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An American Sonnet: "I see Trees Standing in Deep Water" From The Department of Poetic Justice (and Poetic Reckoning)
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The town of Brunswick, Maine is set to remove 2/3 of the trees on Maine Street because it is too expensive to work around them as they install new ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 19, 2024
  • Length: 01:49
  • Purchases: 1
2024-04-14 Shakespeare's Outsiders
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Do Shakespearean dramas have more in common with modern-day soap operas than we think?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KSKQ, KTSW 89.9, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 15, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
2416: Shakespeare's Outsiders, 4/16/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Do Shakespearean dramas have more in common with modern-day soap operas than we think?

  • Added: Apr 05, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
2024-03-24 Margaret Cavendish
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What would it mean to believe in the radical equality of all things—humans, animals, trees, even rocks?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KSKQ, KTSW 89.9, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 25, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
2419: The Legacy of Freud, 5/7/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Did you really want to eat that last piece of cake, or were you secretly thinking about your mother?

  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: :59
The Write Question - Arnold "Smoke" Elser and Eva-Maria Maggi
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Arnold “Smoke” Elser and Eva-Maria Maggi discuss Smoke’s memoir, “Hush of the Land: A Lifetime in the Bob Marshall Wilderness.”

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 29, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Justice Isn’t for All, Legacy of Slavery in America’s Prison System
From: KRCL
Caption: Book Cover, "Of Greed and Glory In Pursuit of Freedom for All"
Two-way interview with author Deborah G. Plant about her new book, Of Greed & Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All

  • Added: Feb 17, 2024
  • Length: 17:22
The Write Question - Kathleen McLaughlin
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Journalist Kathleen McLaughlin discusses "Blood Money: The Story of Life, Death, and Profit Inside America's Blood Industry," recently released in ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
2024-01-07 Simone de Beauvoir
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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The life and thought of the French feminist philosopher (born January 9, 1908).

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KSKQ, KICI Iowa City, KSKQ, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jan 08, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
How Einstein Understood E=mc Squared
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Poetry Month and Einstein creating E=mc squared

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 05, 2024
  • Length: :55
  • Purchases: 1
2402: Simone de Beauvoir, 1/9/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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The French feminist philosopher was born January 9, 1908.

  • Added: Dec 31, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
2023-11-12 Your Brain on Literature
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How do writers and filmmakers exploit our cognitive biases to surprise and delight us?

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WLPR , KICI Iowa City, KSKQ, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Nov 13, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 11
2346: Your Brain on Literature, 11/14/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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How do writers and filmmakers exploit our cognitive biases to surprise and delight us?

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
MN Reads: "Climate Grief" by Shawna Weaver
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Shawna Weaver talks about her new book "Climate Grief"

  • Added: Oct 26, 2023
  • Length: 12:37
MN Reads: "Trauma Sponges" by Jeremy Norton
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Firefighter and author Jeremy Norton talks about his new book "Trauma Sponges"

  • Added: Oct 12, 2023
  • Length: 11:55
835: Astonishing African Futures / 836: You're Not OK. That's OK., 10/7/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Astonishing African Futures" - The new Black Panther movie, "Wakanda Forever," dominated the global box office. This hour, a literary ta...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
Naomi Klein: Tackling the “Doppelganger”, Disinformation & Lies
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In her new book, "Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World”, award-winning journalist Naomi Klein describes being confused with Naomi Wolf, a con...

Bought by KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KDNK, KWMR and more


  • Added: Sep 20, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
2023-09-03 (End of) Summer Reading List 2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What books should thoughtful people have been reading this summer?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KMUN, KSKQ, KTSW 89.9, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Sep 04, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
2336: (End of) Summer Reading List 2023, 9/5/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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What new books should thoughtful people read this summer?

  • Added: Aug 16, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
2335: Hegel, 8/29/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born August 27, 1770.

  • Added: Aug 16, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
2023-08-27 Hegel
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born August 27, 1770.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KTSW 89.9, KMUN, and KSKQ


  • Added: Aug 16, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
2023-08-06 What Has Replaced Freud?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Freud may have laid the groundwork for a science of the unconscious, but didn’t he get most of it wrong?

Bought by KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), WNYO, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMUN and more


  • Added: Aug 07, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 10
The Haunted Highway
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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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
799: Deep Time: The Tyranny Of Time / 800: Difficult Summer Reading, 6/3/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Deep Time: The Tyranny Of Time" - When you’re on the clock, the hours disappear. Time scarcity is making us and the planet sick. But the...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
Should Certain Books Ever Be Banned in School?
From: Open to Debate
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Are certain books beyond reproach? It’s a fundamental question making its way across America’s school boards. Those who argue “yes” say schools sho...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 2

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