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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
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Sonnet for Wink, Wink -Susan Cook- There are places here on earth where a wink at the wro...

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: :52
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Breathing: American Sonnets (Bookshop.org), Credit: Susan Cook
The 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to those who offered proof of the existence of Primordial Gravity Waves. Einstein theorized they were ...

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 01:14
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
We know too much of the sequence of the aftermath of a Mass Shooting Sequence.

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  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 1
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Journalism is under fire in more ways than one.

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  • Added: May 04, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Host Martha Burk
I grew up on country western music – but whether you’re a casual fan, love it or hate it, there’s a message, and it ain’t all good. Some very promi...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2023
  • Length: 02:38
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Tucker and The Jan 6 tapes. Kurtz &Fox: De-Fame and De-Fortune. A Texas judge could stop abortions nationwide. The GOP campaign debate calendar...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2023
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 2
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KQAL's Jiovani Bermudez meets with Mai'a Williams to discuss her project, Blooming Underground. Blooming Underground is a centers on their relation...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2023
  • Length: 26:03
Caption: Dan Bazile, Credit: Shefik
Geography - In March 2004, Dan Bazile joined the news team at WNYT (a television affiliate of NBC), where he anchors "Weekend Today". Prior to that...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 01:28
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In this collaboration with the podcast Self Evident, we look at what happens when we ignore anti-Asian hate—and what happens when we mobilize again...

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  • Added: Jul 29, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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How do we get the right information without falling down the rabbit hole of misinformation? In our final installment of series on vaccine hesitanc...

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  • Added: Apr 20, 2021
  • Length: 57:18
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Caption: "If you can loot businesses, burn down buildings, engage in protest- you can also go to a Christmas party.' Dec 2, 2020 White House Press Secretary, Credit: Susan Cook
As the Nation enters the Christmas (and Hannukah) Season with parties (ahem..) on hold, In the Department of Poetic Justice (and Reckoning), a lyr...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2020
  • Length: 03:15
Caption: Logo: News In Context, Credit: Joyce Cheng
Welcome to News in Context. I’m Gina Baleria. In this episode, we take a closer look at journalism – in particular how news outlets covered the 20...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2020
  • Length: 29:30
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THIS VERSION ADDS LEBRON JAMES ON POLICE SHOOTINGS AND HURRICANE LAURA MAKING LANDFALL AS A CAT 4. The RNC's Alternate Reality. Jacob Blake of Ken...

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  • Added: Aug 27, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Adolescents, the life cycle's truthtellers, any paleobiologist, or historian knows truth matters..., Credit: Susan Cook
In 2007, after the Iraq War began, Truth was traded freely for access to Power. The consequence of today's hemorrhaging of Truth requires more than...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2020
  • Length: 09:02
Caption: Dan Bazile, Credit: Shefik
Rain - In March 2004, Dan Bazile joined the news team at WNYT (a television affiliate of NBC), where he anchors "Weekend Today". Prior to that, he ...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 01:35
Caption: Logo: News In Context, Credit: Joyce Cheng
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Amber Boydstun, Associate Professor of Political Science at UC Davis, and author of Making the News… about how me...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2020
  • Length: 29:30