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The Benefits of, Lessons from, SandyNet
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Broadband Bits
Caption: Made with Canva.com
Episode 167: Two of the stars from our video on SandyNet in Oregon, join us this week for Community Broadband Bits episode 167. Sandy City Council ...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2015
  • Length: 30:23
The Francis Effect
From: WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
Caption: PRX default Piece image
On this edition of God Matters, host Peter Kreten welcomes to the program Dr. Graziano Marcheschi, Vice-President for University Mission and Minist...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2015
  • Length: 27:56
Understanding the Wilson and Chattanooga FCC Petitions
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Broadband Bits
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Episode 110: Given the exciting development of the FCC opening comment on petitions from Wilson, NC and Chattanooga, TN to restore local authority ...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2015
  • Length: 24:41
Chattanooga's EPB Fiber
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Broadband Bits
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Episode 59: Chattanooga's EPB Fiber is the highest profile community network in the U.S. It was the first network in the nation to offer a symmetri...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2015
  • Length: 24:59
Get Behind Me, Now Stay There - Episode 63
From: Get Behind Me , Now Stay There
Series: Get Behind Me, Now Stay There
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring Singer Zaena Morisho, Author K. J. Waters, and Solitude Creek by New York Times ...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2015
  • Length: 59:14
Episode 144: The Swoon After June
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: The Final Edition Radio Hour: Full Episodes
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June gave us guns, flags, banks, god and Trump. We can only hope July is so generous.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2015
  • Length: 54:20
Drones At Liberty: Part 1
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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This is the first of a two-part program based on a symposium to be held at Indiana University called Reconfiguring Global Space The Geography, Poli...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2015
  • Length: 59:42
Saving the Planet: Voices From the Planetary Defense Conference
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Some of the attendees at the 2015 Planetary Defense Conference in Frascati, Italy., Credit: ESA CC BY-SA IGO 3.0
We’ve already brought you Planetary Radio Live from the 2015 PDC near Rome, Italy. Now you’ll hear a small sampling of the scientists, engineers, p...

Bought by KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KFCF FM


  • Added: Jun 30, 2015
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 5
Endeavours - Truth & Reconciliation Commission
From: Dan McPeake
Series: Endeavours
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Former BC Attorney General Wally Oppal, Native Studies Professor Niigaan Sinclair

  • Added: Jun 25, 2015
  • Length: 53:09
LightSail Triumphant! A Mission Press Conference
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: LightSail stretches its sails in low Earth orbit., Credit: The Planetary Society
After a roller coaster ride that included a maddening eight-day silence, the LightSail test mission finally achieved all of its major goals. Leader...

Bought by KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KFCF FM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KWMR


  • Added: Jun 14, 2015
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 5
A Cassini Update, and LightSail Spreads Its Wings
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Cassini's last close-up view of Saturn's "creepy" moon, Hyperion., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Our most frequent guest, Cassini Project Scientist Linda Spilker, returns with another update on the magnificent mission at Saturn, including evide...

Bought by KMUD, KFCF FM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jun 09, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 5
Getting Humans to Mars with Chris Carberry
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The first human steps onto Mars in this illustration from the 2015 Humans to Mars Report., Credit: Explore Mars, Inc.
Explore Mars revealed the 2015 Humans to Mars Report at a recent conference in Washington. CEO Chris Carberry gives us a quick tour of this realist...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KMUD, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KWMR, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 01, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Spiraling Closer to Ceres With the Dawn Mission's Marc Rayman
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Image of Ceres and its mysterious “bright spots” taken by the Dawn spacecraft from 13,600 km (8,400 miles) above the surface., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
It’s the biggest dwarf planet between here and Pluto, and it has a new permanent resident. The Dawn spacecraft is orbiting Ceres in the asteroid be...

Bought by KMUD, KWMR, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KFCF FM


  • Added: May 18, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 4
Dr Aviva Chomsky on her book They Take Our Jobs and 20 Other Myths about Immigration
From: Latin Waves Media
Series: Latin Waves Media
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She speaks to us about her "Her latest book They Take Our Jobs and 20 Other Myths about Immigration, she dismantles common assumptions and beliefs ...

  • Added: May 15, 2015
  • Length: 27:30
Alan Stern and the Rise of Pluto
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist’s concept of the New Horizons spacecraft as it approaches Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, in July 2015., Credit: JHUAPL/SwRI
Humankind’s arrival at Pluto is barely two months away. The science and images have already started to flow from New Horizons, according to the mis...

Bought by KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KWMR, and KFCF FM


  • Added: May 11, 2015
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 5
Managing the System
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Salman Khan
One hot muggy afternoon last week I understood first hand a fact of life in India – the system never works for you unless you know someone with con...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 11, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for the week ending May 15, 2015
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Seeds of Change Found in the Ashes of Baltimore's Uprising; New Book Chron...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: May 06, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sean Solomon on the Climactic End of the MESSENGER Mercury Mission
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: A depiction of the MESSENGER spacecraft is shown flying over Mercury's surface displayed in enhanced color., Credit: NASA/JHU APL/Carnegie Institution of Washington
We open with the countdown to destruction--the MESSENGER spacecraft’s impact on Mercury ended its spectacularly successful mission. Principal Inve...

Bought by KRZA, KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KWMR and more


  • Added: May 04, 2015
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 6
LINDA MCQUAIG ON HER BOOK THE TROUBLE WITH BILLIONAIRES
From: Latin Waves Media
Series: Latin Waves Media
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Linda speaks about her book The trouble with billionaires , Corporate philanthropy, alternatives

  • Added: Apr 28, 2015
  • Length: 30:05
Saving the Planet at the Planetary Defense Conference
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Planetary Defense Conference in Frascati, Italy hosted Planetary Radio Live., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Planetary Radio Live was the only public event at the just-completed Planetary Defense Conference in Italy. Join us for excerpts from an all-star c...

Bought by KRZA, KMUD, KWMR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 6
Rights and Responsibilities
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Priya Vedi
It is all very well to castigate the Supreme Court for its failure to affirm gay rights. But rights mean nothing without responsibility and those r...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides on LauncherOne and the Return of SpaceShipTwo
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Elected officials hear about Virgin Galactic's LauncherOne rocket and WhiteKnightTwo air launch vehicle., Credit: Virgin Galactic
6,000 job-seekers came to the new Long Beach, California home of Virgin Galactic’s LauncherOne rocket on a recent morning. We sit down with CEO Geo...

Bought by KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KWMR, and KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 10, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 5
Terror Skies: The Drone as Judge and Jury
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In Part One, we’re joined by Majed Akhter, an Assistant Professor of Geography at Indiana University Bloomington whose current research examines ho...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2015
  • Length: 40:40
David Groves, Editor of Washington State Labor Council’s Daily Online Newsletter, The Stand, Part 1
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: David Groves
Interview: David tells us what the Washington State Labor Council newsletter, The Stand, is all about. Are you tired of seeing corporate news tha...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 30, 2015
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 1
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for the week ending January 30, 2015
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: FBI 9/11 Whistle-blower Coleen Rowley: Post-Charlie Hebdo Massacre Rush to...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2015
  • Length: 29:00

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