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211


 STEPHEN KING
A talk at the 2016 National Book Festival


 

210


 THE DESERTER
An Epic Story of Love and War

Written by Sarah A. Topol, narrated by Liev Schreiber, illustrated by Daria Mussienko

In “The Deserter,” the journalist Sarah A. Topol reports the story of Ivan, a deserter who served as a captain in the Russian Army, fought in Ukraine and then ultimately fled the war and his country with his wife, Anna.

“The Deserter” is Ivan and Anna’s love story, a thrilling tale of escape and a disturbing account of the war. It’s also a revealing portrait of how Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine has ricocheted through the private lives of Russia’s citizens, and the desperate choices some of them have made to survive.

 

PART ONE
Chapters 1 to 7
( Listening time = 42 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

PART TWO
Chapters 8 to 14
( Listening time = 41 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

PART THREE
Chapters 15 to 25
( Listening time = 52 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

PART FOUR
Chapters 26 to 31
( Listening time = 27 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

PART FIVE
Chapters 32 to 38
( Listening time = 53 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

209

1)  Why You Should Quit Social Media — Dr. Cal Newport
    (Listening time = 14 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Why Fascism is So Tempting — Yuval Noah Harari
    (Listening time = 18 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Should We All Be Vegetarians? — Tegan Taylor and Norman Swan
    (Listening time =12 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Years after a border separation . . . (Border Patrol agents took her 9-year-old daughter)
     (
Listening time = 30 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed

5)  Plus-size? More like my size — Ashley Graham
    (Listening time = 10 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Doom Scrolling — The origins of vicarious trauma
    (Listening time =30 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Inside a female sociopath's mind — Patric Gagne
    (Listening time = 29 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Don't Let Fascism Go 'Unnoticed Until It's Too Late' — Madeleine Albright
    (Listening time = 36 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

9)  Gender Euphoria and an Untold Story of Joy — from 'All in the Mind
    (Listening time = 28 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

10)  Falling Down the Conspiracy Rabbit Hole from 'All in the Mind
    (Listening time =28 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

11)  'Can you say why America is the greatest country in the world?' - (Listening time about 5 minutes)

12)  "You Still Come to Me in Dreams . . . "
       
I Dream an Old Lover — sung by Jeffrey Foucault

        I Dream an Old Lover — sung by Karla Anderson

13)  "His skin is gold from the whiskey in his blood . . . "
       
Moonshiner — sung by Jeffrey Foucault 
        The Red Rose — sung by Julia Andrews and The Everybodyfields

208

Commentaries Revisited #3

1)  How Democracies Die
    (Listening time = 31 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Ready for Revolution — The Psychology of Protest
    (Listening time = 29 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  [A Precursor to 2024?]   What Led to the Student Protests of 1968?
    (Listening time = 29 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  In Praise of Slowness
     (
Listening time = 12 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed

5) The Osage Murders — A Conspiracy Against Native Americans
    (Listening time = 37 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Women's Brains
    (Listening time = 29 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

76) The Billion Dollar Gun Industry
    (Listening time = 29 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  What Makes You Special?
    (Listening time = 18 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

9)  How to Stop Screwing Yourself Over
    (Listening time = 22 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

10)  How to Survive a Mass Extinction
    (Listening time = 6 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

11)  Rachel
       
Rachel -  sung by Gary Stewart   (Listening time about 3 1/2 minutes)

       
Lyin' Eyes -  sung by the Eagles   (Listening time about = 6 1/2 minutes )

12)  Box of Rain - performed by the Grateful Dead   (Listening time about 5 minutes)

207

Commentaries Revisited #2

1)  'State of the Union' Address — Joe Biden, President of the United States
    (Listening time = 67 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  5 ways to kill your dreams
    (Listening time = 6 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Children and Their Emotions
     (
Listening time = 29 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed

4)  Do You Believe In Ghosts?
    (Listening time = 8 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Everyone is Watching You
    (Listening time = 29 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6) Fascism And The Church
    (Listening time = 39 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  When the *%#^ hits the fan!
    (Listening time = 29 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Mistreatment of women is the number one human rights abuse
    (Listening time = 17 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

9)  Don't Regret Regret
    (Listening time = 17 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

10)  Marriage Equality - the short history of same sex marriage
    (Listening time = 29 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

11)  How we're priming some kids for college — and others for prison
    (Listening time = 16 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

12)  I Remember Everything by John Prine
    (Listening time = 3 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

13)  I Remember Everything by Brandi Carlile
    (Listening time = 3 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

206

Commentaries Revisited #1

1)  What is it Like to Be a Cat?
    (Listening time = 37 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  What is it Like to Be a Dog?
    (Listening time = 38 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Corporate America Invented Christian America
    (Listening time = 32 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed

4)  "But you're alive. That's what it's about."
    (Listening time = 12 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  What I Learned as a Kid in Jail
    (Listening time = 11 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  'Letting Go of God'
    (Listening time = 17 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  This is Just as Hard for Me as It Is for You
    (Listening time = 24 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  The Prison State:: Mass Incarceration in America
    (Listening time = 38 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

9)  How Music Cures Our Ills
    (Listening time = 28 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

10)  Who Can You Touch?
    (Listening time = 29 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

11) Wasteland of the Free
    (Listening time = 5 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

205

1)  U.S. President Joe Biden - 19 October 2023 —
     
(On the wars between Israel and Hamas, and Ukraine and Russia)

    (Listening time = 13 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Birds Aren't Real —( Birds aren't real?)  How a conspiracy takes flight
    (Listening time = 13 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  How Artificial Intelligence (AI) could save - not destroy - education
    (Listening time = 13 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed

4)  Lessons from losing my mind
    (Listening time = 14 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Demystifying menopause
    (Listening time = 29 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  'As my end nears, I crave the soul-to-soul connection of seeing friends in person'
    (Listening time = 6 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Bill Gates: The next outbreak? We're not ready!
    (Listening time = 12 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Why do we sing to babies?
    (Listening time = 33 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

9)  Solo mums by choice
    (Listening time = 31 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

10)  Toxic positivity — when happiness becomes harmful
    (Listening time = 31 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

11)  Martha - A story in song of an enduring love
    (Listening time = 5 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

12)  The Lover's Return - A story in song of an old love found again
    (Listening time = 3 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

13)  Hello in There - A story in song of growing old
    (Listening time = 5 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

204

1)  Strange answers to the psychopath test
    (Listening time = 17 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Does working hard really make you a good person?
    (Listening time = 12 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed

3)  Pussy Riot's powerful message to Vladimir Putin
    (Listening time = 13 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Schizophrenia: silence and stigma - She knew something wasn't quite right with her mother
    (Listening time = 28 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Fantasy and Make Believe - Why are our brains so good at creating imaginary images?
    (Listening time = 29 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  I Promised God It Was the Last Time
    (Listening time = 23 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  My neighbor lived to be 109 — this is what I learned from him
    (Listening time = 39 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Tom Hanks Gives a 2023 Harvard Commencement Speech
    (Listening time = 22 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

9)  The revolt of the Christian home-schoolers - They thought public schools were evil. But then . .
    (Listening time = 29 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

10)  Heartbreak — why does it feel so bloody awful?
    (Listening time = 26 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

11)  Across the Border - A story in song of the Mexican / American border by Bruce Springsteen
    (Listening time = 3 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

12)  The Line - A story in song of the Mexican / American border by Bruce Springsteen
    (Listening time = 5 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

13)  The Gospel of Mary - A refugee's story in song by Josh Ritter
    (Listening time = 6 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

203

1)  What it's really like to have autism   ("Autism is... just another way of thinking")
    (Listening time = 10 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  A Small-Town Librarian Spoke Against Censorship - Then the Dark Money Came for Her.
    (Listening time = 35 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  As Earth Warms, Secrets Emerge From the Ice
    (Listening time = 15 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  I Imagine Him Here — Two women envision their lives with the man of their dreams
    (Listening time = 19 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Some LGBTQ Ukrainians are fleeing Russian occupation. Others are signing up to fight
    (Listening time = 4 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  He Was ‘Losing His Mind' Slowly, and I Watched It
    (Listening time = 38 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Why are we so tolerant of churchy bigotry?
    (Listening time = 6 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Stop Looking for the Perfect Partner — Two women on choosing imperfect love.
    (Listening time = 21 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

9)  The Slave Bible ("Selected For The Use Of The Negro Slaves")
    (Listening time = 8 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

10)  At Seventeen - "I learned the truth at seventeen..."    (by Janis Ian)
    (Listening time = 5 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

11)  Helplessly Hoping - a lovely example of alliteration   (by Crosby, Stills & Nash)
    (Listening time = 3 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

12)  Deportees — (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)    (by Old Crow Medicine Show)
    (Listening time = 5 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

202

1)  Why All Dogs Are Good Dogs
    (Listening time = 30 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  A Small Boat, a Vast Sea and a Desperate Escape From Russia
    (Listening time = 12 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Should You Delete TikTok?
    (Listening time = 14 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  How Horses Changed History
    (Listening time = 6 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Cognitive Dissonance : What Happens When Our Beliefs and Our Actions Don't Line Up?
    (Listening time = 27 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Does Artificial Intelligence (AI) actually understand us?
    (Listening time = 10 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  A New Child Labor Crisis in America
    (Listening time = 33 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness
    (Listening time = 13 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

9)  The Mercenary Army Fighting Putin's War
    (Listening time = 42 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

10)  And the Band Played 'Waltzing Matilda'   (performed by The Pogues)
    (Listening time = 7 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

11)  Revolution 1  ( 'You say you want a revolution . . . ')  (performed by The Beatles)
    (Listening time = 4 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

201

1)  President Volodymyr Zelensky's Speech Before Congress - The Ukrainian president delivered an emotional appeal and vowing that his country would prevail in its war with Russia.
    (Listening time = 23 minutes - more or less )

2)  No More Hiding A woman comes to terms with her bipolar disorder
and how it affects her love life.
    (Listening time = 10 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  The Plot Against America - The ultra-right pro-Nazi movement that plotted to overthrow the U.S. government by force
    (Listening time = 37 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Encore: A Lifetime of Good Loving
    (Listening time = 12 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Is War Inevitable?  — Reflections on 'historical inevitability' and 'free will'
     
(An excerpt from the novel 'War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy

    (Listening time = 12 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  One of humanity's first innovations was an alliance with dogs
      . . . 40,000 years ago

    (Listening time = 12 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Song of Job'Hear now the tale of Job, a righteous man . . .'
    (Listening time = 6 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

200

1) Letter from Birmingham Jail - Martin Luther King, Jr.
    (Listening time = Part 1 = 24 minutes, Part 2 = 24 minutes - more or less )

2)  I Tracked My Husband's Every Move — adventures in the consumer surveillance state
    (Listening time = 17 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Drugs killed 8 friends . . . one by one
    (Listening time = 38 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Journey into the sensory world that animals know
    (Listening time = 36 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  President Dwight Eisenhower warned against the 'military-industrial complex'
    (Listening time = 15 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Why Humans Aren't the Worst (Despite, Well, Everything Happening in the World)
    (Listening time = 38 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  'Lessons from the Mental Hospital'
    (Listening time = 17 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  El Paso- 'Out in the West Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love . . .'
    (Listening time = 5 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

199

1)  'Alice's Restaurant' - A 'Talking Blues' 
    (Listening time = 19 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Two Thankgiving Stories by Bailey White 
      A Kind of Love
    (Listening time = 22 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
      Call It Even    (Listening time = 22 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  *Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen* - by O.Henry
    (Listening time = 12 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
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4)  Dogs 101—your canine companion
    (Listening time = 7 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  When the Music Stopped
    (Listening time = 13 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Babysitting  (from 'This American Life')
      — Act One
    (Listening time = 14 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     — Act Two
    (Listening time = 9 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     — Act Three
    (Listening time = 26 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

198

    ON TYRANNY
 by Timothy Snyder

★ Prologue: History and Tyranny

Lesson 1 - 5 
1. Do not obey in advance.
2. Defend institutions.
3. Beware the one-party state.
4. Take responsibility for the face of the world.
5. Remember professional ethics.

Lesson 6 - 10  
6. Be wary of paramilitaries.
7. Be reflective if you must be armed.
8. Stand out.
9. Be kind to our language.
10. Believe in truth.

Lesson 11 - 15  
11. Investigate.
12. Make eye contact and small talk.
13. Practice corporeal politics.
14. Establish a private life.
15. Contribute to good causes.

Lesson 16 - 20  
16. Learn from peers in other countries.
17. Listen for dangerous words.
18. Be calm when the unthinkable arrives.
19. Be a patriot.
20. Be as courageous as you can.

★ Epilogue: History and Liberty

197

1)  The Effort to Punish Women for Having Abortions
    (Listening time = 32 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  "The Junk Removers Manhandle My Heart"
    (Listening time = 18 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  President Biden's Speech in Philadelphia – The president described threats to democracy
    (Listening time = 25 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  How to Recover from a Happy Childhood
    (Listening time = 33 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  An Uprising Led by Women - The fury unleashed by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini.
    (Listening time = 26 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  The Mystery of Your Doppelgänger
    (Listening time = 12 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

196

1)  'In The Ghetto' - Elvis Presley
    (Listening time = 3 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)   Viktor Orbán shared his dark worldview to American conservatives — and they loved it
    (Listening time = 19 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  The making of a magnificent memory - (How is your memory?)
    (Listening time = 29 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  'The Dreams We Had Are Like a Dream' - Afghan girls talk about how life has changed
    (Listening time = 38 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  A Mother's Secret - He always thought his father was the only one at fault
    (Listening time = 15 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Trust Fall - Hacking, phishing, surveillance, disinformation... these are tools used to silence dissidents and influence elections. But what happens when these same methods are used against an ordinary citizen?
    (Listening time = 45 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Pregnant at 16 - The experiences of two women led them to opposite sides of the abortion fight
      — Part One
    (Listening time = 26 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     — Part Two
    (Listening time = 26 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

195

1)  He Had a Dark Secret . . . he wasn't who he seemed to be
    (Listening time = 21 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)   A young woman with a prosthetic leg navigates dating apps in New York City.
    (Listening time = 9 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  'Do It, I Dare You' -  the secret world between the babysitter and the babysat
    (Listening time = 8 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Does Guilt Have a Silver Lining?
    (Listening time = 28 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Left to Be Found -  two women share their adoption stories
    (Listening time = 16 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  What's God Got to Do With It? - The Rise of Christian Nationalism
    (Listening time = 32 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

194

1)  The Supreme Court of the United States eliminated the constitutional right to abortion. What comes next for the Americans?
    (Listening time = 27 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Dogs Tilt Their Heads - - - Why?
    (Listening time = 9 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  You May Think You Know Your Parents . . .
    (Listening time = 19 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  We could kick-start life on another planet. Should we?
    (Listening time = 10 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  The Way Back Home - an epic love story
    (Listening time = 59 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  You've Got the Music in You
    (Listening time = 9 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Marriage Classes at Guantánamo
    (Listening time = 28 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  The Secret Life of Secrets
    (Listening time = 28` minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

9)  Liz Cheney: We stand at the edge of the abyss
      ("A former president...is attempting to unravel the foundations of our constitutional Republic.")

