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2024-04-07 Could Robots Be Persons?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What would it mean to assign legal or moral responsibility to algorithms in human form?

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WNED Buffalo, GCR (Global Community Radio), KTSW 89.9, KMUN and more


  • Added: Apr 08, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 11
2415: Could Robots Be Persons?, 4/9/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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What would it mean to assign legal or moral responsibility to algorithms in human form?

  • Added: Mar 27, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
Jenny Odell on Saving Time
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Excerpt from the book cover, reading "Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock" superimposed on top of orange and pink geological features., Credit: Penguin Random House
We speak with Jenny Odell, author of "Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock," about how the ways we think about time shapes our lives. A...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Season 1, Episode 16 - 'Safe Spaces' feat Jeanette Berry
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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Can we make the music business safe for everyone?

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB


  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 57:52
  • Purchases: 2
Season 1, Episode 12 - 'Partnerism' feat Dr Riane Eisler
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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Partnership vs Domination society.

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB


  • Added: Feb 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:08
  • Purchases: 2
Is the American Dream in Decline?
From: Open to Debate
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The American Dream – the idea that anyone can achieve success in the U.S. through hard work and determination – is under scrutiny, and some worry i...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 3
BIPOC Media on the Fight for Fair Wages — & Anti-racist Unions
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Over 450,000 workers have gone on strike in 2023. Many are celebrating this revival of labor power, but what does it mean for workers of color — of...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, WNYE and more


  • Added: Nov 21, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
In Good Faith - Pastor France Davis & Dr. Brent Slife
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: In Good Faith
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Personal experiences illustrating God's guiding hand.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
2022-06-05 Conscious Machines
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Would a race of thinking, autonomous, conscious machines be our slaves, our masters, or our partners?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KTSW 89.9, KMUN, KSKQ, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 06, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
Labor Looks Up After Amazon Union Vote
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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“The opportunities for labor right now are virtually limitless,” says Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, the country’s largest labor federat...

Bought by KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: May 12, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
You Can't Deal With Capitalism Unless You Deal With Patriarchy: Vijay Prashad
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Achieving social justice is going to take much more than reforming our criminal justice system. Valuing all lives equally is going to require a pro...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Mar 03, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Write Question - Jess Walter
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Writer Jess Walter discusses his new book, "The Cold Millions."

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, RadioStPete Florida, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Dec 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Cooperation and Cooperatives vs Authoritarianism in Spain
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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From the Basque region in the north, to Barcelona on the Mediterranean, Flanders speaks with contemporary co-op worker-owners who explain how the h...

Bought by KDNK, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 08, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Reporting on Economic Hardship
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Roughly 40 million people live in poverty in the USA. Can you imagine living under $24,000 a year for a family of four? If you can’t, why not? Sure...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 25, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Education Activists Back To School With A Test for Devos
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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2018 has been a year of upheaval for students, in and out of the classroom. This week educators and education activists talk about educational just...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2018
  • Length: 28:26
Lisa Servon, author of "The Unbanking of America"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Lisa Servon about her book "The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives"

  • Added: Jun 05, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
Right to Work
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Cedric de Leon
The “right to work.” The phrase sounds fair and equitable. After all, who shouldn’t have a right to work if they wish to? Twenty-six states now hav...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 06, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Life of Whalers in the 19th Century
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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adio Curious discusses the history of whale hunting with Michael Dyer, senior historian at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in New Bedford, Massachus...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
Ep 22: Labor Day with Rodney Dangerfield
From: Jim Sawyer
Caption: PRX default Piece image
On Labor Day, let’s consider the Rodney Dangerfield theory of labor. Coined after the now-deceased comedian, this theory along with a winner-take-a...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Sep 03, 2016
  • Length: 06:20
  • Purchases: 1
The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dan Barry
In the winter of 2009, a social worker with the Iowa Department of Human Services, received an anonymous tip: A couple dozen disabled men were liv...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 15, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Integration Nation
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Susan Eaton
Immigration. That’s a major hot button issue. In recent years, a handful of states have passed laws designed to make it easier to deport unauthor...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 03, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Progressive Environmentalist
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Cecelia Tichi
Jack London is known for his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North. But, that’s overlooking the real story. London was a reporter who made n...

Bought by KVSC, KPVL, and KCBX


  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
Cut Loose
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Victor Tan Chen
Victor Tan Chen, sociology professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, has studied the plight of the American worker … from successf...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Jul 09, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
The Winona Works Project
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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The people in our community and the jobs they hold make up part of our diverse culture. Today on "Culture Clique" find out how a group of Winona St...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 15:29
  • Purchases: 1
Ban the Box! The Campaign for Post-Prison Employment
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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It’s not even the crime that counts sometimes. It’s that little box on an application that asks you to reveal if you have a criminal history. Chec...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1