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How should we reward experts and how much? When the experts fail, should populist outrage be directed at those individuals or the system?

  • Added: Sep 11, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
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Can public discussion of issues acknowledge gray areas despite being polarized by the media and single issue groups?

  • Added: Sep 11, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
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Do we respect the wishes of anti-Castro Americans, to restrict trade, or the wishes of agriculture and medical sales interests, to open Cuban marke...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
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Banning headscarves may violate an individual's right of religious expression and choice. Allowing headscarves may violate a state's commitment to ...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
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A Colombian immigrant was recently denied her investor's visa, forcing her to shut down her U.S. company and fire her six employees. Does immigrati...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
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Should foreign companies fudge a commitment to free speech to gain early market access? Is some information better than none, or is censorship a bl...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
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Virtual worlds are online environments in which users interact via self-designed persona called avatars. Virtual reality can be entertaining and ed...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2009
  • Length: 01:33
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Councilman Ron Rice and his father, State Senator Ron Rice, both of Newark, have had some very public political differences in the past few years. ...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2009
  • Length: 59:58
Caption: Marijuana Is Safer
An interview with Paul Armentano on his new book Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We driving People to Drink?

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Aug 12, 2009
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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Minneapolis Police try something different to boost with domestic violence convictions.

  • Added: Jul 30, 2009
  • Length: 05:06
Caption: Scott MacDonald in his workshop
Human relations are important even in jobs where you wouldn’t expect them to be. Scott MacDonald may be an internationally renowned guitar builder,...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jul 13, 2009
  • Length: 09:45
  • Purchases: 1
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
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
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
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From the Darfur Radio Project: we hear Sudanese responses to the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States.

  • Added: May 03, 2009
  • Length: 03:16
Caption: Georgine DiMaria, 4/20/09, Philadelphia, Credit: C. David Freitag
Georgine DiMaria is titleholder of Miss New Jersey 2006. She has worked as a health advocate for 8 years. Her new platform is medical marijuana. Th...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2009
  • Length: 20:04
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Youth Mic asks people what they think about how media portrays beauty.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2009
  • Length: 03:21
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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
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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
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Noel Hendrickson considers questions about what might have been if the past had happened differently.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:39
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22-60 Million pounds of marijuana grown domestically in 2007, worth from $50-$230 Billion, serving 25-80 million consumers. This massive market rem...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 05, 2009
  • Length: 04:12
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Arthur Miller with panelists, Credit: Jonathan Guyer
A panel of international journalists, politicos, academics and legal experts consider propaganda in the context of a hypothetical struggle between ...

Bought by KQED, WGBH Radio Boston, KUT-HD, KCUR, KWGS and more


  • Added: Dec 15, 2008
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 6
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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
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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