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A Christian Evolutionary Biologist reconciles his faith with science
From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: Being Reasonable
Caption: Being Reasonable
David Remington, associate professor in the Dept. of Biology at UNCG, is challenged to reconcile his Christian faith with his scientific endeavors....

  • Added: Dec 03, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:00
Metaphors of Correction: Sheila Jasanoff on Life Science
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Today’s show focuses on biology’s metaphors of control and how these are deployed to describe processes that are laughably uncontrollable. Sheila J...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
S2 E4 Enjoy Your Life
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
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When caring for a young woman with a brain cancer diagnosis, medicine resident Colleen Farrell comes to grips with her own mortality.

  • Added: Jun 07, 2019
  • Length: 33:36
Hope, Part One: Where Does It Come From?
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Hope (A Three Part Series from To the Best of Our Knowledge)
Caption: Hope (A Three Part Series)
We begin our three part series on hope. Is it something we’re innately born with or something we can choose to have?

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KTRT RADIO INC, KICI Iowa City, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KBIA


  • Added: May 07, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5
369: Hope: Where Does It Come From? / 370: How To Think Like A Scientist , 4/20/2019
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
Caption: Hope (A Three Part Series)
HOUR ONE: "Hope: Where Does It Come From?” – We begin our three part series on hope. Is it something we’re innately born with or something we can c...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:58
Jack Parsons & the Babalon Working
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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JPL founder Jack Parsons and his fellow magician L. Ron Hubbard opened up a stargate to Hell in the Mojave Desert. Nothing has ever been quite the ...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 10, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Myth of the Hero: A Conversation with Bernie Taylor
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Bernie Taylor
Bernie Taylor, naturalist and author discusses this myth and how it shapes religion and science.

  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
2018-10-07 Christiana Figueres: A Conversation on Mindfulness and Climate
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Former UN climate negotiator Christiana Figueres credits Buddhist teachings both for helping her through a personal crisis, and for providing a sou...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, NPR Now, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KWIT and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2018
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 7
10042018: Hard Truths and Life Lessons: Hip Memoirs of Extraordinary Experiences with Neil Strauss & Tina Alexis Allen, 10/4/2018
From: KBUU
Series: Harvesting Happiness Talk Radio
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Purpose-driven and consciously prepared brain food from the beaches of Malibu, California. Join us on this week’s show focusing on the way relation...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2018
  • Length: 49:40
301: Could Psychedelic Drugs Save Your Life? / 302: Original Sin, 8/25/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Could Psychedelic Drugs Save Your Life?" - Psychedelic science is back and the early results are extraordinary. If you knew LSD could he...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:57
Creationism and Breaking Up with God
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Sarah Sentilles and Eugenie Scott
Interviews with Sarah Sentilles, author of Breaking Up With God: A Love Story and Eugenie Scott, former executive director of the National Center f...

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Jul 23, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 1
289: Worshipping Waterfalls / 290: Clash Of Civilizations, 7/14/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Worshiping Waterfalls" - Jane Goodall has seen chimpanzees stop at a roaring waterfall and bristle with excitement. Are they having spir...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
02152018: Faithful, Healthy, and Wise: Get Well and Get Smart Being a Spiritual Being , 2/15/2018
From: KBUU
Series: Harvesting Happiness Talk Radio
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Purpose-driven and consciously prepared brain food from the beaches of Malibu, California. Join us on this week’s show focusing on spirituality. Gu...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2018
  • Length: 46:01
Matter and Desire: An Erotic Ecology
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Andreas Weber
Biologist and Philosopher, Andreas Weber, reframes ecology as a tender practice of forging relationships, of yearning for connections, and of expre...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WETS, and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 28, 2018
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 3
The New Cosmology or Upbeat in the Anthropocene
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: The Ark of Space by Shigeru Komatsuzaki (1968)
Today’s show is kin to last week’s, Honey From a Weed…but instead of seeing the human as capable of flourishing in concert with the natural, in thi...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Dec 12, 2017
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 1
Enter the Subconscious (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Challenging the notion of mind itself - Teaching mindfulness, aided by EEG - Religious love in the Indian tradition - Finding a work/life balance -...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif. and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Enter the Subconscious (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Challenging the notion of mind itself - Teaching mindfulness, aided by EEG - Religious love in the Indian tradition - Finding a work/life balance -...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU, KEDT, WCWP and more


  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 11
Enter the Subconscious (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Challenging the notion of mind itself - Teaching mindfulness, aided by EEG - Religious love in the Indian tradition

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, WUGA (part of GPB), KMUN, WVAS and more


  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
209: Is The Universe A Number? / 210: Philip K. Dick, 10/7/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Is The Universe A Number?" - A Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a crocheting mathematician and a man obsessed with the Kabbalah are search...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:58
God and the Mathematics of Infinity
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: H. Chris Ransford
Mathematician and Physicist, Chris Ransford, elevates the debate regarding infinity, the universe, godhood, and irreducible mathematics.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
High-Tech and Amish
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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Using 21st-century medicine to maintain a 300-year-old way of life.

  • Added: Aug 16, 2017
  • Length: 27:16
What Exists?
From: Closer to Truth
Series: Closer To Truth Radio Hour
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Quantum Mechanics seems to be at the bedrock of reality, but it’s tricky to study – because observing things in the quantum world affects them. In ...

Bought by WCNY, KGOU, CHSR-FM 97.9, WPSU, KWMR and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2017
  • Length: 53:52
  • Purchases: 6
How Did the Universe Begin?
From: Closer to Truth
Series: Closer To Truth Radio Hour
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How did the Universe start? And where is it going? The answers may help us assess whether the Cosmos has meaning and purpose. In part one, we ask: ...

Bought by WCNY, KGOU, CHSR-FM 97.9, WPSU, WCPN and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2017
  • Length: 53:50
  • Purchases: 6
Can ESP Reveal a New Reality?
From: Closer to Truth
Series: Closer To Truth Radio Hour
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Extra-sensory perception seems like the stuff of fantasy, but should the possibility be taken seriously? In part one we ask, Can ESP Reveal a New R...

Bought by WCNY, KTSW 89.9, KGOU, CHSR-FM 97.9, KWMR and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2017
  • Length: 53:52
  • Purchases: 7
Can Mind Heal the Body?
From: Closer to Truth
Series: Closer To Truth Radio Hour
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It’s common to think of Brain and Mind as two separate things that can influence each other. But is that right? And how far can such influence go? ...

Bought by KGOU, CHSR-FM 97.9, WPSU, WCPN, and KWMR


  • Added: Jul 11, 2017
  • Length: 53:52
  • Purchases: 5