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This is about our kids, our future generations. Ask any grade school teacher, and they’ll tell you the job is very challenging.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 01, 2016
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
Anton Treuer discusses how education and prosperity go hand in hand. Can we restructure the system to make education more equitable? Anton speculat...
- Added: Apr 12, 2016
- Length: 08:12
David Harrington, the founding member of the pioneering, genre mixing, multi award winning Kronos Quartet reflects on the remarkable and still ongo...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, KGLT, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Feb 08, 2016
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 3
When Vance Gellert decided to photograph the Iron Range, people asked him why. In his traveling show Sleeping Giant: The Iron Range of Minnesota, V...
- Added: Feb 05, 2016
- Length: 13:30
A 2015 MacArthur "Genius" Fellow Ellen Bryant Voigt talks with fellow poet and professor, Michelle Boisseau, about her collection HEADWATERS. Voigt...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Jan 21, 2016
- Length: 30:30
- Purchases: 1
A shelterbelt is a line of trees, meant to protect from the wind and snow. Farmers plant them to keep fields from eroding or topsoil from blowing a...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Nov 23, 2015
- Length: 15:07
- Purchases: 1
Even in good schools racial inequality thrives. Basically, that’s the summary of an extensive study conducted by associate professors Amanda Lewis ...
- Added: Oct 29, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
It’s the rare writer who can pick up where Albert Camus — master of midcentury philosophy and fiction — left off in the modern classic, The Outside...
- Added: Jun 26, 2015
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 2
We asked a number of different stakeholders for their top ideas about improving the relationship between citizens and their law enforcement officer...
Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KSFR, KGNU Community Radio, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, WNIJ and more
- Added: Jun 25, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 7
In this second podcast in our collaboration with EthicalSystems.org, we examine negotiation. Turning again to behavioral science for insight, we le...
- Added: May 18, 2015
- Length: 25:06
This is the first in a series of podcasts in collaboration with EthicalSystems.org to explore behavioral science in the workplace. In this installm...
- Added: Apr 13, 2015
- Length: 25:59
We're asking the $64,000 question: can we build a more crash-proof, less leveraged, more equitable financial system? Our guest Jeremy Allaire would...
- Added: Mar 31, 2015
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 2
Today, 47-million Americans live in poverty. That places this country at the bottom among industrial nations for the divide between the haves and h...
- Added: Mar 25, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
We’re revisiting the Attica prison revolt in 1971. It began as a civil rights protest and ended in a massacre when Governor Nelson Rockefeller orde...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KZYX
- Added: Mar 15, 2015
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 2
This month on "Impact," we're taking a close look at a huge issue--legacy. In this case, we're examining how it relates to contemporary philanthrop...
- Added: Mar 05, 2015
- Length: 27:55
On this Kickstarter-launch week we’re diagnosing America’s healthcare woes with the meta-journalist and heart patient, Steve Brill.
- Added: Jan 25, 2015
- Length: 58:37
Starting last month, the American freeze-out of Communist Cuba, which long outlasted the Cold War, began to come to an end. It may have been a smal...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Jan 12, 2015
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 1
Lauren Joichin Nile introduces her readers to some provocative ideas in her book RACE: My Story and Humanity’s Bottom Line. Her work delves deep in...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 30, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The news from the big-money midterm is: meh!
Democrats are out, the Republicans are in, and the country’s feeling bluer than ever. Six years after...
- Added: Nov 06, 2014
- Length: 58:37
We wrap up our three-part series on data and privacy with a look at some ways big data can improve our communities. Technology and big data are del...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Oct 28, 2014
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
A small asteroid becomes bright enough to be seen with a small telescope and an electronic camera.
Bought by Simply Beautiful, KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KMXT and more
- Added: Oct 22, 2014
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 7
Chuck Freilich, former Israeli deputy national security adviser, speaks from Tel Aviv on turbulence across the greater Middle East, including the I...
- Added: Oct 13, 2014
- Length: 33:15
Cybersecurity risks increases daily as more and more of our private information is stored online--and the biggest threat isn't necessarily hackers....
- Added: Oct 08, 2014
- Length: 18:47
On this first program we look at the legacy of one of the most important American diplomats in the post cold war era - Richard C. Holbrooke
- Added: Jul 15, 2014
- Length: 52:36
With the deadline looming for agreement on the P5+1 negotiations with Iran, Senior Fellow David Speedie interviews Dr. Gareth Porter, scholar, jour...
- Added: Jul 15, 2014
- Length: 31:01
