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Adam Dole, Presidential Innovation Fellow
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Adam Dole, recent Presidential Innovation Fellow at the White House and former entre...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Jul 10, 2014
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Contradictions in U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious discusses the contradictions in U.S. nuclear weapons policy with author and professor Dr. Seyom Brown, who is currently an adjunct se...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
The Ethics of Privacy
From: Chautauqua Institution
Series: Chautauqua Amphitheater Lectures
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Jeffrey Rosen is president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, the only institution in America chartered by Congress “to disseminate infor...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2014
  • Length: 01:09:42
Listening
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human
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Listening is way more than just paying attention, and this week's show explores how.

Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, and WKCC


  • Added: Jun 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:53
  • Purchases: 3
A Wilderness Too Tame?
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jason Mark
When was the last time you were really in the wilderness? Or, maybe you’re like the millions of Americans who’ve never even been in the wild before...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: May 22, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Volunteers hack technology to improve Oakland city government
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Data visualization of Oakland’s budget (2012-13) created by Open Budget Oakland
It’s a Tuesday evening in Oakland’s City Hall. A group of people ranging in age from their 20s to 50s are sitting, many in front of their laptops. ...

  • Added: May 17, 2014
  • Length: 04:54
Life of the Law #32 Privacy Issues
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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You’re driving your car down a street and as you pass, a camera takes a photo of your license plate. Who is taking the photo and what are they doin...

Bought by KMUZ and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 29, 2014
  • Length: 17:42
  • Purchases: 2
Kevin Counihan, CEO of AccessHealthCT
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Kevin Counihan, Chief Executive Officer of AccessHealthCT, Connecticut's state-based...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Eric Schlosser: Nuclear Nightmares
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Eric Schlosser, the investigative reporter of Fast Food Nation fame, has assembled what reads like a Letterman list of hair-raising nuclear bungles...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Apr 14, 2014
  • Length: 23:56
  • Purchases: 1
Sounding the Alarm: Noise Pollution
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Noise pollution is a growing problem. Effecting everything from the lives of people living under airplane flight paths, to marine life. On this edi...

Bought by WFHB and WXDU


  • Added: Mar 30, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: David Lochbaum, Credit: Union of Concerned Scientists
The nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011 should provide the United States with lessons learned, however, the carefully nurtured tale that technology w...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 26, 2014
  • Length: 28:41
  • Purchases: 1
The Riff-Master 2000@
From: Stephen Provizer
Series: Cultural Curmudgeon
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The Next Step in data management, devised by the Curmudgeon in cooperation with the NSA.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2014
  • Length: 02:59
Activism in Memory of Aaron Swartz
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We’re trying also to locate Aaron Swartz as a landmark in the culture and the age.

  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:35
The Age of Radiance
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Craig Nelson
Bestselling author Craig Nelson provides an in depth examination of the history of the Atomic age from x-rays to the 2011 meltdown in Japan.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 20, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Political posturing, multimillion dollar contracts and the future of student testing in Michigan
From: Michigan Radio
Series: State of Opportunity
Caption: One of the changes ahead for Michigan school assessments: switching from paper and pencil to computer-based tests, Credit: Kees Romkes / Flickr
Schools in Michigan will face a big change next year in student testing. After more than four decades in use, the Michigan Educational Assessment P...

Bought by Delta College Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 28, 2014
  • Length: 03:37
  • Purchases: 1
Congressman John E. Porter, Chair of Research!America
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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Today on Conversations on Health Care - hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with former Congressman John E. Porter - who oversaw a drama...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Feb 27, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Peter Gleick on the California Drought
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Peter Gleick
2013 was the driest year on record in California, and the state’s snowpack is at 12% of what it should be. Considering that this state alone houses...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 04, 2014
  • Length: 29:50
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. Beverly Malone, CEO of the National League for Nursing
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Beverly Malone, Chief Executive Officer of the National League for Nursing which...

Bought by WRIR and KRZA


  • Added: Jan 27, 2014
  • Length: 29:50
  • Purchases: 2
Governor Michael Leavitt, Founder of Leavitt Partners
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with former Utah Governor Michael Leavitt, who was also Secretary of the Department of He...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 29:56
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio Claire Hope Cummings Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Should we be engineering seeds and patenting genes? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview wit...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
Life of the Law #24 - Hour-Long Special
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Credit: Bitchcakes
This hour-long special hosted by Al Letson features three of Life of the Law's best stories of 2013. Letson leads listeners through the virtual wor...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, NPR Illinois, WJCT, and KOSU


  • Added: Dec 27, 2013
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
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
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
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

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