    (Listening time = 8 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

10)  "Time for Atheists to Speak Out"
    (Listening time = 6 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

193

1)  'Alice's Restaurant'   -Arlo guthrie
    (Listening time = 19 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  The Cost of Dissidence in Russia
    (Listening time = 21 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  The Psychology of Charitable Giving
    (Listening time = 29 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  The Racist Theory Behind So Many Mass Shootings
    (Listening time = 22 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Changing Faces: how cosmetic injectables are reshaping our idea of beauty
    (Listening time = 28 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  The Dark History of Zombies
    (Listening time = 5 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  'Wasteland of the Free'  -Iris DeMent
    (Listening time = 5 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  My long walk across India for women's freedom   -Srishti Bakshi
    (Listening time = 9 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

9)  Remarks by President Biden and First Lady Biden Honoring the Lives Lost in Buffalo, New York, and Calling on All Americans to Condemn White Supremacy
    (Listening time = 16 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

192

1)  The Abortion Underground : preparing for a post-Roe v. Wade world
    (Listening time = 23 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  After The Plague
    (Listening time = 21 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  'The Peace Speech' - President John F. Kennedy
    (Listening time = 25 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Four Million Ukrainians in Limbo (We follow Iryna, one of those trying to find refuge after the invasion.)
    (Listening time = 43 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5) Why Heartbreak Hurts So Bad
    (Listening time = 29 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6) What's the Worst That Could Happen?  Existential Risk and Extreme Politics
    (Listening time = 12 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

191

1)  "Three Girls From Bronzeville" : Race, Fate & Sisterhood
    (Listening time = 37 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  The Story Behind a Defining War Photo in Ukraine
    (Listening time = 21 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Modern Love : 'Eating the Forbidden Ham Sandwich'
    (Listening time = 10 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4)   Four scenarios for the pandemic's next phase
    (Listening time = 10 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)   3 ways to find hope in hopeless times
    (Listening time = 10 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6)   Too scared or not scared enough? Seth Meyers explores our relationship with fear
    (Listening time = 38 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

7)   The Russians Fleeing Russia
     Resisters are leaving Russia because the country they worked to build is disappearing
    (Listening time = 39 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

190

1)  'Can you say why America is the greatest country in the world?'
    (Listening time = 3 1/2 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Why Do People Get Married?
    (Listening time = 23 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  ‘The Decision of My Life’ -
      A young Afghan woman faces an impossible choice after the Taliban takeover.

      — Part One
    (Listening time = 42 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     — Part Two
    (Listening time = 31 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Hospitals Are in Serious Trouble
     When your health-care system crumbles from Covid, what does it looks like?

    (Listening time = 20 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)   How the Idea of Hell Has Shaped the Way We Think
    (Listening time = 27 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6)   Controlling the chatter in your head
      Most of us have an inner voice – there are times that helpful voice turns into harmful chatter.
    (Listening time = 27 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Meet Jamie MacDonald - stand-up comedian
    (Listening time = 11 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

189

1)  The damage done by emotionally immature parents  (and how to heal)
    (Listening time = 29 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  'In the Eyes of God, Does a State Have the Right to Kill a Man?'
      — Part One
    (Listening time = 19 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     — Part Two
    (Listening time = 15 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  The haunting truth of ghost stories
    (Listening time = 12 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4)   How going to Mars improves life on Earth
    (Listening time = 9 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  The Free and the Brave
'A patriotic parade, a bloody brawl, and the origins of U.S. law enforcement’s war on the political left.'
      — Part One
    (Listening time = 26 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     — Part Two
    (Listening time = 25 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6)   Is this the end of the internal combustion engine?
    (Listening time = 7 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

7)   'Lest We Forget — Australia and the Spanish Flu'
      We've been here before : The brutal pandemic that swept the globe during 1918-19

    (Listening time = 30 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

188

1) The attack on the U.S. Capitol on 6 January 2021
     
A speech by Joe Biden, President of the United States
    (Listening time = 25 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  How to End the Pandemic - and Prepare for the Next
    (Listening time = 20 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Is it really bad to marry my cousin?
    (Listening time = 3 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4)   How jails extort the poor
    (Listening time = 13 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Mick and the life-changing friendship
      — Part One
    (Listening time = 26 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     — Part Two
    (Listening time = 24 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Paranormal Club
      — Part One
    (Listening time = 21 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     — Part Two
    (Listening time = 20 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

187

1)   How a Girls’ School Fled Afghanistan as the Taliban Took Over
    (Listening time = 18 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  The Toxic Effect of Rudeness
    (Listening time = 29 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)   'Dopamine Nation' — Overabundance Keeps Us Craving More
    (Listening time = 37 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4)   An Interview with Jane Goodall
    (Listening time = 27 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  The Starlet-Spy : An international superstar and a world-class spy
      — Part One
    (Listening time = 21 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     — Part Two
    (Listening time = 24 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  The Thailand Cave Rescue
      — Part One
    (Listening time = 20 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     — Part Two
    (Listening time = 22 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  My Childhood in a Cult : My world ended when I was told to leave.
    (Listening time = 26 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  'Twilight of Democracy' : The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
    (Listening time = 37 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

186

1)  Monkey Thieves and Drunk Elephants — A Weird World Of Animal 'Crime'
      — Part One
    (Listening time = 20 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     — Part Two
    (Listening time = 17 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  The 'Benevolent' Brand of Sexism
    (Listening time = 29 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  The Lowest Animal - from 'Letters from the Earth' by Mark Twain
    (Listening time = 26 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Sex-trafficked — and jailed
    (Listening time = 21 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  "An Ugly Truth": How Facebook Enables Hate Groups And Disinformation
      — Part One
    (Listening time = 22 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     — Part Two
    (Listening time = 20 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  'The Ghosts are Not Silent'
      — Part One
    (Listening time = 21 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     — Part Two
    (Listening time = 20 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

185

1)  The Stowaway 'He literally fell out of the sky'
      — Part One
    (Listening time = 23 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     — Part Two
    (Listening time = 23 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  ‘Nightmare Scenario’ — the U.S. response to the pandemic
    (Listening time = 23 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  The Other Afghan Women
      — Part One

    (Listening time = 20 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     — Part Two
    (Listening time = 25 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     — Part Three
    (Listening time = 21 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  A Lawyer’s Deathbed Confession About a Sensational 1975 Kidnapping
    (Listening time = 23 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Love and Lapses   ('. . . when two people she loved started to become unrecognizable to her.')
    (Listening time = 13 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Survival of the Richest ('The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind')
    (Listening time = 12 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

184

1)  Modern Love : Loving Across Borders
    (Listening time = 19 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  "Power-Posing" - Does self-help ... help? The problem with pop psychology
    (Listening time = 29 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  The Han Twins : An identical twin lives in the shadow of her sister.
Their conflict leads to a murder plot
.
      — Part One
    (Listening time = 21 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     — Part Two
    (Listening time = 21 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Why Being a Beginner is Good for You
    (Listening time = 29 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  The Dream of a Black Utopia
      — Part One

    (Listening time = 20 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     — Part Two
    (Listening time = 20 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     — Part Three
    (Listening time = 22 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Ira Glass and Spalding Gray : LESSONS
    (Listening time = 25 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  'For What It's Worth' - Buffalo Springfield
    (Listening time = 2 1/2 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

183

1)  FIVE WOMEN (and their experiences with sexual transgressions)
     — Prologue

    (Listening time = 7 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     — Act One
    (Listening time = 12 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     — Act Two
    (Listening time = 3 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     — Act Three
    (Listening time = 6 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     — Act Four
    (Listening time = 8 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     — Act Five
    (Listening time = 15 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     — Act Six
    (Listening time = 17 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     — Act Seven
    (Listening time = 6 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Are the Teens Alright?
    (Listening time = 28 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  My Husband Wore Really Tight Shorts to the Eclipse Party
    (Listening time = 11 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  An Innocent Man Walks Free From A 60-Year Sentence
      — Part One
    (Listening time = 23 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     — Part Two
    (Listening time = 20 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Vaccines? What are they? Where did they come from?
    (Listening time = 7 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

182

1 )  Nelson Mandela : 'I Am Prepared to Die’
    (Listening time = 14 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Cheap, Legal And Everywhere: How Food Companies Get Us 'Hooked' On Junk
      — Part One

    (Listening time = 19 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     — Part Two
    (Listening time = 16 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Counterspy: The Russian Plot to Take Over Hollywood
      — Part One

    (Listening time = 21 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     — Part Two
    (Listening time = 19 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     — Part Three
    (Listening time = 22 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4 )  Separated At The Border, A Father Reunites With His Son
    (Listening time = 11 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5 )  How I Got Caught Up in a Global Romance Scam
    (Listening time = 21 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Finding My Father - "My dad was a riddle to me, even more so after he disappeared."
      — Part One

    (Listening time = 22 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     — Part Two
    (Listening time = 26 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

181

1 )  The Past, Present and Future of Nicotine Addiction
    (Listening time = 17 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2 )  'Women In Blue' - Do Female Officers Police Differently Than Male Officers?
    (Listening time = 34 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3 )  The Dark Side of Daydreaming
    (Listening time = 29 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4 )  Life is Your Talents Discovered : Sir Ken Robinson
    (Listening time = 9 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5 ) Dangerous Times Call For Dangerous Women
    (Listening time = 17 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6 )  If You Adults Won't Save the World, We Will
    (Listening time = 8 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  After 99 days as the President of the U.S. — Joe Biden's address to the United States Congress
      — Part One

    (Listening time = 30 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     — Part Two
    (Listening time = 35 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

180

1)  The Lonely Death of George Bell
      — Part One

    (Listening time = 29 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     — Part Two
    (Listening time = 32 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Babysitting   —  (from 'This American Life')
      — Part One

    (Listening time = 32 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     — Part Two
    (Listening time = 27 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  450 Days Trapped on a Cargo Ship
      — Part One

    (Listening time = 19 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     — Part Two
    (Listening time = 20 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4 )  After Growing Up in a Cult
    (Listening time = 31 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Could Trump Be The 1st U.S. President Charged With A Criminal Offense?
      — Part One

    (Listening time = 20 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     — Part Two
    (Listening time = 21 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6 )  What Role Does Luck Play in Your Life?
    (Listening time = 10 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

179

1)  U.S. President Joe Biden's Talk on the Anniversary of the Covid-19 Virus
    (Listening time = 24 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Smalltime Mob Operation - his grandfather's life running a criminal enterprise
    (Listening time = 42 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  'Unorthodox' Author Chronicles A 'Scandalous Rejection' Of Hasidic Life
    (Listening time = 42 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  The Year of the Virus - Living inside your body are hundreds of trillions of viruses
    (Listening time = 13 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  The Bizarre Bank Robbery at the Top of the World
    (Listening time = 27 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  How Banks Help Criminals Get Rich
      — Part One

    (Listening time = 30 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     — Part Two
    (Listening time = 35 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

178

1)  Four Hours of Insurrection - Reconstructing the riot inside the U.S. Capitol
     Part One
    (Listening time = 28 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     Part Two
    (Listening time = 29 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  'Please, Give Me Back My Daughter’ - One mother’s quest to bring a cartel to justice
    (Listening time = 29 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Back When I Was Older
    (Listening time = 16 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4) "Firefighter Chases Woman Down Street"
    (Listening time = 21 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  The Art of Being a Couple: Theodore Zeldin
    (Listening time = 18 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

177

1)  U.S. President Joe Biden's Inaugural Address
    (Listening time = 21 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Amanda Gorman's Inaugural Poem
    (Listening time = 6 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  The Hard Crowd - Coming of age on the streets of San Francisco
    (Listening time = 34 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  The American Abyss - A historian of fascism on Trump, the mob and what comes next
    (Listening time = 31 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Dusty-Danger Dog
    (Listening time = 23 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar
      — Part One

    (Listening time = 25 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
     — Part Two
    (Listening time = 32 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Students Need to Lead The Classroom, Not Teachers
    (Listening time = 11 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Streaming Rivers of Dust
    (Listening time = 7 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

176

1)  The Vampire Ship
      — Part One

    (Listening time = 25 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
      Part Two
    (Listening time = 26 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Trusting Strangers - Who Do We Trust and Why?
    (Listening time = 29 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  The REALLY Big One
      Part One

    (Listening time = 22 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
      Part Two
    (Listening time = 21 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Questions Every Teenager Needs to Be Asked
    (Listening time = 18 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  How The Media Affects Youth
    (Listening time = 10 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Pandemic, Propaganda and the Presidency - the pandemic that came before
      Part One

    (Listening time = 19 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
      Part Two
    (Listening time = 20 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  90+ Study : New insights from people age 90 and above
    (Listening time = 13 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  The Power of Truth Telling : Christine Carter
    (Listening time = 19 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

175

1)  A Reason to Smile
    (Listening time = 11 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  The "Asteroid" Finally Hits : Back to School for Teachers, Students and Parents
      Part One

    (Listening time = 32 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
      Part Two
    (Listening time = 31 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  A Fiery Speech by Joe Biden on Public Safety and Law Enforcement
    (Listening time = 24 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  How the Pandemic Defeated America
       Part One
    (Listening time = 30 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
       Part Two
    (Listening time = 26 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  'What Carries Me Through'
    (Listening time = 17 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Dinosaurs - from Pipsqueaks to Monsters
    (Listening time = 11 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Great Walls or Great Follies?
    (Listening time = 29 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Are All Your Memories Real?
    (Listening time = 29 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)


174

1)  Michelle Obama : Speech at the 2020 Democratic National Convention
    (Listening time = 19 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Barack Obama : Speech at the 2020 Democratic National Convention
    (Listening time = 19 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Joe Biden and Kamala Harris : First campaign appearance together as running mates
    (Listening time = 35 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Reflections on Shame
    (Listening time = 29 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Seeing When You're Blind
    (Listening time = 29 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Kindness and Longevity
    (Listening time = 29 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Donald Trump and the F-Word
    (Listening time = 30 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  We Interrupt This Gloom to Offer … Hope
    (Listening time = 17 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
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173

