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231020: Community Resilience: Knowing Your Neighbor Could Save Your Life, 10/20/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Disasters caused by burning fossil fuels are becoming more frequent, and in the aftermath of hurricanes, floods and wildfires, federal and state re...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
2343: Elisabeth of Bohemia, 10/24/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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If the mind and body are distinct substances, how could they ever interact?

  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
2342: The Lives and Ideas of the Vienna Circle, 10/17/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Wouldn’t it be great if our society were based on sound logical principles instead of outdated superstition?

  • Added: Oct 15, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
Science Fiction
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
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Science fictions are widely held dangerous beliefs that are not supported by science. Jess explores a few of these in anticipation of the continued...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
RESCUE, part 30: Fresh Water and World Ocean Health
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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We are nearing the end of the RESCUE series. This week, in its 30th edition, we're talking about water: the well-spring of world ocean health and t...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2023
  • Length: 04:57
2023-08-20 Weird Wants
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is it weird to want to do things that are bad for us?

Bought by KTSW 89.9, GCR (Global Community Radio), KFCF FM, KSKQ, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
Conversations: Michael Stein, MD
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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Physician, public health professor, and author Michael Stein speaks about his recent book Me vs. Us: A Health Divided, which explores the differenc...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2023
  • Length: 49:38
2334: Weird Wants, 8/22/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Is it weird to want to do things that are bad for us?

  • Added: Aug 16, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
2023-08-06 What Has Replaced Freud?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Freud may have laid the groundwork for a science of the unconscious, but didn’t he get most of it wrong?

Bought by KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), WNYO, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMUN and more


  • Added: Aug 07, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 10
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 21
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
Caption: Rwandan genocide museum, Credit: David Kattenburg
Bacteria in your gut tweak your brain. Sometimes friendly, sometimes not. The hundred-day genocide in Rwanda -- recalling the mayhem on its 29th an...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2023
  • Length: 58:49
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 20
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Artificial Intelligence -- existential threat to humanity, or just to basic civil rights? Personal DNA testing – you never know what you’ll find. ...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2023
  • Length: 58:54
Is the FDA Too Cautious?
From: Open to Debate
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While the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) needs to approve safe and effective drugs as quickly as possible to patients who need them, it must al...

Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 20, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
2332: What Has Replaced Freud?, 8/8/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Freud may have laid the groundwork for a science of the unconscious, but didn’t he get most of it wrong?

  • Added: Jul 20, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 19
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
Caption: Crawford Lake, Credit: David Kattenburg
After years of study, a scientific panel proposes a formal definition of the Anthropocene, naming the spot where humanity’s fingerprints are best o...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2023
  • Length: 58:05
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 18
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Nothing woolly-headed or Utopian about it: A universal, guaranteed basic income. A hundred years later, memories of war that do not fade. And, one ...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:14
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 17
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Humanity’s impact on Planet Earth has a name: the Anthropocene. The start of Earth’s human age can be pinpointed in ice and biological cores, and t...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jul 04, 2023
  • Length: 59:33
  • Purchases: 1
2023-07-02 Democracy By Numbers
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is it mathematically (im)possible to create a true democracy?

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KTSW 89.9 and more


  • Added: Jul 03, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
2327: Democracy By Numbers, 7/4/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Is it mathematically (im)possible to create a true democracy?

  • Added: Jun 29, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
2323: Minds and Matter, 6/6/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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What can we learn about human consciousness from the minds of animals?

  • Added: May 30, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
Rooting Out Racial Bias in Health Care AI, Pt. 1
From: Tradeoffs
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There’s growing excitement that artificial intelligence can make health care better by speeding up care, improving diagnoses and easing the burden ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 26, 2023
  • Length: 18:27
  • Purchases: 1
2023-05-12 Amy Westervelt on Drilling, Denial and Disinformation
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Amy Westervelt has made a career out of exploring the underbelly of the oil industry through complex and compelling storytelling. Through her inves...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: May 11, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 10
2023-04-30 The Power of Prediction
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is your brain a camera that records the world, or a projector that imposes pictures on it?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KMUN, KKWE Niijii Radio, WVTF, KSKQ and more


  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
2318: The Power of Prediction, 5/2/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Is your brain a camera that records the world, or a projector that imposes pictures on it?

  • Added: Apr 26, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
Report Card: SF and Winter Storms
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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The extreme winter storms put San Francisco’s Department of Emergency Management to the test. Early in the storm cycle, the department faced challe...

Bought by KGUA


  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
2313: The Philosophy of Smell, 3/28/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Can our sense of smell tell us things that our other senses can’t?

  • Added: Mar 22, 2023
  • Length: 53:59