A World of Possibilities

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  • Location: Arcata, California

A World of Possibilities is an award-winning nationally and internationally syndicated public affairs radio program produced by Connexus Communications and hosted by explorer, author, and storyteller Mark Sommer. A World of Possibilities ceased weekly international broadcasts on December 31, 2011. Dozens of the best past programs, all as fresh and relevant as when they were first produced, remain available worldwide to both stations and individuals for streaming via PRX. Stations that are paid members of PRX may also download and rebroadcast any shows in the archive whenever they choose.  We invite you to browse this archive and tune in to part or all of any program that interests you. In addition, in the coming months and years we will post new conversations for your listening pleasure. Since these will not be formatted for radio broadcast, you'll get the chance to listen to entire unedited conversations in their original spontaneity as they wind their way like rivers to the sea. Or you'll be able to sample them here and there as you choose, dipping in to taste the waters. A World of Possibilities hasn't gone away. It's just taking new forms to better convey compelling stories of resilience and renewal that have always been its signature style. 

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Join us as we explore the American electoral process as it comes under question as never before.

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Food Safety

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Reforming the U.S. Prison System

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Bedrock conservatives in the last of America's still-wild West are shifting their political allegiances.

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Can we immunize ourselves against the virus of fear and does this fear threaten us far more than the terrorists ever could on their own?

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An exploration of Islam and the West

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Women's History Month Special


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Why is it that while many of us are discouraged and some devastated by life’s losses, a rare few not only survive but thrive in their wake –transce...

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  • Added: Mar 31, 2012
  • Length: 55:03
  • Purchases: 5
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The chemicals we manufacture for modern needs are complex synthetic compounds. Most are untested and some are toxic to nature and the human body. B...

Bought by 'The Sea', KZYX, WZEN.org, KWMR, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and more


  • Added: Feb 11, 2012
  • Length: 55:02
  • Purchases: 8
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Host Mark Summer continues his journey across the communities lying above the Marcellus Shale Play, a gigantic natural gas deposit stretching under...

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  • Added: Jan 23, 2012
  • Length: 55:02
  • Purchases: 4
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In a global culture dominated by the impatience of youth, counted in nanoseconds and fueled by “just-in-time” supply chains, everything needs to be...

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  • Added: Jan 22, 2012
  • Length: 55:02
  • Purchases: 4
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Organic agriculture has grown up.  A once-marginal movement of plucky and slightly eccentric home gardeners has bloomed into mega-farms that ship a...

Bought by WZEN.org, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KZYX, WZEN.org, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 22, 2012
  • Length: 55:02
  • Purchases: 8
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Most of us take life for granted. But what happens when we're forced to think hard about whether we want to live?  Suicide and the impulse to attem...

Bought by WZEN.org, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2012
  • Length: 55:02
  • Purchases: 3
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Species of both plants and animals are dying out at unprecedented rates. Overpopulation, industrialization, and mono-cropping are stressing the w...

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  • Added: Jan 20, 2012
  • Length: 55:02
  • Purchases: 4
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It’s clear that the economic collapse of 2008 – the second “September shock” after 2001 – will have a more enduring impact than most of us once sup...

Bought by WZEN.org, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WDSE, and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Jan 09, 2012
  • Length: 55:02
  • Purchases: 4
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In worlds of shattered dreams and broken hearts, Lily Yeh finds artful ways to mend, heal and renew. Born in mainland China and raised on Taiwan as...

Bought by KPVL, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WDSE, and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 26, 2011
  • Length: 55:02
  • Purchases: 4
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Today, nano particles are in our food, cosmetics, and hundreds of other items. And this is just the beginning of what is projected to be a $1 trill...

Bought by WZEN.org, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, WRPI, WDSE, and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 56:38
  • Purchases: 5