1)  Nick Hanauer: Beware, Fellow Plutocrats, the Pitchforks Are Coming
    (Listening time = 20 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Letter From Beyond The Grave: A Tale Of Love, Murder And The Law
    (Listening time = 8 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  George Takei: Why I Love a Country That Once Betrayed Me
    (Listening time = 16 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Kakenya Ntaiya: A Girl Who Demanded School
    (Listening time = 15 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Zak Ebrahim: I am the Son of a Terrorist. Here's How I Chose Peace.
   (Listening time = 9 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Will Potter: The Shocking Move to Criminalize Nonviolent Protest
   (Listening time = 5 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Shaka Senghor: Why Your Worst Deeds Don’t Define You
    (Listening time = 12 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  LZ Granderson: The Myth of the Gay Agenda
    (Listening time = 18 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

9)  How Presidents Lead In Times Of National Mourning
    (Listening time = 8 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

1)  The Roots of 'Right' And 'Wrong'
(Listening time = 27 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  What's the secret to a happy family?
(Listening time = 18 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Chimamanda Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story
(Listening time = 19 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  'Can't Buy Me Like'
(Listening time = 30 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Shane Koyczan: "To This Day" ... for the bullied and beautiful
(Listening time = 12 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Gever Tulley: 5 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kids Do
(Listening time = 9 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Michael Norton: How to Buy Happiness
(Listening time = 11 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Helen Fisher: Why We Love, Why We Cheat
(Listening time = 22 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

172

1)  The Danger of Science Denial
    (Listening time = 17 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Why Do We Laugh?
    (Listening time = 5 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Homeless Jesus
    (Listening time = 4 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  What Do Babies Think?
    (Listening time = 18 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)   How the Worst Moments in Our Lives Make Us Who We Are
   (Listening time = 20 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Closing the Word Gap
   (Listening time = 6 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  How I'm Preparing to Get Alzheimer's
    (Listening time = 6 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

8) Searching for the Science Behind Reincarnation
    (Listening time = 8 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

1)  You've probably heard these coronavirus myths. Did you believe them?
(Listening time = 11 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Tony Buffington : Why do cats act so weird?
(Listening time = 9 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  David Brooks : The lies our culture tells us about what matters — and a better way to live
(Listening time = 16 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Do animals get coronavirus? And other questions.
(Listening time = 7 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Eckhart Tolle : There Is Another Way
(Listening time = 25 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Herman Narula : The transformative power of video games
(Listening time = 13 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Bud Abbott and Lou Costello's "Who's On First?"
(Listening time = 4 1/2 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Wajahat Ali : The case for having kids
(Listening time = 13 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

9)  Katie Hood : The difference between healthy and unhealthy love
(Listening time = 12 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

171

1)  Jenna McCarthy: What You Don't Know About Marriage
    (Listening time = 11 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Matt Cutts: Try Something New for 30 Days
    (Listening time = 3 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  English Manners Are Downright Medieval ('Sorry!' Was That Rude?)
    (Listening time = 6 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Alessandro Acquisti: Why Privacy Matters
    (Listening time = 15 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Becky Blanton: The Year I Was Homeless
   (Listening time = 7 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Patricia Ryan: Don't Insist on English!
   (Listening time = 11 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Parul Sehgal: An Ode to Envy
    (Listening time = 13 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Five Things You May Not Know About Child Marriage
    (Listening time = 5 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

9)  A.J. Jacobs: My Year of Living Biblically
    (Listening time = 18 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

1)  Girl Up: The Secrets to an Extraordinary Life: Courtney Ferrell
(Listening time = 15 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  What if a single human right could change the world? : Kristen Wenz
(Listening time = 8 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  The Mind's Musical Ear
(Listening time = 29 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  When Local News Dies, So Does Democracy : Chuck Plunkett
(Listening time = 11 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  The Diseases of Attitude - The Great War between Good and Evil : Jim Rohn
(Listening time = 27 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6) The Ghost in My Brain
(Listening time = 29 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  1% Better Every Day: James Clear
(Listening time = 24 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Why Can't We Talk About Periods? : Jen Gunter
(Listening time = 11 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

170

1)  Tuneless Choir
    (Listening time = 4 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Farida Nabourema : Is your country at risk of becoming a dictatorship? How to know.
    (Listening time = 11 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  How Irish, English And Australian Actresses Learned To Talk Like Americans
    (Listening time = 6 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Winnie Harlow : How I define beauty
    (Listening time = 7 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Kate Bowler : "Everything happens for a reason" — and other lies I've loved
   (Listening time = 15 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  After 30 Years Apart, An Immigration Lawyer Reunites His Mother With Her Parents
   (Listening time = 6 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  How Amazon Became 'Inescapable' - the Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos
    (Listening time = 36 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Kashfia Rahman : How risk-taking changes a teenager's brain
    (Listening time = 12 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

9)  A Widow, Not A Wife: 'Smacked' Explores An Ex-Husband's Secret Addiction
    (Listening time = 36 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

1)  How the Magic of Kindness Sustains Us:  Werner Reich
(Listening time = 11 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  The Authors of 'Stable Genius' Describe the Trump Presidency As A 'Den Of Destruction'
(Listening time = 33 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders:  Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
(Listening time = 10 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4)   Murder on Trial:  Sarah Dingle
(Listening time = 41 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  The New 5 Second Rule – Redefining the First Impression:  Quita Christison
(Listening time = 9 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  'Boys & Sex' by Peggy Orenstein
(Listening time = 36 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  How to Deal with Difficult People:  Jay Johnson
(Listening time = 15 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Workplace Bullies — and Corporate Psychopaths
(Listening time = 29 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

9)  The Russian Links To Mysterious Deaths Abroad
(Listening time = 39 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

169

1)  Matthew McConaughey : 5 Minutes for the NEXT 50 Years of Your LIFE
    (Listening time = 6 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Sex and Robots
    (Listening time = 32 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  A Decade Of Surging Latin American Migration
    (Listening time = 6 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Great Leaders Do What Drug Addicts Do : Michael Brody
    (Listening time = 18 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Removing Bullies : Ben Smithwell
   (Listening time = 16 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  How The Catholic Church Aided Both The Sick And The Sickness
   (Listening time = 6 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  The 2010s : Hashtags And Social Movements
    (Listening time = 8 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  I'm Not Your Inspiration : Stella Young
    (Listening time = 9 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

1)  Your Potential for Greatness : Fabienne Fredrickson
(Listening time = 18 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  The Pain of a Broken Heart
(Listening time = 8 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Why I Slept Behind A Fridge For Two Years : Hasan Abo-Shally
(Listening time = 14 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Zofia Bids Farewell to Her School Days
(Listening time = 8 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Barely Recognizable : Lisa Nichols
(Listening time = 17 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Boredom – A Source of Inspiration : Hans Wilhelm
(Listening time = 11 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Russian Efforts To Sow Discord? 'They Have Succeeded' says Fusion GPS Founder
(Listening time = 38 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  We all are Perfectly Imperfect : Muniba Mazari
(Listening time = 39 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

9)  Understanding Assassination
(Listening time = 29 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)

168

1)  Gever Tulley : 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do
     (10 to 12 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Jane Fonda : Life's third act
      (12 to 14 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Tony Porter : A call to men
     (12 to 14 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Esta Soler : How we turned the tide on domestic violence
    (12 to 14 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  The Controversy Around Virginity Testing
     (5 to 6 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Jeff Rosen : “Germany: Lessons for America”
    (26 to 31 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Social Media Has Become A Place To Talk About Mental Illness
    (6 to 7 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Negin Farsad : A highly scientific taxonomy of haters
     (8 to 10 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1)  Should We Communicate with ET?
(Listening time = 7 - 8 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  A Memoir on Drugs and Addiction
(Listening time = 29 - 35 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Emma Seppälä : “Breathing Happiness”
(Listening time = 10 - 12 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4) Daniel Sloss : “It’s Only A Story”
(Listening time = 14 - 17 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Ultraprocessed Foods
(Listening time = 7 - 9 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Janelle Shane : “The Danger of AI is Weirder Than You Think”
(Listening time = 11 - 13 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Amy Reichelt : “This Is Your Brain On Sugar”
(Listening time = 11 - 13 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  "More Than Funny" : Michael Jr. at the University of Nevada
(Listening time = 20 - 24 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

167

1)  A Personal Plea for Humanity at the US-Mexico Border - Juan Enriquez
     (23 to 28 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  How to Humor Your Stress - Loretta LaRoche
      (21 to 25 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  How colorism shapes our standards of beauty - Chika Okoro
     (10 to 12 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Earth Has Survived Extinctions Before, It's Humans Who Are Fragile
     (3 minutes long)

5)  When do kids start to care about other people's opinions? - Sara Valencia Botto
     (10 to 12 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  What reading slowly taught me about writing - Jacqueline Woodson
    (12 to 14 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Does vaping help you quit smoking?
    (8 to 10 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8) High School Vape Culture Can Be Almost As Hard To Shake As Addiction
     (4 to 5 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1)  Creating The Common Good By Habit
(Listening time = 11 - 13 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  8 Signs of a Toxic Friendship
(Listening time = 11 - 13 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  How ‘Medicare for All’ Would Work (or Not Work)
(Listening time = 24 - 29 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Learning How to Learn
(Listening time = 18 - 21 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  How We Impeached a President
Part One
   (Listening time = 28 - 34 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Part Two    (Listening time = 32 - 39 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  An Interview with Edward Snowden - Congress will support the whistleblower
(Listening time = 20 - 24 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Don’t Believe Everything You Think
(Listening time = 22 - 26 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Fascism : A Conversation with Madeleine Albright
Part One   
 (Listening time = 21 - 25 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Part Two    
(Listening time = 28 - 33 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

166

1)  Peter Fenwick : The Final Border
     (23 to 28 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  My Grandfather, A Killer
      (9 to 11 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  From pacifist to spy: WWII's surprising secret agent
     (5 to 5+ minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Talking About Hate On The Internet
     (7 to 8 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Nanfu Wang : What it was like to grow up under China's one-child policy
     (7 to 8 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Ivonne Roman : How policewomen make communities safer
    (6 to 7 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Ugly History: Witch Hunts
    (5 to 7 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  From Auto Mechanic To Doctor
     (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1)  Why Smart People Do Stupid Things
(Listening time = 29 - 35 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Melanie Nezer : The Fundamental Right to Seek Asylum
(Listening time = 11 - 13 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  On Happiness—Notes from Prison
(Listening time = 29 - 35 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4) Dinosaurs Reveal Further Details of the History of Life on Earth
(Listening time = 13 - 16 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Carrie Poppy : A Scientific Approach to the Paranormal
(Listening time = 13 - 15 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Experts Reject Trump's Claims that Video Games Are Driving Mass Shootings
(Listening time = 6 - 7 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Climate Change Is the 'Greatest Challenge Humans Have Ever Faced'
(Listening time = 36 - 44 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Shedding Light On Domestic Violence
(Listening time = 37 - 44 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

165

1)   Tobacco Denial - Part One
     (7 to 8 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Tobacco Denial - Part Two
      (8 to 9 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  What Dropping 17,000 Wallets Around The Globe Can Teach Us About Honesty
     (4 to 4+ minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Jonny Sun : You are not alone in your loneliness
     (10 to 12 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Fears Of Far-Right Terror In Germany
     (5 to 6 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  A Former Child Who Was Interned Protests Against Detention Of Migrant Children
    (4 to 5 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Lindsay Amer : Why kids need to learn about gender and sexuality
    (8 to 9 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1)  10 Things I Learned After Losing a Lot of Money: Dorothée Loorbach
(Listening time = 16 - 19 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  A Russian Assassin Tells His Story
(Listening time = 21 - 26 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  'Me Too' is a Movement, Not a Moment: Tarana Burke
(Listening time = 16 - 20 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Sleep is Your Superpower: Matt Walker
(Listening time = 19 - 23 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Dispatches From the Border
(Listening time = 27 - 32 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  The Dark Side of Self Improvement: Suzanne Eder
(Listening time = 11 - 13 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Two Old Blues Songs : Samoa Wilson with the Jim Kweskin Band
        'I'm Gonna Live the Life I Sing About'
        'Oh Papa Blues'

164

1)   Taryn Brumfitt : Stop Hating Your Body; Start Living Your Life
     (14 to 17 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  David Ian Howe : A brief history of dogs
      (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  'Socialism' Isn't The Scare Word It Once Was
     (6 to 7 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  George Blair-West : 3 ways to build a happy marriage and avoid divorce
     (11 to 13 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  How will future wars be won and lost?
     (5 to 6 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  'Pray For Me': Nicaraguan Priest Threatened With Death
    (7 to 8 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  The history and future of vaccination
    (8 to 10 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  A Deep Dive Into The Science Of Desire
     (7 to 9 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

9)  How The Columbine Massacre Shaped Survivors' Lives 20 Years Later
     (4 to 5 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1)  Sex, Empathy, Jealousy: How Emotions And Behavior Of Other Primates Mirror Our Own
(Listening time = 37 - 44 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin : What you should know about vaping and e-cigarettes
(Listening time = 15 - 18 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  'Moneyland' Reveals How Oligarchs, Kleptocrats And Crooks Stash Fortunes
(Listening time = 37 - 44 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Nine amazing stories about blood
(Listening time = 14 - 17 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  The changing face of eating disorders
(Listening time = 28 - 34 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Eric Liu : How to revive your belief in democracy
(Listening time = 14 - 17 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Loving Lucy
(Listening time = 29 - 35 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

163

1)  Jenna McCarthy : What you don't know about marriage
     (11 to 13 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Trump’s Story Not Over: 19 US Government investigations into ‘collusion’ still ongoing
      (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Facing Fears and Phobias
     (29 to 34 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Rogue Planets
     (6 to 7 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Seashell Ocean Sound
     (5 to 6 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  How White Supremacist Ideology Spreads
    (5 to 7 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Smell Training and Your Brain
    (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Albert Woodfox : On Serving More Than 40 Years In Solitary Confinement
     (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1)  Frederick Douglass : From Slavery To Prophet of Freedom
(Listening time = 36 - 43 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  From verbal abuse to axe murder: The death of Canberra mum Tara Costigan
(Listening time = 19 - 23 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  David Blaine : How I held my breath for 17 minutes
(Listening time = 29 - 45 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Dan Gilbert : The surprising science of happiness
(Listening time = 21 - 25 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Psychedelics, addiction, and mental health
(Listening time = 29 - 35 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Doxxed: Exposing the terrifying new frontier in online abuse
(Presented in 3 parts - Total Listening time = 51 - 60 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  President Trump heading for the far side of the Moon
(Listening time = 12 - 15 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

