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Are DEI Mandates for University Faculties a Bad Idea?
From: Open to Debate
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More American colleges are adopting DEI as a core value, affecting professors' tenure, hiring, and promotion. Has what was intended as solidarity t...

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


  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
2345: Zhuangzi: Being One with Ten Thousand Things, 11/7/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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If you dream that you're a butterfly, how can you be sure you're not a butterfly dreaming you're a person when you wake up?

  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
Two Steps Forward in a Changing Climate
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week on World Ocean Radio are two forward-looking government-proposed initiatives that offer opportunities for progress in climate policy, inv...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 05:18
Living Planet 11/03/23
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Making fuel out of food. Sounds like it could be pretty sustainable, right? But then again, does it make sense to be growing...

Bought by Radio Kansas and WXDU


  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 29:58
  • Purchases: 2
Rethinking Riches: The Global Push for Wealth Equality
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Why we need a global shift in the wealth paradigm

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for November 1, 2023
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: As Netanyahu Rejects Ceasefire, Israel Escalates Gaza Assault Worsening Hu...

Bought by WFHB and WETS


  • Added: Nov 01, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
EE 23-45: Who sets the menu for the animals at the zoo?, 11/3/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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Everybody eats, including animals at the zoo. Producer Toby Foster talks with the Curator of Nutrition at the Cincinnati Zoo.

  • Added: Nov 01, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
Josh Paul Reveals The Truth Behind US Arms Supply to Israel
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The Laura Flanders Show
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After 11 years in the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs — the entity most responsible for arms transfers to allies and partne...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN and more


  • Added: Nov 01, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Open Spaces, October 20, 2023
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Open Spaces
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Today on the show, the Endangered Species Act became law 50 years ago. Since then, hundreds of species have been put under its protection. Wyoming ...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2023
  • Length: 50:22
Ourselves Equation -- Groks Science Show 2023-11-01
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
George Musser discussed his book, Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation.

Bought by KDX Worldround Radio, RadioFreePalmer, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Nov 01, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
I&I - A.I. and creativity part 2
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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This week is the October edition of Incentives & Instincts, a recurring series in which Justin speaks with economist and friend Bryce Ward about so...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2023
  • Length: 28:27
Smithsonian Associates: The Culture Wars: How Can We Lower the Temperature?
From: Paul VOGELZANG
Series: Smithsonian Associates Interview Series, Not Old Better Show
Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series
As the US nears its 250th anniversary, cultural conflicts risk overshadowing this milestone. Smithsonian Associate Clay Jenkinson, a public humanit...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2023
  • Length: 40:40
World in Progress 02/11/23
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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The Bronx: Fires, hip hop and gentrification. RERUN

Bought by WFHB and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Oct 31, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Oceans of Energy
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Tapping Earth’s largest source of clean energy -- its oceans. Ocean waves, tides and heat. A massive resource. Then, there’s salt gradient energy. ...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2023
  • Length: 53:57
To create more resilient warriors, Air Force training is emphasizing wellness and stress management
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Air Force recruits at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland prepare to leave a classroom after listening to a lecture on resilience, which included tips on self-control, keeping a positive mindset, and relaxation., Credit: Vanessa Adame / U.S. Air Force
The new basic training curriculum aims to better prepare recruits for the uncertainties of war.

Bought by KMXT, KPBS, WRFA-LP, KRPS, WHRV and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2023
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 7
2023-10-29 Referring to the World: Ken's Final Work
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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A special episode devoted to Ken Taylor's posthumous book.

Bought by KMXT, KICI Iowa City, KSKQ, KICI Iowa City, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 10
A Poem to the President of the NRA
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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This poem to one President of the NRA has no statistics, no logic, no legal reasoning or principle. Only profound grief and sadness..

  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 01:09
Too Soon? The First Family 60 Years On
From: Mike Flanagan
Caption: The First Family, Credit: Courtesy Cadence Records
A 60th Anniversary review of the funniest album of the Kennedy era. The Grammy Award winning Album of the Year that was ultimately withdrawn from c...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 57:17
Assistant Professor, Domestic Violence Survivor Finds Hope In Her Journey and Academic Research
From: KRCL
Caption: Jennifer Andrus, Ph.D., Credit: University of Utah
2-way interview with Dr. Jenny Andrus about her study of domestic violence.

  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 03:43
The Systemic Challenges of Addressing Homelessness, with Tony Sparks
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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In this episode, we explore the persistent challenge of how to ensure that everyone has adequate housing. We discuss why the U.S. faces these issue...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
Growing Pains as California Adds Social Services to Medicaid
From: Tradeoffs
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California’s Medicaid program is two years into the nation’s most ambitious effort yet to cover non-traditional health care services like housing a...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 16:55
25 years since Matthew Shepard: Where are we now?
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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Where are we with LGBTQ+ civil rights and safety since Matthew Shepard's brutal 1998 murder? How can we curtail ongoing hate-based violence? The Ma...

Bought by KUOW, WGBH Radio Boston, KFCF FM, KGLP, and WORT


  • Added: Oct 26, 2023
  • Length: 53:31
  • Purchases: 5
With the last of nine base renamings, the Army helps cast aside the myth of the Confederacy
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Retired Lt. Gen. Arthur J. Gregg stands in front of the newly named Gregg-Adams Club at the former Fort Lee, Virginia in April 2023. The club was off limits to Gregg and other Black Soldiers when he became an officer in 1950. Gregg now shares the new name, Credit: Terrance Bell / U.S. Army
Historians said the renamings – like the removal of many Confederate statues in recent years – are part of a more accurate understanding of the Con...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Texas Public Radio, KRPS, WRFA-LP, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 26, 2023
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 9
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
Human Rights, or Right to Exist? Perspectives on Israel-Hamas War
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Former US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates predicts how war in Israel could ripple through the Middle East. Then, Ray Suarez speaks with Trita Par...

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


  • Added: Oct 25, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5

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