PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging
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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
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Dryers do use a lot of energy. If you were to rank your household appliances by how much energy they use, your dryer would probably come in 3rd, ri...
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- Added: May 29, 2020
- Length: 03:13
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Methane is a gas that’s created when something organic decomposes in a location that doesn’t have oxygen. The largest human-caused source of metha...
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- Added: May 27, 2020
- Length: 03:21
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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
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Edward Harden Peeples V was born to be a racist. It almost seemed preordained. One of his ancestors had owned 250 slaves and his father loathed bla...
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- Added: Sep 09, 2019
- Length: 25:37
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David Hudson has been principal of Linwood Holton Elementary School for thirteen years now. When he took over the reins of command, the school—thou...
- Added: Sep 03, 2019
- Length: 27:19
David Hudson had been principal of Linwood Holton Elementary School for thirteen years now. When he took over the reins of command, the school—thou...
- Added: Sep 03, 2019
- Length: 27:11
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
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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
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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
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Jonathan Austin is a North Side Richmonder who began juggling when he was just 12-years old. Two years later he performed his first professional gi...
- Added: Nov 27, 2018
- Length: 23:44
Personal Statement takes us into the lives of three public HS seniors who are determined to go to college and take their classmates with them.
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- Added: Sep 12, 2018
- Length: 29:59
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Encountering one of the last red wolves in the wild at Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge. And a run in with a black bear.
- Added: Jul 31, 2018
- Length: 24:57
Kim Wheeler is the Wolf Lady. She knows more about red wolves than just about anybody in the world. And the more I learn about these remarkable ani...
- Added: Jul 24, 2018
- Length: 24:51
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
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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
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March 14th is Pi Day! The irrational number that is the ratio between the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Its Pi day! 3.141592.........
- Added: Mar 13, 2018
- Length: 01:09
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
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What we do for our children today will have a major impact on the future of democracy.
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- Added: Dec 21, 2017
- Length: 29:00
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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
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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...
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- Added: Aug 15, 2017
- Length: 29:00
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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.
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- Added: Jun 27, 2017
- Length: 29:00
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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
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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.
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- Added: Apr 26, 2017
- Length: 29:00
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Here's Gerald's audio book review of A Curious Mind by Brian Grazer.
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 04:43
