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Intermediate English Listening and Reading |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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)
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
-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) |
-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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
-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) |
-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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
-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) |
-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) |
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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) |
-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) |
-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) |
-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) |
-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) |
-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) |
-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) |
-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) |
-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) |
-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) |
-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) |
-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) |
-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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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