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A United States outdoor clothing store sells coats, labelled to assure us that the down is from US Ducks Independently Verified to Have been Neith...
- Added: Feb 22, 2017
- Length: 01:17
Only days after announcing that the one China policy was no-good under a Trump Administration, U.S. President Donald Trump changed tack, stiffed Ta...
- Added: Feb 14, 2017
- Length: 04:56
If the Constitution is an “invitation to struggle” between the President and Congress over the making of foreign policy, today it could be describe...
- Added: Feb 05, 2017
- Length: 04:53
As President elect Trump orders China to cease "annexing" islands it claims as its own and cozies up to Taiwan, there seems now a real possibility ...
- Added: Jan 18, 2017
- Length: 04:50
An underwater research drone was seized by China as an American crew was moving in to retrieve it. The episode threatens to increase tensions in a ...
- Added: Dec 20, 2016
- Length: 04:49
President Duterte of the Philippines traveled to Japan last week, he talked to God on the way back and the U.S. is as confused as ever about where ...
- Added: Oct 30, 2016
- Length: 04:50
The Philippines is America's oldest treaty ally in Asia. Its bases and ports are key building blocks in the United States attempt to encircle China...
- Added: Oct 22, 2016
- Length: 04:49
A few decades ago, almost half of all students in the U.S. walked or biked. According to a 2009 study, that number has dropped to to one in eight. ...
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- Added: Sep 12, 2016
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 2
When used in conjunction with psychological therapy, Suboxone strips placed under the tongue, doctors say, can help ease opioid cravings and other ...
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- Added: Aug 03, 2016
- Length: 03:40
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Today’s sixty-second Moral Inquiry asks ‘What’s the difference between verbal abuse, which uses words to hold power over others by intimidating, th...
- Added: Jul 26, 2016
- Length: 01:09
Indiana governor Mike Pence is in the spotlight this week as the man Donald Trump has chosen as his running mate. In his three years running the Ho...
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 03:08
- Purchases: 3
The lessons of D.L. Rosenhan's study of imposters pretending to have psychiatric illness on psychiatric units have not been lost on the world of me...
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 07:32
I hope you’re in the mood for some numbers. Or at least I hope you’re not in the mood for a poem. In Maine, the daily poem we all could feast on fo...
- Added: May 24, 2016
- Length: 07:35
Our show today features three segments, produced and recorded by journalist and WFHB volunteer Dan Young, which examine what has been labeled the “...
- Added: May 10, 2016
- Length: 59:24
A recent disaster in Kolkata brings out the lookie-loos - and much more.
- Added: Apr 04, 2016
- Length: 06:00
In the last few years, new medications have come on the market that can cure hepatitis C with a more than 90 percent success rate, but for some peo...
- Added: Dec 08, 2015
- Length: 03:27
In part two of Tiny Spark's Guide to Good Giving, we speak with Stacy Palmer, editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She offers advice on vetting...
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- Added: Dec 01, 2015
- Length: 14:17
- Purchases: 3
In the Department of Poetic Justice (and Reckoning), The River Is Wide offers a poem that could be sung to the tune from a tune in the public domai...
- Added: Nov 28, 2015
- Length: 02:50
When city planner Jay Primus first moved out to San Francisco’s Richmond district, he made an easy mistake: he hopped onto the 2 Clement to make hi...
- Added: Jul 16, 2015
- Length: 09:06
When the NUMMI auto factory in Fremont closed five years ago, close to 5,000 people lost their jobs. An estimated 20,000 others were also out of w...
- Added: Jul 16, 2015
- Length: 28:37
In the heart of the Tenderloin, amid the crowded corners and occupied stoops, there’s an anomaly that’ll catch your eye. It’s a man in a suit and a...
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- Added: Jun 05, 2015
- Length: 07:15
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How well do you understand what the cops say when they arrest you? We interview forensic linguist Dr. Aneta Pavlenko. She testified at the trial of...
- Added: Apr 09, 2015
- Length: 08:59
Ilan Stavans is a Mexican-American essayist, lexicographer, cultural commentator, translator, short-story author, TV personality, and teacher known...
- Added: Mar 03, 2015
- Length: 23:33
On this show we bring you an update on some of the stories we’ve covered this year. We’ll go to a protest to talk to advocates calling for an end t...
- Added: Dec 17, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Sandip Roy investigates the latest social media challenge and finds out what all this 'Rice' is about.
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- Added: Sep 02, 2014
- Length: 04:30
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