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Brian Dunning examines some interesting beliefs around food and whether or not they are supported by science.
- Added: Apr 09, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Science fictions are widely held dangerous beliefs that are not supported by science. Jess explores a few of these in anticipation of the continued...
- Added: Oct 03, 2023
- Length: 29:00
This week they celebrated “Teacher’s Day” in India, but this year a teacher is in the news for all the wrong reasons.
- Added: Sep 05, 2023
- Length: 06:00
The worst U.S. mass murder of homosexuals in the 20th century was by a gruesome fire in a New Orleans French Quarter nightclub. Yet, the Upstairs L...
- Added: Jun 27, 2023
- Length: 19:45
There are no visitor facilities. Roads are mostly washed-out jeep tracks. There is no water. And there's no way out, unless you come back the way y...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Jun 03, 2023
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
The second chapter of the series, Carbon Valley.
Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)
- Added: Sep 16, 2022
- Length: 49:59
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Sep 09, 2022
- Length: 50:44
- Purchases: 1
A lot had changed since Melvil Dewey came up with a classification system to organize all known and not-yet-known knowledge into a string of number...
Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio
- Added: Feb 28, 2022
- Length: 24:50
- Purchases: 1
HOUR ONE: 'What Afghan Women Want You to Know' - Teachers. Actors. Ancient rug weavers. Whisperers of forbidden poetry. The women of Afghanistan wa...
- Added: Oct 01, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
"MacArthur 'genius award'winning landscape designer Kate Orff believes that gray infrastructure, like levees and flood gates and sea walls, can on...
- Added: Sep 21, 2021
- Length: 03:30
A little reflected glory is probably innocuous enough, but DNA is not sufficient evidence of belonging to a particular culture.
- Added: Jul 13, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Anni discusses her dating etiquette related experiences and insights.
Anni self-identifies as a CIS-gender female who has fluid sexuality.
#lesbi...
- Added: Jun 01, 2021
- Length: 58:48
In this episode, part thirty-eight of the multi-part BLUEprint series, we examine some statistics that show steps China is taking to confront the c...
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 05:38
We cannot blame social media for our worst demons. But it is undeniable that social media has made it that much easier to create that alternate uni...
- Added: Jan 19, 2021
- Length: 06:00
"For many Americans, there’s never been a better time to reconsider the entire system. Years of work, by abolitionists like Angela Davis, Ruthie Gi...
- Added: Oct 21, 2020
- Length: 04:00
Oct. 2nd is the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, and in an angry toxic world, we would do well to remember a man who fasted, intermittently, to force us...
- Added: Sep 28, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Fifty years ago, there was a radical plan to completely remake a county sheriff’s department in an iconic western town. It almost worked, they almo...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Jun 16, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Katherine Eban's book "Bottle of Lies" exposes the criminal dealings of some of India pharma's drug producers
- Added: Feb 03, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Important stories about the struggle for freedom in Brooklyn, from a young girl “auctioned” at Plymouth Church in 1860 to the story of Crown Height...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 27:37
- Purchases: 1
On this show World Footprints discusses the power of travel to generate social change and heal depression with two amazing guests.
- Added: Aug 18, 2019
- Length: 29:55
This week we are talking about ocean calm and the ways that we are affected in mind, body and spirit by a peaceful ocean. In this episode we tell t...
- Added: Jun 04, 2019
- Length: 04:51
Bollywood superstar Salman Khan was convicted of killing a protected deer, but with the rich and the powerful it’s hard to tell where the buck real...
- Added: Apr 10, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Chasing Love profanity edited version. A poetic exploration of the notion of romantic love, and the way it drives lives and societies.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Feb 09, 2018
- Length: 59:42
- Purchases: 1
The "MeToo" hashtag carries more weight than your average social media meme.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Nov 01, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
“From almost every kind of responsibility and tie from engagement and from faith. So the artist--our task is to move ourselves and the rest of us i...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and WRIR
- Added: Oct 10, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
