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Education gives us hope, BUT...
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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The purposes and expansion of the educational system.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 19, 2015
  • Length: 17:21
  • Purchases: 2
Why Schools Were Never About Knowledge
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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Schools were not created with the intention of making geniuses and filling its pupils with knowledge. Hear three historians explain the surprising ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 27, 2015
  • Length: 11:41
  • Purchases: 2
Why We Pay Attention
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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Hear neuroscientist, Jacqueline Gottlieb, discuss some of the cutting-edge questions in neuroscience: What is attention on a neuronal level? How do...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 19, 2015
  • Length: 08:50
  • Purchases: 1
A Neuron Channel Makes You Dumb
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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New research reveals a strange fact – a special type of neuron channel (HCN) makes us dumb. Hear about basic neuron mechanics and the supposed func...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 22, 2015
  • Length: 07:18
  • Purchases: 2
The King of the Blues: The Music of B.B. King
From: Howard Burchette
Series: D Natural BLUES
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The great B.B. King passed away on May 14, 2015. He was one of the greatest Blues entertainers of all time. B.B. King’s recording career began in 1...

Bought by WJAB


  • Added: May 30, 2015
  • Length: 57:58
  • Purchases: 1
Test Stress
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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You’ve probably experienced test anxiety. Listen to what it’s like for teenagers to take a test with test anxiety. Then hear educators question whe...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 31, 2015
  • Length: 09:12
  • Purchases: 1
Synaptic Pruning
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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How do we get better at tasks? In this short episode, we describe an important mechanism of learning: pruning away neural connections.

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 08, 2015
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 3
Funk Folks! (George Clinton's Characters & Mythology of P-Funk)
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Soul Roots
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Make my FUNK the P-Funk! Out of this P-Funk universe came the characters of Sir Nose, Star Child,The Lollypop Man (alias the Long Haired Sucker), U...

Bought by KPIP-LP and Prairie Public


  • Added: Feb 01, 2015
  • Length: 59:26
  • Purchases: 2
Nursing The Blues! Alberta Hunter
From: Howard Burchette
Series: D Natural BLUES
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Nursing The Blues! The Story of Alberta Hunter is an introduction and a presentation of the musical life of Jazz and Blues singer ALBERTA HUNTER. S...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 56:38
  • Purchases: 1
Being "Post Protestant"
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Religion & Politics
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Historian David Hollinger discusses the long-lasting influence of liberal Protestantism. Though conservative Evangelicals get more media attention,...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 10:12
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
The Jazz Brunch: Soul-Jazz!
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
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THE JAZZ BRUNCH is a limited one hour Jazz music series containing a variety of artists. One show show contains three segments leaving room for ann...

Bought by WTIP and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 56:46
  • Purchases: 2
The Blues Rib Shack (Show V)
From: Howard Burchette
Series: D Natural BLUES
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The "Blues Rib Shack" is a one hour musical show divided into three segments. This is show #5 of a limited series.

  • Added: May 30, 2014
  • Length: 57:56
The Blues Rib Shack (Show IV)
From: Howard Burchette
Series: D Natural BLUES
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The "Blues Rib Shack" is a one hour program within a limited music series. The show contains three segments leaving for for radio announcements and...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 58:28
  • Purchases: 1
The Blues Rib Shack (Show I)
From: Howard Burchette
Series: D Natural BLUES
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The "BLUES RIB SHACK" is a one hour musical show divided into three segments. It leaves room for the news, announcements and radio station identi...

  • Added: May 21, 2014
  • Length: 55:44
Two Guys on Your Head: Praise
From: KUT
Series: Two Guys On Your Head
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“Hey, you’re smart!” That feels good to hear, doesn’t it? Praise always feels good to hear, but not all praise motivates us to try new things, ch...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 07:20
  • Purchases: 1
The Art of Dance with Tasha Rose: Something Tribal This Way Comes, Part One
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
Caption: Tasha Rose, Credit: ©Oneiros Imaging/Nathanael England 2012
On this episode of "Art Beat", we travel to St. Paul MN for "Something Tribal This Way Comes". The festival offers workshops in American Tribal Bel...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 04, 2014
  • Length: 20:21
  • Purchases: 2
James Brown:The Hardest Working Man in Show Businessl (Live Recordings)
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Soul Roots
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James Brown is one of the most recognizance and important figures in modern music during our lifetime. During this program we will explore some of ...

Bought by Mississippi Public Broadcasting, KFCF FM, KPIP-LP, Prairie Public, and WJAB


  • Added: Jan 14, 2014
  • Length: 59:09
  • Purchases: 5
Two Guys on Your Head: Money and Happiness
From: KUT
Series: Two Guys On Your Head
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In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke explain the relationship between money, security, opportunity, memory, an...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2014
  • Length: 07:20
Experience Shapes Perception
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sound
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Your experiences shape who you are as a person. But how do they shape our perceptual abilities? Listen to how our brains process auditory informati...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 07, 2013
  • Length: 09:04
  • Purchases: 2
Sly Stone: The Alpha and the Omega of the Funk!
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Soul Roots
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SLY STONE (Sylvester Stewart) is Rock, he is Funk and he is Soul. He is the one benchmark that all of the other bands and musicians mimic when they...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WSLR


  • Added: Oct 07, 2013
  • Length: 57:24
  • Purchases: 2
Two Guys On Your Head: Emotions and Decision Making
From: KUT
Series: Two Guys On Your Head
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When we make big decisions in life, such as buying a house or getting married, we often consider those decisions to have been based on a ‘gut feeli...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2013
  • Length: 07:20
Back To Memphis
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Soul Roots
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Memphis like New Orleans is know for good food, rich history and music. It also is the home of some of the greatest soul music in American history....

Bought by KFCF FM, WUFT, KPIP-LP, and WJAB


  • Added: Aug 25, 2013
  • Length: 58:10
  • Purchases: 4
Lueken’s Grocery Embracing 21st Century Ideas
From: Zach Wenzel
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Brent Sicard, President and CEO of Lueken’s Village Foods grocery stores, announced plans for the local chain to grow and sell its own produce, as ...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 20:16
SHAZAM!
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sound
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Avery Wang helped found the app, Shazam. This app is now part of our cultural consciousness as a flagship app for all smartphones because it is so ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 10:59
  • Purchases: 1