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This week we talk about enemies who are friends, globalization, and non-polarized opinions.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 36:24
This week we talk about noble lies, compassion fatigue, and addiction.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 36:55
This week we talk about smart mobs, reddit, and Kompromat.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 41:27
This week we discuss hackers, video games, and Project Xanadu.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 32:10
Twenty four hours or so have passed since a portrait of the older Atticus Finch as a bigot, complaining about the integration of “Negroes” into th...
- Added: Jul 16, 2015
- Length: 04:07
Part two of Audio Revolution MIXTAPE #4 presents a powerful selection of stories made by youth at the Global Leadership Forum 2014 held at the Unit...
- Added: Apr 10, 2015
- Length: 27:54
- Purchases: 2
We are always adjusting the way we sound. It especially depends on the social situation we are in. Linguists call it "code switching," a term origi...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 06:19
- Purchases: 2
With the election season over, the next phase of elected politics has settled on our plates like a bowl of jello. How can you tell when the age-old...
- Added: Nov 16, 2014
- Length: 01:04
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
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
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM
- Added: Oct 26, 2014
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
Just in time for Halloween, we look at gender issues in horror films. This essay takes a feminist angle on underrated horror heroines, from Candyma...
- Added: Oct 09, 2014
- Length: 21:26
In which I finally give my opinion.
- Added: Apr 08, 2014
- Length: 12:58
India just lost its grand old man of letters. Khushwant Singh was 99 and still writing when he died in Delhi last week.
- Added: Mar 25, 2014
- Length: 04:30
When the publishers Penguin and Random House merged, it called itself The world's first truly global book publishing company". Sounds powerful. But...
- Added: Feb 17, 2014
- Length: 04:30
In the relaxation drink market, companies aren’t waging the usual battle over a single word like “energy”; instead they’re picking their drugs of c...
- Added: Jan 30, 2014
- Length: 04:57
The parades and camaraderie of the Fourth of July celebrate freedom.
This nation-wide celebration doesn't mean that the freedoms we have can’t be...
- Added: Jun 29, 2013
- Length: 03:58
The peculiar thing about the News is that very often events of senseless tragedy and despair are juxtaposed with News of hope and compassion. Some...
- Added: Jul 27, 2012
- Length: 04:17
Despite his best efforts, like the very establishments he excoriated, Studs Terkel became an American institution. A man of the people, he was also...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, XRAY.fm, WZEN.org, KBGA 89.9 FM, WDSE and more
- Added: Dec 12, 2011
- Length: 55:00
- Purchases: 11
After 54 years, the soap opera "As The World Turns" has come to the end of its run. A passing worthy of note? Commentator Mark Blackmon thinks so. ...
- Added: Sep 09, 2010
- Length: 04:58
- Added: Jun 01, 2008
- Length: 03:32
Budding reporter learns a lesson in "reporting."
- Added: May 09, 2008
- Length: 04:15
- Added: Jan 13, 2008
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 23, 2007
- Length: 03:02
- Purchases: 1
a 4-minute primer about intellectual property
- Added: Dec 21, 2006
- Length: 04:21
