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The biases embedded in technology are more than mere glitches, argues Meredith Broussard in her new book, "More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Ge...

Bought by WCUW 91.3 FM


  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
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A few years ago, Douglas Rushkoff was invited to speak to a group of billionaires. Rather than asking about current tech trends, the billionaires w...

Bought by WCUW 91.3 FM


  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The Flat Earth conspiracy got a huge boost from Facebook and YouTube, as Kelly Weill explains in her book "Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy ...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Many tech employees in Silicon Valley are pressured into joining a new religion, worshiping work and taking spiritual direction from their companie...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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"Tech companies have abused their power and it is time to resist them." Oxford professor Carissa Véliz describes why privacy is so important, and h...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Amazon took over books, Spotify and Google took over music, and musicians and authors are struggling as a result. Cory Doctorow talks about what we...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Alec MacGillis discusses his book "Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America" – about how Amazon has had drastic effects on the economy,...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
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The tech industry is launching new brain-surveillance devices intended to monitor your mental state and, yes, even read your thoughts. Nita Farahan...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Internet addiction is a growing problem, thanks to the intentional design of Silicon Valley platforms to "hook" users. The ITAA can help: Internet ...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jennifer Barnett, Credit: Second Sandbar Productions
Join host Lena Dorey, the cast of The Red Jacket Jamboree and guests for a Christmas episode which pays tribute to jazz singer Billie Holiday. In ...

Bought by KBRP Community Radio, WNMU-FM, and Southern Branch Bluegrass


  • Added: Nov 21, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
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Urban Myer has been fired as the Jacksonville Jaguars head coach we discuss what let up to his firing and what's next for him. We also get into the...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2021
  • Length: 01:01:26
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Who hasn’t inadvertently pocket dialed someone? Smartphones are ubiquitous, and so are the phone foibles of the digital age. Jocelyn Robinson tells...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Sep 10, 2020
  • Length: 17:42
  • Purchases: 1
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I like the way the family name Polemoniaceae just rolls off the tongue. What a delicious word to say. Oh, and I love the last paragraph of the fami...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 05:16
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Can technology advance society if it doesn't include all of society? This week, we talk with three disability justice activists who have ideas abou...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KDNK


  • Added: Jul 18, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Dr. Gina Pazzaglia and Corey D. Taylor talk about the current epidemic of depression, their own experiences with it, and strategies that can help t...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2018
  • Length: 25:00
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Welcome back to some more small town politics, this time it's the Georgetown Divide water district, and Cindy Garcia gets right to the heart of cur...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2018
  • Length: 02:21:35
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In this episode I talk to Tiff who started Fanny Adams Vintage as well as Project Awesome, a project bent on advertising local artists & creating a...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2018
  • Length: 35:59
Caption: From left to right, Chris McGlynn, Billy Sickles, Matt Weintraub, Jibran Meiser, Dan Wickens, Tyler Finkler all played high school Ultimate under Ryan Belline. Now all of them play professionally.  (c) 2016 Tricia McGlynn, Credit: Tricia McGlynn
This is a personal story of how a lack of officials has come to define the sport of Ultimate Frisbee and how the sport is evolving now that it has ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 10, 2016
  • Length: 03:14
  • Purchases: 1
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It's hard to let go of owning a car. What passes through those pipelines we hear so much about?

  • Added: Mar 13, 2016
  • Length: 14:05
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
#226 Is the Market rout over February 4 2016 Marc details recent market activity and give his impression about what happened and what to possibly...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Feb 13, 2016
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Space tribute to Ziggy Stardust, the State of Jefferson is declared from the West steps of California's capitol and elongated skulls found by arche...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:20:36
Caption: JP Sottile
Jp Sottile, aka the Newsvandal, will join us in a realistic look at the coming year of Presidential Campaign antics. We'll take a look at real is...

  • Added: Nov 11, 2015
  • Length: 59:59
Caption: Buzludzha's main chamber, Credit: LN Lurie
I visited (ahem...broke into) Buzludzha. An abandoned communist building in Bulgaria. I describe my adventure going through it- but my microphone p...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2015
  • Length: 08:09
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Nathan Hale regrets he has only one life to lose for his country, and the fourth blood moon is about to appear...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2015
  • Length: 02:48:48