162

1)  Soraya Chemaly : The power of women's anger
     (12 to 14 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  A Glimpse of Teenage Life in Ancient Rome
      (6 to 8 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Lýdia Machová : The secrets of learning a new language
     (11 to 13 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Facebook - A ‘digital gangster’ that puts democracy at risk?
     (6 to 8 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Dodging rocks
    (6 to 8 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Is the right or left side of your face is more attractive?
    (5 to 6 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Brain freeze
    (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Elizabeth Streb : My quest to defy gravity and fly
      (9 to 11 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1)  Everday Sexism
(Listening time = 16 - 19 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2) Mark Pollock and Simone George : A love letter to realism in a time of grief
(Listening time = 19 - 23 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Understanding Assassination
(Listening time = 29 - 35 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4) Steven Pinker : Is the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers
(Listening time = 19 - 22 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5) How 2 Conspiracy Theorists Shaped Trump's Worldview (And Why They Matter To Mueller)
(Listening time = 41 - 50 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6) Insect Armageddon? Study shows 'catastrophic' declines in bug numbers
(Listening time = 10 - 12 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Our Planetary Neighbourhood
(Listening time = 5 - 6 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

8) Julia Shaw : A memory scientist's advice on reporting harassment and discrimination
(Listening time = 9 - 11 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

161

1)  Abused Wolves And Troubled Teens
     (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Stolen Calculators, A Search Warrant And 2 Varying Memories Of What Happened
      (8 to 10 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  The Great Molasses Flood Of 1919
     (4 to 5 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Voices From The Southern Border
     (7 to 9 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Fork 'n' Food
    (5 to 6 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  'An Act Of Faithful Resistance': Congregations Offer Refuge For Immigrants
    (7 to 9 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Fast Food and Your Brain
    (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Mother and daughter doctor-heroes
      (9 to 11 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1)  Toxic Masculinity
(Listening time = 11 - 14 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  The Extremes of Love
(Listening time = 28 - 33 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Jonestown 40 Years Later
(Listening time = 36 - 44 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4) Do Fish Drink Water?
(Listening time = 6 - 8 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5) The Revolution Will Be Driverless
(Listening time = 20 - 25 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6) "In Dog We Trust" -
      ACT ONE

(Listening time = 20 - 24 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
      ACT TWO
(Listening time = 11 - 13 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
      
ACT THREE
(Listening time = 23 - 28 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

160

1)  Cube-shaped Wombat Poo
     (7 to 9 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  'Nationalist' - The Word Of The Year
      (6 to 8 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  The Myth of Hercules
     (8 to 9 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  France Moves To Ban Smartphones In Schools
     (4 to 5 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Ancient Babylon In Iraq Restored
    (4 to 5 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Migrant Kids Survive Hardship To Reunite With Parents. Then What?
    (6 to 7 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Bruce Springsteen: On Jersey, Masculinity And Wishing To Be His Stage Persona
     Part One   
 (19 to 22 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)
     Part Two    (17 to 20 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1)  Charles C. Mann : How will we survive when the population hits 10 billion?
(Listening time = 14 - 18 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Is fire a solid, a liquid, or a gas?
(Listening time = 5 - 6 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  John Rasko : Life Immortal
(Listening time = 32 - 40 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4) Sitting is not the new smoking
(Listening time = 6 - 8 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5) Chetan Bhatt : Dare to refuse the origin myths that claim who you are
(Listening time = 20 - 25 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6) Raymond Tang : Be humble — and other lessons from the philosophy of water
(Listening time = 10 - 12 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Positive Psychology - Part 1
(Listening time = 29 - 37 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Positive Psychology - Part 2
(Listening time = 29 - 37 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

159

1)  How tech companies deceive you into giving up your data and privacy
     (12 to 15 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Why we have an emotional connection to robots
      (12 to 15 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  The Divided States of America
     (6 to 7 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  It's been a century now since WWI guns fell silent
     (5 to 7 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  How I made peace with lions
    (7 to 9 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  The global conversation about gender inequality
    (6 to 7 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Julia Shaw : A Memory Scientist's Advice on Reporting Harassment and Discrimination
    (9 to 12 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Franklin Leonard : How I Accidentally Changed the Way Movies Get Made
      (16 to 20 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1)  Lindsay Malloy : Why Teens Confess to Crimes They Didn't Commit
(Listening time = 14 - 18 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Ben Cort : What Commercialization is Doing to Cannabis
(Listening time = 16 - 20 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Borneo Cave Reveals Evidence of Early Humans
(Listening time = 9 - 11 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4) Walking Around the World
(Listening time = 26 - 32 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  'King Con' Successfully Impersonated Indigenous Leaders His Whole Life
(Listening time = 24 - 30 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6) Rebecca MacKinnon : We Can Fight Terror Without Sacrificing Our Rights
(Listening time = 12 - 15 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  A Pulitzer-Winning Journalist — And Undocumented Immigrant
(Listening time = 6 - 8 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  The Tattooist of Auschwitz, and the Love That Helped Him Survive
(Listening time = 26 - 32 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

158

1)  Facts, fear, fake news and Facebook
     (12 to 14 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Broke In The Richest Country On Earth
      (8 to 10 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Ghosts Of World War II Under The Islands Of Papua New Guinea
     (7 to 9 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Daily aspirin doesn't protect against heart attack or stroke
     (7 to 9 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Elise LeGrow : "You Never Can Tell" / Over the Mountain, Across the Sea"
     (8 minutes long)

6)  Turn on, tune in
    (6 to 8 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Snooping microphones in your home?
    (8 to 10 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  A Man's 25-Year Quest To Prove The Identity Of His Father
      (7 to 9 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1)  Without Your Memories, Are You Really Still You?
(Listening time = 28 - 25 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth!
(Listening time = 10 - 13 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  DNA Tests, the Golden State Killer and Your Privacy
(Listening time = 11 - 14 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4) To Keep Women From Dying In Childbirth, Look To California
(Listening time = 14 - 18 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  70 Years Of Life In Mosul
(Listening time = 8 - 10 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6) The Man Putin Wants To Interrogate
(Listening time = 5 - 7 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  The Career Advice You Probably Didn't Get  (especially women)
(Listening time = 14 - 18 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Frankenstein - It’s alive!!!
(Listening time = 54 - 68 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

157

1)  Obama's Scathing Critique of Trump and the 'Politics of Fear'
     (Total listening time = 66 to 82 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)
     Part 1     Part 2     Part3

2)  The Black Hand Society: America's Original Gangsters
     (8 to 10 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)   A Songwriting Mystery Solved: Math Proves John Lennon Wrote 'In My Life'
      (5 to 7 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)   Did Laziness Kill the 'Cave Man'?
     (3 to 4 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)   The World's Most Liveable City
     (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  On White People's 'Fragility'
     (7 to 9 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

7)   A hybrid 'wholphin' (a hybrid whale-dolphin) confirmed in Hawaii
    (4 to 5 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

8)   1 - Deported Without His Daughter
    (7 to 8 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

9)   2 - Update On Deported Honduran Father
      (7 to 9 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1)  The Untold Story of a Lost World - The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
(Listening time = 23 - 29 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Yuval Noah Harari : Why fascism is so tempting
(Listening time = 18 - 23 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Optimism and Hope
(Listening time = 28 - 36 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Bernie Sanders On U.S. Foreign Policy
(Listening time = 5 - 7 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  On Being a Dog
(Listening time = 36 - 45 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Robin Nagle : What I discovered in New York City trash
(Listening time = 8 - 10 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Jennifer Granick : How the US government spies on you
(Listening time = 14 - 18 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Emily Levine : How I made friends with reality
(Listening time = 16 - 20 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

156

1)  Revisiting Mr. Rogers - The 2002 Dartmouth College Commencement Address
     (17 to 31 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Daddy Long Legs
      (7 to 8 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  The Tham Luang Cave Rescue
     (14 to 17 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)   Human Rights vs Artificial Intelligence?
     (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  'I Hope To God We Will Be Safe' :  Refugees In Lebanon Start Returning To Syria
     (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Wasted Food
    (6 to 8 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Oprah Winfrey : USC Annenberg Commencement Address
    (23 to 29 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  A Father Feared For His Son's Life, So He Joined Him On The Street
      (8 to 10 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1)  Carl Honoré : In Praise of Slowness
(Listening time = 12 - 15 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Former FBI Counter-Terrorism Agent Reflects On 'Messing With The Enemy'
(Listening time = 31 - 39 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  What Led to the Student Protests of 1968?
(Listening time = 29 - 36 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Ready for Revolution — the Psychology of Protest
(Listening time = 29 - 36 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Synesthesia: Seeing Sounds, Hearing Colours
(Listening time = 47 - 63 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Brett Hennig : What If We Replaced Politicians with Randomly Selected People?
(Listening time = 9 - 12 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Yasmin Green : How Technology Can Fight Extremism and Online Harassment
(Listening time = 13 - 17 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Comic Tig Notaro Wants You To Know She's 'Happy To Be Here'
(Listening time = 36 - 45 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

155

1)  The Virginity Fraud
     (12 to 14 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  The Betel Nut Sellers Of Papua New Guinea
      (7 to 9 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Milk! The 'Most Over-Argued Food In History'
     (5 to 7 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)   What It's Like to be the Child of Immigrants
     (8 to 10 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Why Are Whales So Big?
     (6 to 8 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Inside the Fight Against Russia's Fake News Empire
    (5 to 6 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Gunpowder vs Sandwich
    (6 to 7 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  A Day In The Boat Life On The Amazon River
      (8 to 10 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1) Senator Jeff Flake : "Our presidency has been debased"
(Listening time = 25 - 31 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2) The Osage Murders - A Conspiracy Against Wealthy Native Americans
(Listening time = 37 - 47 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3) Women's Brain Business
(Listening time = 29 - 36 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4) Surviving the Holocaust - Living Witnesses
(Listening time = 29 - 36 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Rébecca Kleinberger : Why You Don't Like the Sound of Your Own Voice
(Listening time = 13 - 16 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Tim Flannery - A decade ago climate experts were deeply worried. Now they are terrified
(Listening time = 51 - 64 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

7) Mariana Atencio: What Makes You Special?
(Listening time = 18 - 22 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

8) Mel Robbins : How to Stop Screwing Yourself Over
(Listening time = 22 - 27 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

154

1)  Tracee Ellis Ross: A Woman's Fury
     (10 to 13 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Who Cares If They're Cute? Accepting Animals On Their Own Terms
      (8 to 10 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream 50 Years After His Assassination
     (9 to 12 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Deaf Heart
     (27 to 33 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  What's Going On With The Kids Of Today?
     (29 to 36 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  The Wood Wide Web
     (5 to 7 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  A Salvadoran Woman Missed Her U.S. Court Date. What Happens Next?
    (6 to 8 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  How A Half-Hour In A U.S. Embassy Changed A Life
      (7 to 9 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

9)  Leo Igwe : Why I choose humanism over faith
      (10 to 13 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1) Kids Logic

        Part One     
(Listening time = 21 - 26 minutes)
        Part Two     
(Listening time = 20 - 25 minutes)
        Part Three  
(Listening time = 21 - 26 minutes)
        Part Four
    (Listening time = 18 - 23 minutes)

2) Guns in America: A billion dollar business
(Listening time = 29 -36 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3) How to Tame a Fox
(Listening time = 13 - 16 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4) The Story of Race Relations in America

        Part One     
(Listening time = 29 - 36 minutes)
        Part Two     
(Listening time = 28 - 35 minutes)
        Part Three  
(Listening time = 28 - 35 minutes)

153

1)  Why Do Cats Act So Weird?
     (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Aboriginal Stories
      (6 to 8 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Lucianne Walkowicz: Let's not use Mars as a backup planet
     (6 to 8 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)   Childhood Playmates Reconnect, Rekindle Friendship That Transcends Race And Distance
     (6 to 8 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  First ever lower-caste Hindu woman elected to Pakistan's Senate
     (5 to 7 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Parkland Student David Hogg - a survivor of the shooting
    (5 to 7 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Martin Rees: Can we prevent the end of the world?
    (7 to 9 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  How NOT to eat a dog
      (6 to 8 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1) Christopher Steele, the Man Behind the Trump Dossier
    How the ex-spy tried to warn the world about Trump’s ties to Russia.


