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Quick Study from the National Endowment for the Arts--Music and the pandemic
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Quick Study
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A look at stats and stories to help us better understand the value of art in everyday life--from the National Endowment for the Arts

  • Added: Dec 20, 2021
  • Length: 05:44
Gender(s)
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Kathryn Bond Stockton
It’s a girl or a boy. That’s identifiable at birth. Binary. A biological inheritance. Today, however, when it comes to gender, we’re living in a fl...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 23, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Plagues Upon the Earth
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Kyle Harper
They’re rooted deeply in our global past. Germs. They’ve always been with us. It’s our wealth, health, power and inequity that determine how well w...

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  • Added: Oct 05, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Disasterology: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Climate Crisis
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Samantha Montano
By now, most people are waking up to the reality of climate change. Between fires and hurricanes, a large swath of our planet is becoming uninhabit...

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  • Added: Aug 31, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Trans Medicine
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: stef m.shuster
If you think medical treatment for the trans gender population sounds like a straightforward, easily addressed protocol. It’s not. Even today it’s ...

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  • Added: Jul 06, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Extended Mind
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Annie Murphy Paul
If someone said to you, “You’re out of your mind,” you might feel insulted. On the other hand, you could take that as a compliment. Research is fin...

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  • Added: Jun 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Peter T. Coleman
Once a segment of the population becomes miserable, stabilization begins. That shouldn’t be a goal in American politics, but it certainly seems lik...

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  • Added: Jun 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
173: Mushroom Lightning
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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There's a long tradition of Japanese folklore around the possible relationship between large mushroom harvests and lightning. Researchers decided t...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jun 14, 2021
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 2
Covid-19
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Book cover, Credit: Jacket design Danielle Allyssa
In March of 2020, after months of downplaying of COVID by officials, the death rate could no longer be ignored. By late fall, as many Americans wer...

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  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Children & Toxins
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Philip Landrigan
Thousands of new chemicals have been developed and released into the global environment during the last four decades. Yet, most of those chemicals ...

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  • Added: Dec 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Trust the Messenger
From: Laura Joyce Davis
Series: Shelter in Place
Caption: Shelter in Place Podcast, Credit: Sarah Edgell
Why we're losing against COVID-19--but don't have to be.

  • Added: Nov 25, 2020
  • Length: 40:06
Future Rising
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Andrew Maynard
Most of us spend a good part of our time in the future. That is, we ponder what tomorrow brings. Or, even later today. Though we only have a snapsh...

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  • Added: Nov 23, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Planetary Health
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Howard Frumkin
Recent events around the globe clearly demonstrates the interconnectedness of human health and the health of our planet. Heat waves in California, ...

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Turnaway Study
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Diana Green Foster
After all of the debates there is finally a comprehensive study on the impact abortion has on a woman. Devoid of knowledge based information in the...

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  • Added: Aug 11, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Growing Young
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Marta Zaraska
Humankind seems to be on eternal search for an answer on how to live longer. Our efforts naturally lead us to spirituality. But then we take pills ...

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  • Added: Aug 04, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Idea of the Brain
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Matthew Cobb
There is a lot we don’t know about the human body. We’re always learning. But, what about the part that is allowing us to learn: the brain? After u...

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  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Industrial Strength Denial
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Barbara Freese
Corporations have a very long history of denying wrongdoing. Think Wells Fargo, Volkswagen, Exxon Mobile. The list is lengthy. In fact ,the persist...

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  • Added: Jun 02, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Is Air Drying Your Clothes Worth It?
From: Possibly
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Dryers do use a lot of energy. If you were to rank your household appliances by how much energy they use, your dryer would probably come in 3rd, ri...

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  • Added: May 29, 2020
  • Length: 03:13
  • Purchases: 1
What is methane and how does it relate to climate change?
From: Possibly
Caption: Gas furnace
Methane is a gas that’s created when something organic decomposes in a location that doesn’t have oxygen. The largest human-caused source of metha...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 27, 2020
  • Length: 03:21
  • Purchases: 2
Myths Surrounding COVID-19
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Helen Lee Bouygues
Americans are in a strange and unusual news cycle. For example, someone can state that hydroxychloroquine is a potential cure for COVID-19. Fox New...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and KCBX


  • Added: Apr 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
COVID 19 Stories with Charles McGuigan: Maintaining Your Mental Health in the COVID-19 Era with Tracey Wingold
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: COVID-19 Stories
Caption: Tracey Wingold,LCSW
Tracey Wingold has worked as a counselor for well over a decade, and she had a sort of head start on the COVID-19 crisis.

  • Added: Apr 07, 2020
  • Length: 08:01
A Wild Ride
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jason Kelly
There is no question that we live troubling times: pathogenically and economically speaking. We haven’t seen a market so skittish and volatile in m...

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  • Added: Mar 10, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Anti/Vax
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Bernice Hausman
Very few issues cause heated debate like the vaccination controversy. From their introduction, vaccines have created concern and skepticism.

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  • Added: Dec 09, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Deviced! Balancing Life and Technology in the Digital World
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Doreen Dodgen-Magee
Most of us don’t spend a lot of time thinking about how much time we spend online. We might even ask if it really matters. The digital world is so ...

Bought by KCBX and KRZA


  • Added: Oct 23, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Do Dice Play God? The Mathematics of Uncertainty
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ian Stewart
We’re obsessed with predicting the future. Most of the time, though, we get it wrong. On the other hand, we can predict a specific event with near ...

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  • Added: Sep 10, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3