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A New World Begins
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: A New World Begins, Credit: jacket cover by Chin-Yee Kai
A book about the French Revolution. OK, you may be thinking, there’s nothing new to learn, however, not only has new revelations come to light in t...

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  • Added: Jan 21, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Liberating Minds
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ellen Condiff Lagemann
Providing prisoners a chance to earn a college degree may just be the antidote for our lock-them-up society. America is the clear winner among indu...

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  • Added: May 18, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Dystopian Future
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Joel Kotkin
Population growth is causing us to rethink our urban and suburban lifestyles, and with that, redesigning cities is a new fad.

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  • Added: May 02, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Florida: Liquid Landscape
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Michele Currie Navakas
Florida is an ever-changing landscape. With little warning, what was once land, becomes water, and what was once water becomes land. Frequently. E...

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  • Added: Nov 01, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Mark & Deborah Parker
When someone spends their time flattering their boss or superior, they’re known as a sycophant. It’s also called the “slime effect.” Although it wa...

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Interview with civil liberties attorney Burt Neuborne about his book "Madison's Music: On Reading the First Amendment"
From: Out of Bounds
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Civil liberties attorney, educator, author of "Madison’s Music: On Reading the First Amendment"

  • Added: Sep 12, 2017
  • Length: 28:00
Shaping the Future of Work
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Tom Kochan
America’s workforce and the economy are rapidly changing. As is the type of work we do. Flip that coin over and you’ll see that institutions and po...

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  • Added: Aug 15, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The One Percent Solutiion
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Gordon Lafer
Americans may vote for polar opposite candidates … liberal or conservative. Their vote may express ideological differences. But, on principles and ...

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  • Added: Apr 19, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Vanishing Bees
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: UW-Madison Bee Hive
It’s called “colony collapse disorder” or CCD. A number of years ago US beekeeping operations realized they lost between 30 and 90 percent of their...

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  • Added: Nov 09, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Larry Tye
More books have been written about Bobby Kennedy than most public figures in our history. Although he’s remembered as a fiery liberal, we easily ...

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  • Added: Jul 07, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Valiant Ambition
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Nathaniel Philbrick
It’s been more than 240 years since the war of America’s independence began. Yet, the name Benedict Arnold still evokes any number of negative resp...

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  • Added: Jun 27, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Gene: An Intimate History
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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You’d have to go back more than 160-years to land upon the beginning of the story of the gene.

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  • Added: Jun 06, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Spirit of '74: How the American Revolution Began
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ray Raphael
We’ve all read about “the Boston Tea Party,” as well as the famous “shot heard ‘round the world”. These two important events occurred 28-months apa...

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  • Added: Feb 10, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Harness the Sun
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Philip Warburg
American is standing on the brink of an extraordinary revolution: an energy revolution.

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  • Added: Dec 29, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Killing Maine
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Mike Bond
Some of America’s most corrupt politicians can be found in the state of Maine. According to a Gallup Poll last year, citizens rate their legislator...

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  • Added: Aug 20, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
Understanding Israel/Palestine: Race, Nation & Human Rights in the Conflict
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Eve Spangler
The ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine is baffling for most Americans. It’s understandable because it is so convoluted. How many of us h...

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  • Added: Aug 12, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Reclaiming Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: David Niose
According to author and attorney David Niose, American politics and public policy have been sliding in the direction of unreason. But, he says, a n...

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  • Added: Jun 11, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
America's Battle for Media Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Victor Pickard
We are immersed in media. It’s all around us. Flooding our everyday lives with reading, viewing, listening, and interacting with the products we re...

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
The Power of Words
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: John D. Pollack
Often without realizing it, we use analogies to express our ideas. As a Presidential speechwriter, John Pollack understands the power of words. In ...

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  • Added: Oct 26, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Chomsky Challenge
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Chomsky's Challenge, Credit: book jacket cover
Noam Chomsky is a polarizing figure in politics and foreign affairs. Although he is a pioneering scholar in the field of linguistics, he is better...

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  • Added: Jan 12, 2014
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Living in the Shadow of the Cross
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Paul Kivel
Christianity has provided many positive events: assisting the underprivileged, supported education and promoted social justice, however, its also f...

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  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions
From: Joan VanBuskirk
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SIX WERE WORKERS ...

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  • Added: Sep 12, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Proofiness
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Charles Seife
Numbers can be deceptive … we know this. Yet, in spite of how sophisticated we think we are, we still can be taken-in by numbers. Sometimes we’ll e...

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  • Added: Aug 26, 2013
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
Strategy & Soul
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Daniel Hunter
David was looking for a slingshot. Goliath had money and power. This is the story of the fight against proposed and granted casinos in Philadelphia.

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  • Added: Aug 06, 2013
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 10/8/11
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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WHEN THE BULL RANGES FREE...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2011
  • Length: 01:30