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You 2.0: where the self-help industry succeeds, and where it misses the mark
From: Embodied
Series: Embodied - Specials
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Self-help has existed in some form since the dawn of human civilization and has grown into a robust industrial complex. But does self-help really m...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KTSW 89.9, Troy Public Radio, KGOU, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 10
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
2023-08-06 What Has Replaced Freud?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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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?

Bought by KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), WNYO, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMUN and more


  • Added: Aug 07, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 10
The IdeaSphere
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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Author Anne Riley is not about to be stereotyped. Although she is a successful fiction writer, she has branched out into science, philosophy and dr...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Beyond the Book (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Outer space probably isn’t in your travel plans this summer. But it could be soon.

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


  • Added: Jul 21, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
Beyond the Book (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Outer space probably isn’t in your travel plans this summer. But it could be soon.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, Kansas Public Radio, WJCU, WFHB, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 21, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Beyond the Book (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Outer space probably isn’t in your travel plans this summer. But it could be soon.

Bought by KEDT, KXCV, WMUU-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 21, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
Beyond the Book (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Outer space probably isn’t in your travel plans this summer. But it could be soon.

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


  • Added: Jul 21, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith
From: New Letters on the Air
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Tracy K. Smith, U.S. Poet Laureate 2017-19, kicked off her poetry career with the 2002 Cave Canem Prize, awarded to exceptional manuscripts of firs...

Bought by WMUU-LP, XRAY.fm, and WJCU


  • Added: Jul 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Medicine's Messiness (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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The patient-doctor relationship is complicated and fraught. Patients often feel confused and talked down to, in part because doctors feel like they...

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


  • Added: Apr 29, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
Medicine's Messiness (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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The patient-doctor relationship is complicated and fraught. Patients often feel confused and talked down to, in part because doctors feel like they...

Bought by KWGS, WTJU, KXCV, KEDT, WNED Buffalo and more


  • Added: Apr 29, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
Medicine's Messiness (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The patient-doctor relationship is complicated and fraught. Patients often feel confused and talked down to, in part because doctors feel like they...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, Kansas Public Radio, WJCU, WFHB, WJCT and more


  • Added: Apr 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Medicine's Messiness (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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The patient-doctor relationship is complicated and fraught. Patients often feel confused and talked down to, in part because doctors feel like they...

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


  • Added: Apr 29, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
Poet and Essayist Kathryn Nuernberger
From: New Letters on the Air
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Poet and essayist Kathryn Nuernberger discusses how she once shied away from being a "woman writer" and why she now embraces it, as she reads from ...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
581: Reading While Young / 582: Up All Night, 5/1/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Reading While Young" - Having trouble reading? Maybe the answer is a younger read. We'll celebrate the new season of our "Bookmarks" mic...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:01
2020-08-23 (There's Still) Time for Summer Reading
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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There's still time for deep reading this summer (and our 500th episode).

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KSKQ, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMUN, KNVC Carson City Community Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
Best-selling author Karen Joy Fowler discusses her novel "We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves"
From: Out of Bounds
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Karen Joy Fowler talks about her compelling and heart breaking novel "We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves."

  • Added: Sep 13, 2017
  • Length: 28:00
The National Endowment for the Arts speaks with poet Kim Roberts
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Kim Roberts
Kim Roberts brings a poet’s eye to The Scientific Method

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Ideas Books - Sean B Carroll: The Serengeti Rules
From: Craig Barfoot
Series: Ideas Books
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Biologist Sean B Carroll talks to Craig Barfoot about his latest book, The Serengeti Rules. We find out how wolves can change the physical shape of...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: May 03, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 1
Ideas Books: Gavin Francis, Adventures in Human Being
From: Craig Barfoot
Series: Ideas Books
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An in-depth conversation with author Gavin Francis about his book, the human body and his life as a doctor. A beautiful conversation about celebrat...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Sep 11, 2015
  • Length: 24:05
  • Purchases: 1
Brave Genius
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Writing from History
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Evolutionary biologist Sean B. Carroll shares his findings on the friendship between writer Albert Camus and biologist Jacques Monod.

  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 13:25
255: World Ocean Journal
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: World Ocean Journal | Volume I
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will introduce World Ocean Journal, a new bi-annual e-magazine on ocean culture, issues and ...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2014
  • Length: 04:55
An Interview with Christopher White
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program, Christopher White talks about and reads from his book 'The Melting World: A Journey Across America’s Vanishing Glaciers.'

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WCWP, KSJD, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 22, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Healing with Prayer
From: Radio Rounds
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Dr. David Levy, neurosurgeon and author, discusses the role that prayer can play in the healing relationship between physician and patient.

  • Added: Jun 22, 2012
  • Length: 29:29
The Poet and His Dyslexia
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
Caption: Poet Philip Schultz
Host Francesca Rheannon spends the hour with poet Philip Schultz talking about his poetry, his method of teaching writing — and his dyslexia. His l...

Bought by WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Aug 11, 2010
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1