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The Idea of the University
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is a university a research institute with students, or and educational institution with research around the edges – or something in between?

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  • Added: Aug 15, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
2021-04-18 The Ethics of Algorithms
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Would you trust your life to an algorithm?

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  • Added: Aug 13, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
2021-04-04 Does Science Over-reach?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Are there questions that science is powerless to answer?

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  • Added: Jul 23, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 8
2021-03-07 The Value of Care: Feminism and Ethics
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How do notions like care, compassion, and empathy change the way we view our obligations to others?

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  • Added: Jun 14, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
Rise of the NBA G-League Already Impacting Amateur Athletics
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
Caption: Darius Bazley's decision could seriously impact the dynamics of college basketball, Credit: Associated Press
Darius Bazley's decision to decommit from Syracuse to pursue the NBA G-League will have ramifications for years to come in the college basketball l...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 04:02
Many Millennials Don't Seem to Care About Data Breaches
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
Caption: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before House Energy and Commerce hearing on Capitol Hill, Credit: (c) AP Images
Recent data breaches hitting big companies such as Facebook have cause people to go into a frenzy. However, the generation that goes online the mos...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 03:38
The Insult
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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The Insult is another provocative drama about the Middle East from Lebanese director Ziad Doueiri, who made a film a few years ago called The Attac...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2018
  • Length: 04:23
#820- Freedom, Liberty and Democracy explained
From: marc cuniberti
Series: Money Matters Economic Forum
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
What is the difference between liberty, democracy and freedom? Controversial news piece on political stances and the American belief of what these ...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2018
  • Length: 05:30
A Scribe Called Quess
From: Sarah Holtz
Series: The Poetic City
Caption: Michael Quess? Moore, Credit: Fernando Lopez
Michael Quess Moore, or, A Scribe Called Quess, describes himself as a poet, an educator, an actor, and an activist. When we met him before his per...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2018
  • Length: 07:02
Blade Runner & Blade Runner 2049
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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This last year saw the release of Blade Runner 2049, a sequel to the 1982 science fiction classic Blade Runner. It’s rather unusual for a sequel to...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2018
  • Length: 04:40
Faces Places
From: KXCI
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The French director Agnès Varda has been making films for over sixty years, in both fiction and non-fiction form, and she has truly become one of t...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 04:08
The Florida Project
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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The Florida Project is a film of rootlessness and dysfunction, so unusual that nothing could have prepared me for its kind of honesty.

  • Added: Dec 09, 2017
  • Length: 04:31
“Philosophy Changing Lives”
From: Prairie Public
Series: Why? Philosophical Discussions About Everyday Life
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Host Jack Russell Weinstein visits with Peter Singer, the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and a Laureate Professor at...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
2020-02-02 Race Matters
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What's could be controversial about a movement insisting that Black lives matter too?

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2017
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 7
Philando Castile shooting one year later: When police instructions turn deadly
From: Robin Washington
Caption: Robin Washington at the Ramsey County Courthouse in St. Paul, Minn., awaiting the verdict in the trial of Officer Jeronimo Yanez in the shooting death of Philando Castile.
One year ago this week, July 6, Philando Castile was shot to death by Officer Jeronimo Yanez in suburban St. Paul. Commentator Robin Washington a...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2017
  • Length: 01:59
2017-06-18 Banking on Change at Standing Rock
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Artist/activist L. Frank Manriquez
On June 1, oil began flowing through the Dakota Access Pipeline. But demonstrations at the Standing Rock reservation in 2016 made national headline...

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  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 5
#780- Government's neat tricks
From: marc cuniberti
Series: Money Matters Economic Forum
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
Governments have an art when it comes to getting things done, including convincing their constituents what they are doing is right and deserved. Na...

  • Added: May 21, 2017
  • Length: 04:50
346-Arctic Ice
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The polar ice caps are the smallest in recorded history.

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  • Added: Apr 07, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
#770- Trumps first orders
From: marc cuniberti
Series: Money Matters Economic Forum
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
The new President start issuing executive orders and some of those are cutting back expenses. Learn who and what is targeted and what it might mean...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2017
  • Length: 03:36
National Prison Strike Updates
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week on Kite Line, we follow up on what’s happening nationally and internationally in regards to actions for the National Prison strike, both ...

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  • Added: Oct 03, 2016
  • Length: 29:27
  • Purchases: 1
EP 19: Relative Capitalism
From: Jim Sawyer
Series: Capitalism In Crisis
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What is the future of American capitalism? Can it lie in consensus decision-making in public spaces? about defining what is and what is not product...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2016
  • Length: 04:33
Freeing Our Minds From Partisan Prison.
From: KGNU Community Radio
Series: The Reunited States of America
Caption: Mark Gerzon
A commentary in a series of commentaries looking at moving beyond partisanship.

  • Added: Jul 12, 2016
  • Length: 04:03
Coping with Tricky Party Convos
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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Chuck Klosterman, author of The Ethicist, guides us through the tricky social waters of the holiday season.

  • Added: Jul 05, 2016
  • Length: 03:17
New Romances (Hour 1)
From: D. Grant Smith
Series: The Appetizer Radio Show
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Our relationship with music is very similar to our relationships with people. Playing on a romantic metaphor, we'll look at how first listens that ...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2016
  • Length: 59:00