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2021-04-18 The Ethics of Algorithms
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Would you trust your life to an algorithm?

Bought by KMUN, KICI Iowa City, KSKQ, and Capital Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 13, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
2021-04-04 Does Science Over-reach?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Are there questions that science is powerless to answer?

Bought by KMUN, KICI Iowa City, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KTSW 89.9, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jul 23, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 8
2021-03-07 The Value of Care: Feminism and Ethics
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How do notions like care, compassion, and empathy change the way we view our obligations to others?

Bought by KMUN, KSKQ, KTSW 89.9, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KSKQ and more


  • Added: Jun 14, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
The Insult
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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The Insult is another provocative drama about the Middle East from Lebanese director Ziad Doueiri, who made a film a few years ago called The Attac...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2018
  • Length: 04:23
Blade Runner & Blade Runner 2049
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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This last year saw the release of Blade Runner 2049, a sequel to the 1982 science fiction classic Blade Runner. It’s rather unusual for a sequel to...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2018
  • Length: 04:40
Faces Places
From: KXCI
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The French director Agnès Varda has been making films for over sixty years, in both fiction and non-fiction form, and she has truly become one of t...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 04:08
The Florida Project
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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The Florida Project is a film of rootlessness and dysfunction, so unusual that nothing could have prepared me for its kind of honesty.

  • Added: Dec 09, 2017
  • Length: 04:31
2020-02-02 Race Matters
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What's could be controversial about a movement insisting that Black lives matter too?

Bought by KSKQ, WTJU, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KSKQ, KRZA and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2017
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 7
2017-06-18 Banking on Change at Standing Rock
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Artist/activist L. Frank Manriquez
On June 1, oil began flowing through the Dakota Access Pipeline. But demonstrations at the Standing Rock reservation in 2016 made national headline...

Bought by KWIT, KCPW Salt Lake City, KZYX, KWMR, and NPR Now


  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 5
346-Arctic Ice
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The polar ice caps are the smallest in recorded history.

Bought by KENW, KTRT RADIO INC, KKRN, KUPR low power FM, and WLPR


  • Added: Apr 07, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
New Romances (Hour 1)
From: D. Grant Smith
Series: The Appetizer Radio Show
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Our relationship with music is very similar to our relationships with people. Playing on a romantic metaphor, we'll look at how first listens that ...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
Miss America isn't fair enough… for Indians
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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The fixation with being of 'fair' complexion would hurt Miss Davuluri - in India.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Science and Religion. Do They Have to be at Odds with One Another? Part 1
From: WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Co-Host Peter Kreten welcomes Brother Guy Consolmagno, SJ to the program. Brother Guy is a research astronomer and planetary scientist at the Vatic...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2013
  • Length: 26:51
180: Where Does Water Come From?
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Where does water come from? We know from science that water evaporates from the ocean reservoir, is captured in clouds, fog and rain, descends to s...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
The Mission to End Prohibition
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: a man standing in a field of marijuana, Credit: www.treehugger.com
A former undercover narcotics officer, and a leading drug reform activist, examine the roots of America’s current drug policy, and suggest how we m...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
Full Frontal Fascism
From: Voices of Our World
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Christian Conservatives see their traditional values in danger of being erased by countless waves of immigrants, gays, and liberals, they have been...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Jan 31, 2007
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
Cultural Imperalisim and the Press (es#147)
From: Dean Ritz
Series: Ethically Speaking
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Is enforcing American standards about not buying positive news coverage a form of cultural imperalism?

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 11, 2006
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 2
Show me The Integrity
From: Carl Hammerschlag
Caption: PRX default Piece image
College Grads Choose Integrity over Stability

  • Added: Nov 03, 2004
  • Length: 03:20
Dream Teams
From: Carl Hammerschlag
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Dr Hammerschlag's opinion on USA Olympic Basketball team

  • Added: Oct 10, 2004
  • Length: 03:29