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Leading experts in climate science and environmental research join WorldCanvass host Joan Kjaer to discuss the most pressing concerns facing Iowans...
Bought by KZUM
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 19:45
- Purchases: 1
From 1933 until the end of World War II, a number of Nazi units known as the Kuntschutz, plundered gold, silver and important art works from all ov...
- Added: Apr 25, 2018
- Length: 58:37
Radio Curious discusses how to abolish solitary confinement and creating a rehabilitative attitude in prisons with Dr. Terry Allen Kupers, a foren...
Bought by KVMR
- Added: Feb 21, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Radio Curious discusses solitary confinement and its physical and mental health impacts on prison inmates with Dr. Terry Allen Kupers, a forensic p...
Bought by KVMR
- Added: Feb 14, 2018
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
How can policymakers be persuaded to abandon the most widespread public policy goal on Earth? In our last episode, Brian Czech explained that econo...
- Added: Dec 26, 2017
- Length: 28:30
What do football, tobacco and oil have in common? A common narrative of deceit. When tobacco companies faced public scrutiny about the link between...
Bought by WORT, KWIT, KCPW Salt Lake City, and NPR Now
- Added: Dec 07, 2017
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 4
Radio Curious discusses police killings in a two-part conversation with U.C. Berkeley Boalt Hall Law School professor Franklin E. Zimring, author o...
Bought by KVMR
- Added: Nov 21, 2017
- Length: 58:02
- Purchases: 1
News. Fake news. Disinformation. Fact-checking. Sourced news. Unverified sources. Social media incursions by foreign nations. Cleverly disguised ma...
- Added: Nov 07, 2017
- Length: 27:25
Relocalization may be the most important strategy for minimizing climate change. According to Bill McKibben, “working as communities is the most im...
- Added: Oct 31, 2017
- Length: 28:30
News. Fake news. Disinformation. Fact-checking. Sourced news. Unverified sources. Social media incursions by foreign nations. Cleverly disguised ma...
- Added: Oct 30, 2017
- Length: 28:08
News. Fake news. Disinformation. Fact-checking. Sourced news. Unverified sources. Social media incursions by foreign nations. Cleverly disguised ma...
- Added: Oct 30, 2017
- Length: 26:05
Radio Curious revisits a conversation with "Primal Scream" founder Dr. Arthur Janov, who died on October 1, 2017. The therapeutic method promoted b...
Bought by KVMR
- Added: Oct 11, 2017
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
“Gross Domestic Product has now become a fetish,” according to economist Raj Patel. Many undesirable things end up adding to GDP: wars, disease, an...
Bought by Indie3 Radio and KTRL
- Added: Aug 08, 2017
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 2
What does "21st Century policing" actually mean, and how would a forward-thinking department be different than what most jurisdictions have now? Ro...
- Added: Jul 26, 2017
- Length: 04:25
James Comey wasn’t the nation’s embattled former FBI Director in 2002; he was the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan. It was around then that he g...
- Added: Jul 26, 2017
- Length: 04:05
The federal government doesn't track how often or what happens when police shoot civilians, and there's no official national database to show how b...
- Added: Jul 26, 2017
- Length: 04:22
The Trump administration has promised a return to "tough on crime" criminal justice policies, including a recent memo that instructs federal prosec...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Jul 10, 2017
- Length: 04:39
- Purchases: 1
Attorney General Jeff Sessions declined to renew the National Commission on Forensic Science in April, effectively ending federal efforts to standa...
- Added: Jul 10, 2017
- Length: 04:19
In May, Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded a 2013 memo written by his predecessor, Eric Holder, that told prosecutors not only will they abid...
- Added: Jul 10, 2017
- Length: 04:14
DNA tests have proved something surprising: people sometimes confess to terrible crimes that they definitely did not commit. One reason seems to be...
- Added: Jul 10, 2017
- Length: 03:35
Facial recognition technology is being used by police all over the U.S. using images of millions of innocent Americans. It’s a lot less accurate th...
- Added: Jul 10, 2017
- Length: 04:14
Capitalocene – maybe it doesn’t roll off the tongue, but a group of thinkers argue the term is preferable to Anthropocene because it's more diagnos...
- Added: Jul 05, 2017
- Length: 33:19
Jim Sims and Liz Mitchell host Cherrish Pryor, Chairwoman of the Indiana Black Legislative Caucus. Hear how the caucus is advancing the primary co...
- Added: Apr 06, 2017
- Length: 58:30
IU Soul Revue Director Crystal Taliefero provides a master class on successful performing, learned as part of bands with multi-platinum records (yo...
- Added: Apr 05, 2017
- Length: 01:01:03
Hosts Cornelius Wright and William Hosea speak with pharmacist John Homes. Aside from dispensing medications, a pharmacist helps patients understan...
- Added: Apr 05, 2017
- Length: 55:45
