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We’re obsessed with predicting the future. Most of the time, though, we get it wrong. On the other hand, we can predict a specific event with near ...
- Added: Sep 10, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
We spend the hour with science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist, Cory Doctorow. First, we talk with him about his terrific new boo...
- Added: Sep 06, 2019
- Length: 59:01
We think we know a lot. Perhaps we do. On the other hand, an ongoing study at Yale University finds that today’s society thinks it knows more than ...
- Added: Aug 27, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
No matter where you are in the world, you’re confronted by violence. One study shows that over half of our population is very concerned about the c...
- Added: Aug 19, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Rena Haus sings, plays and leads a trio. Rena sings songs of others, but also does a lot of her own compositions. Phil Nusbaum asked her about her ...
- Added: Aug 18, 2019
- Length: 08:00
Sept 1 from 10AM till 1PM. Rena sings songs of others, but also does a lot of her own compositions. Phil Nusbaum asked her about her song writing.
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- Added: Aug 18, 2019
- Length: 08:00
Here are some numbers that will make you think. Just 26 people – call them billionaires – own as much wealth as half the people on the planet. At t...
- Added: Jul 23, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
We’re use to hearing about how much humans have impacted the earth. Scientists have given a name for this period to recognize human dominance over ...
- Added: Jul 16, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
JC Sanford and Asuka Kakitani lead Inatnas into Crooner’s Sunday night Jul 21. This is a big band playing music composed by JC and Asuka. When they...
- Added: Jul 15, 2019
- Length: 08:00
Lori Dokken, the great all around musician has two great things coming up. Friday July 26, right after work from 6 till 8, Lori hosts a piano bar a...
- Added: Jul 12, 2019
- Length: 08:00
Aden Batar speaks with his son Jamal Batar about fleeing civil war and being among the first Somali refugee families to resettle in Utah.
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 02:13
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 ...
Bought by KCBX
- 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
- Purchases: 2
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
- Purchases: 3
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
- Purchases: 1
A research teams treks the Himalayas to investigate why tapping rivers for power works in some places, but not others.
- Added: Apr 03, 2019
- Length: 03:36
America’s workers are experiencing another setback in workplace safety. The Trump Administration is blocking a rule that requires most employers to...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 22, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
