Dan Dillman – Host of A Little of This, A Little of That
A Little of This and A Little of That is a program of Conversation, Information, People and Places” hosted by Dan Dillman, retired Northern Illinois University Professor of Geography. Each program often consists of a potpourri of topics to inform and amuse. You will hear conversations with well informed people on such topics as identity theft, forensics, linguistics, climate change, geography and much more.
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Listen Below to Previous Broadcasts of “A Little of This, A Little of That” that interest you.
Each show is 27 minutes in length:
Travel Changes, Rainfall Types .
May 27, 2022
Ventilation, Sanction / Flywheel. Rainbows / Rain .
May 20, 2022
MLB, Weather, Aging, Tech Exodus, Odds n’ Ends.
May 13, 2022
Asteroid Crash, Oligarchs, Walrus, Travel, Odds n’ Ends.
May 6, 2022
PitchCom, Waves, National Symbol, Aurora Borealis, Odds & Ends.
April 29, 2022
Labels, AI, Next week?, Micro Plastics, Coffee, Cats, Odds n’ Ends.
April 22, 2022
Daylight Saving?, Hurricanes, Food Supply Crisis, Next Week?.
April 15, 2022
Finland, Nationalism Terms, Innovations, Amazon Forest, Stonehenge, Q & A.
April 8, 2022
Affordable Cities, Q & A.
April 1, 2022
More MPG, Nato, Odd’s ‘n Ends, Worthy of Note, Wit & Wisdom.
March 22, 2022
Yellowstone, Automat, Hydramatic.
March 15, 2022
Bad News, Dinosaur Demise, Ukraine, ‘Shroom Burgers.
March 8, 2022
Hidden River, Humidity, Methane, Orcas, SAD, Sodium, Future of Work.
March 1, 2022
Leftovers & By-products, Satchmo, Roquefort, Winter Blues.
Feb 22, 2022
Did You Know?, Potato Chips.
Feb 15, 2022
Full Moons, Spring Training, Climate ’21, Language ’21.
Feb 8, 2022
Winter Driving, Snowboarding, Q & A, Food for Thought, Words of the Year.
Feb 1, 2022
Precip. Forms, Dark Ages, War In Orbit, Health & Science.
Jan 25, 2022
Northern Lights, China’s Military, Q & A, Condiments, Wit & Wisdom.
Jan 18, 2022
Melting Glaciers, Polling Troubles, Innovations, Food for Thought.
Jan 11, 2022
Ireland, Picasso, Vikings, Ancient Universe, Elephants Without Tusks.
Dec 28, 2021
Trail of Tears, Buffalo Soldiers, Pandemic, Metaverse, Male Students, Progress.
Dec 14, 2021
Great Lakes Warming, Methane, S.F. Fog, Jupiters Spot, Mother of Pearl Clouds.
Dec 7, 2021
Western Heat/Drought, Accurate World Map,Rosetta Stone, Bottom Line.
Nov 30, 2021
Wrigley Bldg., Polar Shorelines, Nature, Fossil Footprints, Air Travel.
Nov 9, 2021
Berkshire Hills, Arlington National Cemetery, Cholesterol.
Nov 2, 2021
Florida, Australia, Tongue Twisters, Lake Superior, AI.
Oct 26, 2021
Robot Umpires, National Parks, Migration, Health & Science.
Oct 19, 2021
Recycling, Weather, Future News.
Oct 12, 2021
Route 66, UFO’s, Tacos, Wet or Dry Sept.
