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This week is the first episode of several about the intersection between the media and prison struggles. In January of 2015, journalist Barrett Bro...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2020
  • Length: 21:33
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Dr. Darrell Roe is an assistant professor of communication at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales. Since 2016, Dr. Roe has focused much of hi...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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Be warned: everything you say on Facebook can and will be used against you in a court of law!

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  • Added: Dec 05, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 11
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Purpose-driven and consciously prepared brain food from the beaches of Malibu, California. Join us on this week’s show focusing on what it means to...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2019
  • Length: 50:05
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How to combat the world's most advanced and ruthless surveillance state; OR, "coming to a theater near you."

  • Added: Nov 06, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
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HOUR ONE: "Wonders Of The Human Body" - What's so wondrous about the human body? An hour on transplants, chronic illnesses and the familiar in ours...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:58
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We spend the hour with science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist, Cory Doctorow. First, we talk with him about his terrific new boo...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
Caption: Cory Doctorow
How we deal with the possibilities of tomorrow are very dependent on how we handle those possibilities today. Sounds simple, however, even when we ...

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  • Added: Sep 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Michael Patrick Lynch
We think we know a lot. Perhaps we do. On the other hand, an ongoing study at Yale University finds that today’s society thinks it knows more than ...

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  • Added: Aug 27, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Right: U.S. Sen. Dennis Chavez (NM); Right: Professor Alvaro Bedoya
What is the history of surveillance in the US? What are its implications for today's activists, immigrants, and people of color? Professor Alvaro B...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2019
  • Length: 57:53
Caption: Ramez Naam
Whether or not we use the name Green New Deal to describe a set of aggressive long-term policies that will help humanity in the fight against clima...

  • Added: May 29, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Professor Ed Hess
America is set to lose tens of millions of job in the next 15 years. Some of the best research today estimates that one half of all U.S. jobs will ...

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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HOUR ONE: "Is the Internet Built for Everyone?" - They say "don't feed the trolls" — but why should racist and sexist trolls get to own the web? Wa...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:58
Caption: Tirana Vertical Forest designed by Stefano Boeri
Some think that “green growth” would be unlikely to stop global warming, and would only worsen numerous other global environmental crises. While a ...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2019
  • Length: 59:09
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In a troubled, divisive time, a small group of scientists decided to make their voices heard—and founded the Union of Concerned Scientists in the p...

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  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
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Bob Kustra interviews Bethany McClean about her book "Saudi America"

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  • Added: Jan 06, 2019
  • Length: 29:55
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: The Polish charity that the country's rulers love to hate. Some migrants and refugees in Scandinavia are seen through dif...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
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Stabilizing our climate is going to take some hard truths – and hard numbers. “If you look at 1.5 degrees, it's about 13 years,” says Stanford’s Ar...

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  • Added: Nov 29, 2018
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 6
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Purpose-driven and consciously prepared brain food from the beaches of Malibu, California. Join us on this week’s show focusing on digital communic...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2018
  • Length: 47:48
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HOUR ONE: "Writing Truth And Lies" - How close to reality were the "Little House" books? Does it matter? This hour, we'll talk morality in memoirs....

  • Added: Nov 09, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
Caption: Office of Public Safety adviser Robert N. Bush and South Korean Counterpart.
In Violence Work, Micol Seigel shows how the police put violence to work for the state; policing being the quintessential translation of state powe...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
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HOUR ONE: "What's Wrong With Work?" - Journalists in tents. Professors below the poverty line. When good jobs don't cut it anymore, what's wrong wi...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
Caption: Professor Serhii Plokhy
Twenty-five years before Fukushima the worst nuclear disaster occurred in the Soviet Union.

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  • Added: Jul 20, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Mona Siddiqui, Chief Data Officer at the US Department of Health and Human Servi...

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  • Added: Jul 17, 2018
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Joel Kotkin
Population growth is causing us to rethink our urban and suburban lifestyles, and with that, redesigning cities is a new fad.

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  • Added: May 02, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1