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If you were a kid in the 1970s, you undoubtedly were at least a little terrified of going into the ocean - a fear placed squarely in your subconsci...
- Added: Feb 01, 2023
- Length: 29:00
In his book, American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World but Failed Its People, Jared Yates Sexton writes that “The American Myth paints the pr...
- Added: Jan 24, 2023
- Length: 29:00
Environmental, social and corporate governance, referred to as ESG, is a set of factors that conscientious capitalists use to identify worthy inves...
- Added: Jan 11, 2023
- Length: 29:00
This week on Sea Change Radio, the second half of our two-part series examining the effective altruism movement and "longtermism." We speak to phil...
- Added: Dec 14, 2022
- Length: 29:00
As the news that thirty year-old cryptocurrency baron, Sam Bankman-Fried‘s, FTX empire suddenly collapsed, the residual effects reverberated in the...
- Added: Nov 30, 2022
- Length: 29:00
With the right-leaning US Supreme Court poised to eliminate affirmative action in higher education around the country — this seemed like an opportu...
- Added: Nov 09, 2022
- Length: 29:00
Many followers of the highly publicized Adnan Syed case were delighted to see an innocent man set free after over two decades behind bars. But the ...
- Added: Oct 19, 2022
- Length: 29:00
With less than a month to go before the midterm elections, concerned citizens across the country are deciding which candidates to support through c...
- Added: Oct 13, 2022
- Length: 29:00
When it comes to the Middle East and the environment, many of us think first about the area's role in petroleum production. But climate change is h...
- Added: Sep 27, 2022
- Length: 29:00
About 24% of the US population resides in the West, a region already profoundly affected by climate change. In 2021 nearly 95% of the American West...
- Added: Sep 06, 2022
- Length: 29:00
What comes to mind when you hear the words “crime” and “safety?” For many, these words evoke images of poor people stealing things, or police enfor...
- Added: Aug 09, 2022
- Length: 29:00
Are you weary of having to care about where headline-seeking Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema land on important topics? Well, according to t...
- Added: Aug 02, 2022
- Length: 29:00
Anyone who paid attention to the ugly aftermath of the 2020 presidential election suddenly realized that a coterie of state-level bureaucrats had a...
- Added: Jul 27, 2022
- Length: 29:00
It seems like these days every sentence that begins with "The Supreme Court..." finishes with truly appalling news -- another draconian ruling rega...
Bought by WHFR
- Added: Jul 05, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
“It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land. The scale of recent changes are unprecedented over many centurie...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: May 18, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
With around a billion dollars in annual revenue, The Nature Conservancy is the largest organization of its kind in America. Their stated mission is...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: May 03, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
More than 20 years ago, sociologist Barry Glassner wrote his bestseller The Culture of Fear, where he explains why Americans tend to be unreasonabl...
- Added: Apr 27, 2022
- Length: 29:00
In his astute and timeless book, "How to Lie with Statistics," Darrell Huff writes, “The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-mind...
- Added: Apr 22, 2022
- Length: 29:00
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. famously instilled optimism with his proclamation that, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward jus...
- Added: Apr 12, 2022
- Length: 29:00
According to a study conducted by Quantis International, footwear production is responsible for about 700 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, or...
- Added: Mar 29, 2022
- Length: 29:00
America loves to blame the President when gas prices are high but the fact is the U.S. President has very little control over the price we pay at t...
- Added: Mar 23, 2022
- Length: 29:00
Imagine you go to graduate school for a bunch of years, conscientiously studying the nuanced interactions of the variables that underlie the globe'...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 29:00
Historian T.J. Jackson Lears once said, "All history is the history of unintended consequences." This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with Ted N...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Mar 08, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
War has suddenly returned to Europe. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been swift, shocking, and devastating. In addition to killing thousands of...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KVNF, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Mar 01, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
People sometimes like to quote that Bible passage about “an eye for an eye” when justifying a punitive criminal justice system focused on retributi...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Jan 18, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1