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The biases embedded in technology are more than mere glitches, argues Meredith Broussard in her new book, "More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Ge...
- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 59:01
"Tech companies have abused their power and it is time to resist them." Oxford professor Carissa Véliz describes why privacy is so important, and h...
- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 59:00
The Flat Earth conspiracy got a huge boost from Facebook and YouTube, as Kelly Weill explains in her book "Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy ...
- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Many tech employees in Silicon Valley are pressured into joining a new religion, worshiping work and taking spiritual direction from their companie...
- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Amazon took over books, Spotify and Google took over music, and musicians and authors are struggling as a result. Cory Doctorow talks about what we...
- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 59:01
A few years ago, Douglas Rushkoff was invited to speak to a group of billionaires. Rather than asking about current tech trends, the billionaires w...
- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Alec MacGillis discusses his book "Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America" – about how Amazon has had drastic effects on the economy,...
- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 59:01
The tech industry is launching new brain-surveillance devices intended to monitor your mental state and, yes, even read your thoughts. Nita Farahan...
- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 59:01
Internet addiction is a growing problem, thanks to the intentional design of Silicon Valley platforms to "hook" users. The ITAA can help: Internet ...
- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 59:00
For more than a century, it was almost impossible to find out much about people buried on Hart Island. But in 2008, that all changed — thanks in la...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 17:56
Around 2015, a young man who called himself Stephen showed up in Manhattan's Riverside Park. Locals noticed him sitting on the same park bench day ...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 20:54
This week we continue delving into community-rooted disaster relief in California. From building mutual aid networks, to translating emergency mess...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Dec 12, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Fentanyl-related deaths among teens more than tripled across the U.S. from 2019 to 2021. And the CDC reports that two thirds of teens who died had ...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Dec 01, 2023
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
After the Supreme Court’s landmark Dobbs decision in June 2022, Dr. Emily Silverman spoke with Dr. Alison Block – a family medicine physician, abor...
- Added: Nov 27, 2023
- Length: 48:10
As overdose fatalities reach two to three deaths a day in San Francisco, demands for supervised consumption sites are getting more urgent. But city...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Nov 02, 2023
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
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Series: A group of young people in Montana sued the state for not taking climate change seriously. What happened at the trial?
Series: A group of young people in Montana sued the state for not taking climate change seriously. What happened at the trial?
I’ve been hearing about this landmark climate case in Montana, where a group of young people sued the state, and won. How did they do it?
Bought by KICI Iowa City, WRFA-LP, and Raven Radio
- Added: Oct 23, 2023
- Length: 03:51
- Purchases: 3
Some San Francisco city officials are advocating jail for unhoused people who use drugs and murder charges for people who sell drugs. Critics say t...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
San Francisco city officials have decided that arresting unhoused people for using drugs is the way to get them into treatment programs. Critics sa...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
While San Francisco is on track to break records for the highest number of fatal overdoses in one year, health experts say the city is failing when...
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 29:30
San Francisco is experiencing its worst rate of drug-related fatalities ever, and as city officials impose increasingly punitive measures against p...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 28:12
- Purchases: 1
When the U.S. Supreme Court hands down the Dobbs decision, clinicians rush to decipher its implications.
Bought by KGLP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and WYAP
- Added: Sep 29, 2023
- Length: 26:52
- Purchases: 4
Host mónica teresa ortiz examines the experiences and cultural shifts of communities impacted by climate and disaster in the Texas Panhandle.
Lea...
- Added: Mar 25, 2023
- Length: 14:23
The trauma of war and intergenerational PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) is discussed. And how state of the art ‘telepresence’, a technology ...
- Added: Oct 19, 2022
- Length: 24:40
Two conversations of sorts about Ghost Town(ing).
Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)
- Added: Sep 09, 2022
- Length: 50:52
- Purchases: 2
Talking Alaska's elections and polarizing politics, launching on the state's 2022 Primary Day and Special Election Day. Featuring Independent Alask...
- Added: Aug 16, 2022
- Length: 29:14
