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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
Science is a process of determining what is reality objectively. How do we sift the subjective from the objective for understanding economic propos...
- Added: Jun 26, 2016
- Length: 03:59
The public trust doctrine is designed to protect our natural resources for the benefit of future generations. Plaintiffs in a number of legal cases...
- Added: Apr 19, 2016
- Length: 05:10
The Arctic conversation concludes this week with "An Arctic Vision." In this episode, host Peter Neill focuses on the indigenous Arctic community a...
- Added: Dec 08, 2015
- Length: 05:20
Etgar Keret, an author and a regular contributor to our show, lives less than a ten minute walk from Kikar Malchey Israel, the square where Rabin w...
- Added: Nov 09, 2015
- Length: 20:08
When Hardik Patel got 600,000 people to show up at a rally in Ahmedabadn in his native Gujarat everyone sat up and noticed.
But his reservation mo...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Sep 01, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
The global water crisis and the prospects for future water resources is forcing adjustments for how we measure its use, how it is valued, and how (...
- Added: Jul 21, 2015
- Length: 05:22
Arctic opportunities and territorial claims are on the rise as temperatures change and the ice melts. Once impassable, the Arctic is now increasing...
- Added: May 26, 2015
- Length: 05:31
Writer Marc Estrin shares his pearls of wisdom from school. There were only three.
- Added: May 13, 2015
- Length: 04:22
On the eve of the 2015 General Election in the UK, take a jaunt through the etymology of election-related words.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 06, 2015
- Length: 09:01
- Purchases: 1
Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza tells the story of how that phrase, and the movement came to be.
- Added: Apr 29, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Do natural systems belong to the public or do they belong to corporate and private interests? Do corporate entities have an obligation to sustain r...
- Added: Apr 20, 2015
- Length: 05:30
In Defense of a National Flag Burning Day
- Added: Apr 03, 2015
- Length: 06:26
In politics, arrogance can be hired, purchased or -in volunteer organizations- a gratuity that comes with volunteer labor.- or elected. In Maine ...
- Added: Nov 08, 2014
- Length: 05:14
A commentary about the recent pay scandals and court decisions
involving student athletes. Plus, a plan to resolve the controversy.
Recently, Peo...
- Added: Nov 03, 2014
- Length: 04:16
In the 1950’s and 1960’s American citizens and the stalwart among them who were brave enough to run for political office had to learn to live with...
- Added: Oct 31, 2014
- Length: 06:04
Juan learns about the conservation efforts of WildCoast, an organization based in Imperial Beach, California, and Ensenada, Mexico, that works on b...
Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and KVSC
- Added: Sep 01, 2014
- Length: 11:56
- Purchases: 2
Andres Jaimes grew up near the US/Mexico border in Baja California. At 17 years old, Andres is acutely aware of how negatively Mexico and Mexican p...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Sep 01, 2014
- Length: 17:21
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jun 27, 2014
- Length: 08:07
Unexpected reverberations of Narendra Modi's victory come to Sunnyvale California.
- Added: Jun 17, 2014
- Length: 04:30
Amethi is the pocket borough of India’s most powerful family, the Gandhi's. This time it’s different.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: May 06, 2014
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Expert canoe paddlers know that a predictable sign that swimming is imminent when the canoe starts to tip in rough water is the grabbing of the can...
- Added: Apr 21, 2014
- Length: 06:03
Voting in India is the largest organized event in the world! Sandip Roy goes to the polls.
- Added: Apr 15, 2014
- Length: 04:30
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
The controversy over Tibetan independence won't likely be over anytime soon, but is the Middle Way, promoted by the Dalai Lama himself, any way to ...
- Added: Mar 10, 2014
- Length: 04:30
