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Girls Who Code
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Reshma Saujani
The world of technology is male driven. Very few women are represented in leadership roles. For decades now, there’s been a major gender diversity ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 06, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Fault Lines in the Constitution
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Sanford Levinson
The U.S. Constitution has been amended 27 times since its ratification in 1788. After all of this time, many Americans take the words of the consti...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 01, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Cruel Hoax: Stephanie Mills #106 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Stephanie Mills made headlines in the Spring of 1969 when she vowed, in her commencement address (titled The Future is a Cruel Hoax), to conceive n...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Indie3 Radio, KTRL, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Aug 28, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Alger Hiss: Framed
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Joan Brady
It’s been nearly 70-years since the House on Un-American Activities Committee heard the testimony of Alger Hiss.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 23, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Marceline Lasater - One Person, One Vote?
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents Marceline Lasater, Attorney at Law, One person, One vote? A Texas attorney explains why, since 1911, our votes are no...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2017
  • Length: 28:31
Beth Macy, author of "Truevine"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Beth Macy about her bestseller about two brothers, a kidnapping and a mother's quest.

  • Added: Aug 18, 2017
  • Length: 30:31
Talk with the Animals
From: KXCI
Series: The Weekly Green
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Does language distinguish man from beast? Or do chirps, growls and howls of animals also carry meaning, like our words? Many studies over the past ...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2017
  • Length: 04:56
Getting Organized Now - tips and strategies from Amanda Sullivan
From: WCWP
Series: Taking Care of Business with Richard Solomon
Caption: Amanda Sullivan, Credit: Amanda Sullivan
What are the secrets to de-cluttering?

  • Added: Aug 14, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
Stealth Communications
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Sue Jansen
The art of communication. We grow up thinking that we can talk and hear, or even sign, therefore we can communicate.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 09, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
STEM for Girls
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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It probably won’t surprise you but boys and girls are not on a par with STEM programs: That’s the shorthand term for science, technology, engineeri...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 02, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Peter Kalmus
We have a choice to fight the change, or be part of the change. That has never been more apparent than when we are watching ice caps melt, heat tha...

Bought by XRAY.fm and KCBX


  • Added: Jul 25, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Reclaiming Humanity From Commodification and Bureaucratization
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Daina Ramey Berry
A historian and a journalist speak about the devaluation of human life past and present in America.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 2
Toxic Inequality
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Thomas M. Shapiro
Income and wealth inequality is now a regular topic of conversation. The standard of living for most Americans’ since the Great Recession is either...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 20, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Humility is the New Smart Age
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Edward D. Hess
If we were on a ship at sea, and learned of the impending tsunami, we’d do everything we could to prepare for the collision.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 03, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Campus Confidential
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jacques Berlinerblau
In the 1970s, over half of America’s university professors were tenured or on the tenure track. Today that figure is around 25-percent and falling.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 27, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Area Voices Anishinaabenaajimon: Thoughts on Pipelines
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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Professor, author and cultural trainer Anton Treuer stopped by the KBXE studio recently. In this segment of Area Voices: Anishinaabenaajimon, Tr...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2017
  • Length: 11:36
Democracy in Chains
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Nancy MacLean
When the term RINO is used in political circles today, it’s an acronym for Republican in Name Only. The basic translation is that the today’s GOP b...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 21, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Local Food Revolution: Michael Brownlee #217
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
Caption: Lynette Marie Hanthorn & Michael Brownlee, co-authors of The Local Food Revolution, Credit: Kirsten Boyer
Re-establishing our personal relationship with food and ending our role as commodity “consumers” is part of a healing, regenerative process. It’s a...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio and KTRL


  • Added: Jun 13, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Kill It to Save It
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Corey Dolgon
American voters have been convinced to vote against their best interests for decades, according to sociology professors Corey Dolgon.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 12, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Broken Ladder
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Keith Payne
Inequality in America today is staggering. It’s on a scale that none of us has seen in our lifetime. Yet, very few are even trying to address a pro...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Poet and Visual Artist Bianca Stone
From: New Letters on the Air
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Poet and visual artist Bianca Stone talks about her various projects, from her first full length book SOMEONE ELSE'S WEDDING VOWS to her 2016 illus...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: May 18, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Despot's Accomplice
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Brian Klaas
By all appearances, the world is becoming less democratic.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. Anthony Barnosky - Dodging Extinction - Part 2
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents a two-part interview with Dr. Anthony Barnosky, author of Dodging Extinction: Power, Food, Money, and the Future of L...

  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
Old-Time Fiddle Tunes and Classical Music
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Old Time Fiddle Music is a highly developed form, but the world surrounding bluegrass and old time music don’t always treat it that way. Today’s Ge...

  • Added: May 03, 2017
  • Length: 06:29
Bobb Fantauzzo’s New Jazz Synthesis
From: KBEM
Series: Minnesota Music Profiles
Caption: Bobb Fantauzzo, Credit: Andrea Canter
Like many good things, Bobb Fantauzzo’s recent music is both new and old. Both the Native American flute and jazz have been around awhile, but putt...

  • Added: May 03, 2017
  • Length: 07:38

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