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2024-04-19 Artificial Intelligence, Real Climate Impacts
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Artificial intelligence can do some pretty amazing things, including for the climate. AI can help optimize the electric grid, make heating and cool...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
240112: Pairing Scientists with Community Advocates, 1/12/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The climate crisis can feel distant — like it’s someone else’s problem — until your town is flooded, your home is damaged by storms, or you're stru...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
Civics 101: The True Story Of Reconstruction
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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Reconstruction has long been taught as a lost cause narrative. We talk about what that narrative leaves out.

  • Added: Jan 09, 2024
  • Length: 51:30
No Small Endeavor’s Holiday Toolkit: Gratitude and Conversation
From: No Small Endeavor
Series: No Small Endeavor Specials
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This Holiday, No Small Endeavor brings you four conversations to tee you up for a successful and meaningful time with family and friends. We hear f...

Bought by Aspen Public Radio, WLRH, WRGY, KMUN, WLIW and more


  • Added: Nov 07, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 47
Conversations: Rupa Marya, MD & Raj Patel
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
Caption: Inflamed Book Cover
In this episode, Emily speaks with physician Rupa Marya and political economist Raj Patel about their recent book, Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the ...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2022
  • Length: 56:21
The Big Ponder #42: Beer
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Long ago, German immigrants brought their brewing traditions to the United States. More recently, brewers from the U.S. have begun bringing America...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 04, 2022
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1
Conversations: Sidarta Ribeiro
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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In this episode, Emily speaks with neuroscientist and author Sidarta Ribeiro about his book The Oracle of Night, which investigates the art and sci...

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 52:57
The Big Ponder #33: Housing
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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The demand for affordable housing has reached an all-time high in both Europe and North America. In this episode, Tomma Suki investigates the housi...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 31, 2022
  • Length: 28:41
  • Purchases: 1
2022-01-14 Should Nature Have Rights?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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If corporations can be legal persons, why can’t Mother Earth? In 2017, New Zealand granted the Whanganui River the full legal rights of a person....

Bought by WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WDSE and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 9
220114: Should Nature Have Rights?, 1/14/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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If corporations can be legal persons, why can’t Mother Earth? In 2017, New Zealand granted the Whanganui River the full legal rights of a person....

  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
The Big Ponder #16: Wonder
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Americans on the East Coast were in awe when Brood X, an enormous group of 17-year cicadas, suddenly emerged from underground to mate. Melissa Gerr...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 29, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Constant Wonder - Memorial Day Special
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Topic 1: General Patton; Topic 2: Race of Aces; Topic 3: Pacific Wrecks

Bought by KTXK, KTNA, WYPL, RadioStPete Florida, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 15, 2021
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 8
The Big Ponder #5: Little America Revisited
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
Caption: The Big Ponder, Credit: © Goethe-institut
Since World War II, there have been countless American GIs stationed at military bases all over Germany. Sylvia Cunningham and Monika Müller-Kroll ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:52
  • Purchases: 1
Sending Light Into a Dark World
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we're meeting with Stephen Rothschild, the executive director of The Jewish Federation of Greater Toledo, to c...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2020
  • Length: 06:18
Pandemic Special Edition: Viruses
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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In this special episode, we go microscopic to learn about viruses. We explore how they work, and we discuss our odds of defeating them. We also lea...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 49:39
  • Purchases: 1
Holding Space While Maintaining Social Distance
From: Suzanne LaGrande
Series: We Are All In This Together
Caption: Tara Atkinson
Suzanne LaGrande interviews Tara Atkinson, a yoga therapist and teacher who teaches diverse communities in Portland, Oregon. Since the Covid-19 Pan...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2020
  • Length: 08:17
The Big Pond #48: Legacies of the Berlin Wall
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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“It was chaos, it was total chaos.” When the Berlin Wall unexpectedly fell in 1989, it triggered a time of massive flux for the newly reunited capi...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO


  • Added: Oct 02, 2019
  • Length: 19:45
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Pond #46: Black Art, Berlin Stories – Looking for Alain Locke
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In 1925, the African-American philosopher Alain Locke (1886-1954) launched a revolutionary black arts movement now known as the Harlem Renaissance....

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO


  • Added: Sep 18, 2019
  • Length: 34:12
  • Purchases: 2
Alvaro Bedoya: Privacy and Civil Rights in the Age of Facebook, ICE, and the NSA
From: Generation Justice Admin
Caption: Right: U.S. Sen. Dennis Chavez (NM); Right: Professor Alvaro Bedoya
What is the history of surveillance in the US? What are its implications for today's activists, immigrants, and people of color? Professor Alvaro B...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2019
  • Length: 57:53
The Mad Military Money Machine
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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There’s something sick about US Military spending. It’s certainly not keeping anyone safe. This week, why we the public spend billions on bad techn...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Pond #37: 100 Years of the Bauhaus
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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The Bauhaus school of art, architecture and design was founded in 1919 and lasted for only 14 years before the Nazis forced it to close in 1933. An...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 17, 2019
  • Length: 25:09
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Pond #36: Luftbrücke – 70 Years of Memories
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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On June 24, 1948, the Soviet military administration officially cut off roads and rails into West Berlin in the Berlin Blockade, isolating it from ...

Bought by KWMR, KICI Iowa City, and Morton College Radio


  • Added: Jul 10, 2019
  • Length: 19:21
  • Purchases: 3
The Big Pond #24: Being Muslim in the Midwest
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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What is it like to be Muslim nowadays in the Midwest, the so-called Heartland of the US? And how does that reality connect to the one in Germany? O...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KRZA


  • Added: Apr 17, 2019
  • Length: 15:29
  • Purchases: 2
Saving our Planet with Ban the Straw and Debris Free Oceans
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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Saving our Planet with Ban the Straw and Debris Free Oceans. Ban the Straws' Marilu Cristina Flores with Chelsea Reed and Debris Free Oceans' Caiti...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: May 28, 2018
  • Length: 26:34
  • Purchases: 1
Autism advancements in Education and Research with Dr Marlene Sotelo from the Els for Autism Foundation and Dr. Melissa Hale University of Miami SPARK research
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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Autism advancements in Education and Research with Dr Marlene Sotelo the director of programs and operations for the Els for Autism Foundation and ...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Mar 22, 2017
  • Length: 27:22
  • Purchases: 1