Congress comes back for a lame-duck session with a packed agenda, including voting on a new Senate majority leader.

Where did Democrats go wrong with men this election? How did Republicans win them over, and how might Democrats work to win some of them back?NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Aaron Smith of the Young Men Research Initiative and John Della Volpe with the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics.

On Explorations this week Dr. Michio Kaku speaks with Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. Tyson studied at Harvard University, the University of Texas at […]

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Wednesday MidDay Medley Produced and Hosted by Mark Manning Wednesday, November 6, 2024 Katie Gilchrist + Karalyne Winegarner + Destiny Atkinson & Kate Hall of Afterword Tavern & Shelves Mark […]

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Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, November 6, 2024, 9am -10am CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd talks with David Tomas Martinez, Poppy Di […]

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The Netflix documentary “The Remarkable Life of Ibelin” is about a young man whose expansive life was only discovered after his death.

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Michael Smith, political science professor at Emporia State, shares his perceptions of the results of the November 5 election with University of Kansas professor Karl Brooks and Radio Active Magazine […]

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Pension expert Teresa Ghilarducci returns to the Heartland Labor Forum this week to explain how some corporations are selling off workers’ pension plans and putting them at risk. Find out […]

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Lewis W. Diuguid is a multimedia consultant, lecturer, freelance writer and editor, certified diversity facilitator. He is a former columnist, editorial board member, op-ed page editor, and letters editor at […]

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Donald Trump Elected As The Next U.S. President The election of Donald Trump as our next president exposed a truth about where we the people are at. Because there could […]

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Wednesday MidDay Medley Produced and Hosted by Mark Manning Wednesday, November 13, 2024 Brock Wilbur & Nick Spacek of The Pitch + Damron Russel Armstrong of The Black Repertory Theatre […]

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On Explorations this week Dr. Michio Kaku answers emails on air.  One persistent email is the question of God.  Is there a God? The Einstein God letter has been auctioned.  […]

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From the sounds of drive-in church services to a look at repurposing church buildings, how religious practice and its spaces continue to shift during the pandemic.

Pairing science with psychology, Claudia Hammond wrote the book on rest - and why we need more of it. The previously untold story of Canadian hockey executive Sherry Bassin is recounted in a documentary by NPR's Gary Waleik.

A documentary brings the sounds of nature into an Australian prison, a queer dancer tries to make space for other LGBTQ performers, and what it’s like when your grandfather is revered as a saint by his church.

Religion scholar Joseph Laycock says that even though D&D was once a source of a moral panic, there is nothing satanic about it. Tapestry producer Arman Aghbali brings us the story of one player's attempt to resurrect his character and the spiritual challenge that occurred along the way.

Most Canadians are secure knowing that they benefit from universal health care. All you have to do is walk into a clinic or hospital and you will be treated. For an estimated 500,000 people who live and work among us, it’s a different reality.

Susie Goulding knows what it's like to have long COVID. She's been dealing with symptoms since March 2020 and has been pushing governments to better recognize long COVID.

As a little girl, Jennifer Fotheringham was shushed for asking about cancer. As a grown woman, she was dismissed for asking about a mammogram. Now as a cancer survivor, she knows not to be silenced.

The American author of Pew spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about writing a novel that examines faith, forgiveness and identity politics.

The South Asian author and winner of the 2017 Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival's Grand Prix spoke with Eleanor Wachtel on stage at the festival in Montreal.

Alice Munro died on May 13, 2024 at the age of 92. To commemorate her stunning legacy, Writers & Company looks back at a memorable conversation between Eleanor Wachtel and Munro back in 2004.

The academic and author spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about his provocative new novel, Immigrant, Montana.

Listen to O'Brien's conversation from 2009 with Eleanor Wachtel. O'Brien died on July 27, 2024 at the age of 93.

A history of COVID-19 and the neuroscience of religion.

Climate change and insects, and designing Canada’s lunar rover

Farming fish lose their fertilizer and inoculation against misinformation.

Songbirds swarm their predators and seals appreciate a good rhythm

"The Einstein Show" marked 100 years since his publication of four papers that changed the laws of physics

For many of us, summer is the time for things like beaches, bike rides, and BBQs. For some scientists, however, summertime is also when they are at their busiest, travelling to remote locations to get up close and personal with nature.

