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Public discourse is at an all time low. Even without considering the political polarization of today, civility in public discourse is challenging.
- Added: Jul 09, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
According to David Wallace-Wells, we’re cooked – literally. In his new book "The Uninhabitable Earth," Wallace-Wells explores how climate change wi...
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- Added: Jun 25, 2019
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 10
We have entered a brand new era of persuasion. This is completely untested water’s. In a world of everything computer, a world where our household ...
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- Added: Jun 24, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Diversity is the product of nature’s creativity. It also turns out that creativity in nature and culture follow very similar fundamental principles.
- Added: Jun 18, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
This week we are talking about ocean calm and the ways that we are affected in mind, body and spirit by a peaceful ocean. In this episode we tell t...
- Added: Jun 04, 2019
- Length: 04:51
Hierarchies are deeply embedded in human societies. They are so much a part of our being they’re hardly given a second thought. Status is sought af...
- Added: May 27, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Here’s the conundrum: a good person doesn’t knowingly create devastation and suffering. Yet, that is exactly what we’re doing with our environment....
- Added: May 19, 2019
- Length: 29:00
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Keyboardist John Keston bassist and vocalist Cody McKinney and percussionist Pete Hennig combine to form Bloodline. The group is interested not onl...
- Added: May 18, 2019
- Length: 08:00
Keyboardist John Keston and bassist and vocalist Cody McKinney curate a monthly series called sound simulacra at Jazz Central Studios in Minneapoli...
- Added: May 16, 2019
- Length: 08:00
Science deniers and attacks on science are more prevalent today. Interestingly, America leads the world in the sheer number of people who have cont...
- Added: May 03, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
America is set to lose tens of millions of job in the next 15 years. Some of the best research today estimates that one half of all U.S. jobs will ...
- Added: Apr 22, 2019
- Length: 29:00
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Over the past decade many low and middle income white American’s have thrown their support to conservative politicians. The claim is to make Americ...
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- Added: Apr 05, 2019
- Length: 29:00
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America’s workers are experiencing another setback in workplace safety. The Trump Administration is blocking a rule that requires most employers to...
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- Added: Mar 22, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The prison experience reflected in poetry and music.
- Added: Mar 08, 2019
- Length: 01:00:50
Just two generations ago, breastfeeding was considered second best to infant formula. Today, however, it’s regarded as a newborn’s birthright.
- Added: Mar 07, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPeople host Alan Wartes spoke with theatre storytellers, Heather Hughes and Steven Cole Hughes.
- Added: Mar 07, 2019
- Length: 29:00
America is one of the most racially diverse nations in the world. We’re also a country full of racial tension. These conflicting truths make it esp...
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- Added: Mar 01, 2019
- Length: 29:00
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Nearly 2-million people will be declaring bankruptcy this year. It’s not because they are careless with their expenses. The cause is unpaid medical...
- Added: Feb 15, 2019
- Length: 29:00
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Illiberalism. Now that’s a word you just don’t hear very often. If it sounds like a play on liberalism, you’re right. It’s the lack, or even oppos...
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- Added: Feb 08, 2019
- Length: 29:00
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Democracies around the world are struggling. Autocratic regimes are on the rise. Now, America’s democratic structures are showing signs of stress.
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- Added: Feb 03, 2019
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
Zeitgeist, the St Paul new music group presents Yohannes Tona’s music and poetry reflecting on Yonannes’ journey from Ethiopia to the United States...
- Added: Feb 01, 2019
- Length: 08:00
Michigan native Marcus Wicker reads from his 2011 National Poetry Series winning collection, MAYBE THE SADDEST THING, which was also a finalist for...
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- Added: Jan 30, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The financial crash of 2008 hit middle and working class families especially hard. They are still struggling.
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- Added: Jan 23, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
When the people of a country become severely divided, it becomes easier for power to fall into the iron grip of fascism. All it takes is well-desig...
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- Added: Jan 17, 2019
- Length: 29:00
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A central idea of feminism is “Looking at the world as if women matter.” Yet, during the most important public policy debate about women and povert...
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- Added: Jan 03, 2019
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
