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In Western Mass, Holyoke Gas and Electric Brings Broadband
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Broadband Bits
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Episode 65: Holyoke Gas & Electric has been connecting community anchor institutions and local businesses in Western Massachusetts with fiber netwo...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2015
  • Length: 17:25
Dr. Margaret Hamburg, Foreign Secretary of the National Academy of Medicine
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Margaret Hamburg, Foreign Secretary for the National Academy of Medicine at the N...

Bought by WJCU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KMUD


  • Added: Aug 12, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Dr. Steven J. Stack, President of the American Medical Association
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Steven J. Stack, President of the American Medical Association the largest profe...

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


  • Added: Aug 06, 2015
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 3
Susannah Fox, Chief Technology Officer at the Department of Health and Human Services
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Susannah Fox, Chief Technology Officer at the Department of Health and Human Service...

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


  • Added: Jul 29, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Public or Private Ownership? A Conversation with Blair Levin
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Broadband Bits
Caption: Made with Canva.com
Episode 132: Ever since the last time Chris Mitchell spoke with Blair Levin on Episode 37, we have wanted to have him back for a friendly discussi...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2015
  • Length: 37:30
Accessibility Today
From: WDSE
Series: Community Conversations
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What does Accessibility mean? What efforts and progress are happening in the Northland, in Duluth and at UMD. Guests include Bridget Reversmith of ...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 29:28
Abrahm Lustgarten: Water Management Breakdown
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Abrahm Lustgarten
Discussions about the West’s epic drought tend to focus on the need to cut back on residential and agricultural water usage. The importance of wate...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 24, 2015
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
Leah Binder, CEO of the Leapfrog Group
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week on Conversations on Health Care, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Leah Binder, Chief Executive Officer of the Leapfrog...

Bought by KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and WJCU


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Margaret Anderson, Executive Director of FasterCures
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Margaret Anderson, Executive Director of FasterCures, an action tank dedicated to sa...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and WJCU


  • Added: May 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 2
You're being watched: Surveillance in Oakland
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: A heat map from the Electronic Frontier Foundation's study of ALPR hotspots in Oakland
Surveillance and privacy issues have been in the news a lot in the past few years. Perhaps the biggest news was made by by Edward Snowden, who leak...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 04, 2015
  • Length: 09:27
  • Purchases: 1
#48: Intellectual Property in the Third Dimension with Michael Weinberg
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: image courtesy of Shapeways. Used with permission.
Cheyenne talks to Michael Weinberg about IP, copyright, and creative commons as it relates to 3D printing.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Apr 29, 2015
  • Length: 31:11
  • Purchases: 1
This Week in Water for the week ending April 12, 2015
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Can The "Human Polar Bear" Thaw Cold War Tensions? That and other stories on H2O Radio's weekly news report about water around the globe.

  • Added: Apr 13, 2015
  • Length: 07:57
Dr. Robert Wachter, Author of the "The Digital Doctor"
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Robert Wachter, Associate Chair of the Department of Medicine at U.C. San Franci...

Bought by WJCU and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Apr 03, 2015
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
The Meaning of Money
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We're asking the $64,000 question: can we build a more crash-proof, less leveraged, more equitable financial system? Our guest Jeremy Allaire would...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KZYX


  • Added: Mar 31, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
Free the Internet (in India)
From: KALW
Caption: Shreya Singhal
The Internet just became freer in India thanks to a young woman who decided to do something about it instead of just complaining.

  • Added: Mar 30, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
Secrecy in the Sunshine Era
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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In the 1970’s, a series of laws ushered in a so-called “sunshine era” of government transparency. A new book examines the dark side of the Sunshine...

Bought by KENW, WABE, and KPVL


  • Added: Mar 27, 2015
  • Length: 03:53
  • Purchases: 3
Indoor Marijuana and Electric Power Reality
From: Cannabis Radio News
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In the Oregon State Legislature, since the beginning of the 2015 session, the Joint Committee on Implementing Measure 91 has held a series of infor...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2015
  • Length: 05:42
#42: Simple Machines and Complex Infrastructures with Jenny Toomey
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: "Transmitters-5" by Adam Bowie. 2011. CC BY-NC-SA via flickr.
Jenny Toomey, Director of the Internet Rights unit at the Ford Foundation, talks about the differences and similarities between running a DIY recor...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Mar 19, 2015
  • Length: 16:08
  • Purchases: 1
Fracking: There’s Something In The Air
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Caroline Cox
The potential damage posed by hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” to ground water, its contribution to earthquake risk, and overall deceptive pract...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
If you dislike like, then you will… (the dislike club part III)
From: Benjamen Walker
Series: Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything
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This week Anthropologist Gabriella Coleman tells us about the internet’s original Dislike Club, Anonymous. Biella has spent the last eight years ha...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 07, 2015
  • Length: 21:21
  • Purchases: 2
#33: Into the Deep Web with Alex Winter
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: "Transmitters-5" by Adam Bowie. 2011. CC BY-NC-SA via flickr.
Alex Winter, director of "Downloaded," talks about his upcoming film, "Deep Web."

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 21:35
  • Purchases: 1
Show #12: Txt the v0t3
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: Weekday High Podcast '08
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Barack Obama plans to send his VP choice via text message to supporters. But is it possible to text something meaningful? Kat and Kaitie seek to a...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 06:13
Show #10: Out of this World
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: Weekday High Podcast '08
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What's in a name? As Kat Beame find out, everything. She talks to Goodspaceguy Nelson, an eccentric candidate running for Congress from Washington....

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 07:19
1984 (the year, not the book)
From: Benjamen Walker
Series: Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything
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In 1984 your host was twelve years old, and like George Orwell’s protagonist Winston Smith, he kept a diary, for the citizens of the future. For t...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 31, 2014
  • Length: 50:51
  • Purchases: 2
The Clouds (Part 2 of 3)
From: Benjamen Walker
Series: Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything
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We continue our journey to the center of the cloud, by way of the earth: Rare Earth. China controls 95% of the market for the 17 Rare Earth element...

Bought by KZYX and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 31, 2014
  • Length: 27:11
  • Purchases: 2

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