October 2, 1992 - Dr. Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Minnesota talks about how money centers around health care system, insurance, and research. Caplan also answers listener questions.
October 30, 1992 - Author Jerry Dennis and illustrator Glenn Wolff detail the aspects of their book, It’s Raining Frogs and Fishes: Four Seasons of Natural Phenomena and Oddities of the Sky. Segment concludes with a reading from Dennis.
November 28, 1992 - Local commentator and writer Lawrence Sutin takes a look at the virtual reality nature of magazine and book, Mondo 2000.
November 28, 1992 - R. U. Sirius (aka Ken Goffman), co-founder and editor of Mondo 2000 magazine, discusses the rapid change in computer technology and counter-culture movement connected to it.
December 17, 1992 - Roger Knutson, professor of Biology at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, urges us to take a kinder, gentler view of the bugs that live on us with his book, Furtive Fauna: A Field Guide to the Creatures Who Live on You. It’s a hard sell.
January 2, 1993 - On this Midday program, MPR’s Jim Wishner chats with University of Minnesota futurist Arthur Harkins about discuss trends for the mid-to-late 1990s...and beyond. Harkins also answers listener questions.
January 16, 1993 - Dr. Milton Crenshaw, a veterinarian at the Animal Medical Clinic in St. Paul, answers listener questions about dog and cat health care.
January 29, 1993 - MPR’s Cathy Wurzer interviews archaeologist Scott Anfinson about shipwrecks in Lake Superior and the efforts to both explore and protect shipwrecks along the North Shore. Anfinson is from the Minnesota Historical Society.
February 23, 1993 - Kathryn Sullivan, NASA astronaut, speaking at Minnesota Meeting. Sullivan’s address was titled "Looking at Earth: A Personal View from Orbit." Following speech, Sullivan answered audience questions. Sullivan is a veteran of three space flights and is the first U.S. woman to walk in space.
March 1, 1993 - American scientist and historian Jared Diamond details his book, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution & Future of the Human Animal.