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On this episode of the Polley Music Library show, we talked about "A Mind-Body Deal," the new book about percussionist and polymath Milford Graves....
- Added: Apr 25, 2023
- Length: 28:29
We continue National Poetry Month with part two of a conversation with poet Ellen Bass, the author of the 2020 book INDIGO. She discusses how, aft...
- Added: Apr 21, 2023
- Length: 29:00
Host Iggy Monda takes listeners inside America’s locker rooms and field houses to explore hazing in high school sports today. Through deeply person...
- Added: Apr 07, 2023
- Length: 59:00
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Author Anne Riley is not about to be stereotyped. Although she is a successful fiction writer, she has branched out into science, philosophy and dr...
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- Added: Mar 28, 2023
- Length: 28:59
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The controversary surrounding climate change is frequently charged with emotion. It’s a challenge. If you believe the health of the planet is in da...
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- Added: Mar 21, 2023
- Length: 29:00
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We talk with Fintan O’Toole about his scathing — and tender — personal history of modern Ireland, We Don’t Know Ourselves. Then we hear Seamus Hean...
- Added: Mar 15, 2023
- Length: 59:01
We constantly hear that America’s democracy is in peril. Corruption is running amuck. Authoritarianism is on the rise. And very few in the hall of ...
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- Added: Mar 14, 2023
- Length: 29:00
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The Paris Climate Accord set a benchmark 1.5 degrees centigrade warming limit. We didn’t reach that goal. Even the massive snow fall, wildfires, hu...
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- Added: Mar 06, 2023
- Length: 29:00
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A conversation with Elizebeth Cullen Dunn about our food system’s dependence on the labor of forced migrants
- Added: Mar 02, 2023
- Length: 54:00
The Chicago school of economics lead to the phrase, there’s magic in the market. But, that magic, for many of those who invest, means an unrestrict...
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- Added: Feb 21, 2023
- Length: 29:00
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Family separation. Deportation. Border crossing deaths. Profiling. Limited access to resources such as quality education and healthcare. All of the...
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- Added: Feb 07, 2023
- Length: 28:59
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The Open Nesters launches a new initiative that will dominate the winter of 2023. As you may have heard in our end-of-year podcast we are turning o...
- Added: Feb 01, 2023
- Length: 30:08
The riot at the US Capitol in January 2021 was not a blip or an aberration. In the thinking of Dr. Bradley Onishi and others, it was the logical ou...
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- Added: Jan 30, 2023
- Length: 28:59
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Some now refer to a post-Roe reality. What they’re saying is the battle for reproductive rights has shifted back to individual states. Déjà vu. Al...
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- Added: Jan 24, 2023
- Length: 28:59
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What can one commodity reveal about our food systems, about health, about labor and capitalism and about the environmental costs of so-called cheap...
- Added: Jan 19, 2023
- Length: 54:01
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Cumar means confluence in Irish Gaelic, and Cumar is also the name of a Twin Cities group that combines African and Irish Music and Dance. The grou...
- Added: Jan 09, 2023
- Length: 08:00
Nearly 30-years ago the Committee on Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children released a new study. Not surprising, they found an abundance ...
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- Added: Dec 20, 2022
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We review a selection of choral works. It's peaceful, captivating, and sublimely beautiful. Music from the angels this week on Lester The Nightfly....
- Added: Dec 19, 2022
- Length: 58:27
In June, Terry Tempest Williams visited Missoula, Montana, to take part in the 2022 “In the Footsteps of Norman Maclean” literary festival, which w...
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- Added: Dec 15, 2022
- Length: 29:00
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The mere mention of climate change can cause an unpleasant, visceral reaction. It’s a subject that we’ve avoided and denied for decades. Understand...
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- Added: Dec 13, 2022
- Length: 28:59
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It’s a fairytale we constantly hear. Growth always leads to prosperity. Logically that should mean that we have endless resources. In that case, wh...
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- Added: Dec 06, 2022
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History shows us that freedom of speech is a fluid and evolving concept that requires continual defense. It’s always under threat. And it’s never a...
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- Added: Nov 28, 2022
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Our world is surrounded by microplastic pollution. It’s in the air we breathe. It’s in the food we eat. Our homes are among the most polluted place...
- Added: Nov 20, 2022
- Length: 29:00
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Join World Footprints as we remember Emmett Till, recount the bravery of Mamie Till-Mobley and learn about a connection with Rosa Parks.
- Added: Nov 13, 2022
- Length: 21:04
When it comes to climate change, it’s easy to feel like a deer caught in the headlights. Temperatures are rising to unsustainable levels. Larger an...
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- Added: Nov 07, 2022
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