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Punishing the Amalekites
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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October 7 didn’t happen in a vacuum. As Israel retaliates, with customary super-violence, reducing little Gaza to rubble, in the occupied West Bank...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2023
  • Length: 59:44
Civic Action: Protest
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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We explore the long scope of public dissent from the Boston Tea Party to the current #blacklivesmatter protests.

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  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 25:14
  • Purchases: 1
The African Burial Ground
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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Is it possible to study human remains ethically?

  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 44:44
How to Save Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Eli Merritt
We constantly hear that America’s democracy is in peril. Corruption is running amuck. Authoritarianism is on the rise. And very few in the hall of ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 14, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Prophetic Lens
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Phil Allen, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Darnella Frazier captured images of injustice for the world to see. Like a professional cinematographer, King understoo...

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  • Added: Sep 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Truth As Cold As Ice
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Aryn Baker
There are still a few who deny climate change. Although with another summer of extreme heat in many parts of the world, those few are diminishing. ...

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  • Added: Jul 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Declutter the Mind for Greater Peace - Episode 12
From: Daisy Oz
Series: Happy News
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This is the second half of a Happy News feature on Decluttering for greater peace and happiness - focusing this time on the mind!

  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
The Heart's Intelligence - Episode 7
From: Daisy Oz
Series: Happy News
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Did you know that the heart sends more messages to the brain than the brain does to the heart? Find out more on our amazing heart's intelligence...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
River of Blood
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Richard Cahan
The Works Progress Administration, what became better known as the WPA, was designed to provide jobs for unemployed Americas. One of their provoca...

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  • Added: Feb 05, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Lacking Public Discourse
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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Public discourse is at an all time low. Even without considering the political polarization of today, civility in public discourse is challenging.

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  • Added: Jul 09, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Misogony - Then to Now
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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An in depth discussion of the historical social implications of misogony

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2018
  • Length: 51:26
  • Purchases: 1
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.

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  • Added: Aug 09, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Rose by any other name
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Endurance Amarawa, Ibgiya Malu Chukwuma and Precious Amalcima, Credit: Virendra Singh Gosain/Hindustani Times
There have been other mob attacks in India before thre Nigerians were beaten in a mall in Delhi on March 27. Each time the government promises stri...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
Outsourcing the Dream?
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Perhaps an unwelcoming America is not such a bad thing for the rest of the world. It’s as if the American Dream itself is being outsourced back to ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Call to Postpone the Electoral College Vote
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Seth Abramson
An unexpected turn has unfolded with the 2016 elections. The Washington Post broke the story on Friday, December 9 that Russia not only hacked Amer...

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
300-Biggest Ear
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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China has built and is operating the world's largest Radio telescope.

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  • Added: Oct 27, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Black History Matters: Stereotype Threat
From: c j armentano
Series: Black History Matters
Caption: Emmett Till and mother Mamie
Professors Marva Lewis and Marvin Dunn discuss "stereotype threat" and its effect on African Americans sense of safety when interacting with police...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2016
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 4
Disaster Tourism
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Rubble after the collapse in Vivekananda , Credit: Sandip Roy
A recent disaster in Kolkata brings out the lookie-loos - and much more.

  • Added: Apr 04, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Wrong Place, Wrong Time
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Nidhi Chaphekar, Credit: Ketevan Kardava
Kardava was doing what is her job as a journalist. The media is doing what they think is their job. The only person who has no choice in this is th...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Tri-color Profile
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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I will not overlay my Facebook profile picture with the French tricolor.

  • Added: Nov 16, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
Life of the Law Episode #59: The Trauma Room
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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When prisoners act out, they get put in solitary confinement-- the penal version of 'go to your room and think about what you've done.' But for the...

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  • Added: Jun 28, 2015
  • Length: 24:26
  • Purchases: 1
LINDA MCQUAIG ON HER BOOK THE TROUBLE WITH BILLIONAIRES
From: Latin Waves Media
Series: Latin Waves Media
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Linda speaks about her book The trouble with billionaires , Corporate philanthropy, alternatives

  • Added: Apr 28, 2015
  • Length: 30:05
What About Haiti?
From: Vinny Cannizzaro
Series: A Community of Voices
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A 60 second quake, wreaked complete, long term havoc over the country of Haiti

  • Added: Jul 17, 2013
  • Length: 26:50
Beyond the Gender Binary
From: Interfaith Voices
Series: Gay in the Eyes of God: A 21-Part Series
Caption: Pictured: Hijras in India celebrating Koovagam, a Hindu festival dedicated to the deity Aravan., Credit: Wikipedia
Culture gives us permission - or denies us permission - to express what we find is true and real in ourselves. There is nothing natural, or inevita...

  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 20:44
On Homosexuality and Hinduism
From: Interfaith Voices
Series: Gay in the Eyes of God: A 21-Part Series
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The term "Hinduism" refers to a multitude of traditions, so it's no surprise that Hindu attitudes towards sexuality and homosexuality are complex. ...

  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 12:27