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2418: Why Is the World So Weird?, 4/30/2024

From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly

No matter how you slice it, our universe is a strange place.

Distillation

From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio

What are the five areas of our collective existence on earth where the ocean matters most? If we are looking for a context to drive motivation and ...

Electric Cars - Pros and Cons, Part 2

From: Casey Walker
Series: Energy Switch

Dr. Beia Spiller, Director of the Transportation Program at Resources for the Future, and Dr. David Rapson, Economic Policy Advisor for the Fed and...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.

Is Religion a Force for Good?

From: Open to Debate

Religion has long shaped human civilization, and many have wondered whether it’s good for society. Those who argue “yes” say it offers a sense of i...

Bought by WMUU-LP and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]

2024-04-05 Elizabeth Kolbert on Hope, Despair, and Everything In Between

From: Climate One
Series: Climate One

Even before Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” brought climate change to the mainstream, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Elizabeth Kolbert was on ...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KALW and more

240405: Elizabeth Kolbert on Hope, Despair, and Everything In Between, 4/5/2024

From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed

Even before Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” brought climate change to the mainstream, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Elizabeth Kolbert was on ...

2024-03-31 Mind Sharing

From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk

Do you exaggerate your gestures when other people are around?

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

Electric Cars - Pros and Cons, Part 1

From: Casey Walker
Series: Energy Switch

Dr. David Rapson, Economic Policy Advisor for the Federal Reserve Bank and Professor of Economics, University of California, and Dr. Beia Spiller, ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.

Childhood Obesity Guidelines: Good Medicine or Too Extreme?

From: Open to Debate

The American Academy of Pediatrics recently released new guidelines to address childhood obesity, affecting over 14 million children, including rec...

Bought by WMUU-LP and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]

2414: Mind Sharing, 4/2/2024

From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly

Do you exaggerate your gestures when other people are around?

Nature's Balance Sheet

From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio

In business, as in life, there is a balance sheet, a statement of assets, profit and loss, income and expense, showing whether our accounts are in ...

Ecological Overshoot, part two

From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio

"We are not blind to the overall problem, and if we were in doubt, recent climate-explained events, near and far, should open our eyes more widely....

Ecological Overshoot, part one

From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio

In this episode and the next, World Ocean Radio reports on the status quo, business-as-usual, tunnel vision conclusions at COP28 in Dubai, hosted b...

Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute

From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio

A November visit to Gloucester Massachusetts for an Ocean Literary Conference (NEOSEC 2023) afforded W2O staff an opportunity to take a field trip ...

2024-01-21 The Mysterious Timelessness of Math

From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk

Is math like an abstract painting—beautiful equations, with no connection to the world—or is it more like a blueprint for the universe?

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KICI Iowa City, KSKQ, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and more

2024-01-14 Frege and the Language of Reason

From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk

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

2404: The Mysterious Timelessness of Math, 1/23/2024

From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly

Is math like an abstract painting—beautiful equations, with no connection to the world—or is it more like a blueprint for the universe?

2403: Frege and the Language of Reason, 1/16/2024

From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly

What is—or should be—the relationship between logic and thought?

2023-12-17 Impossible Worlds

From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk

What’s the difference between the merely surprising and the truly impossible?

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

Marine Biomimetics, part three

From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio

In part three of this 3-part series, we continue to explore the recent publication related to marine biomimetics and the deep sea, identifying the ...

2351: Impossible Worlds, 12/19/2023

From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly

What’s the difference between the merely surprising and the truly impossible?

Marine Biomimetics, part two

From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio

In these three episodes of World Ocean Radio we are exploring a recent publication entitled “A Forgotten Element in the Blue Economy: Marine Biomim...

2023-12-03 In Awe of Wonder

From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk

Is there a purpose to our sense of wonder, or is it gloriously useless?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and KICI Iowa City

Do We Have Free Will?

From: Open to Debate

The idea of free will, or humans having the ability to make their own choices and determine the direction of their fates, is as old a question as h...

Bought by WMUU-LP and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.

2346: Your Brain on Literature, 11/14/2023

From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly

How do writers and filmmakers exploit our cognitive biases to surprise and delight us?

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