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episode 5: Disinformation and media manipulation are everywhere. Nobody can really know what’s going on in a ‘fog of war’. You’ll hear from displa...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2022
  • Length: 15:21
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episode 4: Not surprisingly, in a time of war, most of the funding available to science in Ukraine is gone. You’ll hear how Canada can help rebuild...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2022
  • Length: 19:09
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episode 2: How can you conduct research under extremely difficult conditions, such as they are in Ukraine? A sociologist and researcher at the Cen...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2022
  • Length: 19:25
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episode 1: It's the early days of the war. Scientists in Canada and France offer a helping hand to Ukrainian colleagues. A research scientist at t...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2022
  • Length: 19:59
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In the Church of England, you can only be baptized once. But some transgender people are seeking a new liturgy to reintroduce themselves to God, an...

Bought by WVTF and WPSU


  • Added: Jun 05, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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In an indigenous Mayan community in highland Guatemala, sociocultural anthropologist Kedron Thomas noticed a trend that led her to investigate inte...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2018
  • Length: 18:47
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Many of us have been eating chocolate since childhood, but could you recognize it in nature? In this episode, we start at the farm with the pod-sha...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2017
  • Length: 24:00
Caption: Baghdad Radio Orchestra 1938, Credit: Shlomo Elkivity
Professor Nancy Berg examines the legacy of Iraqi-Jewish writers, along with questions of home and identity.

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 11:50
  • Purchases: 1
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Cultural anthropologist Dredge Kang explains how political economics and other societal influences sometimes play as Cupid's arrows.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 15:57
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Glenn Stone explores the controversies around genetically modified crops and the effects of biotechnology on farmers in India.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 10:30
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Joe Loewenstein describes the small and highly competitive theater scene in which Early Modern playwrights like William Shakespeare flourished.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 14:06
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Robert Henke tracks Shakespeare back to his Italian inspirations and uncovers sources for his early comedies.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 12:26
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Anthropologist John Bowen shares a brief history of Islam in France and offers commentary on the ongoing European migrant crisis.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 09:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Political scientist Matt Gabel on how international courts work - and why countries should sometimes be allowed to bend the rules.

  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 11:24
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An urban studies professor explores some of the problems shared by cities around the globe.

  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 10:00
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Two political scientists explain how globalization is changing political parties and elections in the European Union and beyond.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 08:25
  • Purchases: 1
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An anthropologist examines the ethics of tobacco companies' practices around the world.

  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 12:00
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Geoff Childs, an anthropologist, examines the consequences of rapid population decline in ethnically Tibetan communities in Nepal.

  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 12:40
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An anthropologist comments on the complicated relationship in Bolivia between the natural gas industry and those who want to protect the environmen...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 12:00
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One Ethiopian woman works to remove obstacles for women pursuing an education.

  • Added: Oct 01, 2015
  • Length: 10:00
Caption: Host Carla Seidl with students in Kante, Togo
Teacher, librarian, and role model Catherine Talim of Kanté, Togo, gives advice on how to prepare for exams and succeed in school.

  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 18:37
Caption: Host Carla Seidl with students in Kante, Togo
Three junior high school girls present a skit on ideal love. Host Carla Seidl interviews a 22-year-old male student about gender equality and share...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 19:46
Caption: Host Carla Seidl with students in Kante, Togo
Two female high school student writers present original dialogue and poetry and speak about responsible behavior and putting off marriage.

  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 20:58
Caption: Host Carla Seidl with students in Kante, Togo
Five junior high school students from Kante, Togo collaborate with host Carla Seidl to present skits and speak about sexual harassment in the schoo...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 17:05
Caption: Host Carla Seidl with students in Kante, Togo
Host Carla Seidl speaks with young scholar and Dankpen Prefecture beauty pageant winner Prisca Nantob about studying, sexual harassment, and a woma...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 17:34