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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
"The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump began just as we were learning of the death, on February 7, of the bold and brilliant labor leader, K...
- Added: Feb 10, 2021
- Length: 03:30
Debra Fisher, an occupational therapist in the New York City Public School System, speaks with her friend Emma Pelosi, a special education teacher,...
- Added: Oct 21, 2020
- Length: 02:24
Feudalism. Now that’s a word you don’t hear very often. It’s been a long time since we’ve had a structured society of that nature. But, even more c...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Aug 25, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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
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
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
Are for-profit colleges and universities worth the money? Lilia Fuquen reports that according to a new study, for-profit colleges are not only cost...
Bought by KENW and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jun 23, 2017
- Length: 03:37
- Purchases: 2
Andrew Faas has a new book and a new alliance. The book is "From Bully to Bull's-Eye: Move Your Organization Out of the Line of Fire" and the allia...
- Added: Feb 26, 2017
- Length: 49:16
The Scandinavian countries … Sweden, Norway and Denmark … boasts the world’s happiest, most productive people. They have equality, low unemployment...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio and KCBX
- Added: Nov 29, 2016
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
Youth Radio's Billy Cruz grew up dreaming of the day he would join the family business... but when the time finally came, his dream job wasn't all ...
- Added: Aug 12, 2015
- Length: 01:03
Updates on locked-out nurses, NYU grad students, and restaurant guides!
- Added: Dec 13, 2013
- Length: 02:59
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
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
Special education teacher Ken Rensink tells his friend Laurel Hill-Ward how surviving a near-fatal car crash influenced his teaching.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 1
Kevin Van Kanegan worked at the University of Illinois at Chicago for 27 years before being fired during the 2010 Illinois state budget crisis. He ...
- Added: Sep 30, 2012
- Length: 03:28
Stephanie and James worked together at the University of Illinois at Chicago before they both found out that they were going to be fired.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Sep 30, 2012
- Length: 07:11
- Purchases: 1
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
Host Phalana Tiller talks with author George Anders about his new book, The Rare Find. She also interviews Teresa Amabile, professor and co-author ...
- Added: Jan 13, 2012
- Length: 58:59
Neurosurgeon Lee Buono and his eighth grade science teacher, Al Siedlecki, remember reconnecting after more than 15 years.
- Added: Dec 27, 2011
- Length: 01:52
- Purchases: 2
An audio postcard exploring how the recession has changed the way business school students think about ethics.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Mar 10, 2010
- Length: 02:06
- Purchases: 1
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
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
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