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Beauty pageants promote the fantasy of the ideal woman. But for 35 years, the Miss Subways contest in New York City celebrated the everyday working...

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  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 14:15
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Caption: Dr. James Hansen,  NASA Scientist, Credit: Ed Ritger
Today we are discussing the science behind the national debate on climate disruption. In this hour we will hear from four scientists about current ...

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
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Michael Johnson shares what it's like to be act as a patient for med students training to be physicians and how being a fake patient has actually m...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
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Michael Johnson opens up and shares the key to living a happy life. His band's legal troubles hint at larger issues of name and identity, but Micha...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: 02:57
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Hear from three people who do a media fast to take back control of their lives from their smartphones, Internet, and Social Media.

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  • Added: Jan 04, 2013
  • Length: 09:58
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At the 1896 Democratic Convention, Bryan gave a speech that electrified his party and won him the nomination. His “Cross of Gold” speech is known t...

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  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:11
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Alben Barkley served in Congress for close to 40 years and was Harry Truman’s vice president from 1948-1952. Though he wanted to be President himse...

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  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:25
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In the 19th century, Victoria Woodhull was many things: a clairvoyant, a businesswoman, an advocate for women’s rights and sexual freedom, and a ma...

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  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:18
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In 1964, Margaret Chase Smith became the first woman from a major party to run for President. The Republican Senator ran as a staunch hawk and expe...

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  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:38
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The 1952 presidential campaign pitted the immensely popular General Dwight D. Eisenhower against the ferociously intellectual and intensely private...

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  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:36
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In 1940 the United States was just emerging from the shadow of the Great Depression and war loomed in Europe. Into these serious times stepped Grac...

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  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 05:12
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Listeners will find Nature Dreaming: Rediscovering California’s Landscapes with David Mas Masumoto both entertaining and enlightening. Two one hour...

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  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 01:50:16
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Caption: From Knowledge to Wisdom, by Nicholas Maxell. Published by Pentire Press, 2007
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Twenty-Four of a documentary series by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program Ideas.Modern societies ...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:57
Caption: The Trouble With Physics, by Lee Smolin. Published by Houghton Mifflin, 2006
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Twenty-Three of a documentary series by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program Ideas. Modern societie...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:56
Caption: The Harmony of Illusions , by Allan Young. Published by Princeton University Press, 1997
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Twenty-Two of a documentary series by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program Ideas. Modern societies ...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:56
Caption: Quantum Theory and the Flight from Realism, by Christopher Norris. Published by Routledge, 2000
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Twenty-One of a documentary series by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program Ideas. Modern societies ...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 54:00
Caption: Re-Thinking Science, published by Polity Press, 2002
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Twenty of a documentary series by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program Ideas. In this episode, he t...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:56
Caption: Exploding the Gene Myth by Ruth Hubbard and Elijah Wald. Published by Beacon Press, 1999
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Nineteen of a documentary by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program IDEAS. Modern societies have tend...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:56
Caption: Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA. The 1990 Massey Lectures by Richard Lewontin
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Eighteen of a documentary by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program IDEAS. Modern societies have tend...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:56
Caption: Physicist and Professor of the history of science at Harvard
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Seventeen of a documentary by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program IDEAS. Modern societies have ten...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:56
Caption: The Scientific Revolution, by Steven Shapin. Published by University of Chicago Press, 1998
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Sixteen of a documentary by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program IDEAS. Modern societies have tende...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:57
Caption: Disembodying Women, by Barbara Duden. Published by Harvard Univeristy Press, 1993
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Fifteen of a documentary by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program IDEAS. The word gene is a scientif...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:56
Caption: Evelyn Fox Keller
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Fourteen of a documentary by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program IDEAS. Modern societies have tend...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:56
Caption: Codfish Newfoundland postage stamp
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Modern societies have tended to take science for granted as a way of knowing, ordering and controlling the world. Every...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:57
Caption: The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram. Published by Vintage, 1997
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Twelve of a documentary by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program IDEAS. Modern societies have tended...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:57