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Today’s sixty-second Moral Inquiry asks ‘What’s the difference between verbal abuse, which uses words to hold power over others by intimidating, th...
- Added: Jul 26, 2016
- Length: 01:09
The American voting public has become as gullible about Election polls as they are about quick weight loss plans. In Maine, Election eve, 2010, t...
- Added: Jul 23, 2016
- Length: 08:01
Today's Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks "What's the Difference Between Politicians Who Refuse to Consider What Politicians in the Other Party say a...
- Added: Jul 21, 2016
- Length: 01:02
The widespread permission in this country to be mean, to arm oneself to be as mean as possible is deeply alarming. The beginning of this permissio...
- Added: Jul 19, 2016
- Length: 07:01
Our program is a conversation with Colin Dayan, author most recently of two lauded books, With Dogs at the Edge of Life and The Law Is a White Dog....
- Added: Jul 12, 2016
- Length: 58:05
Every immigrant has a coming to the America memory. Nayomi Munaweera came to America when she was 12. It was the mid eighties. And Duran Duran.....
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 12, 2016
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 2
Supercomputer simulations have shown scientists a new way to generate controlled beam of gamma rays from lasers. Nearly one million CPU hours on St...
- Added: Jul 11, 2016
- Length: 13:11
A musical tribute to "My Funny I.T. Guy" . Blackberry phones - like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had- used to be considered difficult...
- Added: Jul 08, 2016
- Length: 02:08
Speaking out about unjust events and atrocities that others passively accept segregates the outspoken, often. In their own time, they are often ...
- Added: Jul 04, 2016
- Length: 04:34
I watched the next-to-last Prairie Home Companion live broadcast on my laptop since the show and the 1 and ½ hour encore were live streamed on You-...
- Added: Jun 27, 2016
- Length: 05:09
The lessons of D.L. Rosenhan's study of imposters pretending to have psychiatric illness on psychiatric units have not been lost on the world of me...
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 07:32
Justin describes the story’s origin, what it’s like to release a book in these days of social media, and what happens to him when his characters fi...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Jun 20, 2016
- Length: 09:53
- Purchases: 1
Our guest is Paul Buhle, one of the foremost historians of American Radicalism and the American Left having authored or edited over 30 books, inclu...
- Added: Jun 14, 2016
- Length: 59:36
What may seem surprising as you listen is the way in which Thoreau’s understanding of death and life can inform our own considerations of what it m...
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- Added: Jun 07, 2016
- Length: 59:14
- Purchases: 1
Maine Public Broadcasting Network has made the perplexing decision to segregate music and poetry to a separate pay-to-hear HD radio service called ...
- Added: Jun 04, 2016
- Length: 07:16
A new book, False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton, offers a detailed look at Hillary Clinton’s track record on welfare, Wall S...
Bought by WRGY
- Added: May 31, 2016
- Length: 59:37
- Purchases: 1
How can you, the citizen, with your “one vote,” compete against a system where all the pulleys and levers are greased by graft? Wendell Potter ackn...
- Added: May 31, 2016
- Length: 59:00
History is written by the Big and the Small. "The Vietnam War" documentary has reminded us that. The Moving Wall, a half scale version of the smoot...
- Added: May 27, 2016
- Length: 07:06
In a Presidential primary that taxes our belief that the purpose of government is to benefit our lives, I remember legislation that Hillary Clinton...
- Added: May 13, 2016
- Length: 03:14
Back in 2005, Dana Connors, Maine State Chamber of Commerce president said, "This is not the time or place to expand Maine care coverage to more u...
- Added: Apr 24, 2016
- Length: 07:02
Jill Lepore joins us to talk about three books: The Story of America; The Secret History of Wonder Woman; and Joe Gould's Teeth.
- Added: Mar 29, 2016
- Length: 01:03:04
In Parker’s 22nd book, it’s high noon up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Mammoth Falls, 7880 feet above sea level. The air smells like snow, memo...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Mar 17, 2016
- Length: 09:58
- Purchases: 2
JLB has published 36 books over 50 years. He’s best known for his mysteries, particularly the Dave Robicheaux series and the Holland family storie...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Feb 24, 2016
- Length: 09:57
- Purchases: 2
This southern noir tale is the intimate story of 18-year-old Jacob McNeely whose daddy controls the crystal meth business in a small town in rural ...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Feb 20, 2016
- Length: 09:37
- Purchases: 2
So we now know that Apple has made the extraordinary contribution called ‘Enter the wrong password 10 times and all the data on your way-too-expens...
- Added: Feb 19, 2016
- Length: 05:07
