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2021-09-19 What Do We Owe Future Generations?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is it possible to have obligations to people who don't yet exist?

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  • Added: Sep 20, 2021
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 8
2021-09-05 (End of) Summer Reading List
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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With summer ending and some parts of our lives returning to some kind of normal, what should thoughtful people be reading?

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  • Added: Sep 06, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
2021-08-22 Envy: Vice or Virtue?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is it irrational to want to be better than you are?

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  • Added: Aug 23, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
2021-08-08 The Creative Life
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What does questioning everything have to do with being creative?

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  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
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When Your Country Doesn’t Trust You
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we’re revisiting an episode we first released in May that explores the structural racism Asian Americans face within our government.

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  • Added: Jul 22, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
2021-06-27 Does Reputation Matter?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Should we care about what other people think of us?

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  • Added: Jun 28, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
Feeding the World Without Wrecking the Planet
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode, we hear from two experts with competing visions of how we can sustainably feed a growing planet. Please join Ray Suarez, Ra...

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  • Added: Jun 17, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
2021-06-13 Can Reason Save Us?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Are we really living in an age of progress?

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  • Added: Jun 14, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
2021-05-30 The Psychology of Cruelty
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Are people cruel to others despite -- or because of -- their victims' humanity?

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  • Added: May 31, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
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
2021-05-16 The Athlete as Philosopher
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Do sports help us cultivate virtues such as loyalty, collaboration, and discipline, or do they promote feelings like rivalry, tribalism, and obsess...

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  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
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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
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
210409: Investing in a Clean and Equitable Recovery, 4/9/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The COVID-19 shutdown has hit women and minorities hardest: four times as many women as men dropped out of the workforce in September 2020, with La...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
The American Dream - recorded 9/02
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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A generational discussion in 2002 about the American Dream

  • Added: Mar 31, 2021
  • Length: 24:21
210326: Weird Winters, 3/26/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Warmer, shorter winters may sound like an impact of climate change that would inspire more joy than despair. But rising temperatures and decreasing...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
2021-03-26 Weird Winters
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Warmer, shorter winters may sound like an impact of climate change that would inspire more joy than despair. But rising temperatures and decreasing...

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  • Added: Mar 25, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14
210305: Temperature Check: Science, Texas, and Climate Chaos, 3/5/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Just two months into 2021, deadly winter temperatures left millions of Texans without water and power. Meanwhile, California is preparing for anoth...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
2021-03-05 Temperature Check: Science, Texas, and Climate Chaos
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Just two months into 2021, deadly winter temperatures left millions of Texans without water and power. Meanwhile, California is preparing for anoth...

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  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 18
National Book Award-winning Poet Nikky Finney: Part 2
From: New Letters on the Air
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Affrilachian and Cave Canem poet Nikky Finney talks about her father, the first African American Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court,...

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  • Added: Mar 04, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Dujie Tahat
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Poet Dujie Tahat discusses precarity, parenthood, and praying for the water in their daughter's lungs. They read two poems from their chapbooks, "H...

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  • Added: Feb 23, 2021
  • Length: 28:48
  • Purchases: 3
2021-02-21 John Rawls
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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The life and thought of political philosopher John Rawls, born February 21, 1921.

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  • Added: Feb 21, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
2021-02-19 Climate Narratives with Elizabeth Kolbert and Kim Stanley Robinson
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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In the past decade, narratives of a dystopian climate future have helped connect people with heroes in worlds decimated by climate disruption and i...

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 11
210219: Climate Narratives with Elizabeth Kolbert and Kim Stanley Robinson, 2/19/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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In the past decade, narratives of a dystopian climate future have helped connect people with heroes in worlds decimated by climate disruption and i...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 58:58

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