        Part One     
(Listening time = 21 - 26 minutes)
        Part Two     
(Listening time = 20 - 25 minutes)
        Part Three  
(Listening time = 21 - 26 minutes)
        Part Four
    (Listening time = 18 - 23 minutes)
        Part Five    (Listening time = 23 - 28 minutes)

2) A Highly Superior Memory
(Listening time = 29 -36 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3) Dark Matter
(Listening time = 6 - 7 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4) Lauren Sallan: How to survive a mass extinction
(Listening time = 6 - 7 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5) Kathryn Schulz : Don't regret regret
(Listening time = 17 - 22 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

152

1)  Comparing Human Emotions with Those of Animals
     (8 to 10 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Michael Ian Black On Why 'Boys Are Broken'
      (7 to 8 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Latif Nasser : You have no idea where camels really come from
     (12 to 15 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)   What You Neeed to Know About The Flu
     (11 to 13 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  What do you do when someone you know is accused of sexual harassment?
     (9 to 11 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Latif Nasser : The amazing story of the man who gave us modern pain relief
    (14 to 17 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  School Shooting Survivors Discuss Their Experiences
    (11 to 13 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Ric Elias : 3 things I learned while my plane crashed
      (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1 ) 'How Democracies Die'  by Steve Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
(Listening time = 31 - 38 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Bionic Bodies - Part 1
(Listening time = 54 - 67 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Bionic Bodies - Part 2
(Listening time = 54 - 67 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  A Former Neo-Nazi Explains Why Hate Drew Him In — And How He Got Out
(Listening time = 44 - 55 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  The ultimate problem? - how to problem solve!
(Listening time = 29 - 36 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Mammoths resurrected, geoengineering and other thoughts from a futurist
(Listening time = 30 - 38 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Is There Enough Evidence for a Criminal Case Against Trump?
(Listening time = 10 - 13 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

151

1)  Sue Jaye Johnson : What we don't teach kids about sex
     (7 to 9 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Oprah Winfrey's Golden Globes speech
      (9 to 11 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Oprah's Golden Globes speech creates speculation about running for president
     (6 to 7 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)   Unacceptable Behavior is Unacceptable Behavior
     (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Facial yoga: Can exercising your facial muscles make you look younger?
     (8 to 9 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  The Female Monks Of Thailand
    (5 to 6 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  What Border Patrol Agents Think About Immigration Policy
    (4 to 5 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  What Your Smart Devices Know About You
      (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1 )  Scott Galloway : How Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google Manipulate Our Emotions
(Listening time = 19 - 24 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Who was Karl Marx?
(Listening time = 29 - 36 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Skipping Breakfast and Your Fat Cells
(Listening time = 7 - 9 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  How Battles Over Sex, Gender And Sexual Orientation 'Fractured American Politics'
(Listening time = 30 - 38 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Why We Deny Science
(Listening time = 29 - 37 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Why Are the Wealthy So Wealthy and the Poor So Poor?
(Listening time = 5 - 7 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  America: a Second Gilded Age?
(Listening time = 29 - 39 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

150

1)  The Nonhuman Rights Project Advocates For Zoo Animals
     (4 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Beth Malone : "I've been doing some thinking. I'm going to kill my dad."
      (7 to 9 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Great walls or great follies?
     (29 to 39 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Justin Baldoni : Why I'm done trying to be "man enough"
     (18 to 24 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  After A Mass Shooting, Families Feel 'A Pain That Will Never Go Away'
     (9 to 13 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Angela Wang : How China is changing the future of shopping
     (13 to 18 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Dao Nguyen : What makes something go viral?
    (10 to 14 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1 ) A Meaningful Life
(Listening time = 29 - 36 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2) Who Says You Can't Train A Cat?
(Listening time = 37 - 46 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3) From Fire Hydrants To Rescue Work, Dogs Perceive The World Through Smell
(Listening time = 31 - 38 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4) Life as a Brain Surgeon
(Listening time = 29 - 36 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5) 'Big Chicken' Connects Poultry Farming To Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
(Listening time = 36 - 45 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  The Enigma of Time
(Listening time = 29 - 36 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

7) 'I Can't Breathe' Examines Modern Policing And The Life And Death Of Eric Garner
(Listening time = 44 - 56 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

8) Martin Ford: How we'll earn money in a future without jobs
(Listening time = 14 - 18 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

149

1)  Of Power, Predators And Innocent Mistakes: The Complex Problems Of Sexual Harassment
     (11 to 14 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Taking Back 'Allahu Akbar'
      (5 to 7 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  When The Focus Is On The Student, Not The Class
     (4 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  How young people join violent extremist groups — and how to stop them
     (12 to 15 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  To Save Her Children, She Pretended To Be Crazy
     (5 to 7 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Canada's 'Welcome' To Immigrants Has Some Unintended Consequences
    (8 to 10 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  In Russia, 'The Future Is History'
    (6 to 7 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Three fears about screen time for kids — and why they're not true
      (12 to 15 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1 ) Jennifer Granick: How the US government spies on people who protest — including you
(Listening time = 14 - 18 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2) The Psychology of Hoarding
(Listening time = 29 - 36 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3) Code Breakers and the Secret Japanese Military Codes
(Listening time = 10 - 13 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4) Michael Moore on His Broadway Show, Trump, Puerto Rico & the Media
(Listening time = 38 - 48 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5) A Canadian Doctor Explains How Her Country's Single-Payer Health Care System Works
(Listening time = 5 - 7 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Theo E.J. Wilson: A black man goes undercover in the alt-right
(Listening time = 18 - 23 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

7) Reporter Katy Tur Shares Her 'Front-Row' View Of The Trump Campaign
(Listening time = 49 - 61 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

148

1)  Emily Esfahani Smith : There's more to life than being happy
     (12 to 16 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Army Veteran Says Puerto Rico Needs 50,000 U.S. Troops
      (4 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Duarte Geraldino: What we're missing in the debate about immigration
     (8 to 10 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Is Russian Cyber Meddling An Extension Of the Cold War?
     (5 to 7 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  On the trail of those on the trail of legendary creatures
     (6 to 9 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Euna Lee : What I learned as a prisoner in North Korea
     12 to 16 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Are Four Leaf Clovers Not So Lucky?
    (5 to 7 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Women Now Allowed to Drive Cars In Saudia Arabia
      (5 to 7 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1 ) Armed Militias Face Off With The 'Antifa' In The New Landscape Of Political Protest
(Listening time = 32 - 42 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2) Does Democracy Have a Future?
(Listening time = 29 - 37 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3) A Superhuman Escape
(Listening time = 29 - 37 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4) How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day
(Listening time = 18 - 24 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5) Al Gore : Trump Is A 'Distraction' From The Issue Of Climate Change
(Listening time = 43 - 55 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  First Impressions — The Face Bias
(Listening time = 29 - 37 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

7) Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus
(Listening time = 29 - 38 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

147

1)  SUSAN ROBINSON : How I fail at being disabled
     (8 to 10 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  How To Talk Race With Your Family
      (13 to 17 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  RONALD SULLIVAN JR. : How I help free innocent people from prison
     (12 to 15 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Florence Nightingale: Mathematician (and Nurse)
     (10 to 13 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Glenn Greenwald on how Donald Trump has changed America
     (6 to 8 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  'Ghost Of The Innocent Man': A Story Of 24 Years Of Wrongful Imprisonment
     (8 to 10 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  DAMON DAVIS : Courage is contagious
    (5 to 7 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  "I Was Bullied . . "  : Talking About Bullying
      (9 to 11 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

9)  Anika Paulson: How I found myself through music
      (9 to 12 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1 ) Tim Minchin at The University of Western Australia
(Listening time = 12 - 15 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2) David Miliband : The refugee crisis is a test of our character
(Listening time = 19 - 24 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3) Lenin's train ride to Russia: The train journey that changed the course of history
(Listening time = 29 - 37 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4) What Happens When The Heroin Epidemic Hits Small Town America?
(Listening time = 25 - 33 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5) The History of Plastic - 'Plastic: A Toxic Love Story'
(Listening time = 29 - 37 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  'What Would You Do?' : The Donner Party
(Listening time = 37 - 48 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

7) Adam Alter : Why our screens make us less happy
(Listening time = 10 - 12 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

146

1)  Sex, Drugs and Rock n Roll: The Science of Hedonism and the Hedonism of Science
     (29 to 37 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Let's say you despise Western democracy: How (and why) Russia hacked the U.S. election
     (10 to 12 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  When a healthy diet becomes an unhealthy obsession
     (29 to 36 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  John Koenig : Beautiful new words to describe obscure emotions
     (8 to 10 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Preparing to Live on Mars
    (4 to 6 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Former Vice-President Joe Biden Talks About Trump, Faith And Fate
     (38 to 47 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Sherman Alexie : 'Indian Du Jour'
     (44 to 56 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Ashley Judd : How online abuse of women has spiraled out of control
      (16 to 20 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1 ) Interviews With Beatles Ringo Starr And Paul McCartney
(Listening time = 38 - 46 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2) Bernie Sanders' Brooklyn College Commencement Speech Delves Into His Past
(Listening time = 17 - 21 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3) 'Driving While Female' - An Act Of Civil Disobedience
(Listening time = 36 - 44 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4) Great Walls or Great Follies?
(Listening time = 29 - 34 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5) Chatting with Heretics
(Listening time = 29 - 34 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6) Mark Zuckerberg's Commencement Address at Harvard
(Listening time = 32 - 38 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

7) Elon Musk: The future we're building - and boring
        Part One     
(Listening time = 19 - 23 minutes)
        Part Two     
(Listening time = 21 - 26 minutes)

145

1)  The Connection Between What You Eat and How You Feel
     (29 to 34 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Why Do We Yawn?
     (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Joe Biden's Commencement Speech at Cornell University
     (35 to 42 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Rutger Bregman: Is poverty "a personality defect"?
     (15 to 18 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Deborah Lipstadt: Behind the lies of Holocaust denial
    (16 to 19 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  How The Trump-Russia Scandal Is Playing In Russia
     (5 to 6 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Richard Dawkins On Terrorism And Religion
     (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Will Ferrell's University of Southern California Commencement Speech
      (9 to 11 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1 ) Talking With Machines
(Listening time = 29 - 35 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2) Sandi Toksvig: A political party for women's equality
(Listening time = 20 - 24 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3) "Fascism" - What does it mean?
(Listening time = 30 - 37 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4) Nellie McKay: "The Dog Song"
(Listening time = 3 - 4 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5) Michael Specter: The danger of science denial
(Listening time = 16 - 20 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6) David R. Williams: How racism makes us sick
(Listening time = 18 - 21 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

7) Yuval Noah Harari: Nationalism vs. Globalism ( What on Earth is going on?)
        Part One     
(Listening time = 22 - 27 minutes)
        Part Two     
(Listening time = 21 - 25 minutes)

144

1)  Thordis Elva and Tom Stranger: Our story of rape and reconciliation
     (7 to 9 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Carol Dweck: The power of believing that you can improve
     (11 to 13 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  The Physics of Fat - What happens to the weight we lose, and where does it go?
     (13 to 16 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Caroline Paul: How To Raise Brave Girls
     (13 to 16 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Using Humor To Shed Light On Feminism, Race, The Internet
    (7 to 9 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Is It Time For A Sugar Tax?
     (28 to 35 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  The Threat to Science and Science Integrity
     (25 to 31 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Are Insects the Next Superfood?
      (9 to 11 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1 ) Agnotology:  Understanding Our Ignorance
(Listening time = 29 - 36 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2) 'Hemingway Didn't Say That' (The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations)
(Listening time = 3 - 4 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3) 50 Years Ago, MLK Delivers A Speech With Dark Vision Of The World
(Listening time = 2 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4) Hitler Was 'Blitzed' On Cocaine And Opiates During The War
(Listening time = 36 - 43 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5) The Immigrant Who Changed the World
(Listening time = 5 - 13 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6) It's All a Conspiracy
(Listening time = 29 - 25 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

7) Douglas Adams - 'Parrots, the Universe and Everything'
        Part One     
(Listening time = 22 - 27 minutes)
        Part Two     
(Listening time = 21 - 25 minutes)
        Part Three  
(Listening time = 23 - 27 minutes)
        Part Four
    (Listening time = 20 - 24 minutes)

143

1)  Helping English Language Learners Get To College
     (4 to 5 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)   Children Who Hear Voices
      (29 to 37 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Lux Narayan: What I learned from 2,000 obituaries
     (6 to 8 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Teen Drug Use Is Declining, But Why?
     (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Egyptian Political Satirist Bassem Youssef
    (7 to 9 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  The President and the Press
     (29 to 36 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Jude Kelly: Why women should tell the stories of humanity
    14 to 17 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Growing Up Digitally
     (29 to 36 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1 ) Caleb Barlow:  Where is Cybercrime Really Coming From?
(Listening time = 15 - 17 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2) The Pitfalls Of Extending Life And Prolonging Death
(Listening time = 37 - 44 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3) Deeyah Khan:  What we don't know about Europe's Muslim kids
(Listening time = 20 - 24 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4) Why Are Some Silicon Valley Tech Executives Preparing For Doomsday?
(Listening time = 43 - 51 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5) The Duty of Researchers to Influence Policy
(Listening time = 11 - 13 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6) 'Shoot Like A Girl'
(Listening time = 43 - 51 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

7) Linda Sarsour on Turning Down an Invitation to a Trump Speech
(Listening time = 7 - 9 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

8) Nagin Cox:  What Time Is It on Mars?
(Listening time = 14 - 17 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

142

1)  Everyone is Uglier Than They Think. Everyone is More Beautiful Than They Think, too.
     (16 to 20 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)   Alexis Jones:  “Locker Room Talk”?
      (15 to 20 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Documenting The Refugees Of Syria And Iraq
     (6 to 8 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Saving The Planet, One Burger At A Time: This Juicy Patty Is Meat-Free
     (6 to 7 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  The Gendered Mind  (Is testosterone still king?)
    (29 to 36 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Overcoming Poverty  (and the effects of parenting programs)
     (7 to 9 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  A Crime Reporter Recounts The Emotional Toll Of The Beat
    (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Teenagers Get Unusual Punishment For Spray-Painting Swastikas
     (4 to 5 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1 ) Barack Obama's Parting Words
(Listening time = 7 - 9 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2) Trump's Inaugural Speech
(Listening time = 16 - 20 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3) Fake News : How False Stories Spread And Why People Believe Them
(Listening time = 36 - 43 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4) A Diplomat Reflects On Moderate Islam In 'Letters To A Young Muslim'
(Listening time = 32 - 39 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5) Brad Butler: How Coffee Transformed My Life
(Listening time = 15 - 18 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6) The People Paradox -   (Part One)    (Part Two)
(Listening time = 52 - 62 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  How Many Bankers Does It Take To Change A Lightbulb?
(Listening time = 17 - 20 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

8) A Mummy's DNA May Help Solve The Mystery Of The Origins Of Smallpox
(Listening time = 4 minutes)

9) The Twitter Paradox: How A Platform Designed For Free Speech Enables Internet Trolls
(Listening time = 19 - 23 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

141

1)  Dr. Cal Newport: Quit Social Media
     (14 to 17 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)   Farewell Address - First Lady Michelle Obama
      (21 to 25 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Farewell Address - President Barack Obama
     (49 to 62 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Costa Rica: "The Happiest Country on Earth"
     (29 to 36 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Prisoners Living with Acquired Brain Injury
    (28 to 35 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Ahmed Ahmed: When It Comes to Laughter, We Are All Alike
     (18 to 23 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Bert Jacobs: Do What You Like, Like What You Do
    (13 to 17 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  What Happens When A Billion People Get Computers?
     (7 to 9 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1 ) The Psychology of Money
(Listening time = 29 - 35 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2) Suzanne Barakat:  Islamophobia killed my brother. Let's end the hate
(Listening time = 15 - 18 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3) How the Internet Influences Politics and Democracy
(Listening time = 20 - 24 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4) Could Trump 'Undermine The Legacy Of The Obama Presidency' With The Stroke Of A Pen?
(Listening time = 43 - 51 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5) Zofia Witkowski-Blake and the Bionic Eye
(Listening time = 11 - 13 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6) Kristin Neff:  The Space Between Self-Esteem and Self Compassion
(Listening time = 19 - 23 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

7) Saisha Srivastava:  What Nobody Told You About Happiness
(Listening time = 17 - 20 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

