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Makers & Takers

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Award winning business journalist Rana Foroohar explores the provocative question that is at the top of mind of today's business leaders: Is Wall S...

Bought by KCBX and KVSC

Added: Jun 21, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

Breaking Rockefeller

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Oil is one of the earth’s coveted substances. We love it and we hate it. Yet, it surrounds our lives every day.

Bought by KCBX

Added: Jun 14, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

Incarceration Nation

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

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

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

Michael Bronski is an American academic and writer, best known for his 2011 book A Queer History of the United States.

Bought by WFHB

Added: May 12, 2016
Length: 25:03
Purchases: 1

The Meaning of Science

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

From the origins of human culture to space exploration, the achievements of science have been extraordinary.

Bought by KCBX and KCBX

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.

Bought by KCBX

Added: Jan 27, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

We Have the Technology

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

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

Shaping the Future of Work

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

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 ...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Dec 17, 2015
Length: 28:59
Purchases: 1

Lives in Limbo

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

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

Chemicals Without Harm

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

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

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 ...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX

Added: Nov 19, 2015
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

Love's Promises

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

The ongoing controversy of same sex marriage reflects the dramatic impact the rule of law has on intimate partnerships. Today, those involved in fa...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Jun 15, 2015
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

Madison's Music

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

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...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Apr 29, 2015
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

Artful Thieves

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

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...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Apr 09, 2015
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

Fusion Economics

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

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...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Apr 01, 2015
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

Social Security Works

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Americans’ pensions are gone. Housing is down and 401k are unreliable. But our Social Security system is totally funded for more than two decades.

Bought by KVSC and KCBX

Added: Mar 11, 2015
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

Voices in the Band

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

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.

Bought by KCBX

Added: Mar 09, 2015
Length: 29:01
Purchases: 1

Story of an African childhood: Author Robyn Scott

From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk

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

The Tet Offensive

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

William Ingalls new book tells the story of what one year in Viet Nam as a combat engineer was like. Based on 500 color slides taken by the author,...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Jan 06, 2015
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

Current Classics Episode 6

From: Jim Villanueva
Series: Current Classics

Your source for new music from Current AND Classic artists!

Added: Nov 04, 2014
Length: 01:08:51

The Leap: The Science of Trust and Why it Matters

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Bestselling author Ulrich Boser shows how the emerging research on trust can improve our lives, rebuild our economy, and strengthen society. As par...

Bought by KCBX and KVSC

Added: Oct 20, 2014
Length: 28:59
Purchases: 2

Watch Your Back

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

One of the most frustrating medical complaints for patients and doctors is back pain. Professionals and patients expect the usual medical diagnosis...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Oct 04, 2014
Length: 28:58
Purchases: 1

The Urban Food Revolution (Pledge Drive Special)

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Our reliance on industrial agriculture has resulted in a food supply riddled with hidden environmental, economic and health care costs and beset by...

Bought by KCBX