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Born to Run: Is Nearly Barefoot Best?
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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As runners gear up for race season, Christopher McDougall's book is timely. He spurred on the barefoot running revolution several years ago with hi...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and Radio Newark


  • Added: May 22, 2015
  • Length: 09:57
  • Purchases: 2
Making Love to Siri: The Seductiveness of Robots
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Tonight’s show “Making Love to Siri,” seeks to understand what is seductive to us about robots. Which question should we ask: Can we make love to S...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2015
  • Length: 58:33
Unspun Revisits Climate Change with Dr. Michael Mann
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Michael Mann
Dr. Doug Craig co-hosts with me, as Unspun revisits the most serious issue of our time, Climate Change (of course), with Dr. Michael Mann. Dr. Mic...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 58:25
Interchange - A Measure of Choice: Vaccine Opposition and Public Health
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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"A Measure of Choice" explores the reasons that some parents are choosing not to vaccinate their children. The so-called “anti-vax” movement has be...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:44
Unspun Talks with Anne Petermann, Director of Global Justice Ecology Project and Coordinator of the Campaign to Stop GE Trees
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Anne Petermann
Unspun sits down with Anne Petermann, Ex. Dir. of the Global Justice Ecology Project. Long time forest protection and indigenous rights activist. ...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2015
  • Length: 58:52
WorldCanvass: Tobacco, Pot, and the Public Interest (Part 1)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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WorldCanvass explores the complicated and controversial issues surrounding the legality and use of tobacco and marijuana with a special focus on th...

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  • Added: Feb 13, 2015
  • Length: 25:54
  • Purchases: 1
WorldCanvass: Tobacco, Pot, and the Public Interest (Part 2)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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WorldCanvass explores the complicated and controversial issues surrounding the legality and use of tobacco and marijuana with a special focus on th...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 13, 2015
  • Length: 26:29
  • Purchases: 1
WorldCanvass: Tobacco, Pot, and the Public Interest (Part 3)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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WorldCanvass explores the complicated and controversial issues surrounding the legality and use of tobacco and marijuana with a special focus on th...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 13, 2015
  • Length: 26:31
  • Purchases: 1
Ep 54 - Nicole Liedke/Compassionate Care Center of CT | Bobby Pickles’ Podcast
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
Caption: Bobby Pickles (left); Nicole Liedke (right)
Podcasting from Compassionate Care Center of CT (one of the six medical marijuana dispensaries in that state) Bobby, on location in the quaint town...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2014
  • Length: 33:47
Unspun Talks Ebola With Robert Walker, President of the Population Institute
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Robert Walker
Unspun takes a serious look at the Ebola Crisis facing the world and our part in the creation and possible solutions.

  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:38
Seeds of Deception - Jeffrey M. Smith - Part One
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents a two part interview with Jeffrey M. Smith author of Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies about ...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 28:32
Food Sleuth Radio, Michael Graziano Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Can you imagine a world without functioning antibiotics? Sadly, we’re headed in that direction due to overuse and misuse of these precious drugs, ...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
Author Charles Mann and Life in the New World
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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In “1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus,” science writer Mann describes what some of the North and South American nations looked ...

Bought by WTJU, KCMJ Community Radio, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Aug 25, 2014
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 3
The Humanist Hour #108: Coming Out Ex-Muslim with Muhammad Syed and Hiba Krisht
From: Bo Bennett
Series: The Humanist Hour
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In this episode, Bo interviews Muhammad Syed, co-founder and director of operations for Ex-Muslims of North America, and Hiba Krisht, ex-Muslim blo...

Bought by KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jul 23, 2014
  • Length: 53:24
  • Purchases: 1
Are We Numb to Nukes
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We’re thinking our way through a plausible nuclear emergency with Elaine Scarry who reminds you – we’ve got a weapons monarchy in this democracy. H...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2014
  • Length: 58:34
Food Sleuth Radio Susan C. Nagel Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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“Natural” gas may sound like a clean alternative to foreign oil, but natural gas extraction utilizing hydraulic fracturing (fracking) increases the...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
Moyers & Company Show 301: Neil deGrasse Tyson on the New Cosmos and our Dark Universe
From: Moyers & Company
Series: Moyers & Company
Caption: Bill Moyers, Credit: Dale Robbins
When Bill Moyers announced his intention to retire just weeks ago, he received – and read – thousands of messages on his website and Facebook urgin...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KCMJ Community Radio, KRDP, KVMR, KMUZ and more


  • Added: Jan 08, 2014
  • Length: 24:00
  • Purchases: 32
Moyers & Company Show 245: The Path of Positive Resistance
From: Moyers & Company
Series: Moyers & Company
Caption: Bill Moyers, Credit: Dale Robbins
Activists resisting on the front lines. Next on Moyers & Company.

Bought by KVMR, KTRL, KGNU Community Radio, KBRP Community Radio, KPVL and more


  • Added: Nov 13, 2013
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 31
Grokking Democracy
From: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Advancing Technology for Humanity
Hour long news program examines the democratic process and how technology has played a role. Co-hosted by Jonathan Alter and Lisa Mullins.

Bought by WUFT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WOUB, KQED, West Virginia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Oct 14, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 19
Climate Change Activist Al Gore and "The Future"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Former US Vice President Al Gore is perhaps the best known poster boy for climate change. Both a winner of a Nobel prize along with an Oscar, he ta...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 23, 2013
  • Length: 09:43
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Jill Kriesky Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Advertisements promoting natural gas drilling promise jobs and energy independence from foreign oil. But what are the unintended consequences of na...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
HEALing Energy: Engineer aims for a global renewable energy plan by 2012
From: SQRadio
Caption: Mark Jacobson, Credit: Sheri Quinn
Stanford University Engineer Mark Z. Jacobson is trying to convince the world that his energy plan based soley on renwables: wind, water, and solar...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 31:08
Gregory B. Jaczko, Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
From: National Press Club
Series: The National Press Club Luncheon Series
Caption: Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko speaks at a National Press Club luncheon, July 18th, 2011.

  • Added: Jul 21, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
Climate Change Gridlock: Where Do We Go From Here? (Part 2)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Global warming is no longer a fear for the future. It’s threatening human civilization, now. Part 2 of a special 2 part series produced by Brian E...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Climate Change Gridlock: Where Do We Go From Here? (Part 1)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Global warming is no longer a fear for the future. It’s threatening human civilization, now. Part 1 of a special 2 part series produced by Brian Ed...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2011
  • Length: 29:00