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The Neuroscience of Psychedelics
From: Aspen Public Radio
Series: Aspen Psychedelic Symposium 2023
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This special broadcast from Aspen Public Radio was recorded live at the 2023 Aspen Psychedelic Symposium earlier this year. “The Neuroscience of Ps...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
Present Shock - Tech: Existential Threat or Life Support?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Days of wonder, days of rage. We're living through an information revolution as profound as any since Gutenberg and the printing press, but are we ...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 05, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Hope, Part Three: Are We Really Doomed?
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Hope (A Three Part Series from To the Best of Our Knowledge)
Caption: Hope (A Three Part Series)
Can hope co-exist with cataclysmic realities like climate change? We conclude our "Hope" series with a look at the future.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KTRT RADIO INC, KICI Iowa City, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KBIA


  • Added: May 07, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5
Justice in Engineering Education
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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The SXSW Education conference and festival in 2017 highlighted equity, fairness, and justice as a major theme. How does this apply to engineering ...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2018
  • Length: 43:03
The Legal Codes
From: Raw Data
Series: Raw Data: Season 2
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How are algorithms and data science making their way into the American criminal justice system?

  • Added: Jun 27, 2017
  • Length: 32:20
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Author John Berendt
From: New Letters on the Air
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John Berendt, recorded at HEAR/NOW: The Audio Fiction and Arts Festival in Kansas City, discusses his best-selling MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD A...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
Drive-Thru
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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Aaron Sorkin presents "Drive-Thru," the rambling, over-thought story of your first summer job.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2012
  • Length: 03:11
Why Has America Stopped Inventing?
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Leonardo da Vinci's flying machine
America loves innovation and the can-do spirit that made this country what it is-a world leader in self-government, industry and technology, and po...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 14:41
The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Clay A. Johnson
This is not your average diet book. Author Clay Johnson challenges us to be more aware and selective of the information we digest.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
Robotics: The Future of War?
From: War News Radio
Caption: (CC) Jared Goralnick - http://sn.im/ignitedc1
The evolution of modern warfare suggests that robotics are here to stay. But what is the current status of drone use in the U.S.? Elliana Bisgaard...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2011
  • Length: 06:18
Callous
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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In this short episode we hear about a terrifying phlebotomy experience and the callouses doctors must develop to protect themselves from death.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 06:16
  • Purchases: 2
Engineers of the New Millennium: Sustainable Design for the Future
From: Spectrum Radio
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Sustainable Design for the Future, from IEEE Spectrum Magazine and the National Science Foundation. Sustainable planning – of buildings and communi...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, KZYX, KISU, WNYC, KZYX and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Action Speaks! What's Eating Us? 1998 - The Sonny Bono Act (Copywright Extension)
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Action Speaks! Underappreciated Dates that Changed America and its panelists -- including famed author Shepard Fairey and scholar and attorney Lawr...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, WFSU, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Oct 15, 2010
  • Length: 58:50
  • Purchases: 7
Tesla vs. the United States
From: Deus Ex Machina
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Who invented radio? Marconi or Tesla? 90% of people get this wrong. Find out by attending the Supreme Court trial in 1943. The answer will surp...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 01, 2010
  • Length: 49:13
  • Purchases: 1
Surviving on the Duwamish
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Life on the Duwamish: Rediscovering Seattle's Dirty South
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Life on the Duwamish, Segment 5

  • Added: Jul 04, 2008
  • Length: 08:53
Magnetic Seizure Therapy
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
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Powerful magnetic currents seek to replace electroshock treatments for severe depressions.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2008
  • Length: 07:48
MegaCities Series 4: Shanghai, China
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
MegaCities Series 4: Shanghai, China

  • Added: Jun 21, 2007
  • Length: 13:15
MegaCities Series 3: Mumbai, India
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
MegaCities Series 3: Mumbai, India

  • Added: Jun 21, 2007
  • Length: 12:34
MegaCities Series 2: Sao Paulo, Brazil
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
MegaCities Series 2: Sao Paulo, Brazil

Bought by KZSC


  • Added: Jun 21, 2007
  • Length: 08:57
  • Purchases: 1
MegaCities Series 1: Tokyo, Japan
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
MegaCities Series 1: Tokyo, Japan

  • Added: Jun 21, 2007
  • Length: 11:25