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Is Carbon Capture Essential to Fighting Climate Change?
From: Open to Debate
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When it comes to carbon dioxide, 2022 was a record year. So...what can be done? One potential method is called carbon capture and storage, a techno...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WNED Buffalo, and KUNM


  • Added: May 04, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
2023-04-30 The Power of Prediction
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is your brain a camera that records the world, or a projector that imposes pictures on it?

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  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
2023-04-23 Why We Hate
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is hatred ever morally justified, or does hate just breed more hate?

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  • Added: Apr 24, 2023
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 13
2023-04-16 Derek Parfit and Your Future Self
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What's wrong with caring more about your future self than other future people?

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  • Added: Apr 17, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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2316: Derek Parfit and Your Future Self, 4/18/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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What's wrong with caring more about your future self than other future people?

  • Added: Apr 14, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
2023-03-19 Science and Skepticism
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Our understanding evolves over time—how can we explain that to impatient people who don't trust science?

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  • Added: Mar 20, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
2312: Science and Skepticism, 3/21/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Our understanding evolves over time – how can we explain that to impatient people who don't trust science?

  • Added: Mar 14, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
2023-01-15 The Merits of Meritocracy
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Do the people at the top really deserve their success? Do the people at the bottom really deserve to be there?

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  • Added: Jan 16, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 13
2022-12-18 Effective Altruism
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Do we always have a moral obligation to do the most good we can?

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  • Added: Dec 19, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
2230: Is Optimism Rational?, 7/26/2022
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Do you have to expect the best if you're going to get through the worst?

  • Added: Jul 19, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
2022-05-15 J.S. Mill and the Good Life
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Philosopher, political economist, and civil servant John Stuart Mill was born May 20, 1806.

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  • Added: May 16, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
There's Always Work Ahead
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Bradley Scherzer teaches art with Fremont Ross High School in Fremont, Ohio. Much of his recent work has been organizing/engaging communities and y...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Apr 25, 2022
  • Length: 06:20
  • Purchases: 1
2022-04-24 Explantation at Its Best
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is the most elegant explanation always the best one?

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  • Added: Apr 25, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
2022-03-27 Changing Minds on Climate Change
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What could we possibly still say to people who don't believe that human activity is destabilziing the global climate?

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
Ukraine
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Sounds Jewish presents Jewish music from Ukraine as well as Jewish music with distinctive Ukrainian roots.

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
2202-03-13 Reading the Troubled Past
From: Philosophy Talk
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What should we do with literature and philosophy from a discredited moral past?

  • Added: Mar 14, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
2022-01-16 The Art of Non-Violence
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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In a violent world, what can nonviolence really achieve?

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  • Added: Jan 15, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
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Coyote
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: Postcards from The Wind
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A postcard about Coyotes and their howl.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
2021-08-22 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
  • Purchases: 7
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
A Community of Glass
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Today we're talking to one of the oldest glass artist in Ohio, Jack Schmidt. He received a B.S. degree from Bowling Green State University at a tim...

  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 06:08
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
  • Purchases: 7
RDD: The Best Laid Plans
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we follow the creation of Enjoy Zest, a pop-up dinner party experience created by Katie Pettee during one of t...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2021
  • Length: 06:08