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Caption: Map of the 17th District of the US House of Representatives
Project manager and software engineer Rick Kennedy is running for US House Representative for District 17 in Texas, in the 2020 Democratic primary....

  • Added: Feb 27, 2020
  • Length: 41:58
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What should you look for in your first engineering job? How do you bridge high school, college, internships, and then finally full-time work? Is c...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2019
  • Length: 40:41
Caption: "There should be a way so that everybody could know everybody.", Credit: Susan Cook
On the Fresh Air episode, "For Facebook Content Moderators, Traumatizing Material is a Job Hazard", a Silicon Valley journalist plumbed Facebook's ...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2019
  • Length: 08:21
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I have for months tried to figure out the loose association that comes to mind when my voice-activated GPS begins. After Paul Manafort's sentencin...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2019
  • Length: 05:56
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How do you teach ethics to engineering students? Guests Dr. Beccy Hambright and Richard Burgess talk about their experience tackling that question...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jan 21, 2019
  • Length: 48:02
  • Purchases: 1
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What are the trends in educational kids’ toys today? How can programming kits be improved? How does an education business start and succeed? Entrep...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2018
  • Length: 39:09
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Insurers who raise health care premiums, systematically deflect accountability for increases as necessary to cover rising health care costs. Deduc...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2018
  • Length: 07:48
Caption: The cover art for this episode pictures the underside of stairways in the Austin Central Library, photographed during the conversation., Credit: Pius Wong
What skills does a professional architect bring to high school education? Guest Kelly Foster explains, as he shares his experience as both a practi...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2018
  • Length: 48:32
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Former teacher and current tech worker Sophia talks about why she left the classroom, how people perceive teachers, how to bring STEM to four-year-...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2018
  • Length: 34:51
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Now that states have written engineering into K-12 science and technology learning standards, more institutions are thinking about how to run stand...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2018
  • Length: 28:02
Caption: Enough is Enough. , Credit: Susan Cook
Shouldn't Facebook also be held accountable for their moral indifference to the human consequence of Facebook trolling that the platform's anonymi...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2018
  • Length: 01:35
Caption: The Early primitive hacker, a Scottish lady in Accounts, deleted your data for late payment. , Credit: Susan Cook
Internet anonymity now is presented as ‘the standard’ . But being anonymous when online really is optional . If like many other human activities, a...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2017
  • Length: 06:29
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The tools, techniques, and the methods which make mass production possible were pioneered at the Robbins & Lawrence Armory in Windsor, Vermont. But...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2016
  • Length: 04:49
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Free speech is not the norm, and even in a country that explicitly protects speech in its foundational documents, censorship can still creep into o...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2016
  • Length: 58:45
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Today, Americans seem to lack any type of silence in their lives. Silence should be a source of solace, but the modern mind is often discontent whe...

Bought by KUER and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 13, 2016
  • Length: 03:40
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Elected officials or politicians aspiring to be elected officials say things that would register on our Hackle o’ meters and our Politically Unfit...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2016
  • Length: 03:19
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Today's Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks 'Since Apple claims they refuse the order to open the San Bernadino murderer's I-phone to respect the ...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 01:14
Caption: The worldview of fifteen year olds is often very very small. , Credit: Susan Cook
So we now know that Apple has made the extraordinary contribution called ‘Enter the wrong password 10 times and all the data on your way-too-expens...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2016
  • Length: 05:07
Caption: Bob Hoffman, Sandy Pelland, Noah, Swartz, Dave Yoon
Angie explores ad blockers, ad technology, privacy, and the overall ad industry with a diverse panel of experts.

  • Added: Feb 15, 2016
  • Length: 54:50
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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
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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
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Episode 2: In our second podcast, we have interviewed Monica Webb with the Wired West Initiative in rural western Massachusetts. Like our first pod...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2015
  • Length: 15:41
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Episode 162: A few weeks back, we noted an excellent new report on Holyoke Municipal Light Plant in Massachusetts published by the Berkman Center f...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2015
  • Length: 20:04
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Episode 113: Though much of western Massachusetts has poor access to the Internet, the town of Leverett is in the midst of fiber build that will of...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2015
  • Length: 18:25
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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