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We talk about Christmas horror movies, and how this gleefully perverse genre represents the darker side of the holiday season.
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 37:12
We look at urban fears about the country, and rural fears about the city. Which is scarier, and should we take more issue with the tropes, or the i...
- Added: Nov 14, 2023
- Length: 36:38
On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we looked at the new book "Music for Prime Time," which documents the rich history of music writt...
- Added: Jun 21, 2023
- Length: 28:30
In his astute and timeless book, "How to Lie with Statistics," Darrell Huff writes, “The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-mind...
- Added: Apr 22, 2022
- Length: 29:00
For years, fossil fuel companies have claimed to support climate science and policy. Many have recently pledged to hit net zero emissions by midcen...
- Added: Feb 10, 2022
- Length: 58:56
For years, fossil fuel companies have claimed to support climate science and policy. Many have recently pledged to hit net zero emissions by midcen...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more
- Added: Feb 10, 2022
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 9
An icon of 20th Century journalism, Walter Cronkite, once said, “The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to kn...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Jan 26, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Topic 1 - Holocaust Hero; Topic 2 - Short Round; Topic 3 - Maternal Mortality
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, RadioStPete Florida, KOWS, and WYAP
- Added: Feb 03, 2021
- Length: 51:44
- Purchases: 4
This week on the show: The Julian Assange verdict and the case for press freedom. Germany's lockdown has been extended and tightened.
The Greek Or...
- Added: Jan 07, 2021
- Length: 59:00
This week on the show: Ireland delays easing lockdown measures, but still allows in American tourists. Spain's former king Juan Carlos mysteriou...
- Added: Aug 06, 2020
- Length: 59:00
In this episode, we explore how the news media is doing in covering COVID-19 – including the responses of public officials… the data on infections ...
- Added: Apr 23, 2020
- Length: 29:30
A Psychic discusses his belief in extrasensory perception. His belief appears innocuous until we introduce the analogy of illness & vaccines.
This...
- Added: Mar 19, 2020
- Length: 01:00:00
I’ve remarked more than once, here on the show, on the unique qualities that director Wes Anderson brings to his films.
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 04:44
For someone who writes about films as I do, there are always cases of movies that fly under the radar, escaping my notice, maybe not even playing l...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 03:35
Egypt has the largest film industry in the Arab world. There have been movies produced in Egypt, mostly in Cairo, since the early silent era.
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 04:21
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if the picture is a bar graph with a bunch of statistical notations? It may be worth a thous...
- Added: May 10, 2018
- Length: 29:30
The Post, Steven Spielberg’s latest film, tells a complex and fascinating true life story—the decision by The Washington Post in 1971 to print The ...
- Added: Feb 12, 2018
- Length: 04:03
Is the New York Times enabling a debate that most rational people think is long over? The latest conservative pundit to be hired by the New York Ti...
Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and XRAY.fm
- Added: May 02, 2017
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
Technology veteran and now author, Antonio García Martínez, discusses his new book, Chaos Monkeys. Imagine a chimpanzee rampaging through a datacen...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 01:00:01
- Purchases: 1
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Ten years ago, there was a storm, and then there was a flood, and they changed New Orleans forever. Many stories from that time have been told, but...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Aug 27, 2015
- Length: 01:00:00
- Purchases: 1
In this last installment of our three-part series on workplace ethics in collaboration with EthicalSystems.org, we take an honest look at cheating....
- Added: Jun 10, 2015
- Length: 30:21
In this second podcast in our collaboration with EthicalSystems.org, we examine negotiation. Turning again to behavioral science for insight, we le...
- Added: May 18, 2015
- Length: 25:06
Online crafty marketplace Etsy went public in April 2015. What does that mean for the makers who sell their goods on the site?
- Added: Apr 22, 2015
- Length: 28:50
More violence is committed in America than any other industrialized nation. Nowhere is that sad fact more prevalent than on our school grounds.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Feb 09, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
One of the most frustrating medical complaints for patients and doctors is back pain. Professionals and patients expect the usual medical diagnosis...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 04, 2014
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
