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The End of Poverty
by Jeffrey Sachs
Available on: Online Video
One billion people on the planet are struggling with extreme poverty according to Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University.
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Holocaust History: Eyewitness Testimonies & Personal Stories
by Henry Greenspan
Available on: Digital Download | Video Download
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s oral history collection is one of the largest and most diverse resources for Holocaust testimonies in the world.
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Should the Death Penalty Be Abolished?
by Steven Hawkins
Available on: Online Audio
On this week's show, we broadcasted the 13th Great Debate held as part of the biannual Great Debate Series that Boston University's College of Communications began in 1996. The topic of the 13th Great Debate was "Should the Death Penalty Be Abolished?"
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The Osama bin Laden I Know
by Peter L. Bergen
Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio | Online Video
Peter Bergen and Steve Coll offer a portrait of bin Laden's life and nature.
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Global 3.0
by Chris Farrell
Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
For many, globalization has meant rich countries getting richer at the expense of the poor. Today, it's not that simple.
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Ideas Lecture: Jared Diamond
by Dr. Jared Diamond
Available on: Online Audio
An audience of 850 attended the Ideas Lecture on 2 June 2005 to listen to the remarkable scientist, thinker and historian Jared Diamond present the Ideas Lecture.
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Blood and Oil
by Michael T. Klare
Available on: Digital Download
Nationally renowned expert on U.S. petroleum policy, Michael T. Klare discusses his latest book Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum.
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Yale International Podcasts
by Benazir Bhutto
Available on: Digital Download
Yale is a center for global studies and features a faculty drawn from, and with expertise in, all corners of the world.
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The Cost of Corruption
by Michael Montgomery
Available on: Online Audio | Online Video
Every day. somewhere in the world, a bribe changes hands.
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Yale Humanities Podcasts
by Karin Gosselink
Available on: Digital Download
Yale has long been recognized as a leader in humanities scholarship.
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Hard Time
by John Biewen
Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
After an historic, generation-long prison expansion, American prisons are now releasing more than 600,000 inmates each year.
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9/11 Fire Dispatch Recordings
Available on: Digital Download
In August 2005, the New York City Fire Department released approximately 23 hours of radio dispatch audio recordings from the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
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American RadioWorks presents Locked Down: Gangs in the Supermax
by Michael Mongomery
Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
Supermax prisons are icons of America?s tough penal system....
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Is Abortion Morally Justifiable in a Free Society?
by Peter Kreeft
Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio | Online Video
Peter Kreeft is Professor of Philosophy at Boston College.
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An Army of Davids
by Glenn Reynolds
Available on: Digital Download
There was a time in the not-too-distant past when large companies and powerful governments reigned supreme over the little guy. But new technologies are empowering individuals like never before...
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Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict
Available on: Digital Download | Video Download
CSRC - Audio - Braden Allenby: From Human to Transhuman, Technology and the Reconstruction of the World
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Will Same-Sex Marriage Hurt America?
by Maggie Gallagher
Available on: Online Audio | Online Video
From ISI's Cicero's Podium: A Great Issues Debate Series.
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Arizona State University News and Events Audio
Available on: Digital Download | Video Download
Stay current with the people and stories that shape ASU. News and Events puts you front row for the presentations, lectures and interviews that impact ASU today and tomorrow.
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Kansas Evolution Hearings: Day 1
Available on: Digital Download
A subcommittee of the Kansas Board of Education holds hearings on whether the state's science curriculum should permit alternate theories to be taught alongside evolution...
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Why Care?
by Elie Wiesel
Available on: Online Audio
On last Sunday's show, Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel discussed the concept of caring and commented on violence around the world.
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Politics: WGBH Forum Network
by Chris Hedges
Available on: Video Download
The WGBH Forum Network is an audio and video streaming Website dedicated to curating and serving live and on-demand lectures given by some of the world's foremost scholars, authors, artists, scientists, policy makers and community leaders.
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Central Washington University Lectures & Events
by Michael Ott
Available on: Digital Download | Video Download
Media files featuring guest speakers, faculty experts, as well as distinguished speakers for the Presidential Speaker series.
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Fast Food World
by Michael Pollan
Available on: Video Download | Online Video
Journalists Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser and Vandava Shiva join Slow Food International's founder Carlo Petrini for an assessment of the impact of globalization on food production and consumption in this special event...
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Gay Marriage
by William N. Eskridge Jr.
Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio | Online Video
As the Senate prepares to debate the Federal Marriage Amendment many scholars are looking at evidence from Scandinavia, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
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Redefining Competition in Health Care Reform I
by Michael Porter
Available on: Digital Download | Online Video
In the wake of new proposals to expand access to affordable health insurance, one of the nation's leading business experts argues that only competition…
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