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It's "very expensive to be poor in contemporary America," says Duke Divinity School professor Luke Bretherton. Usury is one reason why.
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- Added: Sep 22, 2016
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Climate change debates often center on the future. But our dirty environment carries a heavy price tag right now, says Drew Shindell, a physicist a...
- Added: Sep 20, 2016
- Length: 02:06
The word that best describes America's infrastructure is "crumbling," says Henry Petroski.
Petroski is Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engi...
- Added: Aug 30, 2016
- Length: 02:07
Rising sea levels are just one way climate change is reshaping the world's oceans, says Duke University oceanographer Susan Lozier.
- Added: Aug 30, 2016
- Length: 01:40
New voter identification laws could sharply curb voter participation in N.C. and other states, says Duke University historian Gunther Peck.
- Added: May 18, 2016
- Length: 02:14
With our piecemeal coastal policies, "We're haphazardly geo-engineering a whole coast," says Duke University economist Martin Smith.
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- Added: May 16, 2016
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National service is a winning issue with potential bipartisan appeal, says a professor at Duke University.
- Added: May 10, 2016
- Length: 02:05
Climate change, failing infrastructure and growing inequality add up to a perfect storm that is poised to hit the nation's poor, says Megan Mullin....
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- Added: May 05, 2016
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The past finalist on NBC's The Apprentice shares insights into community building with nonprofits in Austin, Tx, lessons learned working with Donal...
- Added: Apr 29, 2016
- Length: 21:42
Combatting ISIS, relations with China, and immigration policy have emerged as major issues in the 2016 Presidential Primaries. In this broadcast o...
- Added: Feb 15, 2016
- Length: 59:00
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First published on the eve of Martin Luther King Day , we turn to our preferred form of political expression, the sonnet, to acknowledge the compas...
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- Added: Jan 15, 2016
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Challenges faced by African American boys in America are significant and rightfully in the news. But what about those faced by girls? Teen reporter...
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- Added: Dec 28, 2015
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Be careful when stigmatizing certain groups for terrorism: Rights may be trampled. The objective take on this ugly side of man and why we should no...
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- Added: Dec 26, 2015
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Show #81 Hour 2 April 18, 2015 | Guests: Julie Metzger and Dr. Robert Lehman, Sex and Health Educators at Great Conversations, Seattle WA.
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- Added: Jun 09, 2015
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One hot muggy afternoon last week I understood first hand a fact of life in India – the system never works for you unless you know someone with con...
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- Added: May 11, 2015
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It is all very well to castigate the Supreme Court for its failure to affirm gay rights. But rights mean nothing without responsibility and those r...
- Added: Apr 20, 2015
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Baltimore City is home to four Civil War monuments. Three are Confederate. We look at the history of how they got there and explore how people inte...
- Added: Jan 24, 2015
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Narenda Modi is the 15th Prime Minister of India, and the first PM born after Independence.
- Added: May 27, 2014
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- Added: Apr 21, 2014
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Widows from WWII, Vietnam and Iraq wars discuss changes over time from the loss of their husbands in war.
- Added: Mar 16, 2014
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Prof. Doug Wiens describes his explorations of Antarctica. Wiens uses seismographs to study the physics behind ice movement and examine questions a...
- Added: Dec 20, 2013
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John Sebastian talks with Jake Feinberg about his mentors and teachers like Mississippi John Hurt and Lightnin' Hopkins.
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Was Apollonius of Tyana a charlatan and a magician or the embodiment of Greek culture and religion? Prof. Roshan Abraham explores the legacy of thi...
- Added: Dec 16, 2013
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Professor Angela Miller uses examples of portraits, landscape and genre paintings, folk art, and more to describe the intersection of American arts...
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- Added: Oct 30, 2013
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Sandip Roy believes that Nelson Mandela has yet one more lesson to teach the world.
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- Added: Jul 02, 2013
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