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Where do we go from here?
From: Aspen Public Radio
Series: Aspen Psychedelic Symposium 2023
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This special broadcast from Aspen Public Radio was recorded live at the 2023 Aspen Psychedelic Symposium earlier this year. “Where do we go from he...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
The Neuroscience of Psychedelics
From: Aspen Public Radio
Series: Aspen Psychedelic Symposium 2023
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This special broadcast from Aspen Public Radio was recorded live at the 2023 Aspen Psychedelic Symposium earlier this year. “The Neuroscience of Ps...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Oct 10, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mental Health Breakthroughs
From: Aspen Public Radio
Series: Aspen Psychedelic Symposium 2023
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This special broadcast from Aspen Public Radio was recorded live at the 2023 Aspen Psychedelic Symposium earlier this year. “Mental Health Breakthr...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
A Woman's Life is a Human Life
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Felicia Kornbluh
Some now refer to a post-Roe reality. What they’re saying is the battle for reproductive rights has shifted back to individual states. Déjà vu. Al...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 24, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
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
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...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 05, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • 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...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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
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
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
Grand Canyon for Sale
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Stephen Nash
Using the Grand Canyon as the trailhead for his book, journalist Stephen Nash sounds an alarm of urgency for protecting our national parks.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Toward the Tipping Point
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jeremy Lent
In November, 2017, over fifteen thousand scientists from 184 countries issued a warning to humanity.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 08, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Peter Kalmus
We have a choice to fight the change, or be part of the change. That has never been more apparent than when we are watching ice caps melt, heat tha...

Bought by XRAY.fm and KCBX


  • Added: Jul 25, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Science Under Attack part 3
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Rush Holt
The Trump Administration is calling for drastic cuts in scientific research and development.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 09, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Science Under Attack – part 1
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: March for Science
President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order. Its purpose is to reverse efforts to shrink America’s carbon footprint.

Bought by WCPN, KVSC, and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 30, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Deadly River: Cholera & Cover-Up in Post Earthquake Haiti
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Epidemiology Professor Ralph Frerichs
A controversy involving United Nations Peacekeeping forces, the World Health Organization, and scientists --- not to mention the people of Haiti -...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: May 02, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
The Leap: The Science of Trust and Why it Matters
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ulrich Boser
Bestselling author Ulrich Boser shows how the emerging research on trust can improve our lives, rebuild our economy, and strengthen society. As par...

Bought by KCBX and KVSC


  • Added: Oct 20, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: David Lochbaum, Credit: Union of Concerned Scientists
The nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011 should provide the United States with lessons learned, however, the carefully nurtured tale that technology w...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 26, 2014
  • Length: 28:41
  • Purchases: 1
The Age of Radiance
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Craig Nelson
Bestselling author Craig Nelson provides an in depth examination of the history of the Atomic age from x-rays to the 2011 meltdown in Japan.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 20, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Bet the Farm
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Frederick Kaufman
In the last five years the world has seen two devastating spikes in the price of food, and according to journalist and professor Frederick Kaufman,...

Bought by KZYX and KCBX


  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Golden Holocaust
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Golden Holocaust cover, Credit: jacket design by Jackie Drooker
The CIGARETTE is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. Few discoveries have been so consequential. So begins the work by his...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2012
  • Length: 28:54
Just Add Water: Life in Arizona
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Terrascope Radio Major Features
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A light-hearted but serious exploration of how water is used, conserved and transported in Arizona.

Bought by KRZA, KUT, Remix Radio, and YouthCast


  • Added: Jun 08, 2009
  • Length: 22:09
  • Purchases: 4