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The IdeaSphere
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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Author Anne Riley is not about to be stereotyped. Although she is a successful fiction writer, she has branched out into science, philosophy and dr...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Solve Climate Change Now
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Don Maruska
The mere mention of climate change can cause an unpleasant, visceral reaction. It’s a subject that we’ve avoided and denied for decades. Understand...

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Standing Up to China: How a Whistleblower Risked Everything for his Country
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ashley Yablon, Credit: Podcast
The life of a whistleblower is not easy. Just ask Dallas lawyer Ashley Yablon. In 2011 he landed what he thought was an ideal job: General Council ...

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  • Added: Mar 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Secret IRS Files
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jesse Eisinger, Credit: ProPublica
According to sociologists, one of the primary keys for predicting societal unrest is inequality. The deeper the monetary divide the higher the like...

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  • Added: Feb 21, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Plagues Upon the Earth
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Kyle Harper
They’re rooted deeply in our global past. Germs. They’ve always been with us. It’s our wealth, health, power and inequity that determine how well w...

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  • Added: Oct 05, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Peter T. Coleman
Once a segment of the population becomes miserable, stabilization begins. That shouldn’t be a goal in American politics, but it certainly seems lik...

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  • Added: Jun 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Something in the Water
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Something in the Water, Credit: Jacket
Every day across America we deal with the ugliness from our past. From 1600 to today, racism rears its ugly head. Every time we feel we’ve made pro...

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  • Added: Jan 19, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Confederate Monuments
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Connor Towne O'Neill
Separate but equal. That phrase came from the U.S. Supreme Court in 1896. It was a landmark decision known as Plessy v Ferguson that upheld the con...

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  • Added: Nov 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Wonderful Life
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Frank Martela
With the topsy-turvy world we live in today, it is difficult to have a positive, rosy spin on things. COVID, fires, hurricanes, and the weakening e...

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Touching the Jaguar
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: John Perkins
A chief economist for a large consulting firm began to question his work. Initially, the reward of his knowledge and labor was the belief that he w...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Myths Surrounding COVID-19
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Helen Lee Bouygues
Americans are in a strange and unusual news cycle. For example, someone can state that hydroxychloroquine is a potential cure for COVID-19. Fox New...

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  • Added: Apr 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Combating Fake News
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Helen Lee Bouygues
There are more incentives to spread fake information than not. Money can play a big factor, but there’s also that immature need to feel that you ca...

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  • Added: Dec 30, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Monique W. Morris
In grade school and high school, back girls make up about 16% of the female student population. Yet, of all girls referred to law enforcement in ou...

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  • Added: Nov 19, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Learning From a Master
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Richard J. Berstein
She didn’t like being called a philosopher, but that is how she’s recognized. And, as far as philosophy professor Richard J. Bernstein is concerned...

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  • Added: Aug 03, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Sentient Machine
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Amir Husain
Artificial Intelligence will drastically change our lives. The technology is expected to advance cyber security, finance, energy, military applicat...

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  • Added: Jul 04, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Daring Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Frances Moore Lappé
Some feel the election of Donald Trump is a signal that people want change. Others see it as a culmination of a decades long effort to destabilize ...

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  • Added: Dec 28, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The New Roberts Court
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: U.S. Constitution
The framers’ of the US Constitution had a vision of a balanced system. The balance was to be between the public and private spheres, between govern...

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  • Added: Oct 04, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Girls Who Code
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Reshma Saujani
The world of technology is male driven. Very few women are represented in leadership roles. For decades now, there’s been a major gender diversity ...

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  • Added: Sep 06, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Revolution Where You Live
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Sarah van Gelder
No matter how we voted in this last election, all of us can agree on one thing. Our country, and the world, faces significant problems: Racism to c...

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  • Added: Jan 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Born on Third Base
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Chuck Collins
I have heard that inequality in America is at its highest point since the age of the Robber Barons. If true, many suspect it may get worse before i...

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  • Added: Oct 03, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Practical Interfaith
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Rev. Steven Greenebaum
Interfaith. What does it actually mean to have dozens, or even hundreds of different religions come together under one roof?

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  • Added: Aug 06, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
The Fight of Their Lives (pledge drive special)
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Book cover, Credit: Lyon Press
One Sunday afternoon in August 1965, on a day when baseball’s most storied rivals, the Giants and Dodgers, vied for the pennant, the national pasti...

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  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 21:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Happiness of Pursuit
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Chris Guillebeau
Compulsive goal seeker and best-selling author Chris Guillebeau set out to visit every country on the planet by age thirty-five.

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  • Added: Dec 17, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Saving Paradise (pledge drive edition)
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Saving Paradise , Credit: Book cover
IdeaSphere … Saving Paradise: Author and environmental activist Mike Bond uses fiction to tell the real story of Hawaii’s fight against corporation...

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2014
  • Length: 20:41
  • Purchases: 2
Papa and Me
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Catherine Mich
Fifty years ago, on September 29, 1963, Pope John XXIII opened the second working section of The Second Vatican Council and asserted its agenda to ...

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  • Added: Jun 18, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1