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Dr. Mollyann Brodie, Executive Director of Public Opinion Research, Kaiser Family Foundation
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Mollyann Brodie, Sr. Vice President of Executive Operations and Executive Director o...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Oct 18, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Big Rockets and Little LightSails
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Space Launch System on the Launchpad, Credit: NASA
Digital editor Jason Davis is a lucky guy. He follows and reports on human spaceflight progress, as well as the progress of the LightSail solar sai...

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  • Added: Oct 12, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Imaging a Hot Young Jupiter
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: “Hot young Jupiter” 51 Eri b as imagined in an artist’s conception., Credit: Danielle Futselaar & Franck Marchis, SETI Institute
Franck Marchis is on the team that has delivered an actual image of a young, hot world about 100 light years from Earth. We talk with him on the 20...

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  • Added: Oct 06, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Humans Orbiting Mars!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's conception of the view above Mars, Credit: NASA
Scott Hubbard and John Logsdon led the Humans Orbiting Mars Workshop last spring. They return with Casey Dreier as the report on that workshop is ...

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Zibi Turtle and Exploring the Ice Giants
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Ice Giant Neptune, Credit: NASA
They are the most neglected planets in our solar system, but that status may be changing. Planetary scientist Elizabeth “Zibi” Turtle celebrates NA...

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
OSIRIS-REx Readies for Asteroid Bennu
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: PI Dante Lauretta (r.) and Kevin Walsh in the Lockheed Martin clean room with OSIRIS-REx, Credit: Dante Lauretta
Dante Lauretta heads the most ambitious mission to an asteroid ever mounted. With one year left till launch, he returns to Planetary Radio with an ...

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  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Flying High on SOFIA
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: With the sliding door over its 17-ton infrared telescope wide open, NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy – or SOFIA – soars over California's snow-covered Southern Sierras., Credit: NASA/Jim Ross
Planetary Radio returns to SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, but this time we fly in the giant 747 turned telescope plat...

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
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
Windows Expert Hacks 'Droid Rifle at RAMming speed
From: Lyle Troxell
Series: GeekSpeak
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Brand new very fast memory, Windows 10 rolls out slowly, how to stay safe online: experts vs non-experts, and more Geeky News.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WYAP


  • Added: Sep 02, 2015
  • Length: 50:59
  • Purchases: 2
Zooming In On Mars With Mastcam-Z
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Early plan for the lenses in a Mastcam-Z camera planned for the 2020 Mars rover., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS
Our reporting from the 2nd Mars 2020 Rover Landing Site Selection Workshop continues as we talk with Jim Bell and Justin Maki, leaders of the devel...

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  • Added: Aug 31, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 5
The Right Site: Choosing A Landing Spot on Mars
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This artist's sketch is based on the Curiosity rover in NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, with proposed modifications based on the science definition team's recommendations. , Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The 2020 Mars Rover may be years away, but determining where it will land is already a hot topic among scientists and engineers. Many of the former...

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  • Added: Aug 25, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Living Under the Sea With NASA Aquanaut David Coan
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The NEEMO 20 crew poses for a group shot., Credit: NASA
NEEMO is a long-running NASA project that is helping to prepare us for mission to Mars and other destinations. Mat Kaplan talked with engineer and ...

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Scamtracker
From: WFHB
Series: Better Beware!
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The Better Business bureau has a cool new feature on their website – an interactive map that shows what scams have been reported from where…all ove...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2015
  • Length: 04:00
A New Era For SETI Research—More on the Breakthrough Initiatives
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Screen shot of SETI@Home at work, digging through data for ET’s call., Credit: SETI@Home
We follow last week’s conversation with Ann Druyan about the $100 million funding of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence by visiting two o...

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  • Added: Aug 11, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Jim Baller on the History of Municipal Broadband Vol. 2
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Broadband Bits
Caption: Made with Canva.com
Episode 63: Jim Baller is back again for the second show in our series on the history of municipal broadband networks. He is the President of the ...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 17:39
Responding to "Crazy Talk" Vol. 5
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Broadband Bits
Caption: Made with Canva.com
Episode 120: Lisa Gonzalez and I have been wading though all kinds of crazy talk since the cities of Wilson and Chattanooga filed petitions with th...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 16:12
Responding to "Crazy Talk" Vol. 4
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Broadband Bits
Caption: Made with Canva.com
Episode 72: We are back with the fourth volume of our responding to "Crazy Talk" theme on the Community Broadband Bits podcast. The source of this ...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 24:06
Responding to "Crazy Talk" Vol. 3
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Broadband Bits
Caption: Made with Canva.com
Episode 62: Lisa Gonzalez and I are back with another back and forth reaction to some of the crazy claims made by opponents of community owned Inte...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 19:52
Responding to "Crazy Talk" Vol. 2
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Broadband Bits
Caption: Made with Canva.com
Episode 55: Following up on our first "Responding to Crazy Talk" episode last month, we decided to publish a second edition this week. Again, Lisa...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 21:11
Responding to "Crazy Talk" Vol. 1
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Broadband Bits
Caption: Made with Canva.com
Episode 50: For our 50th episode, we're trying something new: Lisa and I respond to three common claims made by opponents of community owned networ...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 12:40
Dewayne Hendricks Vol. 1
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Broadband Bits
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Episode 18: Dewayne Hendricks is a serial entrepreneur, innovator, and wireless expert. Wired magazine labeled him a broadband cowboy back in 2001...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 26:34
Ann Druyan and the Breakthrough Initiatives for SETI
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Green Bank Telescope is the world's largest, fully-steerable telescope. It will be used in the Breakthrough Listen SETI initiative over the next 10 years., Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF
The Breakthrough Initiatives will pump $100 million into the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the next 10 years, vastly expanding humani...

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  • Added: Aug 04, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 5
The Real Threats from Monopoly
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Broadband Bits
Caption: Made with Canva.com
Episode 83: When we think about the threat of monopoly, we almost always focus on how monopolies can raise prices beyond what is reasonable. But th...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2015
  • Length: 19:42
To Overbuild or Underbuild? A Rural Policy Conundrum
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Broadband Bits
Caption: Made with Canva.com
Episode 91: Lisa Gonzalez and I, Christopher Mitchell, are back in studio for a short conversation about the implications of a municipal network or...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2015
  • Length: 13:15