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Trickle-Down Consumption: Brian Czech #205
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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How can policymakers be persuaded to abandon the most widespread public policy goal on Earth? In our last episode, Brian Czech explained that econo...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KTRL, WSLR, and WGRN-LP 94.1


  • Added: Mar 20, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Alvin Toffler and Margaret Mead: Future Shock, Innocence and Innovation
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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Alvin Toffler and Margaret Mead: an author and an anthropologist who endeavored to understand the impact of scientific invention. In this episode o...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KSFR, KVSC, and KSFR


  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 16:07
  • Purchases: 4
Sound Ecology: Allen's Hummingbird
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An audio postcard highlighting the amazing migration of Allen's Hummingbirds along the pacific flyway. Best aired late winter through spring and su...

Bought by WNED Buffalo and Radio Newark


  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 2
Our Semi-Biannual Public Service Wine Show!
From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: The Wine Fellers Radio Program
Caption: The Wine Fellers
A Special Wine Show geared towards helping the public with wine-related issues and other dilemmas. Alex comes on the show to discuss Ridiculously ...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:00
Food Sleuth Radio, Grace Gershuny Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that organic farming is biologically based, ecologically sound, and protects biodiversity, soil and water quality? Join Food Sleuth ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Nov 04, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Tyrone Hayes Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that 70 percent of all amphibians, globally, are in decline or at threat of going extinct? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 27, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Martin Ford, author of "Rise of the Robots"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Martin Ford, author of "Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future."

  • Added: Oct 14, 2016
  • Length: 30:10
(Natural) Childbirth
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Illustration from Obstetric tables depicting the correct use of forceps in 1850., Credit: Spratt, G. (George). Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Once upon a time all births were natural. A lot has happened since then.

  • Added: Oct 07, 2016
  • Length: 01:01:12
Food Sleuth Radio, Caitlin Shetterly Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that our immune system could be affected by GMOs? And that scientists who question the safety of GMOs often risk intimidation? Join F...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 07, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Skeptic Check: After the Hereafter
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: After the Hereafter, Credit: Seth Shostak
There are few enduring truths, but one is that no one gets out of life alive. What’s less certain is what comes next. Does everything stop with d...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KREV-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer, and WRGY


  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
Sound Ecology: Macrofungi
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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Mycologist Terry Henkel discusses the diversity of fungi, loosely called mushrooms, and their importance to ecosystem health and the Klamath bioreg...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jul 15, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 3
Ep17: Outcome-oriented capitalism
From: Jim Sawyer
Series: Capitalism In Crisis
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This week, we discuss the economics and ethics of hedge fund bets on life-saving medication. What’s wrong with companies like Turing Pharmaceutical...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2016
  • Length: 03:45
The Real Cost of Fracking - Dr. Michelle Bamberger and Dr. Robert Oswald - Part 1
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents a two part interview with Dr. Michelle Bamberger and Dr. Robert Oswald, authors of The Real Cost of Fracking: How Ame...

Bought by KMUD


  • Added: Jun 01, 2016
  • Length: 28:35
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 7: The Big Data of Nature
From: Raw Data
Series: Raw Data: Season 1
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Environmental issues are mounting, and the stakes are huge. So how might big data be used to tackle the issues of sustainability, climate change, h...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2016
  • Length: 34:51
Episode 6: Under the Influence
From: Raw Data
Series: Raw Data: Season 1
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Are we addicted to the Internet? Is it even appropriate to use the language of addiction about smartphones and other digital devices?

  • Added: Apr 14, 2016
  • Length: 24:30
Food Sleuth Radio, Charles Benbrook Interview, Part I
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that the vast majority of genetically engineered crops are engineered to withstand spraying with the herbicide, glyphosate? And that o...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 14, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 3: The Hippocratic Algorithm
From: Raw Data
Series: Raw Data: Season 1
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Big data is revolutionizing health and medicine, from genomics to wearable technologies to precision health. But is our medical care system prepare...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2016
  • Length: 26:51
Episode 2: Work in the Crowd
From: Raw Data
Series: Raw Data: Season 1
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What is the future of work? Today, all of our careers are being transformed by big data, from how we find it, to how we collaborate with others, to...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2016
  • Length: 22:15
Episode 1: Uploaded
From: Raw Data
Series: Raw Data: Season 1
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Your normal, everyday digital footprints can reveal surprisingly intimate facts – like whether your parents are divorced, and whether you own a gun.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2016
  • Length: 22:03
Carl Sagan on Extraterrestrials
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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"That’s inevitable that humans would project their hopes and fears upon the cosmos" - Carl Sagan on October 4, 1985, as told to Studs Terkel. The p...

Bought by KZYX, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZMU Moab Community Radio, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2016
  • Length: 12:53
  • Purchases: 6
06-11: Future Generations Are Screaming At Us: The Clean Energy Climate Challenge , 5/11/2016
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: James Hansen
The climate crisis is a crisis of governance and leadership. Will we move rapidly enough to realign our policies, politics and economy to stabilize...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
Food Sleuth Radio, William (Bill) Marler Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know Marler Clark, “The Food Safety Law Firm,” has represented thousands of individuals in claims against food companies whose contaminated...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 24, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Steven Druker Altered Genes, Twisted Truth - Part 1
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents an unprecedented three part interview with Steven Druker author of Altered Genes, Twisted Truth: How the Venture to G...

Bought by KMUD


  • Added: Mar 18, 2016
  • Length: 28:39
  • Purchases: 1
Steven Druker Altered Genes, Twisted Truth - Part 2
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents an unprecedented three part interview with Steven Druker author of Altered Genes, Twisted Truth: How the Venture to G...

Bought by KMUD


  • Added: Mar 18, 2016
  • Length: 28:33
  • Purchases: 1
Steven Druker Altered Genes, Twisted Truth - Part 3
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents an unprecedented three part interview with Steven Druker author of Altered Genes, Twisted Truth: How the Venture to G...

Bought by KMUD


  • Added: Mar 18, 2016
  • Length: 28:44
  • Purchases: 1