EP 141 The Space Barons

EP 141 The Space Barons

Remember when we would watch in awe as Americans were lifted into space?  What pride we all had in NASA and our country’s scientific greatness.  While we still send astronauts to the International Space Station, courtesy of the Russian government(imagine that), but as Neil DeGrass Tyson said ‘going where man has gone many times before’. …

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EP 140 FAKE NEWS: IS IT REAL? Part Two

EP 140 FAKE NEWS: IS IT REAL? Part Two

  The panel discussion continues. Description is available below With the term being bandied about as a weapon of mass distraction, you probably are confused by what the term ‘fake news’ really means. It’s for that reason that America Trends brings you a two-part series culled from a panel discussion which Larry Rifkin moderated in …

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EP 139 FAKE NEWS: IS IT REAL? Part One

EP 139 FAKE NEWS: IS IT REAL? Part One

With the term being bandied about as a weapon of mass distraction, you probably are confused by what the term ‘fake news’ really means. It’s for that reason that America Trends brings you a two-part series culled from a panel discussion which Larry Rifkin moderated in Connecticut recently. The panel included three Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists. …

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EP 138 IS THE NUMBERS GAME MEASURING OR BETRAYING AMERICAN PROGRESS?

EP 138 IS THE NUMBERS GAME MEASURING OR BETRAYING AMERICAN PROGRESS?

‘What gets measured gets done’, according to management experts like Tom Peters. But does it get done at the expense of other–more important–things? That’s the central question of the book ‘The Tyranny of Metrics’ by Jerry Z. Muller. He joins us for a discussion of whether all goods and services in our society can be …

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EP 137 America Turns Into One Big Casino

EP 137 America Turns Into One Big Casino

Recently, when the U.S. Supreme Court declared the federal ban on sports betting unconstitutional and repealed the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, it opened the floodgates for any state to legalize sports betting.  On the heels of this decision, America Trends got busy in finding out what this might suggest for the future for …

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EP 136 E.T. Contact

EP 136 E.T. Contact

Do you believe in extraterrestrial beings and contacts from deep space?  Or are you just awakening to more openness about issues of higher consciousness?  If you’re like many Americans you’re becoming much more accepting of phenomena previously considered unusual and little spoken of.  Producer and director Caroline Cory has just made a film, titled ‘E.T. …

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EP 135 Thou Shalt Innovate!

EP 135 Thou Shalt Innovate!

For a relatively young and small country–only 70 years old and less populated than North Carolina–with few natural resources, Israel is playing a disproportionate role in solving some of the world’s biggest challenges in tech, medicine, agriculture, water independence and other fields.  What explains this? Author Avi Jorisch says that while the Jewish concept of …

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EP 134 In Search of Israel

EP 134 In Search of Israel

This episode begins a two-part series on how modern Israel came to be, what it is today and how it is making innovation its calling card to friendly and hostile nations alike.  In this episode, author and scholar Michael Brenner helps us to understand Zionism in an historical context and current day challenges for the …

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EP 133 The Boys’ Crisis

EP 133 The Boys’ Crisis

Description: We know the movement ‘Black Lives Matter’, but after hearing Dr. Warren Farrell address the problem, you will wonder why there is no analog to that called ‘Boys Lives Matter’.  By virtually any measure, boys in America are in crisis. They are falling behind in schools, being yanked out of the workforce as automation …

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EP 132 BOYS ADRIFT IN AMERICAN SOCIETY

EP 132 BOYS ADRIFT IN AMERICAN SOCIETY

If there is a trend in America begging for attention it’s what we see happening to boys in our culture.  They’re failing in school, struggling to find identities and often unable to get jobs.  And more to the point, they are acting out in ways that are destructive.  We read in the news, on a …

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