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Thicker Than Water
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Erica Cirino
We are surrounded by plastics. Literally enveloped. It has become so ubiquitous to our lives, frequently, we don’t even think about it. It surround...

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  • Added: Nov 29, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Katie Martin
There is a vast network of hundreds food banks across. Along with those are more than 60-thousand hunger-relief organizations: food pantries and me...

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  • Added: Mar 02, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Broke in America
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Broke in Aemerica, Credit: jacket design by Pete Garceau
Approximately twelve percent of America’s population living in poverty. That’s not including those who barely make it month to month. Some see pove...

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Hyper Education
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Pawan Dhingra
Parents and teachers would all agree that changes are necessary in the world of education. Inequality is embedded in the system. Today, parents who...

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  • Added: Jun 09, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
No Option But North
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: book cover
Most of us at one time or another ask the question, “Why would people walk hundreds of miles to the U.S. boarder knowing they will probably be turn...

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  • Added: Apr 14, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
River of Blood
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Richard Cahan
The Works Progress Administration, what became better known as the WPA, was designed to provide jobs for unemployed Americas. One of their provoca...

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  • Added: Feb 05, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Powerarchy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Melanie Joy
An act of oppression comes in many forms. Government, household, work environment, and even friendships. It happens when one group or person exerci...

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  • Added: Oct 29, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Nurturing Our Humanity
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Riane Eisler
No matter where you are in the world, you’re confronted by violence. One study shows that over half of our population is very concerned about the c...

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  • Added: Aug 19, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Work, Love and Learning in Utopia
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Martin Schoenhals
Hierarchies are deeply embedded in human societies. They are so much a part of our being they’re hardly given a second thought. Status is sought af...

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  • Added: May 27, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Sparking Prosperity
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Robert E. Friedman
The financial crash of 2008 hit middle and working class families especially hard. They are still struggling.

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  • Added: Jan 23, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
End Kids Cancer
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: End Kids Cancer
Cancer is the second leading cause of death in children from 1 to 14 years old. According to the American Cancer Society more than 10,000 children ...

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Common Sense for Our Common Good
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jim Baumann
What we do for our children today will have a major impact on the future of democracy.

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  • Added: Dec 21, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Cutting School
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Noliwe Rooks
America’s system of public schools is recognized as one of the countries greatest achievements.

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  • Added: Dec 15, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Interview w/ poet ELIZABETH ALEXANDER about her memior "The Light of the World"
From: Out of Bounds
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Award-winning poet Elizabeth Alexander talks movingly about her memoir "The Light of the World" about her husband's sudden death at age 50.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
Interview with blogger and author Rebecca Barry about her memoir "Recipes for a Beautiful Life."
From: Out of Bounds
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Rebecca Barry talks about her wonderful memoir "Recipes for a Beautiful Life"

  • Added: Sep 12, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Sue Klebold
Guilt can haunt any parent whose child commits suicide. That’s especially true for a murder-suicide.

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  • Added: Jul 12, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Teeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality and the Struggle for Oral Health
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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Twelve-year old Deamonte Driver died following brain surgery in February 2007. His original diagnosis was meningitis. After his death, the culprit...

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  • Added: Mar 23, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Saving Our Cities
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: William W. Goldsmith
There is deep concern for the health of American cities. Frustration with inequality is spreading. Public schools are lagging behind expectation. I...

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  • Added: Nov 14, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Curing Medicare
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Andy Lazris
Although Medicare is not going bankrupt, at the very least, it faces financing challenges. According to Dr. Andy Lazris, there are some straightfo...

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  • Added: Jul 11, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Far & Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Andrew Solomon
What we least understand we fear the most. The way to overcome our personal insecurities is to interact with the world - Andrew Solomon

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  • Added: Apr 28, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Despite the Best Intentions
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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Even in good schools racial inequality thrives. Basically, that’s the summary of an extensive study conducted by associate professors Amanda Lewis ...

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  • Added: Oct 29, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Practical Interfaith
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Rev. Steven Greenebaum
Interfaith. What does it actually mean to have dozens, or even hundreds of different religions come together under one roof?

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  • Added: Aug 06, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
Novelist Rebecca Makkai: Writing, Art, and Families
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Author Rebecca Makkai, Credit: Philippe Matsas
From beautifully-crafted short fiction to page-turning gothic novels, Rebecca Makkai puts art at the heart of her work.

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  • Added: Jul 21, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 5
Love's Promises
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Martha M. Ertman
The ongoing controversy of same sex marriage reflects the dramatic impact the rule of law has on intimate partnerships. Today, those involved in fa...

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  • Added: Jun 15, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Fat Talk Nation
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Susan Greenhalgh
America is in the midst of an obesity epidemic of catastrophic proportion. Today, two-thirds of adults, and one-third of children and adolescents –...

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  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2