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Ataxia with bill Nye, OBIA, shaping foundations
28 Dec, 2023 | 0:29:54 |
EN | CJAM-FM Music Department |

This program focuses on disability issues. Host Cam Wells will explore all sides of this comparing and contrasting with able bodied life.
War and the dream of an artificial world
19 Sep, 2022 | 0:28:43 |
EN | Frieda Werden |

In this interview, Professor Claudia von Werlhof states that capitalism is just the latest phase of an age-old patriarchal dream that would replace the dependency on women and nature with an artificial world. This failed fantasy feeds both gnostic religion and the thirst for war. The only solution, she says, is that "Men have to realize that life is here,...
Why big pharma created Female Sexual Dysfunction
27 Jun, 2022 | 0:28:48 |
EN | Frieda Werden | WINGS

Dr. Leonore Tiefer gave the keynote address at a conference on The Medicalization of Sex, organized by the Simon Fraser University Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies in 2011. She says everyone's sexuality is different, there is no "normal"- that efforts to define a normal and produce it through medication fail, and that "sex belongs with dancing, not digestion."...
Ripples from technology change
09 Oct, 2021 | 0:28:45 |
EN | Frieda Werden | WINGS

In part 2 of her interview about studying technology in its human and organizational context, Professor Balka talks about its effects on use of touch in nursing care, uses and risks with outsourcing and data collection, and more.
FOR RELEASE WEEK OF OCTOBER 14, 2018
08 Sep, 2018 | 0:28:49 |
EN | Frieda Werden | WINGS

This documentary follows a sacred river walk along the dangerously polluted Housatonic River in western Massachusetts state in the northeast USA. The purpose of the walk was ceremonial, but also to bring people together and raise awareness of rivers as the bloodstream of the earth and of water as a living thing to which humans belong.
FOR RELEASE WEEK OF OCTOBER 7, 2018
08 Sep, 2018 | 0:28:49 |
EN | Frieda Werden | WINGS

In this second part of her 2005 interview, Ross focuses on how the Reproductive Justice movement has been built up as a collaboration between reproductive rights and racial justice activism. She advises that although Roe v Wade may be overturned by the US Supreme Court, "they can't put the toothpaste back in the tube."
What happens when researchers and communities work together to solve problems?
20 Oct, 2017 | 0:48:53 |
EN | Bojan Furst | Rural Routes

What happens when researchers and communities work together to solve problems? It turns out that both come out of the process changed. This episode features Sarah Minnes, a doctoral student at Grenfell Campus of Memorial University of Newfoundland and Craig Pollett, CEO of Municipalities Newfoundland and Labrador. They reflect on a community-university collaboration they were both a part of.
The patriarchal dream is failing.
24 Jul, 2017 | 0:28:45 |
EN | Frieda Werden | WINGS

In this interview, Professor Claudia von Werlhof states that capitalism is just the latest phase of a patriarchal dream that would replace the dependency on women and nature with an artificial world. She says "men have to realize that life is here, they are here, they belong to life."
Vandana Shiva on the web of life
29 Jan, 2017 | 0:28:48 |
EN | Frieda Werden | WINGS

Second and final part of a speech delivered in California by Dr. Vandana Shiva, influential scientist, policy analyst, and activist from India. In last week s episode, Dr. Shiva deconstructed the rhetoric of genetically modified agriculture. This week, she speaks more to solutions, especially solutions based in human rights allied to rights of nature.
and.reclaiming the centrality of life
22 Nov, 2015 | 0:28:46 |
EN | Frieda Werden | WINGS

Prof. von Werlhof says our present period of war and competition was preceded by a worldview that centered on giving and life. She proposes we experiment with re-creating that worldview, and sees that women and men have already begun.
ethicist Alice Dreger, actors Aaron Malkin and Alastair Knowles. Music: Bright Light Social Hour
08 May, 2015 | 0:57:18 |
EN | Dan McPeake | Endeavours

Alice Dreger is a scientist, bio-ethicist, author and activist whose research has focused on intersex issues, the science of sexuality and activism within science. Her new book is "Galileo's Middle Finger" Aaron Malkin and Alastair Knowles are the creators of the new theatre piece "James & Jamesy in High Tea" a sequel of sorts to their previous hit "Two for...
Crystar Crystal Warrior #3 (September issue of 1983)
13 Aug, 2014 | 1:56:31 |
EN | Martin R. Howell | Comic Book Radio Theatre

A vocal reading of a comic book accompanied with keyboard background music and sound effects.
Van Jones, Lee Smolin. Music: LIGHTS.
09 May, 2013 | 0:56:03 |
EN | Dan McPeake | Endeavours

Van Jones is an attorney, environmental advocate, civil rights activist, and former Obama advisor on Green Jobs. He is co-founder of Rebuild The Dream and explains how poverty is linked to pollution and other climate issues. Lee Smolin is a quantam theorist and other of the new book "Time Reborn" in which he argues that time is real and not...
Joel, Marc, and Richard explore some of the predictions made from our favorite science fiction movi
17 Dec, 2012 | 0:28:30 |
EN | Marc Cabot | Epic

Joel, Marc, and Richard explore some of the predictions made from our favorite science fiction movies, writers, and thinkers of the past. We touch on the Internet, Plasma Blades, Warm Jackets, Tablets, Teleporters, and more.
Interview with Cate Sandilands and Bruce Erickson
19 Jan, 2011 | 0:14:22 |
EN | Candace Mooers |

Cate Sandilands and Bruce Erickson recently launched their new co-edited anthology "Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire" at the Gladstone Hotel in downtown Toronto. CHRY's Candace Mooers caught up with them to talk about the linkages between queer and ecological movements.
The unreal science around brain sex differences.
24 Dec, 2010 | 0:28:50 |
EN | Frieda Werden | WINGS

Ideas about the biological basis for differences between men and women circulate persistently, and often come to rest on the notion that male and female brains are just different. Well, not to blow any tiny female minds, but there may be nothing to that.
Some insight on the evolution of language.
28 Jul, 2010 | 1:00:06 |
EN | Faris Chebib | COGScast

Ray Jennings and Brent Stewart join the cogscast for a discussion of natural language and its interpretations. As all three of us are restricted by natural language, hilarity ensues.
A comprehensive plan collectively developed by women from all over the world.
15 Feb, 2010 | 0:57:51 |
EN | Frieda Werden | WINGS

Miami, 1991: Women from dozens of cultures hold a think tank, to plan for sustainability of life on earth. Today, with the governments' climate agreement in tatters, we hear the World Women's Congress for a Healthy Planet with new ears.
12 Oct, 2008 | 0:28:53 |
EN | Frieda Werden | WINGS

Looks at the complexity and dangers of genetic modification and the inadequate research that has been done prior to release and marketing of biotech products.
29 Sep, 2008 | 0:28:55 |
EN | Frieda Werden | WINGS

Though recorded in 1989, her talk about seeing through the Washington-prescribed economic worldview, and the struggle for rootedness and memory, is very relevant today.
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