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The lessons of D.L. Rosenhan's study of imposters pretending to have psychiatric illness on psychiatric units have not been lost on the world of me...
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 07:32
Our show today features three segments, produced and recorded by journalist and WFHB volunteer Dan Young, which examine what has been labeled the “...
- Added: May 10, 2016
- Length: 59:24
Television is not just news. It has become the lynchpin of the lynchmob.
- Added: Feb 22, 2016
- Length: 06:00
Combatting ISIS, relations with China, and immigration policy have emerged as major issues in the 2016 Presidential Primaries. In this broadcast o...
- Added: Feb 15, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
In the Department of Poetic Justice (and Reckoning), The River Is Wide offers a poem that could be sung to the tune from a tune in the public domai...
- Added: Nov 28, 2015
- Length: 02:50
As more writers return awards and honors, cynics ask if this is an outbreak of Award Returnitis
- Added: Oct 12, 2015
- Length: 06:00
Mahesh Sharma, India’s Culture minister, and a high school in Irving, Texas have more in common than they realize.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Sep 22, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
The war in Syria, now in its fifth year, has created a refugee crisis. Almost 4 million Syrians have fled the country, and another 7.6 million have...
- Added: Sep 10, 2015
- Length: 23:44
The secrecy around an illness can become the great taboo.
What Jimmy Carter did by going public was break that taboo and face the disease squarely....
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Aug 25, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
It’s not a kitten video or an on-air blooper or a wardrobe malfunction. Who would have thought a 15 minute debating society speech could go viral? ...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Jul 28, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
In the last decade Bollywood has snuck into America. Bollywood aerobics. Bollywood theme parties. It even snuck into the Oscars via Slumdog Million...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 04, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
How well do you understand what the cops say when they arrest you? We interview forensic linguist Dr. Aneta Pavlenko. She testified at the trial of...
- Added: Apr 09, 2015
- Length: 08:59
The Internet just became freer in India thanks to a young woman who decided to do something about it instead of just complaining.
- Added: Mar 30, 2015
- Length: 06:00
Ilan Stavans is a Mexican-American essayist, lexicographer, cultural commentator, translator, short-story author, TV personality, and teacher known...
- Added: Mar 03, 2015
- Length: 23:33
Sandip Roy investigates the latest social media challenge and finds out what all this 'Rice' is about.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Sep 02, 2014
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Narenda Modi is the 15th Prime Minister of India, and the first PM born after Independence.
- Added: May 27, 2014
- Length: 04:30
The controversy over Tibetan independence won't likely be over anytime soon, but is the Middle Way, promoted by the Dalai Lama himself, any way to ...
- Added: Mar 10, 2014
- Length: 04:30
What a popular new hand gesture in France can tell us about the line between offensive and racist.
- Added: Feb 05, 2014
- Length: 02:01
What recently discovered personal letters from a senior Nazi can tell us about the uncomfortably familiar face of evil.
- Added: Jan 29, 2014
- Length: 02:01
What the growing gender gap in China can tell us about future threats to an increasingly worried Communist Party leadership in Beijing.
- Added: Jan 22, 2014
- Length: 01:56
What delays in completing preparation in Brazil for the World Cup can tell us about the pros and cons of hosting global sporting events.
- Added: Jan 08, 2014
- Length: 01:58
What the execution of the North Korean supreme leader’s uncle can tell us about the future stability of this isolated, and impoverished, country.
- Added: Dec 18, 2013
- Length: 02:12
What French intervention in Africa this week can tell us about the importance of avoiding failed states and safe havens.
- Added: Dec 11, 2013
- Length: 02:11
What homemaking tips from a female terrorist can tell us about the risks posed by the process of radicalizing the next generation of militants.
- Added: Dec 04, 2013
- Length: 02:12
What Indonesia's snub of Australia over a phone hacking scandal can tell us about the importance in diplomacy of just asking nicely.
- Added: Nov 20, 2013
- Length: 02:16