Sept 28, 2021
Amtrack, Innovations, Microchips, Licensing, Business News
Sept 21, 2021
Great Lakes Aircraft Carriers, Q & A, AMOC, Dragons
Sept 14, 2021
Guest: Elizabeth Bass – NIU Life Long Learning Program
Sept 7, 2021
Tourism, Climate and Bodies, Wobble Floods, Star Burp, Progress Points
Aug 24, 2021
Climate Change, Hot Summer, Amazon’s Co2, Broken Heart, Wit & Wisdom
Aug 17, 2021
Pain, South China Sea, Procrastination, Health & Science
Aug 10, 2021
SW Monsoon, Heat Dome, Homework, Cults, Wit & Wisdom
Aug 3, 2021
Sticky Stuff, Megadrought, Cargo Ships
July 20, 2021
Micro Chips, Mysterious Britain, Tabloids
July 13, 2021
Drone Warfare, Model”T”, Toxic Makeup
July 6, 2021
Tornado Season, Defense Against Drones, Brit vs French Food
June 29, 2021
2 Henries, Wolves, UFO’s, Wit & Wisdom
June 22, 2021
Hurricane Names, “It’s Kindergarten”, Word Glue, Gag Reflex, Lost Nukes, Books
June 15, 2021
Mich. Barns, Scottish Independence, Napoleon’s Art, Light Show, “Pinch Hitter”
June 8, 2021
Ice Bridges, Seeds, Detroit Jazz, Plane Wrecks, Baseball
June 1, 2021
Food Insecurity, Fluency, Eco Improvement, The Bremen, Degrees & Jobs
May 25, 2021
Fungus, Butterflies, Synonyms, Climate Change, Wit & Wisdom
May 18, 2021
Better AI, Wireless Electricity, Teeth, Heart, “Our Team”, Red Barns
May 11, 2021
Taiwan, New England’s England, Sustainability, Kid Ory
May 4, 2021
Public Toilets, Privacy, Baseball Gloves, Beef
April 20, 2021
Fertility, Daylight, After Shot, Housing, Kangaroos, Wit & Wisdom
April 13, 2021
Wood, Mozart, Saunders, Maps, Protein, Babbler, Cancer, Baseball
April 6, 2021
Online Homebuying, Airlines, Demonyms, Baseball, Astrazeneca, Business
March 30, 2021
Megadrought, Words, Night Sky, Baseball, Airport Noise, Culture, Mag. Poles
March 23, 2021
Boredom, Betts & Mlb, MLB 2021 Predictions, Baseball Why’s, Naps & Cats
March 16, 2021
Pandemic Wealth Impact, Middle Ages, China’s Recovery, Wit & Wisdom
March 9, 2021
High Flyer, Alphabetical Order, Game Stop Mania, Changing Cities, Global News
March 2, 2021
Monster Wind Turbine, Climate, Murder, Greek Sea Claims, Inventing the Alphabet
February 23, 2021
Mich Borders, Bus. & Tech. News, World At a Glance, Shakespeare
February 16, 2021
Tasty Idioms, Peanut Butter, EFC, Health and Science, Wit and Wisdom
February 9, 2021
Great Britain’s Hedges, Civil War Slang, Adding A Star, Q & A
January 26, 2021
Frozen Meals, Denim Jeans, 26 Words, Arab World’s VIP
January 19, 2021
Morocco, Space Flight, Pandas, Vintage Takeout, Indigo
January 12, 2021
Country Music, Computer Games, Book Review, Environment, Q&A
January 5, 2021
Everglades, Macinac, Microbes, Masterpieces, D.C., Arctic, Q & A
December 29, 2020
Chess, Restaurants, Alzheimers, Leonardo, Breakfast, Wit& Wisdom, Niagara Falls
December 15, 2020
Hurricanes, Woman GM, Opportunities, Names Change, Global Views, Xmas Gifts
December 8, 2020
Surveillance, Squash, Healthy Shopping, Puffins, Hair Dye
December 1, 2020
Digital Nomads, Points of Progress, Big Tech Regulation, Q & A
November 24, 2020
Fred & Lena Meijer, Frank Lloyd Wright, Q & A
November 17, 2020
Chris Craft & WWII, Paper, Alien Oceans, Qantas Mothball 747
November 10, 2020
“Weird”-est People, River of Dreams, Health and Science, Turkey, Q & A
November 3, 2020
Mars Mania, Video Games & English, New Europe, Sun’s Mysteries, Wit & Wisdom
October 27, 2020
US Army Pre WW2, Climate Modeling, Wind Resource, Q & A
October 20, 2020
Climate Change, California Wildfire, Israel-UAE, Rogue Planets, Auto Prices
October 13, 2020
Space Force, Green Book, Repo. Problems
October 6, 2020
Hurricane Damage, Covid Shopping Patterns, Greenland Glaciers, Economy
September 29, 2020
Tribute to Bob Dylan
September 22, 2020
Nile, Fatigue, Worst Moments, Covid, Cruise Ship Clues
September 15, 2020
Good Humor Man, Housing Crisis, Beetlejuice, Only In America
September 8, 2020
Ballpark Stories, Miss. Flag, CT Vivian, Masks, Colt’s Gun, Small Museums
September 1, 2020
Bicycles, Electric Cars, Paris, Choices, D.C., Taiwan, Bottom Line
August 25, 2020
Aloha Shirt, Drive Ins, Dog Noses, Arctic Ozone Holes, Calder’s Art
August 20, 2020
Voting by Mail, Louisville Slugger, Post Office, Travelers, re-wild America, Wit & Wisdom
August 13, 2020
Art of Writing, Masks, Covid Research, Public Places, Ques & Ans, Items of Note
August 6, 2020
Requiem for “Loogys”, Equality, Smithsonian Q & A, Western Food, Azteca Tourism
July 30, 2020
Baseball Reforms, Beer, Baking Substitutions, Outer Space
July 16, 2020
Age of Zoom, Post Pandemic Office, Cloud Control, Changing the World
July 2, 2020
Disinformation, Poetry, Birds, Wit amd Wisdom
June 18, 2020
