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Since 9/11, the invasion of our privacy by the government’s national security apparatus, as well as by corporations, has become so alarming and per...

  • Added: May 19, 2020
  • Length: 03:31
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Vittorio De Sica’s groundbreaking 1946 film about the tribulations of two Italian street kids was one of the founding documents of the film movemen...

  • Added: May 19, 2020
  • Length: 03:03
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Francesco Rosi’s 1962 film uses the life of the titular Mafia bandit as a stepping-off point for an examination of postwar Sicilian history. A man...

  • Added: May 19, 2020
  • Length: 03:27
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Saint Frances, the debut feature film by Alex Thompson, written by and starring Kelly O’Sullivan, is not about the famous saint of Assisi. In this ...

  • Added: May 17, 2020
  • Length: 04:15
Caption: Undersea cables carry telecommunications and Internet data globally, Credit: TeleGeography
"The ocean and humans are inextricably interconnected." So states the sixth Ocean Literacy principle, a series of fundamental concepts to help us b...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2020
  • Length: 04:45
Caption: Coral Reef of Marsa Shagra in the Red Sea (Egypt) , Credit: Francesco Ungaroon Unsplash | @francesco_ungaro
"The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems." So states the fifth Ocean Literacy principle, a series of fundamental concepts to he...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2020
  • Length: 04:39
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"The ocean is a major influence on weather and climate." So states the third Ocean Literacy principle, a series of fundamental concepts to help us ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 08, 2020
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 1
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We interrupt our Ocean Literacy Series to bring you a special episode related to the Covid19 global outbreak. This week on World Ocean Radio we con...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Mar 24, 2020
  • Length: 05:50
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Mendenhall Glacier, Juneau Alaska, Credit: Wikimedia Commons
"The ocean and life in the ocean shape the features of Earth." So states the second principle of the ocean literacy curriculum, a series of fundame...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2020
  • Length: 04:44
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I’m a devotee of silent films, which I love and collect, yet even I have to admit that, in many cases, one must make certain allowances in terms of...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2020
  • Length: 03:58
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"The Earth Has One Big Ocean With Many Features." So states the first principle of the ocean literacy curriculum, a series of fundamental concepts ...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2020
  • Length: 04:21
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This week's episode of World Ocean Radio kicks off a multi-part series on the key principles of Ocean Literacy. The next eight episodes will provid...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2020
  • Length: 04:14
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A woman painter in an age (the 18th century) when such women were rare, is hired to paint a portrait of a countess’s daughter, who is living on a w...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2020
  • Length: 04:17
Caption: Map of the 17th District of the US House of Representatives
Project manager and software engineer Rick Kennedy is running for US House Representative for District 17 in Texas, in the 2020 Democratic primary....

  • Added: Feb 27, 2020
  • Length: 41:58
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Mycology has been a relatively neglected subject over the years. It’s the study of mycelium, which is a term for the vegetative part of a fungus, c...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2020
  • Length: 04:00
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The central dramatic figure of our time is the migrant, whose shifting, uncertain, and perilous fate reflects that of our world. Atlantics, the fir...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2020
  • Length: 04:43
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We think of Artificial Intelligence as being the stuff of science fiction movies, set far in the future. But it's already having an impact on our l...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2020
  • Length: 30:03
Caption: Black Sand Beach in Reynisfjara, Iceland, Credit: Wikimedia Commons
In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reflects on a landscape of special importance to him on the coast of Iceland, and the ways th...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2020
  • Length: 05:52
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Dark Waters tells the story of Robert Bilott, a corporate lawyer with a Cincinnati firm that specialized in defending big chemical corporations aga...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2020
  • Length: 04:56
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Carbon offset programs offer ways for retailers and consumers to help address the challenge of climate impacts and environmental consequences, and ...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2020
  • Length: 10:51
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In 1935, Hitler had been in power in Germany for two years. The rest of Europe desperately hoped that the disaster that was the Great War of 1914 t...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2020
  • Length: 04:31
Caption: https://www.techinasia.com/talk/startups-worry-black-swans, Credit: Infographic by Call Levels
Since the mid 2000s, economists have spoken of Black Swans, disruptive financial events that embody three special characteristics: they are rare, w...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2020
  • Length: 05:52
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Thinking back on 2019, preparing to put together a list of my favorite films from last year, I was struck more than ever by how my movie experience...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2020
  • Length: 04:52
Caption: Inex Bordeaux holds up a sign while doing street outreach in north St. Louis to raise awareness about the Close the Workhouse campaign., Credit: Carolina Hidalgo
Five years after Michael Browns death at the hands of a police officer galvanized criminal justice reform activists in St. Louis, they're gaining s...

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  • Added: Jan 31, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Bryan Stevenson is a lawyer, an African American, who founded the Equal Justice Initiative in 1989. The EJI provides legal assistance to prisoners ...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2020
  • Length: 04:50