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Season 1, Episode 8 - 'Human Flourishing' feat Rosie von Lila
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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Imagining a world where we all are flourishing.

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB


  • Added: Jan 22, 2024
  • Length: 58:03
  • Purchases: 2
The Evolution of Multicultural Education: The CUNY Brooklyn College Story
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this back to school special, we look at the grassroots movement led by student activists with the support of some faculty to establish Africana ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, WNYE and more


  • Added: Sep 06, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
The 806: Climate Change, Agriculture, and Changing Ways of Life in the Texas Panhandle
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: The Folklorist Next Door
Caption: The Folklorist Next Door, Credit: Jeannelle Ramirez
Host mónica teresa ortiz examines the experiences and cultural shifts of communities impacted by climate and disaster in the Texas Panhandle. Lea...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2023
  • Length: 14:23
Race at the Top
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Natasha Warikoo
All parents want their children to have advantages in their academic careers. In America of the past, that translated to white parents using public...

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  • Added: Jul 19, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Power Worshippers
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Katherine Stewart
There is a powerful movement in America that is reshaping our political landscape. Anyone who does not agree with their agenda is disenfranchised. ...

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  • Added: May 10, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Beyond Knowledge
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: William Halal
For the past 20-years or so, our society has been deep in the Knowledge Age. Now, it’s about to be replaced by the digital revolution and artificia...

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  • Added: Feb 15, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Dismantlng Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Donald Cohen
Unprecedented concentrations of wealth. Fundamental changes in the economy. A weakened institutional government, making it more difficult to meet p...

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  • Added: Jan 17, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Privatization of Everything
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Donald Cohen
Democracy is more efficient, and equally distributed when public goods are created. Things like free education, public health, open parks, clean wa...

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  • Added: Jan 03, 2022
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Measure What Matters
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: J.M. Beach
Measuring what and how much students learn is a daunting task. That’s the basic problem for education in America. But when you investigate the educ...

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  • Added: Oct 26, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Education
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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Critical Thinking is a set of skills that most students learn at a relatively early age. Even students who don’t do well in school are familiar wit...

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  • Added: Feb 02, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Forgotten People
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Arthur Lieber
It wasn’t that long ago that the Democratic party was primarily made up of blue collar workers. That has flipped in the last few years, especially ...

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  • Added: Dec 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Diversifying Power
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jennie C. Stephens
The inadequate response to the Covid-19 pandemic in the US has also thwarted the country’s response to the climate crisis. Some feel it’s due to le...

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  • Added: Nov 02, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Coming of Neo Feudalism
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Joel Kotkin
Feudalism. Now that’s a word you don’t hear very often. It’s been a long time since we’ve had a structured society of that nature. But, even more c...

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  • Added: Aug 25, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • 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
Stacked Crooked: Renting Rooms In the Humanities Ghetto
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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The University of California Santa Cruz wildcat strike for a cost of living adjustment - an action that has been gaining traction across the whole ...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
WorldCanvass: The Future of Museums (Part 3)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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We consider the future of museums on this WorldCanvass. What does the museum of the 21st century look like? What does it house? What is its role ...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2020
  • Length: 23:55
WorldCanvass: The Future of Museums (Part 2)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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We consider the future of museums on this WorldCanvass. What does the museum of the 21st century look like? What does it house? What is its role ...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2020
  • Length: 24:36
WorldCanvass: The Future of Museums (Part 1)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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We consider the future of museums on this WorldCanvass. What does the museum of the 21st century look like? What does it house? What is its role ...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2020
  • Length: 25:42
The Ethical Sellout
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Inga Hansen
Usually, when someone is thought to have sold out, it’s a negative reference. It can mean they’ve betrayed their values and ethics. Yet it’s someth...

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  • Added: Jan 13, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Why Cities Lose
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jonathan A. Rodden
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 ...

Bought by KRZA and KCBX


  • Added: Jun 11, 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
Morality and the Environmental Crisis
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Roger S. Gottlieb
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....

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  • Added: May 19, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Dr. Sharon Akabas, PhD, Dir. of MS Program, Columbia Institute of Human Nutrition
From: Louis Erlanger
Series: Scientists Are Human
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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
Liberating Minds
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ellen Condiff Lagemann
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
Learn Better
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ulrich Boser
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...

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  • Added: Apr 24, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2