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Supreme Court Decisions
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Bill Halal
Recent decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court as left a majority of American’s wondering if the country is headed in the wrong direction. Many feel th...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 05, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Clash: Presidents and the Press in Times of Crisis
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jon Marshall
Former President Donald Trump attacked the press relentlessly before and after his term in office. A master at manipulation, he even admitted that ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, and KCBX


  • Added: May 23, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Off the Edge
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Kelly Weill
It’s an age-old conundrum. Getting the facts to the people. Think of the telephone game. As the story passes through several tellers, distortions a...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
All Societies Die
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Samuel Cohn
The adage: If one does not learn from the past, one is doomed to repeat it. Although that doesn’t mean people or their governments are going to rep...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Tyranny of Experts
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: William Easterly
Around the world populist leaders or on the rise. The higher the poverty rate, the more likely a “benevolent autocrat” holds power. The problem is ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Covid-19
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Book cover, Credit: Jacket design Danielle Allyssa
In March of 2020, after months of downplaying of COVID by officials, the death rate could no longer be ignored. By late fall, as many Americans wer...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Prison By Any Other Name
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Maya Schenwar
There is a litany of names for what is understood to be substitutes for jail or prison. Electronic monitoring. Locked-down drug treatment facilitie...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Emoji Evidence (Half Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Be warned: everything you say on Facebook can and will be used against you in a court of law!

Bought by WJCT, KVSC, KRZA, WMMT, Kansas Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 05, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 11
Writers Voice: Cory Doctorow, RADICALIZED & MAKERS
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We spend the hour with science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist, Cory Doctorow. First, we talk with him about his terrific new boo...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
Know It All Society
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Michael Patrick Lynch
We think we know a lot. Perhaps we do. On the other hand, an ongoing study at Yale University finds that today’s society thinks it knows more than ...

Bought by KRZA and KCBX


  • Added: Aug 27, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Technology Tsunami
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Ed Hess
America is set to lose tens of millions of job in the next 15 years. Some of the best research today estimates that one half of all U.S. jobs will ...

Bought by KCBX, KZYX, and KCBX


  • Added: Apr 22, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The War On Normal People
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Andrew Yang
According to a 2016 report by Business Insider magazine, three of the world’s largest employers are now replacing their workers with robots.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The National Endowment for the Arts speaks with Cory Doctorow
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Cory Doctorow, Credit: Joi Ito
The award-winning novelist, blogger, and advocate talks about science fiction and technology.

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 11, 2017
  • Length: 26:59
  • Purchases: 2
WorldCanvass: Fracking and the Iowa Divide (part 1)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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WorldCanvass guests join host Joan Kjaer to discuss the controversial method of energy production known as fracking and its impact on the environme...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2016
  • Length: 26:14
Kitty Dukakis’ Experience With Electroconvulsive Therapy
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Elements by Open Orchard Productions
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In an interview with Kitty and Michael Dukakis, journalist Katia Hauser explores the benefits and risks of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in treat...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 16, 2016
  • Length: 10:43
  • Purchases: 1
EP 1 — The Sharing Economy?
From: Robert Raymond
Series: Upstream
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In this first episode of Upstream, a radio documentary series, we look at the darker side of the "sharing economy" and explore the conditions that ...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KZYX


  • Added: Feb 13, 2016
  • Length: 59:44
  • Purchases: 2
Food Sleuth Radio Claire Hope Cummings Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Should we be engineering seeds and patenting genes? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview wit...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
Building Green
From: Bill Baue
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1