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Carbon Shock
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Mark Schapiro, Credit: Center for Investigative Reporting
Carbon is shaping our future. Those little particles we can’t even see are reshaping our natural world, and transforming our economy. And, it all e...

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  • Added: Sep 24, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Capitalism v Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Timothy K. Kuhner, Credit: Georgia State University
As of the latest national elections, it costs approximately $1 billion to become president, $10 million to become a Senator, and $1 million to beco...

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  • Added: Aug 21, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Psychiatrist Judith Orloff with "Ecstasy of Surrender"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Orloff is an Asst. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA who incorporates energy medicine in her practice. In her fifth book she invites reader...

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  • Added: Jun 26, 2014
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 2
Citizens Congress 2014
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: William Ostrander
In 2010, the US Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting political donations. That is, so long as the...

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  • Added: Apr 27, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Missing Class
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Betsy Leondar-Wright
In Missing Class, Betsy Leondar-Wright looks at class dynamics in twenty-five groups of social movement organizations. Included in her study are; t...

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: David Lochbaum, Credit: Union of Concerned Scientists
The nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011 should provide the United States with lessons learned, however, the carefully nurtured tale that technology w...

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  • Added: Mar 26, 2014
  • Length: 28:41
  • Purchases: 1
The Age of Radiance
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Craig Nelson
Bestselling author Craig Nelson provides an in depth examination of the history of the Atomic age from x-rays to the 2011 meltdown in Japan.

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  • Added: Mar 20, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
PTSD: Diagnosis and Identity in Post-empire America - Part 1
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jerry Lembcke
The end of the First Gulf War saw a vast increase in the number of combat soldiers filing claims for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Over the past ...

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  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Glitter Crimes
From: Trevor Hultner
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Two environmental activists were arrested in Oklahoma City last year on charges of simulating a terrorist attack. Originally produced for Radio Dis...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 10:57
Author George Saunders, Master of the Short Story
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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George’s “The Tenth of December” has already appeared on many a best-book and award-finalist list. As we readers know, it's not every day that you ...

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2014
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 1
In Bed With Wall Street
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Larry Doyle
The Wall Street meltdown in 2008 brought the country to its knees and spawned nationwide protests against the lack of regulation and oversight in t...

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2014
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Meet the New Essex County Democratic Committee Chairmen
From: New Jersey Radio Exchange Network
Series: Alfred Bundy Presents........
Caption: Leroy Jones, Essex County Democratic Committee Chairmen
Coverage of the Politics that govern the County of Essex, New Jersey.

  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 29:52
Author Doris Kearns Goodwin, a biographer of presidents
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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In “Bully Pulpit” Doris focuses on the friendship and eventual falling out of Presidents Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft while describing t...

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  • Added: Dec 19, 2013
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 2
Living in the Shadow of the Cross
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Paul Kivel
Christianity has provided many positive events: assisting the underprivileged, supported education and promoted social justice, however, its also f...

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  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
Maryland Town Celebrates Its 15 Hours Of Fame
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: After fleeing Washington, D.C., during the War of 1812, President James Madison spent the night in this Brookeville home, supposedly making Brookeville “U.S. Capital for a Day.” , Credit: Washington Post
Andy Warhol once said: "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." But in this town, you'll meet people who claim that in the pa...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2013
  • Length: 06:26
Nemanja Kojic a.k.a Hornsman Coyote On HIS Couch...
From: Constance A. Dunn
Series: On the Couch...
Caption: Nemanja Kojic (Hornsman Coyote), Credit: Constance A. Dunn
Interview with Serbian musician Nemanja Kojic (Hornsman Coyote) by Constance A. Dunn. Interview from Coyote's living room in Belgrade.

  • Added: Jul 03, 2013
  • Length: 44:12
Author Michael Pollan and "Cooked"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Food guy Michael Pollan’s new book is “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation.” He is a personable, well-spoken walking encyclopedia of Ameri...

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  • Added: Jun 14, 2013
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 2
Author David McCullough and "1776"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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David writes both histories and biographies and has narrated many a broadcast program. His latest book is "The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris....

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  • Added: Jun 12, 2013
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 1
What Then Must We Do?
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Chelsea Green jacket cover
In his new book, economist Gar Alperovitz speaks plainly about why the time is right to democratize the ownership of wealth as a way to strengthen ...

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  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
Constitutional Myths
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ray Raphael
By entering the world of the Constitution’s framers, and experiencing it one day after the next as they did, constitutional scholar Ray Raphael hel...

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  • Added: Apr 30, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Live Local. Live Small.
From: Gwen yfar
Series: Live Local. Live Small.
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Live Local. Live Small. Create big changes in your home, your finances and your community.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2013
  • Length: 06:32
Author Michael Moss and "Salt Sugar Fat"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Pulitzer Prize-winning Michael Moss describes “bliss point” and “mouth feel,” two of the terms common in the trillion-dollar processed food industr...

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 3
Author Siobhan Fallon and “You Know When the Men Are Gone”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Siobhan’s debut collection of short stories is that most unusual of war books. It's not about the battlefields. Most of the stories take place at F...

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  • Added: Mar 16, 2013
  • Length: 10:05
  • Purchases: 1
The Voice of Sports: Author Frank Deford
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Frank has a 50-year sports writing career dating back to the beginnings of Sports Illustrated, and his NPR program, Sweetness and Light, has aired ...

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  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 10:04
  • Purchases: 3
Interview with Noam Chomsky
From: Liz Myers
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Air Occupy radio show interviews Noam Chomsky about Gaza, Occupy Wall Street movement, Labor, and the media.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2013
  • Length: 44:18

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