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Kentucky Governor Steven Beshear
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Kentucky Governor Steven Beshear, the only Southern Governor choosing to both expand...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Nov 19, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. Farzad Mostashari, Brookings Institution
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Farzad Mostashari, Visiting Fellow at the Engelberg Center for Health Care Refor...

Bought by KZYX, WRIR, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Nov 11, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Will we be safe when our cars drive themselves?
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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You may have already seen some of these driverless cars zipping around Bay Area roads. Automotive scientists predict similar cars will be available...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 1
Landfill expansion pits Marin environmentalists against nation's largest waste company
From: KALW
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If you drive north from San Francisco and through most of Marin County, you get to the town of Novato. Turn east from Highway 101 and you run into ...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 04:39
Wearing Technology
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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Your watch is your personal trainer. Your headband is making an action documentary of your life. Your bracelet congratulates you on your daily wate...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, PRX Remix, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 3
Regulating the Google Buses: the SFMTA's plan for private shuttles
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: A Muni bus passes a "Google Bus" in San Franisco, Credit: Sven Eberlein
Private shuttles have been using Muni stops in San Francisco for a while. But they’ve mostly been smaller buses, for hospitals and universities. In...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 05:44
Hitchhiking a Tech Shuttle
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: On board the Facebook bus, Credit: Kristina Loring
Real talk: I’m not the biggest fan of San Francisco public transportation. So when I first heard of the alternative transportation network of priva...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 05:59
Steve Spear, LEAN Expert, MIT Sloane School of Management
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Steven Spear, PhD, Senior Lecturer at the Sloane School of Management at MIT and int...

Bought by KZYX, WRIR, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Nov 05, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Dr. Ruben Amarasingham, Founder and CEO of PCCI
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Ruben Amarasingham, Founder and CEO of PCCI, a non-profit research and developmen...

Bought by WRIR, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KRZA


  • Added: Oct 23, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
[freespace]: a temporary space for lasting change
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: A wall upstairs at [freespace], Credit: Jen Chien
The seed idea for [freespace] came from a 48-hour hackathon called the National Day of Civic Hacking. A hackathon is when people get together for a...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 08:36
An Ode to Morse Code
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Richard Dillman transmits from KPH, Credit: Julie Caine
For nearly a hundred years, Morse Code was the official language of international communication for ships in distress. Then, at the end of the twen...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 06:45
  • Purchases: 1
A Kickstarter for your electricity bill
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Solar workers installing panels on the Shawl Anderson Dance Center, Credit: Andreas Karelas
Among these new and creative ways to finance solar panels is crowdfunding. Instead of one person or organization paying tens of thousands of dollar...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 07:39
  • Purchases: 1
Biohacking project a glowing controversy
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: A still from the BioCurious Kickstarter video
When we think of garage scientists, the eccentric, gray-haired Dr. Emmett Brown from Back to the Future might come to mind. But these days, garages...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 08:47
  • Purchases: 1
Sky cowboys: The ironworkers who built the new Bay Bridge
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Ironworkers on the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge. Matthew Cochran is fourth from left., Credit: Matthew Cochran
The first thing you should know about ironworkers is that they don’t make things out of iron, like horseshoes. They’re builders. Ironworkers from L...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 07:30
EdX, Orphaned Black Bear Cubs, Tissue Engineering, Cosmic Evolution - and more!
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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This ThoughtCast hour is devoted to innovation, the intellect, and the environment: from the creation of artificial skin; to new theories about bla...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 30, 2013
  • Length: 58:40
  • Purchases: 2
The Meaning of Friendship in the Era of Facebook (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Aristotle said there are three kinds of friendships—those of utility, pleasure, and virtue. But what about Facebook friendships? One scholar is stu...

Bought by KENW and WXDU


  • Added: Sep 30, 2013
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 2
Dr. Clement Bezold, Chairman of The Institute for Alternative Futures
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with futurist Dr. Clement Bezold, co-founder and Chairman of the Institute for Alternativ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and WRIR


  • Added: Sep 19, 2013
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 2
Homeless hackers head to Noisebridge for shelter
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Chris Zapata shows a guest around Noisebridge, Credit: Holly J McDede
Every day, more than two dozen people pass through a hackerspace in San Francisco’s Mission district called Noisebridge. At its broadest, “hackersp...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 08:11
  • Purchases: 1
One Child at a Time: Custom Learning in the Digital Age
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: Working a math problem at Mooresville Middle School in North Carolina, where each student gets a laptop., Credit: Stephen Smith
Learning with a personal tutor is one of the best ways to learn. But hiring a tutor for every student was never a realistic option, until now. Can ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KPIP-LP, KMXT, KOSU, WTIP and more


  • Added: Sep 03, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Tech startups give power back to the family farm
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Food Hackathon, Credit: Mary Willis
Even here in the local-food loving Bay Area, most food is not ‘farm to table.’ It’s farm to processor to distributor to wholesaler to retailer to t...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 02, 2013
  • Length: 08:05
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. Kavita Patel, Brookings Institution and Bipartisan Policy Cente
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Kavita Patel, Managing Director of Delivery System Reform and Clinical Transformation at the Brookings ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WRIR, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Aug 28, 2013
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 3
EdX President Anant Agarwal’s Plan to Change the World
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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ThoughtCast speaks with Anant Agarwal, formerly the Director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. An entrepreneur and ...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2013
  • Length: 11:32
David Chase, CEO and Founder of Avado
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with David Chase, CEO and Founder of Avado, and former leader of Microsoft's Health busin...

Bought by KZYX and WRIR


  • Added: Jul 30, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
An Equation to Predict Crime?
From: Aaron Mendelson
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In an age of big data, even police departments are getting in on the action. In Los Angeles, the LAPD are using software for what they call “predic...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Hark!, WTIP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KQED


  • Added: Jul 29, 2013
  • Length: 06:37
  • Purchases: 5
Dr. William Newsome, Co-Chair of the BRAIN Intitiative
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. William Newsome, Stanford University neurobiologist and co-chair of the President's BRAIN Initiative wh...

Bought by WRIR and KZYX


  • Added: Jul 25, 2013
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 2

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