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Caption: Excerpt from the book cover, reading "Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock" superimposed on top of orange and pink geological features, Credit: Penguin Random House
This week, we talk to Jenny Odell, about the ideas behind her book Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock and How to Do Nothing: Resistin...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KMUN


  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
We're talking trash at the library today. Specifically, the story of a 3,000-ton garbage barge that made a scene in Brooklyn in the 1980s… and, we ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 21:06
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: http://jobtalkradio.org, Credit: Job Talk LLC
Today Dave and Doug explore transitions from workforce to full-time parent to community leader. Discover how human resource skills can help the bal...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2017
  • Length: 14:18
Caption: http://jobtalkradio.org, Credit: Job Talk LLC
Can a great haircut affect your job? Find out as Dave and Doug explore the common sense philosophy of an extraordinary barber. And, see how Dave sc...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: Pazhae Horace and Victor Washington on a Green House Call, Credit: Jen Chien
Pazhae Horace has a summer job with California Youth Energy Services, or CYES. It’s a program that hires youth aged 15-22 to do free “green house c...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 08:52
Caption: Leadership  Consulting
Dr. Cary Cherniss is currently the director and co-chair (with Daniel Goleman) of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organiza...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2013
  • Length: 34:39
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A Ph.D. used to be a ticket to a comfortable career in academia. But, in recent years, increasing numbers of Ph.D.'s have had trouble finding jobs ...

  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 02:01
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How should we reward experts and how much? When the experts fail, should populist outrage be directed at those individuals or the system?

  • Added: Sep 11, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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George Parker, president of Washington DC's Teachers Union shares some astonishing confessions about the lack of accountability in the union and ho...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2008
  • Length: 13:13