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Utah prof: ‘Gender is queer for everyone’
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Kathryn Bond Stockton, a dean and English professor at the University of Utah, wrote “Gender(s)” published by MIT Press, 2021.
“Gender is queer for everyone,” says author and professor Kathryn Bond Stockton. She doesn’t mean “queer” only in the LGBTQIA+ sense — she means t...

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  • Added: Oct 06, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Twitter Presidency
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Brian Ott
No president has used social media quite like President Trump. Twitter is his instrument of choice, and more often than not, he uses the popular pl...

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  • Added: Mar 15, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Our Health Plan
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Jim Rickards
Health care spending in the U.S. was the highest of any nation in 2013. That includes countries with universal health care. But, medical profession...

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  • Added: Oct 27, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Assassin of Youth
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Book jacket cover
In 1930, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics appointed Harry J. Anslinger as the commissioner. He became the first drug czar with a flair for demonizin...

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  • Added: May 15, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Science Under Attack – part 1
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: March for Science
President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order. Its purpose is to reverse efforts to shrink America’s carbon footprint.

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  • Added: Mar 30, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
An Extraordinary Time
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Marc Levinson
The 25-years after World War II were a golden age for much of the world. The end of that era in 1973 brought financial crisis, high unemployment, e...

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  • Added: Dec 15, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Makers & Takers
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Rana Foroohar
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...

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  • Added: Jun 21, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Michael Bronski -- A Queer History of the United States.
From: Joseph Sr Dobzynski
Series: We All Live Here For What It's Worth
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Michael Bronski is an American academic and writer, best known for his 2011 book A Queer History of the United States.

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  • Added: May 12, 2016
  • Length: 25:03
  • Purchases: 1
Carl Sagan on Extraterrestrials
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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"That’s inevitable that humans would project their hopes and fears upon the cosmos" - Carl Sagan on October 4, 1985, as told to Studs Terkel. The p...

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  • Added: Apr 14, 2016
  • Length: 12:53
  • Purchases: 6
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.

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Chemicals Without Harm
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ken Geiser
We are surrounded by chemicals every day. They’re in our clothing, cosmetics, household products, electronics, and even our children’s toys.

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  • Added: Dec 09, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Rising Tuition
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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The cost for a college education is escalating. It’s now the biggest single expense for many American families.

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  • Added: Sep 02, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 4
Wealthier Than You Think? Juliet Schor #101
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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According to Juliet Schor, many of us are giving up “the good life” in our quest for material possessions. Symbols of success, instead of enriching...

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  • Added: Aug 25, 2015
  • Length: 25:56
  • Purchases: 10
Killing Maine
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Mike Bond
Some of America’s most corrupt politicians can be found in the state of Maine. According to a Gallup Poll last year, citizens rate their legislator...

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  • Added: Aug 20, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
Love's Promises
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Martha M. Ertman
The ongoing controversy of same sex marriage reflects the dramatic impact the rule of law has on intimate partnerships. Today, those involved in fa...

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  • Added: Jun 15, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
David Axelrod, Bay Buchanan, and Mr. Flowe
From: Kenneth Flowe
Caption: Jaun Williams and Mr. Flowe in the press pool, Credit: UC at Denver
After the 1st Presidential Debate, held in Denver during Barack Obama's bid for re-election Mr. Flowe caught up with surrogates for both the Obama ...

  • Added: May 09, 2015
  • Length: 02:50
Madison's Music
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Burt Neuborne
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...

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  • Added: Apr 29, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Artful Thieves
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Stephen Kurkjian
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...

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  • Added: Apr 09, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Fusion Economics
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Laurence J. Brahm
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...

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Social Security Works
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Eric Kingson
Americans’ pensions are gone. Housing is down and 401k are unreliable. But our Social Security system is totally funded for more than two decades.

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  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Elder Boom Challenge
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ai Jen Poo
Author Ai Jen Poo is Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. It’s no wonder considering her accomplishments.

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  • Added: Feb 25, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Leap: The Science of Trust and Why it Matters
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ulrich Boser
Bestselling author Ulrich Boser shows how the emerging research on trust can improve our lives, rebuild our economy, and strengthen society. As par...

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  • Added: Oct 20, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Carbon Shock
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Mark Schapiro, Credit: Center for Investigative Reporting
Carbon is shaping our future. Those little particles we can’t even see are reshaping our natural world, and transforming our economy. And, it all e...

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  • Added: Sep 24, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Sacred Cow
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Brian Moench
No one needs to eat livestock to survive, according to Dr. Brian Moench. Yet meat is almost universally the focus of the Western diet. The average...

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  • Added: Sep 10, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Capitalism v Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Timothy K. Kuhner, Credit: Georgia State University
As of the latest national elections, it costs approximately $1 billion to become president, $10 million to become a Senator, and $1 million to beco...

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  • Added: Aug 21, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1