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Language at the Speed of Sight
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Mark Seidenberg
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
Salt to the Sea
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ruta Sepetys
It’s known as the single greatest maritime disaster in history. Yet, it is a little known story. This casualty of World War II was far deadlier tha...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 04, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Author Kelly Link: startling readers in unexpected ways.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Kelly Link combines the ordinary and the magical—with flair.

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Oct 28, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in School
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Monique W. Morris
Black girls make up for more than one-third of all girls with school related arrests. Yet, they comprise just 16-percent of female students.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jazz Drumming Requires Being in the Moment: A Conversation with Edmund Catlin
From: KBEM
Series: Minnesota Music Profiles
Caption: Edmunt Catlin on the drums with the group Hoaxer, Credit: Lee Tran
Edmund Catlin is a young Twin Cities drummer who, while still in college, plays in a variety of jazz bands. To Edmund, playing jazz requires a comb...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2016
  • Length: 06:53
Charlie Lincoln Grows His Career as a Jazz Bassist and Composer
From: KBEM
Series: Minnesota Music Profiles
Caption: Charlie Lincoln, Credit: Andrea Canter
How do you become a jazz musician? The key just may be persistence. You can take lessons and school courses, but if you really want to play jazz…we...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2016
  • Length: 05:21
Amy Jordan: Making the impossible possible through dance.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: "Alive" Victory Dance Project, Credit: Jordan Hiraldo
Founding her company after a near-fatal accident, Amy Jordan’s choreography is an exuberant affirmation of dance.

Bought by WNJR, WABE, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 15, 2016
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 3
43: Girls & Sex & Fuitina: Peggy Orenstein and Antonella Vitale
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Peggy Orenstein, Credit: Michael Todd
Birds do it. Bees do it. But we definitely don't want to think about our teens doing it. For her new book, "Girls and Sex. Navigating the Complicat...

Bought by KWMR, WRIR, KSJD, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 25, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 4
Peaceful Meditation For School Kids
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Some schools are trying programs that teach their students meditation techniques as a way to help them deal with stress in their lives. The results...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 22, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3
Boy With a Knife
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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Twenty-four hundred years ago Romans understood the difference between the mind of a child and that of an adult. Somehow, America forgot that basic...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 14, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Peaceful Meditation For School Kids
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Some schools are trying programs that teach their students meditation techniques as a way to help them deal with stress in their lives. The result...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KUNM


  • Added: Mar 24, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
30: Nicky Jackson Colaco of Instagram & Parisa Rouhani of The Center for Individual Opportunity
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Nicky Jackson Colaco
There's an old saying, when in Rome, do as the Romans do. But if your company is also in Paris, Shanghai and Peoria, you need someone to balance th...

Bought by KSJD, WMUU-LP, and WRIR


  • Added: Feb 11, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 3
Spy Hop teaches the next generation of digital artists
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Sam Highsmith and Gabby Huggins from Spy Hop, Credit: Courtesy of Spy Hop
Spy Hop's executive director Kasandra VerBrugghen shares the story of Utah's award-winning youth media arts program.

Bought by WMUU-LP and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jan 15, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Sound Skirmish Presents its Modern jazz Compositions on New Year's Night
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Sound Skirmish, Credit: Kelle Green
Sound Skirmish is a group of Twin Cities young people who have been playing serious jazz for years, and with a heavy composing emphasis. Levi Schwa...

  • Added: Dec 24, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
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...

Bought by KCBX and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 2
Great is the Truth
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Amos Kamil
Investigative reporter Amos Kamil has deep roots in the elite Horace Mann School. But, twenty years after he graduated, Kamil discovered something ...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Comic Book Artist and Writer Mike Mignola tells us how Hellboy came to be
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Mike Mignola's Hellboy
After all this time, Mike Mignola still loves drawing monsters

Bought by KZUM, WNJR, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Nov 03, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Despite the Best Intentions
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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Even in good schools racial inequality thrives. Basically, that’s the summary of an extensive study conducted by associate professors Amanda Lewis ...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Oct 29, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Howard Herring: Reimagining the presentation of classical music.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: New World Symphony, Credit: Courtesy of New World Symphony
The CEO of The New World Symphony creates music presentations for the 21st century.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KPIP-LP, WNJR, WABE, and KPVL


  • Added: Aug 11, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 5
What Kind of Citizen?
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Joel Westheimer
All schools teach citizenship. But, the question becomes, “what kind of citizens are the schools trying to shape?”

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Considering Loneliness (59:00 / 54:00 Version)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Some researchers suggest that loneliness can be lethal in that it can have significant physical and emotional effects. When is a loner personality...

Bought by KSUT, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WNIJ, WEKU, and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 01, 2015
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 5
Poet Taylor Mali:poetry on stage and page
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Four-time National Poetry Slam champion Taylor Mali connects stage and page.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: Apr 14, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 3
#23 MIW Christian Calinsky - Body Piercer and Homeless Youth Advocate
From: Allegra Bandy
Series: Making It Work Radio
Caption: Christian Calinsky on MIWq, Credit: Oddua Productions
With Akeisha Johnson, your show host, this episode of Making it Work, Christian will share his journey from being a homeless youth to becoming a ca...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Mar 27, 2015
  • Length: 27:00
  • Purchases: 1
Arts in the Schools!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Multifacted, Credit: Nati Soti of Zero One Projects.
Diana Green and Cathy Gassenheimer have a mission: Arts Education for Every Alabama pre-k thru 12 Student!

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Dec 04, 2014
  • Length: :54
  • Purchases: 1
Jazz Artists of Tomorrow Featured at Jazz Central in Minneapolis on Nov 29, 2014
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Emerson Hunton at the drums, Credit: Andrea Canter
Twin Cities Weekend is a five minute feature that keeps listeners up to date on what's happening the following weekend. Artist interviews and music...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2014
  • Length: 05:00