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"Is There a Right to Education and Literacy?"
From: Prairie Public
Series: Why? Philosophical Discussions About Everyday Life
Caption: Derek Black, Credit: University of South Carolina
Host Jack Russell Weinstein visits with Derek Black, professor of law at the University of South Carolina

Bought by WNED Buffalo


  • Added: May 09, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
“How Does Misinformation Spread?”
From: Prairie Public
Series: Why? Philosophical Discussions About Everyday Life
Caption: O'Connor and Weatherall
Host Jack Russell Weinstein visits with Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, authors of "The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread." ...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
“What is literacy?”
From: Prairie Public
Series: Why? Philosophical Discussions About Everyday Life
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Jack Russell Weinstein visits with Kim Donehower, professor of English at the University of North Dakota.

  • Added: Feb 02, 2019
  • Length: 54:01
Teaching Ethics
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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How do you teach ethics to engineering students? Guests Dr. Beccy Hambright and Richard Burgess talk about their experience tackling that question...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jan 21, 2019
  • Length: 48:02
  • Purchases: 1
Global Community
From: Colin Wright
Series: Let's Know Things
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This week we discuss dark patterns, Facebook, and the tycoon monomyth.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2017
  • Length: 47:55
Microbes: Resistance is Futile
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Microbes: Resistance is Futile, Credit: Seth Shostak
You have more microbial DNA than human DNA. Find out what questions this raises about what it means to be an individual, how your microbiome can ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRIR, and WRGY


  • Added: Jul 11, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
THE GIRL KING -- Mika Kaurismaki Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Mika Kaurismaki talks power struggles, free will, and what Greta Garbo really wanted.

  • Added: Dec 03, 2015
  • Length: 11:08
Charles Eisenstein on Foundations of Earth Activism
From: Ayana Young
Series: Unlearn & Rewild
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Author and philosopher Charles Eisenstein discusses the narrative of separation from nature and the ecological crises it has wrought, as well as th...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Nov 22, 2014
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
Moral Leadership: Segment B
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Just Business
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Consulting firms have long helped corporations make their operations more efficient and profitable, but now moral leadership is being added to the ...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Sep 04, 2012
  • Length: 14:32
  • Purchases: 1
Moral Leadership: Segment A
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Just Business
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Consulting firms have long helped corporations make their operations more efficient and profitable, but now moral leadership is being added to the ...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Sep 04, 2012
  • Length: 20:40
  • Purchases: 1
The Size of Life
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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How small and how large can life be? Hear scientists consider various answers to these questions and even attempt to convince you that life can be ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 19, 2012
  • Length: 10:49
  • Purchases: 2
Ricky Gervais on Atheism and Jetpacks
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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Comedian Ricky Gervais:"So what I’m really wishing for is justice in the world, honor really and wishing that every one gets their reward, which cl...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 08, 2012
  • Length: 06:40
  • Purchases: 1
Words
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Photo by Per Ola Wiberg ~ Powi, Flickr
“My piece is merely a collection of poems I wrote. I made them as personal as possible.” What Ari Rappaport said about his YMP/SFAI Summer Intensi...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2012
  • Length: 04:10
The Sound of Chaos
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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Why can’t you predict the weather in a few days in advance? In this short, we explore the fundamental unknowable nature of chaotic systems. Then we...

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  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 14:51
  • Purchases: 1
Innate Cause
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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How engrained is cause in our psyche? ... and in our fields of study? Experts and experiments explain.

  • Added: Sep 30, 2011
  • Length: 28:06
The Decisions Project - 27 - College and Horses
From: Aengus Anderson
Series: The Decisions Project
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A woman reflects on her decision to give up equestrianism and go to college.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jul 15, 2011
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 1
The Decisions Project - 25 - Cold Feet
From: Aengus Anderson
Series: The Decisions Project
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A young man proposes to his girlfriend... and then reconsiders.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jul 11, 2011
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 1
Paradoxes
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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Paradoxes - What are they? What do they mean? How should we think about them? Experts weigh in.

Bought by KGOU


  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 36:09
  • Purchases: 1
The Decisions Project - 22 - Accepting Gay Father
From: Aengus Anderson
Series: The Decisions Project
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A teenage girl talks about learning that her father is gay and her subsequent decision to stay with him.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KUT


  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 2
The Decisions Project - 20 - Leaving Kids for a Year
From: Aengus Anderson
Series: The Decisions Project
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A father decides to take a transcontinental motorcycle trip and leave his children for a year.

  • Added: Jun 12, 2011
  • Length: 03:29
The Decisions Project - 18 - Stand by You
From: Aengus Anderson
Series: The Decisions Project
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A 21 year-old abandons his carefree bachelor fantasy and reluctantly marries a girl he accidentally impregnated.

  • Added: May 26, 2011
  • Length: 02:24
The Decisions Project - 17 - Questioning Medical Advice
From: Aengus Anderson
Series: The Decisions Project
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A man questions the advice of his doctor and decides to stop taking anti-anxiety medication.

  • Added: May 19, 2011
  • Length: 03:26
The Decisions Project - 5 - Stop Attending Church
From: Aengus Anderson
Series: The Decisions Project
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A man discusses his decision to stop attending church.

  • Added: Mar 29, 2011
  • Length: 02:54
"In a Different Voice and After" with Carol Gilligan
From: Prairie Public
Series: Why? Philosophical Discussions About Everyday Life
Caption: Carol Gilligan
Do men think differently than women? Is moral reasoning inherently male? Is psychology biased against relationships and the women who value them? T...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 25, 2011
  • Length: 52:57
  • Purchases: 1
Problem Solving, Then Poetry - Kwame Anthony Appiah & C.K. Williams
From: Open Source
Caption: PRX default Piece image
We're talking with Kwame Anthony Appiah and C.K. Williams this week. The philosopher and storyteller Kwame Anthony Appiah at Princeton is on the tr...

Bought by KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1