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017: You 2.0: where the self-help industry succeeds, and where it misses the mark, 1/5/2024
From: Embodied
Series: Embodied
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Self-help has existed in some form since the dawn of human civilization and has grown into a robust industrial complex. But does self-help really m...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
853: Off The Map / 854: Thinking With Animals, 12/9/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Off The Map" - Remember what maps were like when you were a kid? Well, Google Maps now makes finding everything from an obscure coffees...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
What's Science Fiction is Prologue
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
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Some science fiction authors have an almost uncanny ability to see what’s coming down the road. Jess talks with Chuck Wendig, whose writing is both...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Nov 14, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sound Actions
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we discussed the book "Sound Actions," which reduces musical activity down to its most essential components so that we can re-conc...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 28:27
  • Purchases: 1
685: Our Virtual Reality / 686: New Voices In Native American Writing, 4/30/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Our Virtual Reality" - Not everyone has a big yard to stretch out in while sheltering in place. But maybe all you need is a virtual spac...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:59
Beyond Earth’s Edge: A Celebrity Space Poetry Jam!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The moon and Earth's edge, photgraphed from the International Space Station., Credit: NASA
Creators of an outstanding new collection of poems about spaceflight and exploration join Mat Kaplan to talk about the book as Bill Nye and other n...

Bought by WFHB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioStPete Florida, KWMR, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Oct 14, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
507: Outside The Mental Illness Box / 508: Should You Delete Facebook?, 8/15/2020
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Outside The Mental Illness Box" - There must be another way to treat mental illness. Exercise? Horror movies? LSD? This hour, think outs...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:57
Tell It Slant: The Truth of the Bombs Bursting in Air
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: B-24J Liberators of the 579th Bomb Squadron drop incendiary bombs made from fighter plane drop tanks filled with napalm on targets near Royan, France, Apr 15 1945.
H. Bruce Franklin (Crash Course) returns to help us connect lots of dots. He’ll argue, among other things, that we need to learn what three particu...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Dec 18, 2019
  • Length: 58:53
  • Purchases: 1
Books and Gifts for Your Favorite Space Nerds
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Senior Editor Emily Lakdawalla visits Mars rover Curiosity at JPL., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Our own Emily Lakdawalla, Planetary Society senior editor and book lover, shares her 2019 list of favorite space books. She also presents a list of...

Bought by KDNK, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WMUU-LP, KWMR, KRZA and more


  • Added: Nov 20, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Living Deliberately: Laura Dassow Walls On The Whole Human Life of Thoreau
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In her biography, Henry David Thoreau: A Life, Laura Walls shows us a man deeply engaged with friends, relatives and neighbors, a man thoroughly of...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2019
  • Length: 58:55
The Write Question - Simeon Mills - 386
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Simeon Mills discusses his novel about growing up robot in the 1990s, The Obsoletes. He also reads two short selections.

Bought by KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 24, 2019
  • Length: 28:53
  • Purchases: 3
High Weirdness
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Author Erik Davis takes us on a weird, wild ride through the gnostic/network experiences of Philip K. Dick and Robert Anton Wilson in the early 197...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jun 07, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Jeremy Smith - 372
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Jeremy Smith discusses his nonfiction novel, "Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien." He also reads a short pass...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 02, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
335: Should You Delete Facebook? / 336: Telling A Life, 12/22/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Should You Delete Facebook?" - Thinking about leaving Facebook, Twitter or Instagram? We'll consider the pros and cons of logging off so...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
323: Writing Truth And Lies / 324: Shame, 11/10/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Writing Truth And Lies" - How close to reality were the "Little House" books? Does it matter? This hour, we'll talk morality in memoirs....

  • Added: Nov 09, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
315: Pick Your Poison / 316: Sentimentality For Silicon, 10/13/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Pick Your Poison" - A weapon? A medicine? A murder mystery plot? Take your pick. HOUR TWO: "Sentimentality For Silicon" - When does a ...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
The Write Question - Christopher James Preston - 325
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Philosophy professor Christopher James Preston discusses his book, "The Synthetic Age Outdesigning Evolution, Resurrecting Species, and Reengineeri...

Bought by Prairie Public, KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: May 08, 2018
  • Length: 28:52
  • Purchases: 5
237: Who's Watching Us / 238: Telling A Life, 1/13/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: Think you've got nothing to hide? This hour, find out who's watching us and why. HOUR TWO: How do you tell the story of your life? Songw...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
Storied States: James Scott's Against the Grain
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Epic of Gilgamesh, tablet 11, story of the Flood. , Credit: Courtesy of The British Museum.
In Storied States, we examine the shift in how humans lived, moving from hunter-gatherers to sedentary farmers. And contrary to official narrative ...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 58:03
The Written World
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Martin Puchner
Think about the many stories you’ve heard or read over the years. Some of those stories may have had a major impact on your life, or maybe even the...

Bought by KCBX and KVSC


  • Added: Jan 04, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Andy Weir’s New Novel Puts a City on the Moon
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Andy Weir’s Artemis is the new novel set in a city on the Moon. , Credit: Crown Publishing
The author of #1 bestseller The Martian is back with Artemis, a superbly-researched, rollicking adventure in the first city on the Moon. You might ...

Bought by WTJU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
In the Name of the Future: Life After the Human Catastrophe
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: "Daisy Girl," LBJ's 1964 Campaign Ad
The idea of what it means to be human is changing. With countless catastrophic events looming, from climate instability to biotechnology and wars o...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2017
  • Length: 58:01
With Ears to Hear: Voices Against the Heroic
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Chernobyl--Liquidators
Cynthia Wolfe joins us to discuss her “Platinum” ranked audio program “Nuclear Nightingales” which consists of readings from the oral history Voice...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2017
  • Length: 57:43
BFFs, Girlfriends, and Besties (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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How women's friendships sustained the British Empire - Getting aggressive in the job market in the digital age - How memoirs tackle motherhood and ...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jun 02, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
BFFs, Girlfriends, and Besties (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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How women's friendships sustained the British Empire - Getting aggressive in the job market in the digital age - How memoirs tackle motherhood and ...

Bought by WCNY, WCWP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Jun 02, 2017
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 8