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Techtonic Season 1 Episode 7: Meredith Broussard, Author of "More than a Glitch"
From: WFMU
Series: Techtonic with Mark Hurst
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The biases embedded in technology are more than mere glitches, argues Meredith Broussard in her new book, "More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Ge...

Bought by WCUW 91.3 FM


  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Techtonic Season 1 Episode 4: Douglas Rushkoff, Author of "Survival of the Richest"
From: WFMU
Series: Techtonic with Mark Hurst
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A few years ago, Douglas Rushkoff was invited to speak to a group of billionaires. Rather than asking about current tech trends, the billionaires w...

Bought by WCUW 91.3 FM


  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Techtonic Season 1 Episode 3: Kelly Weill, Author of "Off the Edge"
From: WFMU
Series: Techtonic with Mark Hurst
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The Flat Earth conspiracy got a huge boost from Facebook and YouTube, as Kelly Weill explains in her book "Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy ...

Bought by WCUW 91.3 FM


  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Techtonic Season 1 Episode 1: Carolyn Chen, Author of "Work Pray Code"
From: WFMU
Series: Techtonic with Mark Hurst
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Many tech employees in Silicon Valley are pressured into joining a new religion, worshiping work and taking spiritual direction from their companie...

Bought by WCUW 91.3 FM


  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Techtonic Season 1 Episode 5: Carissa Véliz, Author of "Privacy is Power" and Jon Fasman, Author of "We See It All"
From: WFMU
Series: Techtonic with Mark Hurst
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"Tech companies have abused their power and it is time to resist them." Oxford professor Carissa Véliz describes why privacy is so important, and h...

Bought by WCUW 91.3 FM


  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Techtonic Season 1 Episode 6: Cory Doctorow, Author of "Chokepoint Capitalism"
From: WFMU
Series: Techtonic with Mark Hurst
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Amazon took over books, Spotify and Google took over music, and musicians and authors are struggling as a result. Cory Doctorow talks about what we...

Bought by WCUW 91.3 FM


  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Techtonic Season 1 Episode 2: Alec MacGillis, Author of "Fulfillment"
From: WFMU
Series: Techtonic with Mark Hurst
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Alec MacGillis discusses his book "Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America" – about how Amazon has had drastic effects on the economy,...

Bought by WCUW 91.3 FM


  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Techtonic Season 1 Episode 8: Nita Farahany, Author of "The Battle for Your Brain"
From: WFMU
Series: Techtonic with Mark Hurst
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The tech industry is launching new brain-surveillance devices intended to monitor your mental state and, yes, even read your thoughts. Nita Farahan...

Bought by WCUW 91.3 FM


  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Techtonic Season 1 Episode 9: Internet Addiction and the ITAA: Internet and Technology Addicts Anonymous
From: WFMU
Series: Techtonic with Mark Hurst
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Internet addiction is a growing problem, thanks to the intentional design of Silicon Valley platforms to "hook" users. The ITAA can help: Internet ...

Bought by WCUW 91.3 FM


  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Holding Space While Maintaining Social Distance
From: Suzanne LaGrande
Series: We Are All In This Together
Caption: Tara Atkinson
Suzanne LaGrande interviews Tara Atkinson, a yoga therapist and teacher who teaches diverse communities in Portland, Oregon. Since the Covid-19 Pan...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2020
  • Length: 08:17
Why are we making this podcast?
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season One
Caption: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch (left) and Kyle Norris work on the first season of Finding Fixes at Anna's dining room table., Credit: Leah Nash for Finding Fixes
We want to answer a question a lot of people ask us: Why are we making this podcast? Why make a podcast about solutions to the opioid epidemic? On...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2020
  • Length: 11:21
Take Care (Monthly) #17
From: WRVO Public Media
Series: Take Care
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The theme of this episode is, "Aspects of Mental Health".

  • Added: Nov 07, 2019
  • Length: 52:00
The Effective Ex-Offender, Episode 107
From: Lisa Reilly
Series: THE HUSTLER FILES
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Keron started creating his future the minute he arrived in prison. Over seven years he read close to 1000 books, books that would prepare him for a...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2018
  • Length: 28:40
Tom Murray
From: Lee Schneider
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Our guest on the show today is Tom Murray. Tom is Director of Innovation for Future Ready Schools, a project for the Alliance for Excellent Educati...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 13:20
Edtech NOW Stackup Edition
From: Lee Schneider
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This is a special edition of EdTech NOW, our podcast about education technology and how it’s used in the classroom.

  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 10:59
Valerie Lewis
From: Lee Schneider
Series: EdTech NOW
Caption: EdTech NOW by Red Cup
Valerie Lewis discusses student motivation and teacher inspiration on EdTech NOW, a podcast about education and tech in the classroom.

  • Added: May 02, 2017
  • Length: 11:11
Republican Renegades on Climate
From: Climate One
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The Trump administration has moved quickly to reverse some of the previous administration’s energy and climate policies. But not all Republicans ar...

Bought by WCPN and WHYY


  • Added: Feb 25, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 2
The Three Kings (Of the Electric Blues Guitar)
From: Howard Burchette
Series: D Natural BLUES
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Electric Blues from B.B. King, Albert King and Freddie King. They are the three kings of the Blues. This program contains highlights of their music.

Bought by WVAS and WJAB


  • Added: May 14, 2016
  • Length: 01:01:53
  • Purchases: 2
Your Brain on Movies, Pt. 1
From: Hold That Thought
Series: The Human Brain
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Psychologist Jeffrey Zacks explains why people (even psychologists!) get so emotionally involved in movies.

Bought by KUER, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 12:00
  • Purchases: 4
Your Brain on Movies, Pt. 2
From: Hold That Thought
Series: The Human Brain
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It's the sequel! Psychologist Jeff Zacks returns to explain how our eyes and brains make sense of continuous movie edits.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 11:39
  • Purchases: 3
An Hour of Jazz (Miles Davis)
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
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This show contains one hour of Miles Davis music. This is some of the best of Miles Davis with some of the greatest sidemen in history John Coltra...

Bought by WEAA, KRCU Public Radio, WNCU, KTXK, WTIP and more


  • Added: Feb 06, 2016
  • Length: 57:42
  • Purchases: 6
An Hour of Jazz (John Coltrane)
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
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An Hour of Jazz (John Coltrane) is exactly what the title suggests. It is one hour of classic Jazz recordings by the legendary John Coltrane. This ...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WEAA, KRCU Public Radio, and KTXK


  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 59:20
  • Purchases: 4
Jazz and the Silver Screen (Jazz Music In the Movies)
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
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JAZZ music has always been apart of movie soundtracks from the very beginning. One of the first movie soundtracks that featured Jazz music was the ...

Bought by KSRQ, WTIP, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 08, 2014
  • Length: 58:32
  • Purchases: 3
Jazz on Broadway and Television
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
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"Jazz on Broadway and Television" is a one hour program containing Jazz interpretations of on Broadway and off Broadway show tunes plus Television ...

Bought by KSRQ and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 05, 2014
  • Length: 54:47
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 5 ~ 3D Modeling and Animation
From: Matthew Mustovich
Series: The Art of Video Game Design
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Graphics in video games are undoubtedly one of the most talked topics in gaming. By speaking with Dr. Dennis Woytek, I hope to give the audience a ...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2014
  • Length: 07:56