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STEM for Girls
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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It probably won’t surprise you but boys and girls are not on a par with STEM programs: That’s the shorthand term for science, technology, engineeri...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 02, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Reclaiming Humanity From Commodification and Bureaucratization
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Daina Ramey Berry
A historian and a journalist speak about the devaluation of human life past and present in America.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 2
Campus Confidential
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jacques Berlinerblau
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.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 27, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Kill It to Save It
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Corey Dolgon
American voters have been convinced to vote against their best interests for decades, according to sociology professors Corey Dolgon.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 12, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Death of Expertise
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Tom Nichols
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.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 26, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
We Animals: a free photography archive
From: JL Fields
Series: Easy Vegan with JL Fields
Caption: A recently separated calf waits in a wheelbarrow as a farmer prepares her solitary crate. Spain, 2010 , Credit: Jo-Anne McArthur : Animal Equality
Award winning photographer Jo-Anne McArthur on her We Animals Archive - a free resource for activists to share hauntingly beautiful images of anima...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2017
  • Length: 28:28
Emotion Revolution in the Workplace - Andrew Faas and Yale Center for EI
From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel
Caption: Be part of the Emotion Revolutiion
Andrew Faas has a new book and a new alliance. The book is "From Bully to Bull's-Eye: Move Your Organization Out of the Line of Fire" and the allia...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2017
  • Length: 49:16
Language at the Speed of Sight
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Mark Seidenberg
An international survey in 2011 found that students in Shanghai outperformed American students in every category. President Obama referred to the r...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 19, 2017
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Viking Economics
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: George Lakey at Occupy Philly
The Scandinavian countries … Sweden, Norway and Denmark … boasts the world’s happiest, most productive people. They have equality, low unemployment...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and KCBX


  • Added: Nov 29, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Robert Putnam, author of "Our Kids"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra talks with Harvard professor Robert Putnam about his bestselling book.

  • Added: Aug 12, 2016
  • Length: 30:01
Skeptic Check: After the Hereafter
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: After the Hereafter, Credit: Seth Shostak
There are few enduring truths, but one is that no one gets out of life alive. What’s less certain is what comes next. Does everything stop with d...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KREV-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer, and WRGY


  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Fractured Republic
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Yuval Levin
Americans appear frustrated today. The economy that was supposed to bounce back following the recession nearly a decade ago, remains sluggish and s...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 02, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
LINDA MCQUAIG ON HER BOOK THE TROUBLE WITH BILLIONAIRES
From: Latin Waves Media
Series: Latin Waves Media
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Linda speaks about her book The trouble with billionaires , Corporate philanthropy, alternatives

  • Added: Apr 28, 2015
  • Length: 30:05
Author/Clinical Counselor Suzanne Kyra on living a balanced personal and professional life
From: Latin Waves Media
Series: Latin Waves Media
Caption: livingbig.ca , Credit: living Big
Latin Waves host Sylvia Richardson speaks with Suzanne Kyra about healthy relationships. The importance of balance in our personal and professional...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2014
  • Length: 29:32
The Humanist Hour #101: Exploring Naturalism with Tom Clark
From: Bo Bennett
Series: The Humanist Hour
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In this episode, Bo interviews Tom Clark from naturalism.org. Tom is currently a research associate at the Institute for Behavioral Health, Helle...

Bought by KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jun 04, 2014
  • Length: 53:24
  • Purchases: 1
Marquell, Sharon, and Jane
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Sharon Wirtz, left, talks to Marquell Hicks, right, in front of a panel from the NM AIDS Memorial Quilt, Credit: Katy Gross
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
Restoring Opportunity
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Restoring Opportunity jacket cover, Credit: Harvard Education Press
Americans see education as the primary social institution for achieving the goal of equality and opportunity. While there are sharp disagreements o...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 02, 2014
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Alan Weisman
Journalist and author Alan Weisman traveled to 21 countries to ask four questions that experts agreed were probably the most important on Earth. Hi...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 01, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: "First Year" by J. O. Salls
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "First Year" by J. O. Salls
“First Year” is a 2011 novel by retired teacher, J.O. Salls. It’s the story of 23 year old English teacher, Robert Baker. The story takes us throug...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 10, 2012
  • Length: 11:23
  • Purchases: 2
Occupy the Economy - Dr. Richard Wolff - Part One
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents: A two part interview with Dr. Richard D. Wolff author of Occupy the Economy. Dr. Wolff is Professor of Economics Em...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Sep 10, 2012
  • Length: 28:38
  • Purchases: 1
Stubborn Roots
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Department of Education logo
American and South Africa’s schools are similar. Both have fallen short of producing an educational system consistent with its national goals of e...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2012
  • Length: 14:46
Strike
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
Caption: portrait of Barbara Johns, who led the walkout
In 1951 a group of African American students at Robert R. Moton High School in Prince Edward County, Virginia, organized a strike to protest the su...

Bought by KALW, RadioStPete Florida, KVSC, WFHB, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Jan 09, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 27
Germany After World War II
From: With Good Reason
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New research examines how postwar German history textbooks addressed the traumatic events of the Second World War.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXDU, and WRPI


  • Added: Mar 29, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Building Green
From: Bill Baue
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Learning is Natural, School is Optional
From: Deb Krumholz
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A discussion with the founder of a self-directed learning center for teens who challenges the conventional wisdom that we must all graduate from hi...

Bought by WDBM and WTJU


  • Added: Nov 30, 2007
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 2