8) What is Beauty?
(Listening time = 10 - 12 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

140

1)  Jia Jiang: What I learned from 100 days of rejection'
     (16 to 20 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Actress Sofia Vergara Sued By Her Own Frozen Embryos
      (4 to 5 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Pets Find Their Way Into Our Hearts When We Need Them Most
     (3 to 4 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  The Scientific Illiteracy of Donald Trump
     (3 to 4 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Easy To See Why Some Loved Fidel Castro's Cuba, Many More Fled
     (3 minutes long )

6)  University Of California Pledges To Fight Trump On Immigration Policy
     (5 to 6 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  When It Comes To Wealthy Leaders, World Abounds With Cautionary Tales
    (4 to 5 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  An interview with the founders of Black Lives Matter
     (16 to 20 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1 ) J.D. Vance:  America's Forgotten Working Class
(Listening time = 14 - 18 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2) How Trump Broke Campaign Norms But Still Won The Election
(Listening time = 41 - 50 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3) Melissa Fleming: A boat carrying 500 refugees sunk at sea. The story of two survivors
(Listening time = 19 - 23 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4) Greenland
(Listening time = 29 - 35 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5) Issues of Digital Security
(Listening time = 28 - 34 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6) This American Life  —  ' TELL ME I'M FAT'

     
*ONE  (Prologue and Act One)
        (Listening time = 24 - 29 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
     *TWO  (Act Two)
        (Listening time = 19 - 23 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
     *THREE  (Act Three to Act Five)
        (Listening time = 22 - 27 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
    

139

1)  Harassed On Twitter: 'People Need To Know The Reality Of What It's Like Out There'
     (25 to 31 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  What’s wrong with our food system
      (5 to 7 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  John McWhorter: 4 reasons to learn a new language
     (10 to 13 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Ann Makosinski : Why I Don’t Use A Smart Phone
     (12 to 15 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Christopher Soghoian: Your smartphone is a civil rights issue
     (8 to 10 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  I Was a Lab Rat in a Sleep Deprivation Study
     (17 to 22 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Angela Horn: The Less You Own, The More You Have
    (13 to 16 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Your Personal Brand
     (29 to 37 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1 ) How Free Web Content Traps You In An Abyss Of Ads And Clickbait
(Listening time = 37 - 45 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2) 65 Million Displaced People
(Listening time = 29 - 35 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3) Rachel Botsman: We've stopped trusting institutions and started trusting strangers
(Listening time = 18 - 21 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4) Kidnapped, Then Forced Into The Sideshow: The True Story Of The Muse Brothers
(Listening time = 30 - 36 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5) Sayu Bhojwani: Immigrant voices make democracy stronger
(Listening time = 13 - 16 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6) Dogs Perceive The World Through Smell
(Listening time = 37 - 44 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

7) The Body in the Freezer
(Listening time = 39 - 47 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

8) Helen Fisher: Technology hasn't changed love. Here's why
(Listening time = 19 - 23 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

   

 

138

1)  Michelle Obama : 'ENOUGH IS ENOUGH'
    ( "probably the most important speech of the entire US political campaign" )
     (26 to 31 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  'Nobody's Son': A Memoir Of Childhood, Immigration And A Mother's Love
      (6 to 7 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Debating While Female
     (4 to 5 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Manwar Ali: Inside the mind of a former radical jihadist
     (17 to 21 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Who's A Good Girl? Your Dog, Who Understands More Than You Might Think
     (3 to 3 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  'I Feel Pretty Good': A Moment With Brian Wilson
     (7 to 9 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Hooked on Social Media
    (29 to 26 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  My Mind Was a Stranger
      (28 to 35 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

9)  Young Scientists
      (3 to 4 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1 ) The Making of Clinton:  Character in the 2016 Election
(Listening time = 11 - 13 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2) The Making of Trump:  Character in the 2016 Election
(Listening time = 11 - 13 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3) James Veitch:  The agony of trying to unsubscribe   (humorous speech)
(Listening time = 8 - 9 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4) The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region
(Listening time = 36- 43 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  "Narcos" and the Drug War, Colombia And Pablo Escobar
(Listening time = 33 - 39 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6) Pablo Escobar's Son Renounces His Father's Sins
(Listening time = 4 - 5 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)


7) The 'Racial Cleansing' That Drove 1,100 Black Residents from Their Homes in the United States

(Listening time = 38 - 46 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

8) Abigail Marsh: Why some people are more altruistic than others
(Listening time = 12 - 15 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

137

1)  My Story - by Elizabeth Smart
     (12 to 15 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Donald Trump's Vision:  'Under One God' Vs. Religious Freedom
      (4 to 5 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Carolien Hoogland - My Year of Living Without Money
     (17 to 21 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  'Tough Guy' Farmers Stand Up To the Italian Mafia — And Win
     (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Rebecca MacKinnon - We can fight terror without sacrificing our rights
     (12 to 15 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6) Roxane Gay - Confessions of a bad feminist
     (11 to 14 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Tuning in to Autism
    (29 to 26 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Nadia Lopez - Why open a school? To close a prison
     (7 to 9 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1 ) Spreading Terror 'All Over The World' : Inside The Islamic State Movement
(Listening time = 44 - 53 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2) Rory Sutherland: Sweat the Small Stuff
(Listening time = 17 - 20 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3) The Brutal Politics of a Virus That Won't Go Away
(Listening time = 40 - 48 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4) Jacqueline Novogratz : Inspiring a Life of Immersion
(Listening time = 18 - 21 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5) Sitting Brings You Closer to Death
(Listening time = 6 - 7 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6) Alexander Betts : Why Brexit Happened — and What To Do Next
(Listening time = 17 - 21 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)


7) Brian Cox :
Be Curious and Open to Change
(Listening time = 6 - 7 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

136

1)  Gabi Ury: What’s Wrong With Me? Absolutely Nothing!
     (12 to 15 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Egotism and its pitfalls  -  "our trumped up ideas of how important we are"
      (29 to 36 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Kevin Breel : Confessions of a depressed comic
     (11 to 14 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  After DNC Hack, Could Voting Machine be Compromised?
     (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Music For The Dying
     (4 to 5 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Anthony Goldbloom: The jobs we'll lose to machines — and the ones we won't
     (8 to 10 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  'Untouchables' Demands A New Place in the Life of India
    (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1 ) Stephen Colbert on America Again: Re-Becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't
(Listening time = 59 - 71 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2) Julia Galef: Why you think you're right -- even if you're wrong
(Listening time = 12 - 14 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3) Brain decoding
(Listening time = 29 - 36 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4) Leila Hoteit - 3 lessons on success from an Arab businesswoman
(Listening time = 14 - 17 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Gerard Ryle: How the Panama Papers journalists broke the biggest leak in history
(Listening time = 14 - 17 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6) Eric Haseltine: What will be the next big scientific breakthrough?
(Listening time = 11 - 13 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)


7) 'Unbroken Brain' Explains Why 'Tough' Treatment Doesn't Help Drug Addicts

(Listening time = 36 - 44 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  'The Money Was The Soft Spot': 'The Infiltrator' On Taking Down Pablo Escobar
(Listening time = 8 - 10 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

135

1)  Matt Damon : MIT Commencement Speech
     (23 to 29 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Despite The Headlines, is The World Becoming Less Violent?
      (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Are We Constrained by Collective Memory?
     (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Are Police Being Taught To Pull The Trigger Too Fast?
     (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  The Mummy Returns
     (26 to 32 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Hollywood And The Middle Class: Selling Dreams
     (8 to 10 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  How Wild Birds Team Up With Humans To Guide Them To Honey
    (4 to 5 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  How A Shirt Collar Helped A Man Survive Auschwitz
     (7 to 9 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1)  Carmen Agra Deedy: Spinning a story of Mama - "Once upon a time, my mother ..."
(Listening time = 18 - 22 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Esther Perel: The Secret to Desire in a Long-term Relationship
(Listening time = 19 - 23 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Regan Hofmann : Sex and Secrets
(Listening time = 15- 18 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  The Rise Of The 'Concealed-Carry Lifestyle'
(Listening time = 44 - 53 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)


5)   Mel Robbins : How To Stop Screwing Yourself Over
(Listening time = 22 - 26 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Katerina Vran : Stereotypes are Funny
(Listening time = 16 - 19 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Sean Stephenson : The Prison of Your Mind
(Listening time = 10 - 13 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

134

1)  Malcolm Gladwell: Choice, happiness and spaghetti sauce
     (18 to 22 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  In Songs, Stories, Latino And LGBT Voices On How The Orlando Attack Feels Personal
     (11 to 13 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Shiza Shahid: My Journey with Malala
      (11 to 13 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  From 'Brexit' To Trump, Nationalist Movements Gain Momentum Around World
     (4 to 5 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Is Honesty Still Important?
     (29 to 35 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Why Young People Are Drawn To ISIS
     (9 to 11 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Candy Flavors E-Cigarettes for Kids?
     (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  The Internet May Be Humankind's Greatest Masterpiece
    (8 to 10 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

9)  Up The Amazon - an adventure . . . of sorts
    (6 to 7 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1)  A Path From 'Blackout' Drunkenness To Sobriety And Self-Acceptance
(Listening time = 31 - 38 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Generation Politics:  25-Year-Olds Share Experiences That Shaped Their Views
(Listening time = 33 - 40 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Generation Politics:  45-Year-Olds Share Experiences That Shaped Their Views
(Listening time = 21 - 25 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Generation Politics:  65-Year-Olds Share Experiences That Shaped Their Views
(Listening time = 29 - 35 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  The Funny Side of Alzheimer's
(Listening time = 13- 16 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  'But What If We're Wrong:' A Look At How We Will Remember The Now, Later
(Listening time = 11 - 13 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)


7)  Jill Stein to Bernie Sanders: Run on the Green Party Ticket & Continue Your Political Revolution
(Listening time = 29 - 35 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  From Medical Maggots To Stench Soup, 'Grunt' Explores The Science Of Warfare
(Listening time = 29 - 35 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

9)  The Man Problem
(Listening time = 38 - 45 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

133

1)  Lidia Yuknavitch: The beauty of being a misfit
     (13 to 16 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Muslims Are Just The Latest In History Of Scapegoats
      (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  At The Center Of Catholic Church's Sex Abuse Scandal
     (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Two Brothers on Different Sides of BREXIT (UK Vote On EU Exit)
     (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  A Child Bride At 13, She's Turned Herself Into A Prize-Winning Wrestler
     (9 to 11 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  A Different Story About The Kitty Genovese Murder
     (8 to 10 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Sleep Deprived: We're Recharging Our Phones, But Not Ourselves
    (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Negin Farsad: Social Justice Comedy - "A highly scientific taxonomy of haters"
     (8 to 10 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1)  'Living (And Dying) While Black'
(Listening time = 31 - 38 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  The Panama Papers: The Basic Idea Is 'To Hide True Ownership'
(Listening time = 33 - 40 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Meryl Streep, Commencement Speech at Columbia University
(Listening time = 21 - 25 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  When Britain and France signed a secret deal carving up the Middle East
(Listening time = 29 - 35 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Are Your Devices Listening to What You Say? - the new 'surveillance capitalism'
(Listening time = 13- 16 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)   Eunice Hii : Don’t Just Follow Your Passion
(Listening time = 11 - 13 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)


7)  Police Using Sound for Crowd Control
(Listening time = 29 - 35 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  The Ghost in My Brain
(Listening time = 29 - 35 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

9)  Kenya Barris : 'Black-ish' And What Kids Lose When They Grow Up With More
(Listening time = 38 - 45 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

132

1)  How free is our "freedom of the press?"
     (5 to 7 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Free Software, Free Society
     (14 to 16 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  More Money = More Time Alone
      (3 to 4 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Our lonely society makes it hard to come home from war
     (14 to 17 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Einstein's socks
     (13 to 16 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Greed vs.The American Dream
     (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  'Embodiment Of Grit': How Children Of Farm Workers Became Tech Professionals
     (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Republican Immigration Rhetoric Leaves Latino Population Feeling Disenfranchised
    (11 to 13 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

9)  Stung By 83 Different Insects
    (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1 ) The Zombie Brain
(Listening time = 29 - 35 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2) The New Eugenics: Designer Bodies
(Listening time = 26 - 31 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3) Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus
(Listening time = 29 - 35 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Amy Morin : The Secret of Becoming Mentally Strong
(Listening time = 15 - 18 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  The Refugee Crisis Becomes The New Normal
(Listening time = 8 - 10 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  'It Was Torture': An Abu Ghraib Interrogator Acknowledges 'Horrible Mistakes'
(Listening time = 44 - 52 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)


7)  'Door To Door' Reveals The Magnificent — And Maddening — Story of Traffic

(Listening time = 20 - 24 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie : We Should All Be Feminists
(Listening time = 30 - 36 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

131

1)  Nick Vujicic : Overcoming Hopelessness
     (15 to 18 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Orangutans Enjoy Interactive Video Games
      (10 to 12 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  He told her, "I'm leaving for Europe"
     (5 to 7 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  When You Become The Person You Hate On The Internet
     (6 to 8 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Attention, Students: Put Your Laptops Away
     (3 to 4 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Populism and the People Who Feel They're Unheard
     (7 to 9 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Jack Andraka – Teenage Cancer Detector Inventor
     (9 to 11 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Seth Godin : Stop Stealing Dreams  (WHAT IS SCHOOL FOR?)
     (17 to 20 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1 ) Casey Gerald:  The Gospel of Doubt
(Listening time = 18 - 22 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Donald Trump in Altlantic City - A Sordid Tale
(Listening time = 34 - 40 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3) The Long and the Short of It   ("I'm six-foot-seven. And no, I don't play basketball.")
(Listening time = 26 - 31 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  What Chronic Pain Does to Your Brain
(Listening time = 32 - 38 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Robert Palmer: The Panama Papers exposed a huge global problem. What's next?
(Listening time = 8 - 10 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Loretta Napoleoni: The intricate economics of terrorism
(Listening time = 16 - 19 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)


7)  Mileha Soneji: Simple hacks for life with Parkinson's

(Listening time = 7 - 8 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

8) The Spanish Civil War Was 'The First Battle Of WWII'
(Listening time = 39 - 47 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

