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What THEY Don't Want You to Know About UFOs
From: Skeptoid
Series: Skeptoid Radio Hour
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Brian Dunning lays out what we know about the potential for alien civilizations and the laws of physics that might allow or prohibit our visiting o...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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?

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


  • Added: Jan 15, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 12
Digging In (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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When we dig deep underground, we get a chance to dig deeper into history.

Bought by WFHB, Kansas Public Radio, KMUN, KIYU-FM, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 13
Digging In (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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When we dig deep underground, we get a chance to dig deeper into history.

Bought by KHEN-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KECG, and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 11, 2024
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
Digging In (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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When we dig deep underground, we get a chance to dig deeper into history.

Bought by WTJU, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KEDT, WRGY and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
Digging In (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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When we dig deep underground, we get a chance to dig deeper into history.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KIYU-FM, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 11, 2024
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
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
Dr. Daniel J. Levitin – "Music On The Brain" Part 2
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Originally Broadcast: November 8, 2006 This Is Your Brain On Music: The Science of a Human Obsession The understanding of how we humans experienc...

  • Added: Dec 22, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Dr. Daniel J. Levitin – "Music On The Brain"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Originally Broadcast: November 1, 2006 This Is Your Brain On Music: The Science of a Human Obsession The understanding of how we humans experienc...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
2023-10-22 Elisabeth of Bohemia
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How did a 17th-century princess challenge Descartes' mind-body dualism?

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


  • Added: Oct 23, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
2343: Elisabeth of Bohemia, 10/24/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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If the mind and body are distinct substances, how could they ever interact?

  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
2342: The Lives and Ideas of the Vienna Circle, 10/17/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Wouldn’t it be great if our society were based on sound logical principles instead of outdated superstition?

  • Added: Oct 15, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
Henrietta Lacks' Immortal Cells
From: David Kattenburg
Caption: Henrietta Lacks, Credit: Courtesy: Lacks family & Estate
David Kattenburg speaks about Henrietta Lacks and medical racism in America with Dorothy Roberts. Roberts is Professor of Law and Sociology at the ...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2023
  • Length: 34:56
Oppenheimer’s omission and other secrets of the Atomic Age
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Caption: Paul Pino of Carrizozo, New Mexico., Credit: Nate Hegyi
From NHPR's Outside/In comes two stories that shed light on unseen consequences of America's nuclear ambitions.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Vermont Public, and Valley Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 01, 2023
  • Length: 56:30
  • Purchases: 4
2332: What Has Replaced Freud?, 8/8/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Freud may have laid the groundwork for a science of the unconscious, but didn’t he get most of it wrong?

  • Added: Jul 20, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
2307: The Philosophical Legacy of Darwin, 2/14/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Charles Darwin (born February 12, 1809) fundamentally changed our understanding of human life—for better or for worse?

  • Added: Feb 07, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
2022-10-09 Is the Self an Illusion?
From: Philosophy Talk
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Is the self just a fiction we create to make sense of a complicated world?

Bought by KMUN and WVTF


  • Added: Oct 10, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
National Writers Series: Dr. Benjamin Gilmer
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Four
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April Baer talks with doctor and author Benjamin Gilmer.

Bought by WNMU-FM, Michigan Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Oct 10, 2022
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 3
Spencer Wells– "The Peopling of the World"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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The Journey of Man, A Genetic Odyssey Around 60,000 years ago, a man – identical to us in all important genetic respects – lived in Africa. Every ...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
2022-06-28 Leibniz
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What made Gottfried Leibniz the last so-called "universal genius?"

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


  • Added: Jun 27, 2022
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 5
National Writers Series: Daniel Bergner
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Four
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Rick Coates talks with author Daniel Bergner about his latest book, "The Mind and the Moon."

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 1
Attack of the Zombie Crabs (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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There’s a parasite inhabiting the bodies of crabs, and making them infertile.

Bought by KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Apr 15, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
Attack of the Zombie Crabs (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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There’s a parasite inhabiting the bodies of crabs, and making them infertile.

Bought by KXCV, KEDT, WMUU-LP, WNED Buffalo, WRGY and more


  • Added: Apr 15, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
Attack of the Zombie Crabs (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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There’s a parasite inhabiting the bodies of crabs, and making them infertile.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KMUN, WFHB, WJCT, WYAP and more


  • Added: Apr 15, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Attack of the Zombie Crabs (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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There’s a parasite inhabiting the bodies of crabs, and making them infertile.

Bought by KXCV, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Apr 15, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4