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2023-11-12 Your Brain on Literature
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How do writers and filmmakers exploit our cognitive biases to surprise and delight us?

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WLPR , KICI Iowa City, KSKQ, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Nov 13, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 11
Is Wokeness Killing Comedy?
From: Open to Debate
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What jokes would George Carlin have deemed offensive today? What makes us laugh has come under scrutiny. Old jokes or skits are deemed offensive in...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KUNM, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
World in Progress 02/11/23
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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The Bronx: Fires, hip hop and gentrification. RERUN

Bought by WFHB and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Oct 31, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Too Soon? The First Family 60 Years On
From: Mike Flanagan
Caption: The First Family, Credit: Courtesy Cadence Records
A 60th Anniversary review of the funniest album of the Kennedy era. The Grammy Award winning Album of the Year that was ultimately withdrawn from c...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 57:17
World in Progress 26/10/23
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week we’re revisiting a long feature that resonated with DW’s audience. Murder, coverups and Bangladesh’s ‘death squad’. Is Bangladesh’s not...

Bought by WFHB and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Oct 24, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Living Planet 09/22/23
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Reenvisioning the restroom (RERUN)

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and Radio Kansas


  • Added: Sep 21, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
2338: Are We Living in a Simulation?, 9/19/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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How would we even tell the real world from a simulated one?

  • Added: Sep 18, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
2023-09-17 Are We Living in a Simulation?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How would we even tell the real world from a simulated one?

Bought by KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), KSKQ, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Sep 18, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Making moves: HUGE Improv Theater to reopen doors at 2728 Lyndale
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: HUGE Improv Theater has purchased the Art Materials building and will transform the south half of the building into a theater., Credit: Sheila Regan
After learning that their landlord had donated to a former KKK leader, HUGE Improv Theater knew they needed to move. So how did a small arts non-pr...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 05:24
2023-09-10 Adorno and the Culture Industry
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Theodor Adorno was born September 11, 1903.

Bought by KUNM, KTSW 89.9, KICI Iowa City, KICI Iowa City, KSKQ and more


  • Added: Sep 11, 2023
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 11
2023-09-03 (End of) Summer Reading List 2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What books should thoughtful people have been reading this summer?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KMUN, KSKQ, KTSW 89.9, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Sep 04, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
Is Objectivity Essential to Journalism?
From: Open to Debate
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For decades, objectivity has been cited as journalism's gold standard, promising that journalists would stick “to the facts" and deliver both sides...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, KCPW Salt Lake City, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 24, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Science unscripted (DW) 08/22/2023
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: We’re back (after never really leaving). Through the fog of jet lag, Gabe deciphers a song derived from human brain scans.

Bought by Central Florida Public Media and WFHB


  • Added: Aug 24, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
2023-07-30 The 2023 Dionysus Awards
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What movies of the past year challenged your assumptions and made you think about things in new ways?

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KMUN, KTSW 89.9, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KSKQ


  • Added: Jul 31, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
2331: The 2023 Dionysus Awards, 8/1/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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What movies from last year challenged your assumptions and made you think about things in new ways?

  • Added: Jul 20, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
2329: The Arts for All?, 7/18/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Can art be broadly accessible without sacrificing quality? Can it be cognitively challenging without being elitist?

  • Added: Jul 16, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
BGR420 | Q2 Boom Goddess Radio Film & TV Reviews
From: KRDP
Series: Boom Goddess Radio
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This week friends of the show Dr. Linda Arzoumanian and Elaine Kennedy return to review some recently released films and TV shows available on stre...

  • Added: Jul 13, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Is Elon Musk Killing Twitter?
From: Open to Debate
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These days, the bird’s the word. Since shelling out $44 billion for Twitter, critics say Elon Musk is knocking the social media giant off its perch...

Bought by WMUU-LP and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 13, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
World in Progress 05/25/23
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: A colorful report on the social changes in New York’s Bronx.

Bought by WFHB and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: May 25, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
2023-05-21 True Contradictions
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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This sentence is false—does that mean it’s also true?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KMUN, KSKQ, KTSW 89.9, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 22, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
2321: True Contradictions, 5/23/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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This sentence is false—does that mean it’s also true?

  • Added: May 17, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
2318: The Power of Prediction, 5/2/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Is your brain a camera that records the world, or a projector that imposes pictures on it?

  • Added: Apr 26, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
Chuck D & Rosa Clemente: Hip Hop's Unfinished Revolution
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Chuck D of Public Enemy famously called Hip Hop "the Black CNN". As Hip Hop celebrated its 50th anniversary this year, Laura talks with him, and Br...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN and more


  • Added: Apr 26, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
2023-04-09 What's in a Game?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Are games just a fun way to pass the time, or do they do something more for us?

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KMUN, KICI Iowa City, KMXT, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2023
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 14
2315: What's in a Game?, 4/11/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Are games just a fun pastime, or is there something more important about them?

  • Added: Apr 09, 2023
  • Length: 53:59

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