Full Moons, Ladderson Mex. Border, Wine Grapes, The Art of War, Comments of Interest
April 30, 2020
Arctic Ice, Mich.’s Fieldstone Heritage, Future Facts, Livestock on Environment, Wit and Wisdom
March 26, 2020
Kansas,Peak Happiness, Venice, Items of Note
February 27, 2020
Ukraine, Artificial Intelligence, Questions and Answers, Curing Ebola
February 6, 2020
Food Waste, Social Diversity, Wit and Wisdom, Superiority and Privilege
January 9, 2020
Flu vaccine, Items of Note, Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone, Wit and Wisdom
December 12, 2019
Baseball Rule Changes – October 24, 2019
5G, Ocean Mysteries, Hong Kong – October 10, 2019
Lotteries, University Cities, Oil, Brain, Literature – June 24, 2019
A Little of This, A Little of That – Identity Theft Pt. 2 – June 3, 2019
A Little of This, A Little of That – Identity Theft – May 20, 2019
A Little of This, A Little of That – Great Lakes Facts, Climate Change – May 6, 2019
A Little of This, A Little of That – “Casey at the Bat”, Cats, Super Fungi – April 29, 2019
A Little of This, A Little of That – How to Hide an Empire, Edgar Allen Poe – April 15, 2019
A Little of This, A Little of That – 100 Years of Bauhaus – April 8, 2019
A Little of This, A Little of That – Invasive Reptiles of Florida, Interstellar Probes, Northern Explorers, Etc. – March 25, 2019
A Little of This, A Little of That – Future Facts, Cats and Boxes, Easter Island, Etc – March 11, 2019
A Little of This, A Little of That – Things to Avoid, Forest Fires, Saudi-US Alliance, Etc – January 21, 2019
A Little of This, A Little of That – Last First on Earth, 10,000-year-old Emojies, Etc – Jan 14, 2019
A Little of This, A Little of That – Claude Debussy, The Beginning of Modern Music? – January 7, 2019
A Little of This, A Little of That – Word-Pairs, Robot Replacements, Amazon HQ2, etc. – December 24, 2018
A Little of This, A Little of That – Legacy of World War 1- December 10, 2018
A Little of This, A Little of That – Smells, Arctic, Search Engines, Smithsonian – November 26, 2018
A Little of This, A Little of That – Student Debt, 18-Hour Flight, Extreme Hurricanes, and the Aral Sea – November 1, 2018
A Little of This, A Little of That – VW Bug Swatted, Indian Summer, The Middle Class, and Lake Baikal – October 25, 2018
A Little of This, A Little of That – Ocean Plastic, Protest Flags, Wit and Wisdom, Arctic Ice, and Michigan’s Coral Reef – September 17, 2018
A Little of This, A Little of That – Israel, Speaking English And Alzheimer Breakthrough – September 3, 2018
A Little of This, A Little of That – Interview With Linc Smelser And Jerry Zar From The Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra – August 27, 2018
A Little of This, A Little of That – “!”, Brexit, Summer of Hell, Plastic in the Pacific, and Talking Trees – August 20, 2018
A Little of This, A Little of That – Ford’s Changing Lineup, ID Cards, Earth Day, etc. – August 13, 2018
A Little of This, A Little of That – Benny Goodman Carnegie Hall – July 23, 2018
A Little of This, A Little of That – Clear Alternative – April 16, 2018
A Little of This, A Little of That – Baseball 2018 – April 02, 2018
A Little of This, A Little of That – The 2018 Olympics And More – Febuary 18, 2018
A Little of This, A Little of That – Retail industries, Robo Calls And The Strong Stock Market – Febuary 5, 2018
A Little of This, A Little of That – Hollywood Secret Weapon, Future Of The Ocean And More – November 20, 2017
A Little of This, A Little of That – October 30, 2017
A Little of This, A Little of That – Climate Change and Coral Reefs, The Search for Another Earth – September 18, 2017
A Little of This, A Little of That – GPS Maps, Antarctica, Heat Waves, and Plastic Trash – August 28, 2017
A Little of This, A Little of That – Bob Dylan’s Acceptance Letter for the Nobel Prize, and his Affection for the Old Standards – August 07, 2017
A Little of This, A Little of That – Music of Roy Orbison – His Music and More – May 01, 2017
A Little of This, A Little of That – Music of Roy Orbison – Part 2 – April 17, 2017
A Little of This, A Little of That – Music of Roy Orbison – Part 1 – April 10, 2017
A Little of This, A Little of That – U.S. Mexican Border – December 19, 2016
A Little of This, A Little of That – Gotthard Tunnel QA, U.S. Mexican Border – December 5, 2016
A Little of This, A Little of That – Vintage Baseball, Food Waste and Super Rich – October 31, 2016
A Little of This, A Little of That – Globalization after Brexit; Future of World Oil Production; LLI at NIU; Best Places for Expatriates – September 12, 2016
A Little of This, A Little of That – Dave Brubeck and His Music – August 29, 2016
