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Michele Wucker on "Migration's Role in Global Development"
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Global Ethics Forum: Advocates for Ethics in Business
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Julia Kennedy interviews Michele Wucker on migration, its role in global development, and the ethical questions it raises.

  • Added: Aug 07, 2009
  • Length: 27:31
Medical Marijuana - New Jersey moves bill, New Mexico's active program
From: Chris Goldstein
Caption: NJ Assembly Medical Marijuana hearing 6-4-09
Actuality Audio from the NJ Assembly health committee hearing on medical marijuana 6-4-09 and interview with New Mexico Drug Policy Alliance on the...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Jun 10, 2009
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 1
Sexology -- Groks Science Show 2009-05-20
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Sharon Moalem discussed how sex works.

Bought by KPIP-LP and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: May 20, 2009
  • Length: 29:52
  • Purchases: 2
Medical Marijuana at the National Constitution Center
From: Chris Goldstein
Caption: Georgine DiMaria 4/20/09 Philadelphia, Credit: C. David Freitag
MS Patient Charles Kwiatkowski and Miss NJ 2006 Georgine DiMaria speak about their personal experience and advocacy for medical marijuana in New Je...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: May 13, 2009
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 1
Resilience: Adaptation and Transformation in Turbulent Times
From: A World of Possibilities
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Interviews with several scientists about how nature teaches us to be resilient.

Bought by WRGY, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Mar 12, 2009
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 3
Drug Czar's Office Gone to Pot and Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
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An essay discussing a recent review ordered by Congress of the ONDCP and an interview with Howard Wooldridge of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition

  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:31
Team of Rivals
From: AARP Radio
Series: Prime Time Radio
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Ever since the election -- or even further back, when Barack Obama chose former rival Joe Biden as his running mate -- the blogosphere and the pund...

Bought by WCNY and WRPI


  • Added: Dec 11, 2008
  • Length: 59:57
  • Purchases: 2
Active Voice Radio: Peter Karoff - Making Charitable Donations Count
From: Chris Goldstein
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Americans have an incredible capacity for charitable giving. Even in these difficult economic times donations are still flowing. What makes us give...

Bought by Aspen Public Radio and KSFR


  • Added: Dec 10, 2008
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
Unquiet History 11: the Myth of Rivals
From: Matthew Battles
Series: Unquiet History
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Is the Team of Rivals a good idea?

Bought by Remix Radio


  • Added: Nov 21, 2008
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 1
Unquiet History 5
From: Matthew Battles
Series: Unquiet History
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A new view of medieval garbage

  • Added: Oct 27, 2008
  • Length: 02:51
Active Voice Radio 7-23-08: Judy Polumbaum- China Ink: The Changing Face of Chinese Journalism PART 2
From: Chris Goldstein
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Judy Polumbaum interviewed 20 Chinese journalists about their life and craft, opening a unique window into this major media producer.

  • Added: Jul 22, 2008
  • Length: 29:30
UNICEF Podcast Educating Children after natural disasters
From: UNICEF
Series: Beyond School Books
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Roundtable Discussion about Educating Children after natural disasters

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 19, 2008
  • Length: 19:15
  • Purchases: 2
Active Voice Radio 5-28-08: Paul Dutton Differential Diagnoses: A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions in the United States and France
From: Chris Goldstein
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Professor Paul Dutton takes us on a tour of the facinating differences between the US and French healthcare systems...we can learn more from the Fr...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: May 28, 2008
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
What Would Malcolm X Say About Barack Obama?
From: WPSU
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A Penn State historian asks the question: What would Malcolm X say about the candidacy of Barack Obama?

  • Added: Mar 31, 2008
  • Length: 05:06
Undecided voters MOS during Bill Clinton visit to Penn State (March 27)
From: ComRadio
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Undecided voters in central Pennsylvania after Bill Clinton stop at Penn State (March 27)

  • Added: Mar 30, 2008
  • Length: 02:24
Undecided voters MOS during Obama visit to Penn State (March 30)
From: ComRadio
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Undecided voters in central Pennsylvania during Obama campaign stop on Sunday

  • Added: Mar 30, 2008
  • Length: 04:17
Debate: Dean Erwin Chemerinsky v. John Yoo "Law & the Courts during the Bush Administration." Program 2 of 2.
From: Mansoor Sabbagh
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This is a debate between Dean Chemerinsky and Prof. Yoo on how laws and courts have have function during the Bush Admin.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2008
  • Length: 57:41
Debate: Dean Erwin Chemerinsky v. John Yoo "Law & the Courts during the Bush Administration." Program 1 of 2.
From: Mansoor Sabbagh
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This is a debate between Dean Chemerinsky and Prof. Yoo on how laws and courts have have function during the Bush Admin.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2008
  • Length: 56:07
Family at War
From: War News Radio
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This week on War News Radio, we speak to two brothers who must decide whether to escape the dangers of a warzone or stay in Baghdad with their family.

Bought by KUOW, KXOT Public Radio, and KGOU


  • Added: Mar 14, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Paradise Lost: Military Training in Makua Valley
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Making Contact intern Samson Reiny reports on what happens when the military takes over historically sacred land and on how people are fighting bac...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
Today's Carbon Report
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Catch the news and weather at 10 tonight along with the day's carbon report. Carbon report?

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 01:17
  • Purchases: 1
Peace Talks Radio: Electing Mediators To Public Office (29:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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If mediators are trained to resolve conflicts between disputing parties, what would happen if we elected more mediators to public office? That's th...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, Marfa Public Radio, WGDR, KDUR, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 09, 2007
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
'Shifting Baselines' Breed Creeping Degradation
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Have you ever been really bugged by a new ding in your car, but weeks later, you barely noticed it? We all learn to tolerate negative changes by ad...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
In Search of the Lost Feminine
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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1) What are the myths we live by? And how have they effected us and our culture, past and present? Craig Barnes, author of In Search of the Lost ...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: May 25, 2007
  • Length: 28:45
  • Purchases: 1
Active Voice Radio 3-30-07: Ann Druyan - Carl Sagan: The Varieties of Scientific Experience- KSFR Fund-drive
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
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Ann Druyan Interview, KSFR pledge pitch

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Mar 30, 2007
  • Length: 22:03
  • Purchases: 1