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Breaking Rockefeller

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Oil is one of the earth’s coveted substances. We love it and we hate it. Yet, it surrounds our lives every day.

Bought by KCBX

Added: Jun 14, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

The Gene: An Intimate History

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

You’d have to go back more than 160-years to land upon the beginning of the story of the gene.

Bought by KCBX

Added: Jun 06, 2016
Length: 29:01
Purchases: 1

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

Snowball in a Blizzard: A Physician’s Notes on Uncertainty in Medicine

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

In his book, Dr. Steven Hatch cuts to the chase. Readers get a sense of the challenges in all areas of modern medicine.

Bought by KCBX

Added: Mar 23, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

The Meaning of Science

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

From the origins of human culture to space exploration, the achievements of science have been extraordinary.

Bought by KCBX and KCBX

Added: Feb 18, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

We Have the Technology

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Researchers are changing the way we experience our world. They’re engineering scents that stimulate lost memories, they’re searching for the elusiv...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX

Added: Jan 06, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

Harness the Sun

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

American is standing on the brink of an extraordinary revolution: an energy revolution.

Bought by KCBX

Added: Dec 29, 2015
Length: 28:59
Purchases: 1

Chemicals Without Harm

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

We are surrounded by chemicals every day. They’re in our clothing, cosmetics, household products, electronics, and even our children’s toys.

Bought by KVSC, KCBX, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.

Added: Dec 09, 2015
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 3

Life's Greatest Secret

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Everyone has heard of the story of DNA as the story of Watson and Crick and Rosalind Franklin, but knowing the structure of DNA was only a part of ...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX

Added: Nov 05, 2015
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

Future Tripping

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Cultural critic and entrepreneur Hal Niedzviecki poses the question, “What is it like to live in a society utterly focused on what is going to happ...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX

Added: Oct 21, 2015
Length: 29:01
Purchases: 2

Rise of the Robots

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

We’re on the cusp of another revolution: A technology revolution. This one, however, is vastly different from its predecessor: The industrial revol...

Bought by WDBM, KVSC, and KCBX

Added: Oct 07, 2015
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 3

Voices in the Band

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Dr. Susan Ball has been taking care of patients with HIV in New York City for nearly twenty years. As she says, it has been a wild ride.

Bought by KCBX

Added: Mar 09, 2015
Length: 29:01
Purchases: 1

The Brain's Way of Healing

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Bestselling author Dr. Norman Doidge describes how neuroplasticity leads to healing in his newest book.

Bought by KCBX, KVSC, and KCBX

Added: Jan 29, 2015
Length: 28:40
Purchases: 3

An Empathy Time Bomb

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Frank A. Schaeffer is a best-selling author, blogger, speaker and fine artist, and he’s the son of Francis Schaeffer, architect of the talkeover by...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Nov 22, 2014
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

Enchanted Objects

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Those who are shaping the future have a pretty good idea of how it is going to look. One of those is David Rose. He’s an award winning entrepreneur...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Nov 04, 2014
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

The Leap: The Science of Trust and Why it Matters

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

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

Watch Your Back

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

One of the most frustrating medical complaints for patients and doctors is back pain. Professionals and patients expect the usual medical diagnosis...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Oct 04, 2014
Length: 28:58
Purchases: 1

The Kidney Sellers

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

America has a shortage of organs for transplant. Iran has abundance. That’s the reason many wealthy American’s turn to Iran for help when they’re s...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX

Added: Jul 23, 2014
Length: 28:59
Purchases: 2

Honest Medicine

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Author Julia Schopick introduces four lifesaving treatments that have been effectively treating, and in some cases curing, people for 25 to 90 year...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Jul 16, 2014
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

Red Devil 4

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

The year is 2053. Neurosurgeon and scientist, Dr. Hagan Maerici, is to designing "neuromorphic artificial intelligence." This is the setting for Dr...

Bought by KCBX

Added: May 23, 2014
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

Flying Blind (for Pledge Drive)

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

When a biologist with the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department approaches Middlebury writing professor Don Mitchell about tracking endangered India...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Apr 01, 2014
Length: 22:19
Purchases: 1

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

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

Weather Anomalies

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Caption: National Resources Defense Council

While California is experiencing one of it’s driest seasons, the east and south are having one of the coldest and wettest. Is this climate change, ...

Bought by KCBX