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Caption: Rana Foroohar
The biggest tech companies generate enormous wealth and power by harvesting information about people. It’s called surveillance capitalism. This epi...

  • Added: May 26, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
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How Capt. Chris Cassidy seized opportunities to become a Navy Seal/Astronaut.

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  • Added: Apr 08, 2020
  • Length: 05:10
  • Purchases: 1
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The census doesn’t just distribute representatives in congress and billions of dollars in federal funds—it determines city bus routes, how many gar...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2020
  • Length: 33:11
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The University of California Santa Cruz wildcat strike for a cost of living adjustment - an action that has been gaining traction across the whole ...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
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We consider the future of museums on this WorldCanvass. What does the museum of the 21st century look like? What does it house? What is its role ...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2020
  • Length: 23:55
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We consider the future of museums on this WorldCanvass. What does the museum of the 21st century look like? What does it house? What is its role ...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2020
  • Length: 24:36
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We consider the future of museums on this WorldCanvass. What does the museum of the 21st century look like? What does it house? What is its role ...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2020
  • Length: 25:42
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This is the second half of a Happy News feature on Decluttering for greater peace and happiness - focusing this time on the mind!

  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
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Join Daisy Oz on her second adventure into the mind-brain dynamic team! Learn some amazing facts about what’s called the most complex object in the...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
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Amazing Neuroscience! This first episode is an introduction to rewiring your brain for greater life satisfaction.

  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 03:01
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Live longer, healthier and happier with daily doses of positive thought and feeling medicine.

  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
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Did you know that the heart sends more messages to the brain than the brain does to the heart? Find out more on our amazing heart's intelligence...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: Dr. Inga Hansen
Usually, when someone is thought to have sold out, it’s a negative reference. It can mean they’ve betrayed their values and ethics. Yet it’s someth...

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  • Added: Jan 13, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
Important stories about the struggle for freedom in Brooklyn, from a young girl “auctioned” at Plymouth Church in 1860 to the story of Crown Height...

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  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 27:37
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Monique W. Morris
In grade school and high school, back girls make up about 16% of the female student population. Yet, of all girls referred to law enforcement in ou...

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  • Added: Nov 19, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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We talk with social justice scholar Monique Morris about her new book, Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues: Education for the Liberation of Black and Brow...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
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This sound-rich audio documentary probes the nature of a mysterious and debilitating ear disorder, and simulates what it feels and sounds like to l...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2019
  • Length: 23:33
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Industrial design students at Iowa State University just spent two weeks off-grid in the American Southwest, with the goal of learning firsthand wh...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2019
  • Length: 20:30
Caption: Jonathan A. Rodden
The path to political victory should be simple: accrue more points that your opponent, and you will win. Not so fast. U.S. elections aren’t nearly ...

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  • Added: Jun 11, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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HOUR ONE: "Music Beyond Genre?" - You listen to more than one kind of music. Why not make all kinds of music? This hour, music without rules. HOU...

  • Added: May 31, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:58
Caption: Martin Schoenhals
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...

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  • Added: May 27, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: Roger S. Gottlieb
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....

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  • Added: May 19, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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“Why School? International Perspectives on Education and Social Transformation” examines education in a global context, both as a reflection of soc...

  • Added: May 07, 2019
  • Length: 31:17
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Regulation, degradation, shaming, blaming - enough! Is it time for sexual liberation yet? We talk a lot about sex but not often enough about pleasu...

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  • Added: Mar 14, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The late Dr. Bernard F. Erlanger, a long time associate of the Columbia University Institute of Human Nutrition, talks about a promising treatment ...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2018
  • Length: 14:51