130

1)  "Queer, Young and Homeless"
     (39 to 47 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Love, Lost And Found: 'Things Just Fell Into Place'
      (7 to 8 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Jon Ronson: How One Tweet Can Ruin Your Life
     (17 to 21 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  When Women And Children Immigrants Are Welcomed Like Criminals
     (11 to 13 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Oscar Schwartz: Can a Computer Write Poetry?
     (11 to 13 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Legalize All Drugs? The 'Risks Are Tremendous' Without Defining The Problem
     (6 to 7 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Canadian Government Investigates Thousands Of Missing Indigenous Women
    (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  'Bullies', A Story Of Friendship, Booze And Brawls In a Biker Bar
     (33 to 40 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1)  Bernie Sanders: an idea whose time has come?
(Listening time = 29 - 34 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Defining Sexual Harassment
(Listening time = 8 - 10 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Teen Girls And Social Media: A Story Of 'Secret Lives' And Misogyny
(Listening time = 21 - 25 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4) In the Fight Against ISIS, U.S. Adds Cyber Tools
(Listening time = 7 - 8 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Judson Brewer: A simple way to break a bad habit
(Listening time = 9 - 11 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Why Did Humans Become The Most Successful Species On Earth?
(Listening time = 11 - 13 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)


7) The Effects of Neanderthal DNA on You
(Listening time = 7 - 9 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation
(Listening time = 12 - 14 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

9)  Single By Choice: Why Fewer American Women Are Married Than Ever Before
(Listening time = 38 - 45 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

129

1)  What It's Like To Fall, Quite Literally, In Love
     (7 to 8 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  ALZhiR 26... and the potential for love
     (14 to 16 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Reshma Saujani: Teach girls bravery, not perfection
      (13 to 15 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Changes To French Spelling Make Us Wonder: Why Is English So Weird?
     (6 to 7 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Beyond words: what you're saying with growls, um, ahs and mms
     (25 to 29 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  What Does The Future Of Crime Look Like?
     (8 to 10 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  How Do You Spot A Nonconformist? You Can Start With Their Internet Browser
     (6 to 7 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Shonda Rhimes: My year of saying yes to everything
    (16 to 20 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

9)  Real-Life Romeo And Juliet
    (7 to 9 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1 ) When an Ancestry Search Led To an Escaped Slave: 'All I Could Do Was Weep'
(Listening time = 36 - 43 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Ann Morgan: My year reading a book from every country in the world
(Listening time = 12 - 14 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  The Failed Coup That Led To Hitler's 'Mein Kampf'
(Listening time = 39 - 46 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Aomawa Shields: How we'll find life on other planets
(Listening time = 5 - 6 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Melvin Russell: I love being a police officer, but we need reform
(Listening time = 13 - 16 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6) How Meditation, Placebos And Virtual Reality Help Power 'Mind Over Body'
(Listening time = 37 - 45 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)


7)  Yanis Varoufakis: Capitalism will eat democracy — unless we speak up

(Listening time = 19 - 23 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

8) Daniel Levitin: How to stay calm when you know you'll be stressed
(Listening time = 12 - 15 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

128

1)  Martin Pistorius: How my mind came back to life — and no one knew
     - 12 years trapped inside his body watching TV reruns
     (14 to 17 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  The Language of Emoji
      (28 to 34 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Are We All Criminals?
     (17 to 21 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Music of Memory
     (29 to 35 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Lucianne Walkowicz: Let's not use Mars as a backup planet
     (6 to 7 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Does Brain Training Work?
     (9 to 11 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Your Second Brain
    (29 to 35 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  James Veitch: This is what happens when you reply to spam email
     (10 to 12 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1 ) Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin:  A hilarious celebration of lifelong female friendship
(Listening time = 15 - 18 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Project Happiness
(Listening time = 29 - 35 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Robert Waldinger: What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness
(Listening time = 15 - 18 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  A History of Drinking Water
(Listening time = 29 - 35 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Girls and Women on the Autism Spectrum;  Are They Slipping Through the Net?
(Listening time = 29 - 35 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6) The World's Largest Refugee Camp
(Listening time = 38 - 45 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)


7)  Our Relationship With The Dead

(Listening time = 26 - 31 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Paramedic Shares His Wild Ride Treating 'A Thousand Naked Strangers'
(Listening time = 34 - 40 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

127

1)  Selfies:  A Woman Thing?
     (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Great Lovers: Romeo and Juliet
      (54 to 64 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  The Lost Art of Listening
     (29 to 35 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Why Are 'Hoverboards' Literally Catching Fire?
     (4 to 5 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  The Cybersecurity Argument For And Against Device Encryption
     (4 to 5 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Governments Don't Understand Cyber Warfare. We Need Hackers
     (10 to 12 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  The Comedy of Climate Change
    (20 to 23 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Canadians Don't Waver In Welcome For Refugees
     (4 to 4 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1 ) Machines Like Us
(Listening time = 29 - 35 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  What Does It Mean To Be French
(Listening time = 35 - 42 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Irwin Redlener: How to survive a nuclear attack
(Listening time = 25 - 30 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Introducing the Ancient Greeks
(Listening time = 17 - 20 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Imaginary Illness
(Listening time = 29 - 35 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6) Memory Banda:   A Warrior’s Cry Against Child Marriage
(Listening time = 13 - 15 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)


7)  Nick Bostrom:  What Happens When Our Computers Get Smarter Than We Are?

(Listening time = 17 - 20 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

126

1)  What It's Really Like To 'Walk' In Space
     (8 to 10 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Young American Muslims Face Pressure
      (11 to 13 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Hasan Elahi: FBI, here I am!
     (15 to 18 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Teens Spend More Time Looking at Screens Than Sleeping
     (4 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Aging Out and Moving On - Getting Old and Leaving Home
     (9 to 11 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  The Story of an American Mother and Daughter that Fled Iran
     (7 to 9 minutes long- depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  The Ethics Behind Driverless Cars
    (4 to 5 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  When A Stranger Leaves You $125 Million
     (4 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1)  Spying on Kids:  As Kids Go Online, New Tools For Parents To Spy
(Listening time = 4 - 6 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Sex in Britain
(Listening time = 4 - 5 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  A 'Troublemaker' (Leah Remini) Leaves Her Life In Scientology
(Listening time = 8 - 10 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Will Potter: The Secret US Prisons You've Never Heard of Before
(Listening time = 15 - 19 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Walking The Beat With An Unarmed Police Officer In Britain
(Listening time = 4 - 6 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Myths of the Near Future
(Listening time = 7 - 9 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)


7)  Melissa Fleming: A Boat Carrying 500 Refugees Sunk at Sea. The Story of Two Survivors
(Listening time = 19 - 24 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Dogs:  The Key to Human Civilisation?
(Listening time = 10 - 13 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

9)  Steve Jobs: The Story Of The Man Behind The Personal Computer
(Listening time = 38 - 47 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

125

1)  Rita Pierson ; Every kid needs a champion
     (8 to 10 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  What It's Like To Be A Non-Violent Drug Criminal, Released After 23 Years
     (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  For Irish Illegally In U.S., A Life Locked In Place, Hoping For Change
      (4 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  A Long History Of Human-Horse Companionship
     (7 to 8 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Cosmetics For All - Cosmetic Companies and Diversity
     (4 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  'You Never Quit Trying': Preventing Gun Violence In Schools
     (9 to 11 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Cuba's Widespread Piracy Culture
     (3 to 4 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Helen Fisher: The brain in love
    (16 to 20 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

9)  The Girl Who Broke Free: Building A New Life In America
    (7 to 9 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1 ) The 'Magical' Pill And The Sexual Revolution
(Listening time = 39 - 44 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  'Living (And Dying) While Black'
(Listening time = 37 - 42 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  The Generation Game
(Listening time = 29 - 34 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  'Bernie Sanders Is Right': Robert Reich
(Listening time = 17 - 20 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Ancient Human Remains Raise Intriguing Questions
(Listening time = 9 - 11 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6) Samuel Cohen: Alzheimer's is Not Normal Aging — and We Can Cure It
(Listening time = 8 - 9 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)


7)  Scott Dinsmore: How to Find Work You Love

(Listening time = 18 - 21 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  BJ Miller: What Really Matters at the End of Life
(Listening time = 19 - 22 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

124

1)  Falling in Love is the Easy Part
     (14 to 16 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Ugliness
      (26 to 30 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Why Some of Us Don't Have One True Calling
     (13 to 15 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  In Search Of A Ghost Boat ... And The 243 On Board
     (4 to 5 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  "You Gotta Laugh!" - Stand Up [Comedy} for Mental Health
     (29 to 33 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Home
     (11 minutes long)

7)  After Escaping North Korea, Freedom Is 'Seriously, Deadly Hard'
    (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  How I Stopped the Taliban from Shutting Down My School
     (17 to 20 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1 ) In Death's Embrace
(Listening time = 27 - 32 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Bill Nye "The Science Guy": Commencement Speech at Rutgers University 2015
(Listening time = 22 - 26 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Privilege And Pressure: A Memoir Of Growing Up Black And Elite In 'Negroland'
(Listening time = 35 - 42 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  How Close Are We To A Robot-Run Society?
(Listening time = 35 - 42 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  America's Forgotten History Of Mass Mexican-American Deportation ('Repatriation')
(Listening time = 32 - 39 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  'NeuroTribes' Examines The History — And Myths — Of The Autism Spectrum
(Listening time = 37 - 44 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)


7)  Germany and Japan, War Guilt and Redemption

(Listening time = 29 - 25 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Our Crazy Insane Buggy Moral Code
(Listening time = 17 - 20 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

123

1)  Apple CEO Tim Cook's Commencement Address
     (20 to 26 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Barry Schwartz:  The Way We Think About Work is Broken
      (8 to 10 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Brazil Enslaved
     (6 to 7 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4) Everyone is Watching (you?) (me?)
     (29 to 35 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  In Hungary, Churches Are Silent On Migrants
     (4 to 5 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Kathryn Schulz: Don't Regret Regret
     (17 to 20 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  A Young Woman Goes 'Underground In Berlin' To Escape The Holocaust
    (4 to 5 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Young Migrants Seek A Safe Place
     (4 to 5 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1 )  When the Movie Actors Are Dogs - Secrets For Getting Dogs To Act On Cue
(Listening time = 37 - 49 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Rich Benjamin: My road trip through the whitest towns in America ("Whitopia")
(Listening time = 13 - 18 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Are You Health Literate?
(Listening time = 8 - 11 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  A Grand Tale Of Mexico's Drug Wars
(Listening time = 37 - 50 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Benedetta Berti : The surprising way groups like ISIS stay in power
(Listening time = 13 - 18 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Secrets Of A Murderous Master Manipulator
(Listening time = 30 - 41 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)


7)  The Retronaut and a Unique Theory of Time

(Listening time = 12 - 16 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  What Happens When Your Brain Says You Don't Exist
(Listening time = 35 - 48 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

122

1)  Anand Giridharadas: A Tale of Two Americas
     (20 to 26 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  The Numbers On Infidelity - That Many?
      (5 to 7 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  A Man Wakes Up And Doesn't Know His Wife
     (7 to 9 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  When Will Cuba Loses Its Nostalgic Charm?
     (4 to 5 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  The Horror Of Nagasaki 70 Years Later
     (4 to 5 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Before Obtaining Asylum, Refugees Must Show The Scars Behind The Stories
     (5 to 7 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Adora Svitak: What Adults Can Learn from Kids
    (8 to11 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Modern Day Slavery
     (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1 )  What Explains the Rise of Humans?
(Listening time = 17 - 22 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Children and Their Emotions
(Listening time = 29 - 38 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  What Small Thing Would You Do To Improve The World?
(Listening time = 4 - 5 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  How Do Climate Scientists 'Stay Positive' Looking at the End of Human Civilization
(Listening time = 4 - 6 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Obsessions and Compulsions
(Listening time = 29 - 37 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  When Weed Is The Cure: A Doctor's Case for Medical Marijuana
(Listening time = 37 - 47 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)


7) Sleep: Just Like Money, There's Never Enough

(Listening time = 12 - 15 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Pseudo Scientists Put Up a Good Fight, But Can Never Win
(Listening time = 8 - 10 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

121

1)  How One Man Saved 669 Children
     (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Ash Beckham:  When to Take a Stand — and When to Let It Go
      (16 to 20 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  In Palestine, A Child Of Violence Becomes A Music Educator
     (8 to 11 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Hey Google, Please Forget Me!
     (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Jimmy Carter: Mistreatment of Women is the #1 Human Rights Abuse
     (17 to 21 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  At An Asylum In Juarez, Mexico,  'We Believe In Hope'
     (7 to 9 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Investigation Of Plane Shot Down Over Ukraine 'Frozen' By Lack Of Access
    (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Leading U.S. Psychologists Secretly Aided CIA Torture Program
     (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1 )  Infiltrating 'The Dark Net'
(Listening time = 36 - 47 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Marriage Equality - the short history of same sex marriage
(Listening time = 29 - 37 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Future Taboo
(Listening time = 29 - 37 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  How to fix a broken school? Lead fearlessly, love hard
(Listening time = 17 - 22 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  What Went Wrong With The Arab Spring?
(Listening time = 4 - 6 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  How societies can grow old better
(Listening time = 18 - 23 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)


7)  Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders Runs for President

(Listening time = 8 - 10 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  How The FBI is Creating U.S. Terrorists
(Listening time = 9 - 12 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

120

1)  'How Could You Not Know You Were Pregnant?'
     (9 to 11 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Stephen Colbert: You Are Your Own Professor Now
      (14 to 17 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  How An Average Guy Pretended To Be A Spy For The Russians
     (5 to 7 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Fighting ISIS Was The Right Thing To Do
     (8 to 11 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Mark Bezos: A life lesson from a volunteer firefighter
     (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  A Father, A Daughter And A Continent Between Them
     (8 to 10 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Living With A Hole In Your Brain
    (4 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  The First Dogs - 27,000 years ago
     (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1 )  What Would The World Be Like If Machines Did All The Work?
(Listening time = 8 - 10 - minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  North Korean Defector Reflects On Life
(Listening time = 5 - 6 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  How Our Government Created Ghettos
(Listening time = 36 - 46 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Seeing What Isn't There: Inside Alzheimer's Hallucinations
(Listening time = 4 - 6 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5) Bjorn Lomborg: Global priorities bigger than climate change
(Listening time = 17 - 22 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Contemplating Life, Sex And Elevators In Space
(Listening time = 38 - 49 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)


7)  Pamela Ronald: The case for engineering our food
(Listening time = 18 - 23 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Depression and #ReasonsToStayAlive
(Listening time = 29 - 37 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

