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From: KRCL
This is a 1 on 1 interview with Author Dan Levitt, and Radioactive's Nick Burns.
From Levitt's Website
"For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse ...
- Added: Sep 19, 2023
- Length: 12:04
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with members of the Civil War Roundtable group t...
- Added: May 01, 2023
- Length: 29:55
Dr. Jay Lemery of the University of Colorado talks about how a new generation of physicians needs to be trained to address the unique public health...
- Added: Jan 16, 2023
- Length: 28:17
Different doesn't mean bad, and there isn't one "normal way" of being. Autism is one of those ways that brains connect and interact with the world ...
- Added: Mar 28, 2022
- Length: 30:10
The biggest tech companies generate enormous wealth and power by harvesting information about people. It’s called surveillance capitalism. This epi...
- Added: May 26, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Added: Apr 08, 2020
- Length: 05:10
- Purchases: 1
“Why School? International Perspectives on Education and Social Transformation” examines education in a global context, both as a reflection of soc...
- Added: May 07, 2019
- Length: 31:17
Johann Hari discusses his book, "Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression—and the Unexpected Solutions."
- Added: Mar 18, 2018
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 4
Mathematician and Physicist, Chris Ransford, elevates the debate regarding infinity, the universe, godhood, and irreducible mathematics.
- Added: Sep 29, 2017
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 2
Ginny Messina is back on the show with her latest book, Even Vegans Die: A Practical Guide to Caregiving, Acceptance, and Protecting Your Legacy of...
- Added: Apr 25, 2017
- Length: 28:30
Host Bob Kustra interviews Leonard Sax, author of “The Collapse of Parenting. How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups.”
- Added: Oct 07, 2016
- Length: 30:11
Host Bob Kustra talks with Harvard professor Robert Putnam about his bestselling book.
- Added: Aug 12, 2016
- Length: 30:01
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
WorldCanvass tackles informatics—also known as big data—on its final program of the 2015-2016 season. Guests from the diverse fields of computer sc...
- Added: May 02, 2016
- Length: 27:43
WorldCanvass tackles informatics—also known as big data—on its final program of the 2015-2016 season. Guests from the diverse fields of computer sc...
- Added: May 02, 2016
- Length: 27:10
The cost for a college education is escalating. It’s now the biggest single expense for many American families.
- Added: Sep 02, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 4
This episode (in French) focuses on the importance of work and perseverance. It features an interview with a seamstress apprentice named Honorine A...
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 15:05
What should consumers do who worry their data is being misused?Whose job is it to educate people about their responsibilities?Does privacy mean any...
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 02:00
In the past few years medical companies have been producing a range of devices to help aging people keep track of their vital statistics: pulse rat...
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Diabetes is one of the first recorded diseases. When was it first treated by physicians and how prevalent was it?
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Robert Duke explain more about the ways advertising works, and why it’s important to understand the madness behind the “Mad...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Aug 30, 2013
- Length: 08:00
- Purchases: 1
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
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
Keri Putnam discusses Film Forward, an initiative of the Sundance Institute and the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. Now in it...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Dec 02, 2011
- Length: 25:45
- Purchases: 1
Ken Burns talks about his most recent documentary series on the National Park system, as well as his approach to filmmaking and his attraction to i...
- Added: Jul 27, 2011
- Length: 22:24
