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Not Wanted at Harvard? BIPOC Media on Claudine Gay, Anti-Zionism & Diversity in Education
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Dr. Claudine Gay made history as the first Black President of Harvard. She faced fierce backlash over the school’s statements on the Israel-Hamas W...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, Radio Catskill and more


  • Added: Jan 30, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
2406: Can A.I. Help Us Understand Babies?, 2/6/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Could large language models show us how human babies learn to speak?

  • Added: Jan 30, 2024
  • Length: 53:58
2024-01-28 20th Anniversary Quiz Night
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Celebrate two decades of questioning everything (except your intelligence) by taking our philosophical pub quiz.

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


  • Added: Jan 29, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
2405: 20th Anniversary Quiz Night, 1/30/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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How does your philosophical trivia knowledge stack up against host emeritus John Perry's?

  • Added: Jan 29, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
She Fought Goodyear in 2009:Today's Women Are Still Winning
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
In 2009 Lilly Ledbetter learned she had been paid 40% less than men in the same Goodyear Tire & Rubber job. It was a long slog, but she won, and wo...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
Take Stock in Children Executive Director Nancy Stellway on the growing importance of Early Mentorship, Guidance, Scholarships, Grants, Education, and The Arts in today's changing world. 
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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Take Stock in Children Executive Director Nancy Stellway on the growing importance of Early Mentorship, Guidance, Scholarships, Grants, Education, ...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 26:56
Why Are People Afraid of the Most Popular Opioid Addiction Treatment?
From: Tradeoffs
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Fentanyl killed 75,000 people in 2022. Now it’s making one of the few treatments for opioid addiction harder to use.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 23:50
The Man in the President's Limo
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
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President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. There are many photos from that day — Lyndon B. Johnson being sworn in aboard Air ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and KUCB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 09:29
  • Purchases: 2
Documenting an Invisible Island
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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For more than a century, it was almost impossible to find out much about people buried on Hart Island. But in 2008, that all changed — thanks in la...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 17:56
LaMont Dottin
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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Back in 1995, LaMont Dottin was 21 years old and a freshman at Queens College when, one evening, he didn’t come home. His mother went to the local ...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 09:00
Hisako Hasegawa
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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The Belvedere Hotel is in the heart of New York City’s theater district. Many of its guests come to see the sights, take in a show. But there are a...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 07:55
Cesar Irizarry
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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Angel Irizarry spent years working as a detective, and in 2021 he set out on a personal investigation to track down an uncle who’d been estranged f...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 12:15
Angel Garcia
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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When Annette Vega was seven years old, she found out the man she called “dad” wasn’t her biological father. But all she knew was that her mom had h...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 26:07
Is Engineering Solar Radiation A Crazy Idea?
From: Open to Debate
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Right now, climate engineers are working on new technologies, called solar geoengineering, that would reflect the sun’s rays away from Earth as a w...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
Noah Creshevsky
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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When Noah Creshevsky learned he was dying of bladder cancer two years ago, he decided to decline medical treatment. Soon, he and his husband David ...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 07:41
Neil Harris Jr.
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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Around 2015, a young man who called himself Stephen showed up in Manhattan's Riverside Park. Locals noticed him sitting on the same park bench day ...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 20:54
A new lawsuit says the VA has failed to live up to its promises about gender-affirming care
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough (right) talks with VA social worker Art Akkerman at a June 2022 LGBTQ Pride event in Denver, Colorado., Credit: Elaine Buehler / U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
The Transgender American Veterans Association is suing the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, two years after the department said it would provid...

Bought by KPBS, WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio, KUT, and WHRV


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 5
Adrenaline Dominance -- Groks Science Show 2024-01-24
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Michael Platt discussed his book, Adrenaline Dominance.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Don't throw away your refrigerator
From: Laur Hesse Fisher
Series: TILclimate Podcast
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Refrigerants are in every refrigerator, freezer and air conditioner, and the world is on track to make a lot more of them in the years to come. The...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 14:21
  • Purchases: 1
Science unscripted (Spectrum) 01/23/2024 - Video games help you recover from work
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week we dive into whether video games help us recover from work stress. (Spoiler: They absolutely do. But there is a catch.)

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Central Florida Public Media, and WFHB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for January 24, 2024
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Israel’s Brutal Gaza War Has Now Killed 25,000 Palestinians; Direct Action...

Bought by WFHB and WETS


  • Added: Jan 24, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
How to Fortify Democracy in 2024: A Citizen’s Guide by Sam Daley-Harris
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Civic courage — what does it look like and how can more of us embody it? Our guest Sam Daley-Harris believes we need advocacy organizations to tra...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN, KWMR and more


  • Added: Jan 24, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
I&I - The 2024 Prediction Show
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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This week's episode is the January edition of Incentives & Instincts, a recurring series in which Justin speaks with economist and friend Bryce War...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 24, 2024
  • Length: 28:06
  • Purchases: 1
Bridging Political Divisions (Part 1 of 2)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we explore political division. Research shows that polarization isn’t just something we see in politics or wi...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KUNM


  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Uncovering the History of the Massacre of Black Wall Street (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: B.C. Franklin (right), I.H. Spears (left) and Effie Thompson (center) filing insurance claims for survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre in a Red Cross tent. , Credit: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from Tulsa Friends and John W. and Karen R. Franklin
In the first of our 3 part series leading up to Black History Month, we focus in on how journalists and historians today are covering the Tulsa Rac...

Bought by KALW, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN


  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4

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