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The path to political victory should be simple: accrue more points that your opponent, and you will win. Not so fast. U.S. elections aren’t nearly ...
- Added: Jun 11, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
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...
- Added: May 27, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Here’s the conundrum: a good person doesn’t knowingly create devastation and suffering. Yet, that is exactly what we’re doing with our environment....
- Added: May 19, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Dr. Sharon Akabas, PhD, Director of the MS Program at the Columbia University Institute of Human Nutrition, talks about her early interest in educa...
- Added: Nov 06, 2018
- Length: 34:02
Providing prisoners a chance to earn a college degree may just be the antidote for our lock-them-up society. America is the clear winner among indu...
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- Added: May 18, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
You’d think that after several centuries of learning, we’d finally understand how to learn. But, it seems that humans are always on the path to a b...
- Added: Apr 24, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
New York City is home to a sprawling network of ultra-Orthodox schools. 60,000 students go to these yeshivas every school day. For years there have...
- Added: Apr 19, 2018
- Length: 04:04
There’s a long held assumption that college access is available to anyone and everyone. All they have to have is fortitude and a big dream. In othe...
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- Added: Mar 09, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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
- Added: Nov 20, 2017
- Length: 59:33
- Purchases: 1
America’s workforce and the economy are rapidly changing. As is the type of work we do. Flip that coin over and you’ll see that institutions and po...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Aug 15, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In the 1970s, over half of America’s university professors were tenured or on the tenure track. Today that figure is around 25-percent and falling.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 27, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
American voters have been convinced to vote against their best interests for decades, according to sociology professors Corey Dolgon.
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- Added: Jun 12, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Research is not plugging a question into a browser. Yet, we treat the Internet as though it has intelligence. And, in turn, that makes us intelligent.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 26, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Andrew Faas has a new book and a new alliance. The book is "From Bully to Bull's-Eye: Move Your Organization Out of the Line of Fire" and the allia...
- Added: Feb 26, 2017
- Length: 49:16
This piece features the voices of black Americans who came of age during the civil rights era: an era that lives with a mix of pain and pride in th...
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- Added: Jan 26, 2017
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
An international survey in 2011 found that students in Shanghai outperformed American students in every category. President Obama referred to the r...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 19, 2017
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
The Scandinavian countries … Sweden, Norway and Denmark … boasts the world’s happiest, most productive people. They have equality, low unemployment...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio and KCBX
- Added: Nov 29, 2016
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
There is deep concern for the health of American cities. Frustration with inequality is spreading. Public schools are lagging behind expectation. I...
- Added: Nov 14, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Katniss Everdeen of The Hunger Games, Bella Swan of Twilight, Tris Prior of Divergent, and other strong and resourceful characters subvert the fair...
- Added: Aug 23, 2016
- Length: 01:55:58
Americans appear frustrated today. The economy that was supposed to bounce back following the recession nearly a decade ago, remains sluggish and s...
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- Added: Aug 02, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
WorldCanvass tackles informatics—also known as big data—on its final program of the 2015-2016 season. Guests from the diverse fields of computer sc...
- Added: May 02, 2016
- Length: 25:15
With so many opinions, we may never reach a consensus in education. But keeping the dialogue open and considering all stakeholders – even those no...
Bought by WGZS
- Added: Mar 16, 2016
- Length: 02:20
- Purchases: 1
In this episode we discuss the benefits and consequences of relationships and sex with synthetic beings.
- Added: Sep 25, 2015
- Length: 17:47
Latin Waves host Sylvia Richardson speaks with Economist Robin Hahnel about the road ahead for Greece, their inspiring example to the world in the ...
- Added: Jul 12, 2015
- Length: 27:43
