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Top of Mind - Are All Medical Treatments Safe and Effective?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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It’s easy to assume medical treatments available in the US are safe and effective. Let’s challenge that assumption.

Bought by RADIOLEX, KOWS, WYAP, KSTK, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Sep 20, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 6
01-18: The Reluctant Psychonaut: How Psychedelics Changed Michael Pollan’s Mind, 8/9/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Michael Pollan, Credit: Nikki Richter
A quiet renaissance of serious medical research has once again arisen to study the therapeutic benefits of LSD and other psychedelics, including ov...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Supreme Court Decisions
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Bill Halal
Recent decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court as left a majority of American’s wondering if the country is headed in the wrong direction. Many feel th...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 05, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Let's Unmake Something: On the Unconstructable Earth
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our rising awareness that we have destroyed our planet has simultaneously provided us not with remorse or resolve but with a new fantasy: that the ...

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  • Added: Nov 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Three Little Words - End Fossil Fuels
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our show is Three Little Words and our guest is Holly Buck, author of Ending Fossil Fuels - Why Net Zero Is Not Enough just out from Verso. We’re ...

Bought by RADIOLEX and WLPR


  • Added: Nov 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
211105: Geoengineering: Who Should Control Our Atmosphere?, 11/5/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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According to the latest IPCC Assessment Report, we’re currently on course for at least 3°C (5.4°F) of warming by 2100 even if all of the voluntary ...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 58:57
2021-11-05 Geoengineering: Who Should Control Our Atmosphere?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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According to the latest IPCC Assessment Report, we’re currently on course for at least 3°C (5.4°F) of warming by 2100 even if all of the voluntary ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA, WLPR , Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 10
Explaining "Code Red for Humanity" - Disorganizing Nature (Repeat)
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Duke's Gibson, Indiana power plant is the second largest coal burner in the nation., Credit: Photo by John Blair.
With the IPCC's most recent report clanging "Code Red for Humanity" we revisit our show with Jason Moore, author of Capitalism in the Web of Life, ...

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Techno-Racism & COVID at Home and Abroad
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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During the pandemic, disinformation campaigns have been targeting people of color with lies like African Americans can’t get COVID or denying the p...

  • Added: May 20, 2021
  • Length: 04:24
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...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
523: The Resilient Brain / 524: Locked Up, 10/10/2020
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "The Resilient Brain" - In 1848, an explosion drove an iron rod through the skull of a railroad foreman. Find out how it changed science ...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:58
The Future is Now (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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AI technologies are really human issues. Sylvester Johnson (Virginia Tech) says we humans must decide for ourselves how to live in a world where i...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, WRGY, WPCA-LP, KXCV and more


  • Added: Jan 23, 2020
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 13
The Future is Now (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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AI technologies are really human issues. Sylvester Johnson (Virginia Tech) says we humans must decide for ourselves how to live in a world where i...

Bought by WJCT, WSGE, Kansas Public Radio, WVAS, WLIW and more


  • Added: Jan 23, 2020
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 11
The Future is Now (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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AI technologies are really human issues. Sylvester Johnson (Virginia Tech) says we humans must decide for ourselves how to live in a world where i...

Bought by KXCV, WNED Buffalo, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 23, 2020
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 4
Emoji Evidence (Half Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Be warned: everything you say on Facebook can and will be used against you in a court of law!

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  • Added: Dec 05, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 11
Emoji Evidence (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Be warned: everything you say on Facebook can and will be used against you in a court of law!

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WLPR , WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Dec 05, 2019
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 12
Emoji Evidence (Promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Be warned: everything you say on Facebook can and will be used against you in a court of law!

Bought by KXCV, Troy Public Radio, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Dec 05, 2019
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 3
417: Wonders Of The Human Body / 418: Empathy For Monsters, 10/5/2019
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Wonders Of The Human Body" - What's so wondrous about the human body? An hour on transplants, chronic illnesses and the familiar in ours...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:58
Radicalized
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Cory Doctorow
How we deal with the possibilities of tomorrow are very dependent on how we handle those possibilities today. Sounds simple, however, even when we ...

Bought by KRZA and KCBX


  • Added: Sep 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Is “Green Growth” Malignant? Perspectives on the Green New Deal
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Tirana Vertical Forest designed by Stefano Boeri
Some think that “green growth” would be unlikely to stop global warming, and would only worsen numerous other global environmental crises. While a ...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2019
  • Length: 59:09
12062018: Digital Dalliances and Interpersonal Civility: Socializing in the 21st Century with Luvvie Ajayi & Professor Russell Golman, 12/6/2018
From: KBUU
Series: Harvesting Happiness Talk Radio
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Purpose-driven and consciously prepared brain food from the beaches of Malibu, California. Join us on this week’s show focusing on digital communic...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2018
  • Length: 47:48
HHS Data Chief Dr. Mona Siddiqui on Addressing the Challenges of Health Data Liberation
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Mona Siddiqui, Chief Data Officer at the US Department of Health and Human Servi...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jul 17, 2018
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 1
A New Congressional Caucus Backs Planetary Science
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Starman in his Tesla Roadster bids farewell to Earth after being launched by the first SpaceX Falcon Heavy., Credit: SpaceX
Republican Randy Hultgren and Democrat Derek Kilmer celebrate formation of the new bipartisan, bicameral caucus of US representatives and senators....

Bought by KDNK, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KWMR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Feb 14, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Former HealthCare.Gov CMO Josh Peck Launches Get America Covered to Fill ACA Marketing Gap
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Joshua Peck, Co-Founder of Get America Covered, @GetUSCovered, a non-profit entity l...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 30:00
205: Could Psychedelic Drugs Save Your Life? / 206: The Revenge of Analog, 9/23/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Could Psychedelic Drugs Save Your Life?" - Psychedelic science is back and the early results are extraordinary. If you knew LSD could he...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:57