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When Anti-Asian Hate Goes Viral
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this collaboration with the podcast Self Evident, we look at what happens when we ignore anti-Asian hate—and what happens when we mobilize again...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, WMUU-LP, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Jul 29, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Embrace Complexity To Overcome Polarization? Discussing a Way Out with Dr. Peter Coleman of The Difficult Conversations Lab
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Embrace Complexity To Overcome Polarization? Discussing a Way Out with Dr. Peter Coleman of The Difficult Conversations Lab
Police reform, gun violence, global warming... When did you last have a civil, informative, productive conversation with someone of differing opini...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:10
Black, Latinx Media: Cause for Celebration & Critique
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The subversive, healing, and celebratory powers of music and media are at the heart of this week’s conversation, featuring Saida Pagán, a contribut...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Jun 23, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caregiving as Infrastructure
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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The pandemic has upended caregiving and what it means to be a working mom. More than 2 million women have left the workforce because of the cost an...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2021
  • Length: 04:27
Vaccination Verification: Ticket to Ride or Social Divide?
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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How do you let people who are fully vaccinated get back to normal life without creating super-spreader events for those who haven’t yet been vaccin...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2021
  • Length: 04:19
Vaccinating the World Part II: You Can’t Fight Scarcity with Scarcity
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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India is the world’s largest supplier of vaccines but the government there suspended the export of all COVID-19 vaccines after a devastating outbre...

  • Added: May 28, 2021
  • Length: 03:52
Zoonotic Viruses and Their Origins
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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There’s a lot we don’t know about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus but there is a consensus that it came from animals. This is called zoonosis. H...

  • Added: May 14, 2021
  • Length: 04:18
A World Wide Web of COVID Conspiracies
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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In this segment of EPIDEMIC, Dr. Celine Gounder looks at disinformation during the pandemic. Specifically, we’re going to look at how the Russian g...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2021
  • Length: 04:06
Epidemics Change History
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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Pandemics have played a huge role in human history. A cholera outbreak in Europe had huge implications for the way we see public health. And it was...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2021
  • Length: 04:06
With Us, For Us
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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Black healthcare workers are taking on the mission to inform and hopefully convince more people of color to get vaccinated. We’ll hear where this o...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2021
  • Length: 03:52
633-Dress Rehearsal
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Bright Fireball Meteor, Credit: NASA
The situation that asteroid hunters both train for and dread is the discovery of a large space rock on a collision course with planet Earth. Recent...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP, WTIP and more


  • Added: Mar 12, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
A More Contagious and Virulent Variant
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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This winter a new, more contagious variant of SARS-CoV-2 arose in the United Kingdom: B.1.1.7. The CDC estimates that this will become the dominant...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2021
  • Length: 04:13
In For The Long Haul
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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COVID “long-haulers” are people who have extended experiences with COVID symptoms that never let up, or keep recurring. The virus is so new that we...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:03
Deaths of Despair
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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Overdoses have spiked during the pandemic. One of the reasons is a breakdown in the community support so critical to keeping people off drugs. Soci...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 04:21
619-Apophis Campaign
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Apophis, Credit: Dan Durda – FIAAA
Currently scientists, governments, and private citizens are preparing to mitigate a disaster caused by a large incoming space rock. To test techn...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, KSFR, WTIP, KGLP and more


  • Added: Dec 04, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
F-Word: The Media’s Quadrennial Eclipse
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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"All this how’s-he-doing coverage is par for the course as we transition to the next administration, but someone’s missing from this picture of our...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 03:30
613-Climate Change and Telescopes
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently, in the journal Nature Astronomy, a team of astronomers led by Dr. Faustine Cantalloube of the Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy released...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP and more


  • Added: Oct 23, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
612-Day and Night
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Most life on Earth is synchronized to the regular cycles of day and night. Until about a hundred years ago, the natural night sky was familiar to ...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP and more


  • Added: Oct 18, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
#939- The Feds mandates and are they solving anything SHORT NEWS PIECE
From: marc cuniberti
Series: Money Matters Economic Forum
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
Are the remedies from the Federal Reserve and the government really solving the crisis? From 08/09, Y2k, dot com crash and now CoVid, the only solu...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Sep 26, 2020
  • Length: 04:20
  • Purchases: 1
609-Lurking
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Statistically asteroid hunters have found more than 90% of the asteroids whose impact could cause global climate change. However, recently, my Ca...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Raven Radio, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
The Brain on Partisan Politics
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
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Why Not So Great Minds Polarize Alike, with NYU Neural Scientist, Dr. Jay Van Bavel

  • Added: Sep 21, 2020
  • Length: 29:11
604-Comet Rankin
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: The Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona captured this image of Comet NEAT on May 7, 2004. , Credit: NASA
There may be as many as a trillion small icy objects in the Oort cloud near the outer edge of our solar system. Very rarely one of these frozen ice...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KSFR and more


  • Added: Aug 21, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
#934- Is inflation is our future? SHORT NEWS CAST- This news piece is a Money Matters classic and so applicable today! From KVMR TOP REVENUE record holding show
From: marc cuniberti
Series: Money Matters Economic Forum
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
Is inflation is our future? THIS news piece is a Money Matters classic and so applicable today! From KVMR TOP REVENUE record holding show and news,...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2020
  • Length: 05:01
#933- "Rookie investing mistakes" SHORT NEWS PIECE
From: marc cuniberti
Series: Money Matters Economic Forum
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
Rookies and beginners to investing make common mistakes THIS news piece is a Money Matters classic and so applicable today! From KVMR TOP REVE...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2020
  • Length: 04:20
#309- FULL SHOW "Market disconnect" MONEY MATTERS 29 min
From: marc cuniberti
Series: Money Matters Economic Forum
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
Shortened version due to Covid "market disconnect" details the markets quirky rise to near record highs in some sectors while millions are out of ...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2020
  • Length: 29:20