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Compulsive sexual behavior has many names and no one clear diagnosis. But what is agreed upon is that when sex prohibits you from living life the w...
- Added: May 15, 2024
- Length: 58:23
More and more women are breaking up with the expectation that you need a partner to parent. What’s it like raising kids as a single mother by choice?
Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., Spokane Public Radio, and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: May 08, 2024
- Length: 58:23
- Purchases: 3
More and more women are breaking up with the expectation that you need a partner to parent. What’s it like raising kids as a single mother by choice?
- Added: May 07, 2024
- Length: 58:23
People with disabilities are disproportionately affected by climate change yet are often sidelined from policy conversations. Three disability acti...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Apr 24, 2024
- Length: 58:23
- Purchases: 1
People with disabilities are disproportionately affected by climate change yet are often sidelined from policy conversations. Three disability acti...
- Added: Apr 24, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Assumptions about narcissism, loneliness and selfishness in only children are largely that: assumptions. But there are experiences unique to being ...
- Added: Apr 08, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Egg donation in the U.S. is a multibillion dollar industry designed to provide infertile folks with the eggs they need to conceive. But how do we d...
Bought by KRVS, WGUC/ WVXU, Oregon Public Broadcasting, WILL, KGOU and more
- Added: Mar 11, 2024
- Length: 58:23
- Purchases: 12
Self-help has existed in some form since the dawn of human civilization and has grown into a robust industrial complex. But does self-help really m...
- Added: Jan 04, 2024
- Length: 58:23
- Added: Dec 13, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
Congratulations, you people! It is Fall. You made it. Might take another month or two, until you really notice, but summer is officially over.
It'...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Sep 17, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Heat domes and sultry Palm Springs mornings, weird ravens and odd dreams of wildlife appearances. The brain boils in the desert summer. It boils ou...
- Added: Jul 04, 2021
- Length: 28:00
We've all been dreaming a lot more than usual, or so it seems. Maybe we're just remembering our dreams during this strange time. Maybe we're just s...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Apr 10, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
We celebrate National Poetry Month with Mark Doty as he discusses his work, including FIRE TO FIRE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, winner of the 2008 Nati...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Apr 07, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
An appropriate new hourlong episode for these interesting times we are cursed to live in. With guest Erik Davis, bestselling author of High Weirdne...
- Added: Apr 03, 2020
- Length: 01:00:00
Goals are important. The more important it is, the bigger and more daunting it tends to be. But the more daunting, the more likely I am to find an ...
Bought by WOUB
- Added: Oct 08, 2019
- Length: 07:50
- Purchases: 1
Some decisions are terrifying to make, especially when they will have a big impact on my future. But if I can't face these decisions head on, I'll ...
Bought by WOUB
- Added: Sep 23, 2019
- Length: 06:07
- Purchases: 1
I can't seem to do all the things I want. I feel overwhelmed and helpless when faced with the metaphorical mountain of goals I have yet to achieve....
- Added: Sep 17, 2019
- Length: 06:14
I feel like a failure because I know I'm not "successful". I like like I know what success is, but do I really? By trying to define "being successf...
Bought by WOUB
- Added: Sep 17, 2019
- Length: 04:51
- Purchases: 1
I wish I was more productive. I try, but I find it so hard to avoid things like TV and video games which soak up most of my time. I need to stop wa...
Bought by WOUB
- Added: Sep 16, 2019
- Length: 05:30
- Purchases: 1
When I fight with myself or struggle with self-control, I'm really fighting with my inner monkey and struggling to control him.
- Added: Sep 16, 2019
- Length: 05:30
Did the founder of Earth Day really murder his girlfriend and let her body rot in his apartment closet?
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Apr 29, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
When there’s trouble on the edge of civilization—where the wilderness meets what mankind makes—well, here we encounter fierce things both natural a...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Nov 30, 2018
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
This last year saw the release of Blade Runner 2049, a sequel to the 1982 science fiction classic Blade Runner. It’s rather unusual for a sequel to...
- Added: Jan 24, 2018
- Length: 04:40
The surprise winner at the Cannes Film Festival this year was The Square, a provocative and disturbing satire from Swedish writer-director Ruben Ős...
- Added: Dec 09, 2017
- Length: 04:17
What do our voices say about us? On this edition we explore voice and identity. We'll hear from someone who nearly lost their voice as well as the ...
- Added: Oct 03, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
