alumni Award recipient Dr. Seshanand Rao
S1 Ep46: Using vision boards to picture your goals
S1 Ep45: Keeping kids engaged at while sheltering at home
S1 Ep44: Work/Life Balance (while working from home)
S1 Ep43: Living organ donors
S1 Ep42: Opening educational doors with braille
S1 Ep41: Segregation and education in Festus, Missouri
S1 Ep40: Two artists build a wall
S1 Ep39: Race, equity and education