IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Series produced by Guy Rathbun

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This weekly show is devoted to political, social, economic, ecological, philosophical and religious ideas.

This series has been broadcast on public radio, and podcast on National Public Radio for the past 10 years, and has included such luminaries as Robert Reich, Chris Hedges, Michael K. Hudson, Vincent Buligosi, Richard Heinberg, and many more.


561 Pieces

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Z.E.R.O. Zero Paid Media as the New Marketing Model
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Z.E.R.O.
Joseph Jaffe is the author of the bestsellers, Life After the 30-second Spot, Join the Conversation and Flip the Funnel. His latest is co-authored...

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  • Added: Nov 19, 2013
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
Far from the Tree
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Andrew Soloman
Andrew Soloman's proposal, in his recent book, is that being exceptional is at the core of the human condition. Our differences are what unite us.

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  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Alan Weisman
Journalist and author Alan Weisman traveled to 21 countries to ask four questions that experts agreed were probably the most important on Earth. Hi...

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  • Added: Nov 01, 2013
  • 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
Kids Cancer Research Foundation
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Kids Cancer Research Foundation, Credit: foundation logo
Pediatric cancer strikes a relatively small number of victims, and market incentives do not provide clear financial motivation for investors to fun...

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  • Added: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
The Emerging Masculine
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Azarm Ghareman
Clinical psychologist Azarm Ghareman brings the teachings of Carl Jung into post-modern analysis. Dr. Ghareman sees the need for a better understan...

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  • Added: Oct 16, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
One World Everybody Eats
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Denise Cerreta
As founder of One World Everybody Eats, Denise Cerreta is determined to change the way restaurants do business and to bring delicious, healthful fo...

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  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 20:58
  • Purchases: 1
Miss Anne in Harlem
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Carla Kaplan
White upper-class women seeking to become honorary blacks. Unheard of –right? That’s what began to happen during what became known as the Black Ren...

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  • Added: Oct 02, 2013
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
Reclaiming Our Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Sam Daley-Harris
With his new book, Sam Daley-Harris shares how he and the citizens advocacy organizations he has founded (RESULTS and the Microcredit Summit Campai...

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  • Added: Sep 23, 2013
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
Running the Rift (pledge drive)
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Naomi Benaron
The novel, Running the Rift, follows the life of young Jean Patrick. He’s a gifted Rwandan boy. He knows that running will be his future. What he ...

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  • Added: Sep 16, 2013
  • Length: 19:35
  • Purchases: 1
Knocking on Heaven's Door
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Katy Butler
In writing her book, Katy Butler set out to help others to avoid the pitfalls she faced during her father’s last years.

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  • Added: Sep 11, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Memenomics
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Said Dowlabani
This book is not your dry read about markets and stocks. It’s the “Next Big Think” according to the publisher, Select Books. Cultural Economist Sai...

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  • Added: Sep 05, 2013
  • Length: 28:57
  • 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
If You Could Be Mine
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Sara Farizan
A new novel by Sara Fraizan explores the issues of gender orientation. But, what sets this work apart from its predecessors is that it’s written fo...

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  • Added: Aug 20, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Harvesting Justice
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Beverly Bell
Food Sovereignty is the fight for farmworker justice, sustainable practices, food accessibility and land reform. Although the idea is relatively ne...

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  • Added: Aug 13, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
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
Fault Lines
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Beverly Bell
It’s referred to simply as douz. In Haitian it means twelve. January 12, 2010. A 7.0 magnitude earthquake strikes Haiti killing more the a quarter-...

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  • Added: Jul 30, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Raising Dough
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Elizabeth Ü
Increasingly, food-based businesses are seen as key solutions to solve our social and environmental problems, and yet entrepreneurs report a surpri...

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  • Added: Jul 23, 2013
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
Foresight 2020
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Simon Anderson
We’ve all heard the stories of self-driving cars and 3D printers, but it’s the folks like futurists Simon Anderson and Jack Uldrich who make a care...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
Cold, Hungry and in the Dark
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Bill Powers
Not long ago, we were told that North America had entered a new era of energy abundance thanks to shale gas. Or, have we? If you’ve listened to ex...

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  • Added: Jul 10, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1

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