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New research has revealed a truly mind boggling number of potentially habitable locations in the Universe.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, and KENW


  • Added: Sep 24, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 4
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With our guest, George Kateb, who has been called "the most interesting and important philosopher of liberalism alive today,"* we'll focus on oppre...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2015
  • Length: 59:49
Caption: Storrs Congregrational
The number of people imprisoned in the United States is rapidly increasing. Although America accounts for only five percent of the world’s populati...

Bought by KVSC, KPVL, and KCBX


  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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“I don’t think there’s a lot of excuses, frankly, for not doing the right thing.” Anishinaabe orator, author, economist and activist Winona LaDuke ...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, Bandon Community Radio, KCMJ Community Radio, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Ira Chaliff
When you’re given instructions that you feel are morally wrong, do you speak up? A number of studies over the past 50-years conclude that the major...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 16, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Professor Victor Tan Chen
Victor Tan Chen, sociology professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, has studied the plight of the American worker … from successf...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Jul 09, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
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Winner of the 2013 Whiting Award for non-fiction, author Clifford Thompson reads from his memoir, Twin of Blackness. Just one sample of our daily c...

  • Added: Jul 04, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
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John Pula was raised in Kelliher, Minnesota and is currently in exile working as an engineer in Florida, plotting his return to Minnesota. He enjoy...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2015
  • Length: 01:26
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Students at Lewiston High launched a town wide dialogue about race after the principal ordered to students to take down posters proclaiming “Black ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 07:35
  • Purchases: 3
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Calvin Duncan spent over 28 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. In prison, he taught himself the law. He became a jailhouse lawyer and he...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 25, 2015
  • Length: 17:08
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Professor William Damon
Over the past decade a science of morality has emerged. Its basic premise is that we have no choice with our moral actions. Our responses are built...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: May 20, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Imprisonment, oppressive laws, and harassment of journalists - these are just a few means of censorship around the world. The use of these repressi...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Apr 26, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Louise Fouquerel-Skoe is a middler schooler in Sara Breeze's class at Schoolcraft Learning Community in Bemidji. She loves art, loves creativity in...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2015
  • Length: :50
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A quick look into how one Division One college campus is still very much divided on how to solve the issue of compensating athletes.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2015
  • Length: 03:23
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Host Doug Storm is joined by Asma Afsaruddin to discuss her bookStriving in the Path of God: Jihad and Martyrdom in Islamic Thought

  • Added: Mar 17, 2015
  • Length: 58:39
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KVSC Radio at St. Cloud State University presents Trial by Mob: The Duluth Lynchings. On the evening of June 15, 1920, a crowd of thousands attack...

Bought by WDSE


  • Added: Mar 04, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Jesse Dermody lives in the woods north of Duluth in a cabin right next to his brother Ryan's cabin. Together they are the band The Brothers Burn Mo...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 02:01
Caption: Will the woolly mammoth face another day?, Credit: Tyler Ingram
A group of scientists are now trying to bring extinct animals - like the woolly mammoth and passenger pigeon - back to life, in a movement called D...

Bought by WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 07, 2015
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
If Woodward and Bernstein and Ben Bradlee had gone for the “gotcha” instead of the truth, the cost would have been the truth. The integrity that ...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2014
  • Length: 04:45
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Nailah Stevenson talks candidly about why she stayed in an abusive relationship. And when she realized it was time to go.

  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 08:04
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The truth can be our moral antidote, our moral medicine, the vitamin that- yes, if someone is trying to tell us that nine dollars and something is ...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2014
  • Length: 04:23
Caption: Mark Schapiro, Credit: Center for Investigative Reporting
Carbon is shaping our future. Those little particles we can’t even see are reshaping our natural world, and transforming our economy. And, it all e...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Sep 24, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: livingbig.ca , Credit: living Big
Latin Waves host Sylvia Richardson speaks with Suzanne Kyra about healthy relationships. The importance of balance in our personal and professional...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2014
  • Length: 29:32
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The cost of the truth is not tied to inflation. It’s tied to tolerance, inversely. The more tolerance that exists, the lower the price paid for the...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2014
  • Length: 04:23
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A large dark asteroid becomes a beautiful comet as it approaches the Sun.

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WKCC and more


  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6