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This week we talk about noble lies, compassion fatigue, and addiction.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 36:55
This week we talk about smart mobs, reddit, and Kompromat.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 41:27
This week we discuss hackers, video games, and Project Xanadu.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 32:10
This week, we talk about self-driving trucks, Malthusian catastrophes, and human obsolescence.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 47:03
This week we discuss protests in several different contexts.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 52:53
This week we talk about the net-casting spider, space junk, and Kessler syndrome.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 42:04
This week we talk about the German kunstschutz unit, the Venus de Milo, and slavery reparations.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 44:53
A vast and densely populated region of North-east India that depends on water from Brahmaputra and its tributaries is feeling agitated over China’s...
- Added: Oct 16, 2016
- Length: 05:13
The lessons of D.L. Rosenhan's study of imposters pretending to have psychiatric illness on psychiatric units have not been lost on the world of me...
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 07:32
In 1962 a group of Indians were shipped off to internment camps during a war with China.
- Added: Mar 15, 2016
- Length: 06:00
This year saw the Academy Awards ceremony awash in racial controversy.
- Added: Feb 29, 2016
- Length: 06:00
Television is not just news. It has become the lynchpin of the lynchmob.
- Added: Feb 22, 2016
- Length: 06:00
As more writers return awards and honors, cynics ask if this is an outbreak of Award Returnitis
- Added: Oct 12, 2015
- Length: 06:00
After it was posted on WhatsApp that Aklhaq Mohmamad's family was eating beef a mob beat and stoned him to death.
But what was the mob being fed?
- Added: Oct 06, 2015
- Length: 06:00
When Narendra Modi came by last week to the Bay Area the titans of tech pulled out all stops to give him a red carpet welcome.
Amidst all this jub...
- Added: Sep 30, 2015
- Length: 06:00
Mahesh Sharma, India’s Culture minister, and a high school in Irving, Texas have more in common than they realize.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Sep 22, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
The secrecy around an illness can become the great taboo.
What Jimmy Carter did by going public was break that taboo and face the disease squarely....
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Aug 25, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
It’s not a kitten video or an on-air blooper or a wardrobe malfunction. Who would have thought a 15 minute debating society speech could go viral? ...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Jul 28, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
In the last decade Bollywood has snuck into America. Bollywood aerobics. Bollywood theme parties. It even snuck into the Oscars via Slumdog Million...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 04, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza tells the story of how that phrase, and the movement came to be.
- Added: Apr 29, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
The world will need to remember that Nepal is not just a home for temples and palaces and Everest expeditions. It is a country that millions call h...
- Added: Apr 27, 2015
- Length: 06:00
Once there was a great hue and cry about racial profiling by law enforcement in America and it resulted in a landmark called Driving while Black. T...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 17, 2015
- Length: 06:04
- Purchases: 2
In Episode 18 of Behind The Thread, we look at wages around the world. Sokny Say of the Free Trade Union of the Workers of the Kingdom of Cambodia ...
- Added: Nov 21, 2014
- Length: 40:07
Several reasons are presented which individually and collectively demonstrate why Ebola should be treated as though it is airborne.
- Added: Oct 04, 2014
- Length: 04:16
The World Health Organization this week announced a horrendous fact: the number of Ebola cases in West Africa is doubling every 20 days. If this t...
- Added: Sep 24, 2014
- Length: 04:41
