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Distillation
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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What are the five areas of our collective existence on earth where the ocean matters most? If we are looking for a context to drive motivation and ...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2024
  • Length: 04:48
Electric Cars - Pros and Cons, Part 2
From: Casey Walker
Series: Energy Switch
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Dr. Beia Spiller, Director of the Transportation Program at Resources for the Future, and Dr. David Rapson, Economic Policy Advisor for the Fed and...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Apr 08, 2024
  • Length: 25:00
  • Purchases: 1
Is Religion a Force for Good?
From: Open to Debate
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Religion has long shaped human civilization, and many have wondered whether it’s good for society. Those who argue “yes” say it offers a sense of i...

Bought by WMUU-LP and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Apr 05, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
2024-04-05 Elizabeth Kolbert on Hope, Despair, and Everything In Between
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Even before Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” brought climate change to the mainstream, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Elizabeth Kolbert was on ...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KALW and more


  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 9
240405: Elizabeth Kolbert on Hope, Despair, and Everything In Between, 4/5/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Even before Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” brought climate change to the mainstream, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Elizabeth Kolbert was on ...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
2024-03-31 Mind Sharing
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Do you exaggerate your gestures when other people are around?

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


  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Electric Cars - Pros and Cons, Part 1
From: Casey Walker
Series: Energy Switch
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Dr. David Rapson, Economic Policy Advisor for the Federal Reserve Bank and Professor of Economics, University of California, and Dr. Beia Spiller, ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 25:00
  • Purchases: 1
Childhood Obesity Guidelines: Good Medicine or Too Extreme?
From: Open to Debate
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The American Academy of Pediatrics recently released new guidelines to address childhood obesity, affecting over 14 million children, including rec...

Bought by WMUU-LP and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Mar 28, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
2414: Mind Sharing, 4/2/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Do you exaggerate your gestures when other people are around?

  • Added: Mar 25, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
Nature's Balance Sheet
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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In business, as in life, there is a balance sheet, a statement of assets, profit and loss, income and expense, showing whether our accounts are in ...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2024
  • Length: 05:07
2418: Why Is the World So Weird?, 4/30/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Our universe is a strange place.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
Ecological Overshoot, part two
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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"We are not blind to the overall problem, and if we were in doubt, recent climate-explained events, near and far, should open our eyes more widely....

  • Added: Mar 04, 2024
  • Length: 05:13
Ecological Overshoot, part one
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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In this episode and the next, World Ocean Radio reports on the status quo, business-as-usual, tunnel vision conclusions at COP28 in Dubai, hosted b...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2024
  • Length: 04:51
Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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A November visit to Gloucester Massachusetts for an Ocean Literary Conference (NEOSEC 2023) afforded W2O staff an opportunity to take a field trip ...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2024
  • Length: 05:20
2024-01-21 The Mysterious Timelessness of Math
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is math like an abstract painting—beautiful equations, with no connection to the world—or is it more like a blueprint for the universe?

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KICI Iowa City, KSKQ, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and more


  • Added: Jan 22, 2024
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 12
Nuclear Colonialism and The Story “Oppenheimer” Didn’t Tell (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Image of the explosion after the Trinity detonation on July 16, 1945, Credit: United States Department of Energy
Oppenheimer swept the Golden Globes, but what did it leave out? We talk about the impact of nuclear colonialism on New Mexico with Myrriah Gómez, a...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WORT


  • Added: Jan 16, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
2024-01-14 Frege and the Language of Reason
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What is—or should be—the relationship between logic and thought?

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  • Added: Jan 15, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 12
2404: The Mysterious Timelessness of Math, 1/23/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Is math like an abstract painting—beautiful equations, with no connection to the world—or is it more like a blueprint for the universe?

  • Added: Jan 10, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
2403: Frege and the Language of Reason, 1/16/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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What is—or should be—the relationship between logic and thought?

  • Added: Jan 08, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
2023-12-17 Impossible Worlds
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What’s the difference between the merely surprising and the truly impossible?

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


  • Added: Dec 18, 2023
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 3
Marine Biomimetics, part three
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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In part three of this 3-part series, we continue to explore the recent publication related to marine biomimetics and the deep sea, identifying the ...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2023
  • Length: 05:14
2351: Impossible Worlds, 12/19/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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What’s the difference between the merely surprising and the truly impossible?

  • Added: Dec 13, 2023
  • Length: 53:58
Marine Biomimetics, part two
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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In these three episodes of World Ocean Radio we are exploring a recent publication entitled “A Forgotten Element in the Blue Economy: Marine Biomim...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2023
  • Length: 05:07
2023-12-03 In Awe of Wonder
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is there a purpose to our sense of wonder, or is it gloriously useless?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 04, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
Do We Have Free Will?
From: Open to Debate
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The idea of free will, or humans having the ability to make their own choices and determine the direction of their fates, is as old a question as h...

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


  • Added: Nov 16, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 2