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Humanity at an Inflection Point with Christine Barrington

From: Katherine Bell
Series: The Dream Journal

Will we make it to a safer age? Humanity balances between two paths: self-destruction or self-revelation. Our guest, Christine Barrington describes...

Take AUTHORity of Your Life with Kelly Sullivan Walden

From: Katherine Bell
Series: The Dream Journal

How a daily writing practice can help you reframe your life and restore your sense of self with our guest, author Kelly Sullivan Walden.

The IdeaSphere

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Author Anne Riley is not about to be stereotyped. Although she is a successful fiction writer, she has branched out into science, philosophy and dr...

Bought by KCBX

Science, Art, and Dr. Alan Lightman

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Dr. Alan Lightman, Credit: Courtesy of “Searching: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science”

Author and MIT physicist Alan Lightman explores the similarities between artistic and scientific impulses.

Bought by WSLR, WMPG, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KZUM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more

Solve Climate Change Now

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

The mere mention of climate change can cause an unpleasant, visceral reaction. It’s a subject that we’ve avoided and denied for decades. Understand...

Bought by KCBX

The Top 4 Solutions to Global Warming

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Solutions journalism. I’d never come across that term before. That is, before I came into contact with Jurriaan Kamp, and his multitude of projects...

Bought by KCBX

Plagues Upon the Earth

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

They’re rooted deeply in our global past. Germs. They’ve always been with us. It’s our wealth, health, power and inequity that determine how well w...

Bought by KCBX

The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Once a segment of the population becomes miserable, stabilization begins. That shouldn’t be a goal in American politics, but it certainly seems lik...

Bought by KCBX

Myths Surrounding COVID-19

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Americans are in a strange and unusual news cycle. For example, someone can state that hydroxychloroquine is a potential cure for COVID-19. Fox New...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and KCBX

The Sentient Machine

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Artificial Intelligence will drastically change our lives. The technology is expected to advance cyber security, finance, energy, military applicat...

Bought by KCBX

A Precautionary Tale

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

The village of Mals, Italy is on the eastern Swiss boarder in the shadow of the Alps. It’s been known as the breadbasket of the Tyrol. Recently, th...

Bought by KCBX

The Quantum Labyrinth

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

It was an unexpected, auspicious meeting. Originally, the mentor and student were not even assigned to work together.

Bought by KCBX and KCBX

Code Girls

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

The iconic image of Rosie the Riveter is cemented in America’s history and imagination. Meanwhile the book and movie Hidden Figures ignited an inte...

Bought by KCBX

Interview w/ naturalist DIANE ACKERMAN about her book "The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us"

From: Out of Bounds

Award-winning naturalist, poet & author discusses her most recent book "The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us"

Big Bang in a Little Room

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Caption: Black Hole Echos, Credit: Scientific America

At some point in our lives, most of us will begin to question how our universe began. Depending on whom you ask, you’re going to get a variety of r...

Bought by KCBX

Oliver Sacks, Jacques Cousteau, and George Washington Carver

From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank

Peanuts, Atlantis, and Colorblindness. It's our latest episode in The Experimenters miniseries featuring icons of science and innovation. Oliver Sa...

Bought by KVSC, KFCF FM, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, and PRX Remix

A Dream Job

From: Daniel Wanschura

What exactly is a dream job? Is it one that pays a lot of money? One where you don’t have to do much work? Is it one that makes you famous? …Or, is...

Author Katy Butler and “Knocking on Heaven’s Door”

From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk

In this enlightening memoir about her parents’ deaths, the author lays out some of the difficulties in having the so-called good death when teamed ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio

Hardwiring Happiness

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Neuropsychologist Dr. Rick Hanson has a different way of looking at the functions of the brain. What he’s realized is that simply using positive th...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX

The Girls of Atomic City

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

In her new book, journalist Denise Kiernan shares the never before told story of the young women who played a crucial role in one of the most signi...

Bought by KCBX

Vintage Tomorrow's

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

The late 19th century was an age of rapid technological change. It’s happening again today. Through interviews with experts such as Willaim Gibson,...

Bought by KCBX