The evolutionary biology of friendship and how digital tech has shaped our fundamental sense of togetherness.

LEDs are found in our phones, TVs, lightbulbs and cars, but this technology is also revolutionizing film and television production.

Today on Q with Tom Power: actor Jay Ellis and make-up artist Adrien Morot

Today on Q with Tom Power: director Chris Williams and actor Gabriel Luna

Logic’s new album, College Park, is his first record as an independent artist after parting ways with Def Jam. He tells Tom Power about the ups and downs of major labels, his turbulent early life and how he has prevailed in spite of setbacks.

Elvira Kurt and Graham Chittenden have no time to waist when they discuss if belts are superior to suspenders. Then, should everyone move to Hamilton? Gavin Stephens and Ron Sparks bring the Hammer down on each other in their debate for this Ontario city.

Derek Seguin and Chad Anderson grow the generation gap when they discuss if Gen Xers are the best age group. Then, Hisham Kelati and Kathleen McGee have a spirited debate on whether angels are superior to ghosts.

Canada's second failure in a row to win a Security Council seat was a blow to the Trudeau government's prestige. But how much will it matter to this country in the long run?

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the coming throne speech will be a watershed moment for the nation — but a prominent New Democrat says he's taking an awful risk.

How protests in Iran threaten the country's regime; Chinese police have set up outposts in Canada; Kelly Clarkson's best Kellyoke covers; Becky Toyne reviews Iain Reid's new thriller, We Spread; The Linda Lindas drop by for an after-school hangout; and more.

What Danielle Smith posted on her subscribers-only social media; how litter boxes in schools became a Republican talking point; Yankee scented candle reviews as COVID indicator; a surgeon struggles to care for patients through Ethiopia's civil war; Brent Bambury returns and more.

Itamar Ben-Gvir's journey from far-right extremist to political power-broker; why Vladimir Putin wanted the bones of 18th-century Russian leader Grigory Potemkin; Becky Toyne reviews Pulitzer Prize winner Cormac McCarthy's first new novels in 16 years; Haiti's political and economic crisis is fueling a public health disaster for women; five U.S. states get ready to vote on whether to close a loophole that allows for slavery in 2022; and more.

Corporate influence at COP27; cartoonist Jeph Jacques gets booted from Twitter for impersonating Elon Musk; Margaret Sullivan on how to cover Trump and Trumpism; what Ontario unions' victory over Bill 28 means for Canada's labour movement; graphic novelist Cecil Castellucci hopes Shifting Earth will be a path toward climate action; and more.

The Day 6 music panel runs down the best pop music of 2022, Hamilton's music director Alex Lacamoire, Bruce Springsteen's original manager Mike Appel on getting the Boss signed to CBS and more.

Marian Engel’s Bear is one of Canada’s most controversial novels. But experts say it’s also one of the most daring and enduring.

A childhood full of Christmasses in Wales has left IDEAS producer Tom Howell pining for a certain kind of nostalgic poem this winter. So he turns to poets to put into words a strange feeling of homesickness, nostalgia, and yearning in his documentary, Fireside and Icicles.

The way dogs are portrayed in literature reflects the problems in our real-world relationships to canines, says PhD student Molly Labenski, who says people want animals in their lives as “accessories” that can be easily discarded.

It's been 60 years since French thinker Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space made its English-language debut. It’s a hard-to-define book — part architecture, philosophy, psychoanalysis, memoir. And it continues to feed our ongoing need for purposeful solitude and wide-open fields for our imagination.

Animals — what on earth are they thinking? A panel of scientists explore the notion of animal cognition from what your dog means when it wags its tail, to the incredible problem-solving skills of crows, as part of the Aspen Ideas Festival.

In 1919, Canadian artist Mary Riter Hamilton embarked on a solo mission to paint the World War One battlefields of France and Belgium. A century later, documentary maker Alisa Siegel speaks to the artist's biographer, historians, and art historians to resuscitate Mary Riter Hamilton's art, life, and legacy.