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Incarceration Nation
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Peter Enns
America’s prison population has grown by leaps and bounds over the past 40-years. The “land of the free” has the dubious distinction of handing dow...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 18, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Why do we look for water when we look for life beyond Earth?
From: Carrie Nugent
Series: Spacepod
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Dr Cable explains why scientists often assume that water is needed to sustain life. She explains why most life, like us, likely is carbon-based, an...

  • Added: May 12, 2016
  • Length: 14:27
Michael Bronski -- A Queer History of the United States.
From: Joseph Sr Dobzynski
Series: We All Live Here For What It's Worth
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Michael Bronski is an American academic and writer, best known for his 2011 book A Queer History of the United States.

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  • Added: May 12, 2016
  • Length: 25:03
  • Purchases: 1
The Meaning of Science
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Tim Lewens
From the origins of human culture to space exploration, the achievements of science have been extraordinary.

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Runaway Inequality
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Runaway Inequity , Credit: Labor Institute Press
It’s become a critical fact of life in America: Runaway inequality.

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
We Have the Technology
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Kara Platoni
Researchers are changing the way we experience our world. They’re engineering scents that stimulate lost memories, they’re searching for the elusiv...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Jan 06, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Through the Lens: Egyptian Photography from Van Leo to Instagram
From: kim fox
Series: Student Produced Audio Documentaries
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This audio documentary was produced by Nadine Awadalla for the audio production course at The American University in Cairo in Cairo, Egypt. The cou...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 06:43
Shaping the Future of Work
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Tom Kochen
Over the past 35-years, the economy has been reasonably productive. It’s worked well for investors and high-level executives, but not for ordinary ...

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  • Added: Dec 17, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Lives in Limbo
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Roberto Gonzales
Children of undocumented workers frequently don’t find out about their illegal status until they’ve graduated from high school. What happens to the...

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  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 2
Chemicals Without Harm
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ken Geiser
We are surrounded by chemicals every day. They’re in our clothing, cosmetics, household products, electronics, and even our children’s toys.

Bought by KVSC, KCBX, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Dec 09, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Two Percent Solutions for the Planet
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Courtney White
We live in an era of big problems, and we tend to spend our time thinking of big solutions. Thinking big, however, can have a paralyzing effect on ...

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  • Added: Nov 19, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Buds on the Tracks: Prehistoric Plants Thrive in D.C.'s Subway
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Unbeknownst to most commuters, ferns grow at the Van Ness-UDC Metro station in Washington, D.C.., Credit: Andy Baldwin
What's the perfect environment for a fern species dating back 65 million years? Look no further than Washington, D.C.'s subway system.

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  • Added: Oct 26, 2015
  • Length: 05:52
  • Purchases: 1
Life Of A Sneakerhead: One To Rock, One To Stock
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Caption: Hieu Phan wearing one of his 60 pairs of Nike's Jordan shoes., Credit: Credit Courtesy of Hieu Phan
Hieu Phan, 18, is a “sneakerhead” – he collects shoes that are rare and have trading value.

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  • Added: Aug 04, 2015
  • Length: 04:34
  • Purchases: 1
A Language Teacher's Fight to Save the Western Armenian Dialect
From: Bending Borders
Series: Between Homelands: Hope, Fear and Longing in America
Caption: Hratch Sepetjian stands in front of his class on a typical day. He gets frustrated when his students do not take the Armenian lessons seriously., Credit: Andy Vasoyan
A century after Armenians fled genocide in 1915, language teacher Hratch Sepetjian is fighting to keep their dialect – Western Armenian – alive in ...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 04:09
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
Stories in Rocks
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Into the Earth
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Geologist Phil Skemer gets to crush rocks for a living. Find out how and why he and his team build instruments that can mimic conditions deep insid...

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  • Added: Jun 12, 2015
  • Length: 12:55
  • Purchases: 1
Who Owns Science? A Story About Bugs.
From: University of Montana Journalism
Caption: Junebug holotypes from Mike Ivie's entomology lab at Montana State University. When Ivie retires, his personal collection will be donated to the Smithsonian.
Until recently, bug specimens collected on federal land had to be returned as government property, even if they're dead and pulverized. The rules a...

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  • Added: May 14, 2015
  • Length: 06:57
  • Purchases: 1
Madison's Music
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Burt Neuborne
One of the nation’s foremost civil liberties lawyers challenges our understanding of how our democracy works with a radical new reading of a foundi...

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  • Added: Apr 29, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Artful Thieves
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Stephen Kurkjian
In March of 1990, the art world awoke to some shocking news. Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum was burglarized. The thieves were anything b...

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  • Added: Apr 09, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Fusion Economics
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Laurence J. Brahm
We have problem. Over 40-percent of the world’s population lives in poverty. Add to that our natural resources are quickly disappearing. Now mix in...

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Social Security Works
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Eric Kingson
Americans’ pensions are gone. Housing is down and 401k are unreliable. But our Social Security system is totally funded for more than two decades.

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  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Voices in the Band
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Susan Ball
Dr. Susan Ball has been taking care of patients with HIV in New York City for nearly twenty years. As she says, it has been a wild ride.

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  • Added: Mar 09, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Story of an African childhood: Author Robyn Scott
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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The author of “Twenty Chickens for a Saddle” is a social entrepreneur who works in southern Africa. But back when she was 7 she moved from England ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Feb 08, 2015
  • Length: 08:50
  • Purchases: 2
Invisible Problems Among Asian-Americans
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions
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Stereotypes about Asian-Americans abound - their kids get perfect scores on standardized testing and head off to Ivy League colleges to become doct...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2015
  • Length: 06:36
Episode 40: We Know A Subconscious Habit Of Yours (Code Switching)
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive Monthly Podcast
Caption: RadioActive reporters Antonia Dorn and Kadian Vanloo
There’s no such thing as a normal you. Do you talk to your boss the same way you talk to your dog? Probably not. This is called code switching.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 14:57

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