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Stereotypes about Asian-Americans abound - their kids get perfect scores on standardized testing and head off to Ivy League colleges to become doct...
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 06:36
There’s no such thing as a normal you. Do you talk to your boss the same way you talk to your dog? Probably not. This is called code switching.
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 14:57
Playing in a pit orchestra is often a forgotten and thankless task. So why would a talented musician spend time there instead of going for the glor...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 09:00
Music festivals all around the country are great places to hear live music. However, not everyone can enjoy the music. Many of the stages have an a...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 06:22
William Ingalls new book tells the story of what one year in Viet Nam as a combat engineer was like. Based on 500 color slides taken by the author,...
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- Added: Jan 06, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Pianist and bandleader Oliver Naylor formed his own band in 1923, and a year later entered the Gennett Studios to record his first session.
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- Added: Nov 10, 2014
- Length: 59:00
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- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 01:08:51
Bestselling author Ulrich Boser shows how the emerging research on trust can improve our lives, rebuild our economy, and strengthen society. As par...
- Added: Oct 20, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
One of the most frustrating medical complaints for patients and doctors is back pain. Professionals and patients expect the usual medical diagnosis...
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- Added: Oct 04, 2014
- Length: 28:58
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Our reliance on industrial agriculture has resulted in a food supply riddled with hidden environmental, economic and health care costs and beset by...
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- Added: Sep 30, 2014
- Length: 19:11
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No one needs to eat livestock to survive, according to Dr. Brian Moench. Yet meat is almost universally the focus of the Western diet. The average...
- Added: Sep 10, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
World War I was a real blow to the European musical community. They were utterly unprepared for the war’s cruelty, and composers found it difficult...
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- Added: Jul 30, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
It’s 1938 in San Francisco. War is brewing around the world, but America's entry into World War II is still several years away. Meanwhile in this ...
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- Added: Jul 27, 2014
- Length: 09:59
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America has a shortage of organs for transplant. Iran has abundance. That’s the reason many wealthy American’s turn to Iran for help when they’re s...
- Added: Jul 23, 2014
- Length: 28:59
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Author Julia Schopick introduces four lifesaving treatments that have been effectively treating, and in some cases curing, people for 25 to 90 year...
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- Added: Jul 16, 2014
- Length: 29:00
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When David Gottfried come up an idea for green environmental building 20-years ago, he ran into a number of hurdles. The building industry had been...
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- Added: Jun 24, 2014
- Length: 29:00
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When one of Wall Streets biggest scams was revealed in a segment on 60 Minutes, viewers were outraged. Front Running. Although it is legal, it’s, a...
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- Added: Jun 06, 2014
- Length: 29:00
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Overlooked as a gathering place for hot jazz in the 1920s, the Southwest sported some excellent musicians. Many went on to successful careers in th...
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- Added: May 07, 2014
- Length: 58:56
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Emmet Hedin grew up on an organic vegetable farm in southeast Minnesota. He worked on the farm during his childhood, and never thought there was an...
- Added: May 02, 2014
- Length: 15:20
The Western United States has entered a very difficult drought season. Nevada’s water supply is in danger. Realistically California is not any bett...
- Added: Apr 29, 2014
- Length: 28:59
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In Missing Class, Betsy Leondar-Wright looks at class dynamics in twenty-five groups of social movement organizations. Included in her study are; t...
- Added: Apr 22, 2014
- Length: 28:59
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Almost all experts agree that the Jesus of the Bible is a cmoposite of myth, legend, and some historical evidence. So what can we know of the rel J...
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- Added: Apr 07, 2014
- Length: 28:35
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The nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011 should provide the United States with lessons learned, however, the carefully nurtured tale that technology w...
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- Added: Mar 26, 2014
- Length: 28:41
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You could not find two more opposite musicians forming a partnership: Stephane Grappelli and Django Rienhardt. In the early ‘30s they created the h...
- Added: Feb 07, 2014
- Length: 58:59
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The Wall Street meltdown in 2008 brought the country to its knees and spawned nationwide protests against the lack of regulation and oversight in t...
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- Added: Jan 27, 2014
- Length: 28:58
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