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Wendy Owens and Dylan Cherrulo on generational entrepreneurship
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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This week's guests are Dylan Cherrulo and Wendy Owens. Dylan is an economics student at the University of Montana and a program assistant at the Bl...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
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
Policies to Reduce CO2 Emissions
From: Casey Walker
Series: Energy Switch
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Dr. Billy Pizer, the Vice President of Research and Policy Engagement at Resources for the Future, and Sasha Mackler, the Executive Director of the...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Nov 13, 2023
  • Length: 26:02
  • Purchases: 1
Ready, Set and a Year to Go: 2024 Election Preview
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Nov 7 marked the one year countdown to the 2024 Presidential election. It was both a kick in the pants and clown show on the Republican side, and a...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
Armed Drones & Banned Discussion Clubs - Canada Stands on Guard
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Another great package that will sink like a stone at PRX: The Canadian military shops for surveillance drones that can kill. The GPM speaks with ar...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:17
Will Netanyahu’s Long War Wash Away Saudi Arabia 2030?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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How the War in Gaza reality-checked the region

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Nov 10, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
International Relations Expert Seth Kaplan: Fragile Neighborhoods Repairing American Society One Zip Code at a Time
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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In this episode, we explore the importance of strong neighborhood and community relationships to the health of nations… and discuss how many neighb...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
EE 23-46: Katherine Miller on how chefs can help shape our food system, 11/10/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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In her new book, At the Table, Katherine Miller offers guidance for chefs on effecting change in food policy.

  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
Is Wokeness Killing Comedy?
From: Open to Debate
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What jokes would George Carlin have deemed offensive today? What makes us laugh has come under scrutiny. Old jokes or skits are deemed offensive in...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KUNM, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
National Writers Series: Heather Cox Richardson
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Five
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Detroit Free Press columnist Neal Rubin talks with historian and author Heather Cox Richardson.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 1
IE: Inside Europe, 11/10/2023
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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This week on Inside Europe: Migration: Chancellor Olaf Scholz holds a summit in Berlin, And Italy announces a new refugee processing pact with Al...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Josh Olsen of Montana Wilderness School
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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This week's guest is Josh Olsen, co-founder and program director of the Montana Wilderness School, a Bozeman based organization that offers expedit...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Colette Pichon Battle on Climate Justice Reparations
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The Laura Flanders Show
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Climate change isn’t looming, it’s here. We have crossed what some call the change horizon. Can it also be a liberation horizon? “There’s beautifu...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Radio Catskill, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 8
Episode 166: Going Deep with Pete Buttigieg on Social Mobility, 11/12/2023
From: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Series: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
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making a life that works

  • Added: Nov 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:03
Facing Death -- Groks Science Show 2023-11-08
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Brad Stuart discussed his new book, Facing Death.

Bought by KDX Worldround Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Nov 08, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Helping Prisoners to Heal
From: Humankind
Series: Humankind Specials
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More than a million Americans are in jails and prisons. In this documentary we present the voices of ex-prisoners who’ve made profound progress in ...

Bought by KVCR, Maine Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Boise State Public Radio, WLPR and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2023
  • Length: 52:59
  • Purchases: 9
Three Poems for These Times
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "When loss and innocence...", Credit: Susan Cook
Three poems of loss, courage and resilience for these times.

  • Added: Nov 08, 2023
  • Length: 03:06
Punishing the Amalekites
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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October 7 didn’t happen in a vacuum. As Israel retaliates, with customary super-violence, reducing little Gaza to rubble, in the occupied West Bank...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2023
  • Length: 59:44
The Vineyard Current - October 29th, 2023
From: WMVY
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Vineyard news of the week with Vineyard Gazette editor Bill Eville, Interview Segments with Alley McConnell from the Martha's Vineyard Shellfish Gr...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 30:20
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
2023-11-05 Zhuangzi: Being One With Ten Thousand Things
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What if I’m just a butterfly dreaming that I’m a philosopher?

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


  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
Dream Becomes Touchstone To Navajo Photographer’s Healing Art
From: KRCL
Caption: Art Heals: The Jingle Dress Project, Credit: © Eugene Tapahe
Short feature on Eugene Tapahe, local Diné artist + photographer shares about Art Heals: The Jingle Dress Project

  • Added: Nov 03, 2023
  • Length: 03:10
October 13, 2023: Surveillance and Social Media
From: WFHB
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On today’s Kite Line, we are sharing more research conducted collectively by Micol Seigel’s Inside-Out class.

  • Added: Nov 03, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Beyond Polarization: Where We Are Today
From: After the Fact
Series: Beyond Polarization
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During times of increased polarization and increasing stresses on democracy, researchers are studying how to break down partisan divides and addres...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2023
  • Length: 20:14
The Fight for Safe Consumption Sites: San Francisco and the Overdose Crisis Part 5
From: KSFP
Series: Civic Presents: San Francisco and the Overdose Crisis
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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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