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Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Peter Norton
Several automotive companies are currently working to perfect autonomous vehicles. Their promises for high-tech driving includes crash free mobilit...

Bought by KCBX and WHFR


  • Added: Dec 08, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Las Cantigas de Santa Maria 2021
From: Convivial Productions
Caption: Medieval Baseball Featured in CSM #42, Credit: Wikimedia Commons
All new for 2021, come explore a glimpse of the vast repertoire of poetry, songs stories and recitations about the "Blessed Virgin Mary" and the mu...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 04, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:30
  • Purchases: 1
Erin Schwab and Jay Fuchs are Naughty and Nice at Crooners, December 10-12
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Erin Schwab and Jay Fuchs Xmas 2021 by The Ant Experience, Credit: The Ant Expeience
Erin Schwab and Jay Fuchs used to do a naughty Christmas Show at Crooners, and a nice one too. But this year, they combine naughty and nice in a si...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2021
  • Length: 08:00
Thicker Than Water
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Erica Cirino
We are surrounded by plastics. Literally enveloped. It has become so ubiquitous to our lives, frequently, we don’t even think about it. It surround...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 29, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Amanda Jayatissa's Debut is a Dark Psychological Thriller
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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Amanda Jayatissa grew up in Sri Lanka, attended college in California, and lived in the UK before moving back to Sri Lanka. She works as a corporat...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2021
  • Length: 12:53
Award-Winning Poet Martín Espada discusses advocacy in writing
From: New Letters on the Air
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR celebrates the winner of the National Book Award for Poetry, Martin Espada, whose new book FLOATERS tackles the social issue...

Bought by WCPN and WNJR


  • Added: Nov 26, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Gender(s)
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Kathryn Bond Stockton
It’s a girl or a boy. That’s identifiable at birth. Binary. A biological inheritance. Today, however, when it comes to gender, we’re living in a fl...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 23, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Crooners’ Presents the Story of the Rondo Neighborhood through Song on Tuesday November 30
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Rondo 56 Group photo, Credit: Dan Chouinard
Rondo 56 tells how the Rondo neighborhood in Saint Paul was changed when Interstate 94 was built right through it. Rondo 56 includes music by a com...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2021
  • Length: 08:00
Twin Cities Group Tells the Story of the Rondo Neighborhood and Interstate 94 through Song
From: KBEM
Series: Minnesota Music Profiles
Caption: Rondo 56 Group photo, Credit: Dan Chouinard
Rondo 56 tells how the Rondo neighborhood in Saint Paul was changed when Interstate 94 was built right through it. Phil Nusbaum went to a rehearsal...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2021
  • Length: 08:00
The Enablers: How the West Supports Kleptocrats and Corruption – Endangering Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Frank Vogl
The average American knows corruption exists in every corner, but most of us are not aware of just how rampant it is. We know the tip of the iceber...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Public Insult Playbook
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Ruth Colker
The rules of public discourse are not what they used to be. In fact, you can say, they are quite similar to what they used to be. Nevertheless, we ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Lana Harper Gets Witchy Revenge in Her New Novel Payback's a Witch
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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What do you get when you mix a revenge plot, but everyone is witches? And two of them fall for each other? You get Payback's a Witch, a sizzling, w...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2021
  • Length: 10:17
A Beautiful and Redemptive Novel: Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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Anthony Doerr is the author of 6 books including the 2005 Pulitzer Prize winning novel All the Light We Cannot See. His new novel is a masterpiece;...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2021
  • Length: 13:41
Carnism
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Melanie Joy
The average American consumes more than 234-pounds of meat every year. That’s chicken, beef, pork, turkey, veal, lamb, and fish. That may not even ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 02, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
AOC & Noam Chomsky: The Way Forward
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this historic, inter-generational meeting of minds, Laura Flanders brings together New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and MIT profe...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KMUN


  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
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...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 26, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Tax the Rich
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Morris Pearl
It’s in the tax code. And it’s the rich who manipulate that tax code. Over 70 percent of Americans believe that the economy is rigged to favor the ...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
White Christian Privilege
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Khyati Joshi
America holds the promise of religious freedom. The US is recognized as the most religiously diverse country in the world. In reality, though, Chri...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Oct 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Plagues Upon the Earth
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Kyle Harper
They’re rooted deeply in our global past. Germs. They’ve always been with us. It’s our wealth, health, power and inequity that determine how well w...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 05, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Anna in the Tropics
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Jimmy Smits stars in the 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning play.

Bought by KKRN, KMUN, KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio, WPCA-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 05, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 27
The Write Question - Caroline Patterson
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Author Caroline Patterson talks about her brand new novel, "The Stone Sister."

Bought by WETS, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Edward J. Watts
We’re hearing a lot of rhetoric about the decline of American society. Politicians cloak themselves in the need for a renewal to an America of the ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 21, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
CJL-623 The Last Word
From: Steve Rashid
Series: Chicago Jazz Live
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This week on CHICAGO JAZZ LIVE we’re going back to our archives to welcome The Last Word, a unique ensemble combining music and poetry simultaneous...

Bought by WLPR and WDCB


  • Added: Sep 21, 2021
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 2
Are We the 99%: The Occupy Movement, Feminism and Intersectionality
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Heather Hurwitz
The Occupy movement of 2011 was thought to be unified. Although it created a foundation for future actions, the movement did perpetuate status-quo ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
PaviElle French’s Current Directions Address Cultural Rifts
From: KBEM
Series: Minnesota Music Profiles
Caption: PaviElle French, Credit: Sharolyn B. Hagen
Recent songs by PaviElle French reflect her deep disappointment with the deep cultural rifts that came to the forefront with the George Floyd Murde...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 08:00

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