119

1)  The Lady Lifers: A moving song from women in prison for life
     (10 to 12 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)   'San Andreas':  Are Earthquake Swarms For Real?
     (7 to 9 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  What did Jesus look like?
     (29 to 37 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  When the S%#t hits the fan!
     (29  to 37 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Vice President Joe Biden’s very personal speech
     (43 to 54 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Yassmin Abdel-Magied: What does my headscarf mean to you?
    (14 to 18 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Mummies reveal the diet, health, and lifestyle of ancient humans
     (7 to 9 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1 )  Are Chimps People Too?
(Listening time = 17 - 21 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  The 'Secret History' Of Fascism And The Church
(Listening time = 39 - 47 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  20 Acts in 60 Minutes
(Listening time = 59 - 67 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  The Cycle of Domestic Violence
(Listening time = 41 - 49 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Women's Body Shape — from a female and a male point of view
(Listening time = 29 - 34 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  'Tales' Of Pig Intelligence, Factory Farming And Humane Bacon
(Listening time = 38 - 45 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)


7)  After 20 Years On The Job, NYC Police Officer Tells His Intense Stories
(Listening time = 37 - 44 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Kidnapping Survivors Recount Captivity, Escape From Horror
(Listening time = 30 - 36 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

118

1)  Michelle Obama - Tuskegee University Commencement Address
     (27 to 32 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Alice Goffman: How we're priming some kids for college — and others for prison
     (16 to 19 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  What Kind of Parent Are You?
     (7 to 8 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Keeping Kids From Using Pot :  'This Is Going To Be Too Hard'
     (8 to 10 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Fruit Loops And Crying Travelers: The Trials Of Flight Attendants
     (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Bernie Sanders, Democratic Socialist, Runs for President of the U.S.
    (10 to 12 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

7) 'Ghost Boy' - locked inside his body
     (29 to 34 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1 ) This is Just as Hard for Me as It Is for You.
(Listening time = 24 - 29 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Corporate America Invented Christian America
(Listening time = 32 - 40 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3) Attack Scientists, Discredit the Scioence of Climate Change, and Discredit the Solution
(Listening time = 9 - 12 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  The History of Drinking Water
(Listening time = 29 - 37 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Bill and Melinda Gates - Stanford University's 123rd Commencement
(Listening time = 25 - 31 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Flight of Fancy - The Future of Airplanes
(Listening time = 29 - 37 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)


7)  Vincent Cochetel: I was held hostage for 317 days. Here's what I thought about . . .
(Listening time = 20 - 25 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

117

1)   Do You Believe in Ghosts?
     (8 to 10 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)   Barat Ali Batoor: My Desperate Journey with a Human Smuggler
      (11 to 13 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)   Barbers and Beards : the Company of Barber-Surgeons
     (29 to 34 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)   Jim Carrey — Commencement Address
     (25 to 30 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)   The Future is Rubbish
     (29 to 35 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)   Is Secondhand Smoke Child Abuse?
     (4 to 5 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

7)    Bel Pesce: 5 Ways to Kill Your Dreams
    (6 to 8 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

— PARROTS, THE UNIVERSE, AND EVERYTHING —
Douglas Adams was the best-selling British author and satirist who created The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In this talk at the University of California, Adams recounts his hilarious adventures traveling the world studying endangered wildlife, learning about the odd, endearing lives of vanishing species ... and what animal extinction means for the lives and the future of humans.

      Part 1     (Listening time = 18 - 23 minutes)
      Part 2
     (Listening time = 12 - 16 minutes)

      Part 3     (Listening time = 13 - 16 minutes)
      Part 4
    (Listening time = 12 - 16 minutes)

      Part 5     (Listening time = 13 - 17 minutes)
      Part 6   
  (Listening time = 18 - 23 minutes)

116

1)  Monica Lewinsky: The Price of Shame
     (23 to 29 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Dogs— Bred to be Our Best Animal Friend
      (12 to 15 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Ismael Nazario: What I Learned as a Kid in Jail
     (12 to 15 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  How Singapore Became One Of The Richest Places On Earth
     (4 to 5 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  For Undercover Agents, On-The-Job Adrenaline Can Be Addictive
     (11 to 14 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Prison Watchdog Group Watching US Jails
     (5 to 7 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Crowds, Motion and 'time-to-collision'
    (29 to 37 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8 ) Good Guys
      Prologue. The Good Guy Discount
 (Listening time = 6 - 8 minutes)
      Act One. Takes One To Know One   (Listening time = 7 - 9 minutes)
      Act Two. Heels On The Bus    
 (Listening time = 7 - 9 minutes)
      Act Three. No Man Left Behind
    (Listening time = 16 - 20 minutes)
      Act Four. Deep Dark Open Secret    (Listening time = 20 - 26 minutes)

1 ) Kurt Nonnegut : "there is not a chance in hell of America’s becoming humane and reasonable"
(Listening time = 28 - 35 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Amy Poehler - Harvard College Class Day Address
(Listening time = 15 - 19 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Prepare For 'The End Of College': Here's What Free Higher Ed Looks Like
(Listening time = 29 - 37 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Ilona Szabó de Carvalho: 4 lessons from taking a stand against drugs and gun violence
(Listening time = 14 - 18 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Wonders, Freaks & Biohackers
(Listening time = 29 - 37 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Denzel Washington : Graduation Speech at the University of Pennsylvania
(Listening time = 23 - 29 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)


7)  10 Questions Some Doctors Are Afraid To Ask
(Listening time = 8 - 10 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Khalida Broh : How I work to protect women from honor killings
(Listening time = 18 - 23 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

115

1)  Ellen DeGeneres - Commencement Speech at Tulane University
     (10 to 12 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  The AMEN tool to help health professionals talk to dying patients
      (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Argentina's Real-Life Murder Mystery
     (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Next Witness: Will The Yellow Smiley Face Take The Stand?
     (3 to 4 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  'Come In, Extra-Terrestrials'
     (14 to 18 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  One Year Later - Flight 370 Is Still "Disappeared"
     (7 to 9 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  A German Muslim Asks His Compatriots: 'What Do You Want To Know?'
    (4 to 5 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  To Change People's Minds, First Make Them Laugh
     (11 to 14 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1 ) The Prison State:  Mass Incarceration in America
(Listening time = 28 - 36 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Richard Dawkins: Why the Universe Seems So Strange
(Listening time = 23 - 29 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Charlie Hebdo, Race, Religion and Free Speech
(Listening time = 29 - 37 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Family Struggles With Father's Wish To Die
(Listening time = 11 - 14 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  New Meds Block Heroin Craving; Why Don't Treatment Centers Use Them?
(Listening time = 32 - 40 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Kenneth Shinozuka: My Simple Invention to Keep My Grandfather Safe
(Listening time = 6 - 8 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)


7)  Why Teens Are Impulsive, Addiction-Prone And Should Protect Their Brains
(Listening time = 38 - 49 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  The Beatles At The BBC
(Listening time = 47 - 60 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

114

1)  Who Can You Touch?
     (29 to 37 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Julia Sweeney: Letting Go of God
      (17 to 22 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  The Myth Of The Scandinavian Utopia
     (5 to 7 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  What Happens When Wives Earn More Than Husbands
     (5 to 7 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  The Future Hero
     (29 to 37 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Ricardo Semler: Radical Wisdom for a Life, a School, a Company
     (22 to 28 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Twice Kidnapped, Photographer Returns To War Zone: 'It's What I Do'
    (45 to 57 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Kurt Vonnegut : Advice to Graduating Women (Which Men Should Know About!)
     (19 to 24 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1 ) Rory Sutherland:   Life Lessons from an Ad Man
(Listening time = 19 - 25 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2) Dreaming of the Caliphate ("a sovereign Muslim state under sharia law")
(Listening time = 53 - 68 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  'Charlie Hebdo' Gunmen Are Textbook Case Of Radicalization
(Listening time = 7 - 9 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  How Orwell's 'Animal Farm' Led A Radical Muslim To Moderation
(Listening time = 43 - 56 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5) Normalizing Relations With Cuba
(Listening time = 38 - 49 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6) A Blind Woman Gains New Freedom, Click By Click By Click
(Listening time = 7 - 9 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)


7) Stefana Broadbent:   How the Internet Enables Intimacy
(Listening time = 11 - 15 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

8) Playing in the Digital Age
(Listening time = 27 - 35 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

9) Shonda Rhimes:  Commencement Address at Dartmouth College
(Listening time = 24 - 30 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

113

1)  Joe Madiath:  Better Toilets, Better Life
     (12 to 16 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  "I escaped from school as soon as I could..." - Neil Gaiman Graduation Speech
      (20 to25 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Why You're Not Seeing Those 'Charlie Hebdo' Cartoons
     (4 to 5 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Europe's Massive Task:  Tracking Extremists By The Thousands
     (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  How To Dust Bird Feathers For Fingerprints
     (4 to 5 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Morgana Bailey:  The Danger of Hiding Who You Are
     (10 to 13 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Satire In The Muslim World:  A Centuries-Long Tradition
    (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Virtual Games and Empathy For Faraway Conflict
     (4 to 5 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1 ) The Psychopath Within
(Listening time = 29 - 37 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2) Bruno Torturra:   Got a smartphone? Start broadcasting
(Listening time = 14 - 17 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3) Suddenly, Russia's Confidence Stumbles
(Listening time = 5 - 6 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4) Jeremy Howard: The wonderful and terrifying implications of computers that can learn
(Listening time = 20 - 25 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5) Hearing Aids and the Cocktail Party Problem
(Listening time = 29 - 36 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6) One Humdred and Sixteen Million Americans Live With Chronic Pain
(Listening time = 9 - 11 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)


7) Hubertus Knabe: The dark secrets of a surveillance state
(Listening time = 20 - 25 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

112

1)  Diary Of An Ebola Doctor
     (6 to 7 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Aging and Moving On
      (9 to11 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  The Zig-Zagging History Of The Number Zero
     (6 to 8 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Transracial Adoptions, From The Adoptee's View
     (8 to 10 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Erin McKean:  Go ahead, make up new words!
     (7 to 9 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Asha de Vos:  Why you should care about whale poo
     (6 to8 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Making A Game Out Of Rejection, A Man Conquers Fear
    (7 to 9 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  History of the Kiss
     (29 to 37 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1 ) "Use Only As Directed" - TYLENOL - PARACETAMOL: Deadly Medicine?
      Prologue    (Listening time = 10 - 13 minutes)
      Part One    
 (Listening time = 25 - 31 minutes)
      Part Two
    (Listening time = 20 - 25 minutes)

2)  How Girls Are Developing Earlier In An Age Of 'New Puberty'
(Listening time = 36 - 46 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3) Barbara Natterson-Horowitz:   What veterinarians know that physicians don't
(Listening time = 15 - 19 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  How A Feud Between Two Russian Companies Fueled A 'Spam Nation'
(Listening time = 20 - 25 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  How human cognition is influenced by technology
(Listening time = 3 - 4 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)


6)  Oren Yakobovich: Hidden cameras that film injustice in the world’s most dangerous places
(Listening time = 15 - 19 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Franklin D. Roosevelt - First Inaugural Address - Delivered 4 March 1933
(Listening time = 19 - 24 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Meet the Preppers (the survivalists)
(Listening time = 29 - 37 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

9)  How A Woman's Plan To Kill Herself Helped Her Family Grieve
(Listening time = 8 - 11 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

111

1)  Santaland Diaries - by David Sedaris
     (32 to 39 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Mob Museum Tells About the Mafia in America
     (12 to 15 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  Rosie King: How autism freed me to be myself
      (6 to 8 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Jesus Started A Chain Letter — And Other Hoaxes
     (7 to 9 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  Will Chinese Replace English as the Global Language?
     (5 to 7 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Mexico - failed state, narco-state or merely a weak state?
     (30 to 35 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  'A Universe Beneath Our Feet': Life In Beijing's Underground
     (8 to 5 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  After Wrongful Conviction, Three Lifetimes Spent With Little Hope
    (10 to 12 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

9)  Ben Saunders: To the South Pole and back — the hardest 105 days of my life
    (17 to 21 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1)  Quitting  (Winners Quit The Right Stuff at the Right Time)
      Part 1    (Listening time = 21 - 26 minutes)
      Part 2    
 (Listening time = 6 - 8 minutes)
      Part 3
    (Listening time = 10 - 12 minutes)
      Part 4    (Listening time = 3 - 4 minutes)

2)  American Declinism  (Is America in Decline?)
(Listening time = 28 - 35 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being
(Listening time = 18 - 22 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Leana Wen:  What your doctor won’t disclose
(Listening time = 12 - 15 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  How Thousands Of Nazis Were 'Rewarded' With Life In The U.S.
(Listening time = 39 - 49 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  In Liberia, Ebola Makes 'Pariahs' Out Of The Sick, Says NYT Reporter
(Listening time = 44 - 55 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Brain on Fire:  My month of madness
(Listening time = 27 - 33 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

110

1)  Ethan Nadelmann:  What has the War on Drugs done to the world?
     (18 to 22 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

2)  Why People Take Risks To Help Others:  Altruism's Roots In The Brain
     (4 to 5 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)  The Incredible Story Of Chilean Miners Rescued From The 'Deep Down Dark'
      (8 to 10 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Lazy About Your Online Passwords? Take Control With These New Tips
     (7 to 9 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  East Meets West to Treat Alzheimer's Patients
     (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Group Claims Gender Equality Will End Hunger, Poverty
     (5 to 6 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

7)  Why Women Get The Worst Of Internet Bullying
     (8 to 10 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

8)  Science Fiction:  Earth's Repair Manual?
    (29 to 36 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

9)  Yusuf Islam [Cat Stevens] On His Break And Return To Music
    (6 to 7 minutes long - depending on chosen listening speed)

1 ) Act V — Shakespeare in Prison
      Part One    (Listening time = 19 - 24 minutes)
      Part Two    
 (Listening time = 18 - 23 minutes)
      Part Three
    (Listening time = 20 - 25 minutes)

2)  "Dog Sense" - Understanding Dog Behavior
(Listening time = 38 - 47 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3)   What's Mittens Thinking? Make 'Sense' Of Your Cat's Behavior
(Listening time = 21 - 26 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4)  Ed Gavagan:   "They had to kill somebody, and I happened to be the guy..."
(Listening time = 12 - 15 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

5)  The Story of the House of Saud and Islamic Jihadists.
(Listening time = 29 - 36 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

6)  Dan Buettner: How to Live to Be 100+
(Listening time = 22 - 28 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)


7)  Dreams — The Lucid Experience . . . where you can do magic
(Listening time = 29 - 36 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

8) E.O. Wilson:  Advice to Young Scientists
(Listening time = 15 - 19 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

   

 

     
   
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