Best Flux Community Media Podcasts (2025)

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Hazel Grace on reinventing the American Dream 18:56

5d ago18:56

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit plus.flux.community Episode Summary Ever since he came back into office, Donald Trump has messed up a lot of things. The judiciary, the budget, federal employees, foreign policy, you name it. But we can’t forget that America’s economic, political, and religious systems were already fail…

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Sarah Kate Ellis on the Slingshot Effect: Fighting Back with Joy and Power 37:32

6d ago37:32

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GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis joins The Electorette to talk about how we push forward in a moment of backlash. From corporate rollbacks on DEI to the rise of hate-fueled content online, we explore the forces working to dismantle progress—and how collective power, storytelling, and unapologetic joy can be our sharpest tools for resistance…

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Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe with Precision Adaptive Optics 17:08

7d ago17:08

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Penetrating deep space to unlock the secrets of the universe, the ESO Extremely Large Telescope uses adaptive optics to correct for atmospheric disturbances to extract more light, achieving higher-resolution imaging. Among the technologies required, Microgate provides the control systems that mechanically deform the mirror to manipulate the observe…

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IMS 2025 is a Platform for Learning, Networking, and Collaborating 20:05

14d ago20:05

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The 2025 IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S) International Microwave Symposium is taking place from the 15th to the 20th of June 2025 in San Francisco, California. In this podcast, we talk to Jin Baines, the CEO of Mini-Circuits, and Wendy Shu, the CEO of Eravant, about the event and some of the opportunities it provides to visitor…

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The right-wing wars on science and sex are linked 1:02:35

16d ago1:02:35

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Episode Summary The Trump Administration's wars on federal employees and research science are getting a lot of headlines, but there's a third war that's being conducted by the radical right that doesn't get nearly as much attention as it should, and that is its efforts to control Americans’ bodily autonomy. Whether it’s trying to outlaw abortion, e…

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Before the 14th: Black Activists and the Battle for Citizenship 45:36

18d ago45:36

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In light of this week's Supreme Court hearing that could redefine birthright citizenship in the United States, we’re revisiting one of our most insightful episodes from 2019. Historian and legal scholar Martha S. Jones joins The Electorette to discuss her groundbreaking book, Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America. …

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Creationism, AI, and techno-oligarchy: Understanding the new age of pseudoscience 1:12:49

22d ago1:12:49

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Episode Summary Donald Trump's second presidential administration has been remarkably different from his first one, primarily through his acceptance of long-standing reactionary goals to attack government and expertise—particularly federal agencies that produce and teach science such as NASA, the National Institutes for Health, and the Department o…

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Open Source and Software-Defined Vehicles 12:11

22d ago12:11

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The Eclipse Foundation's Eclipse SDV Working Group supports an open source platform for software defined vehicles (SDV). This takes a lot of work from participating companies like Codethink. In this podcast, William Wong chats with Codethink’s President, John Ellis, about the challenges of using open source software in this arena.…

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The ACLU vs. Trump’s Executive Order: A Legal Fight to Protect the Vote 27:55

27d ago27:55

27:55

In this episode of The Electorette, host Jen Taylor-Skinner is joined by Sophia Lin Lakin, Director of the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project, to discuss the organization’s leading legal challenge against a dangerous new executive order from Donald Trump. While the SAVE Act has stalled in the Senate, this executive order picks up where it left off—imposi…

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Taking a Look at Machine Vision 11:25

28d ago11:25

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Traditional vision systems based on cameras are really geared towards image storage, not image processing, and certainly don't detect motion, and you have to compare video frame-by-frame to figure out if something moves. In this episode, we talk to SiLC Technologies CEO, Dr. Mehdi Asghari, about the state of the art in machine vision and what the c…

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Who Gets to Choose Your Doctor? The Supreme Court Case That Could Reshape Medicaid 30:00

1M ago30:00

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What happens when states gain the power to decide which healthcare providers Medicaid recipients can access? In this episode, host Jen Taylor-Skinner is joined by Elizabeth Taylor, Executive Director of the National Health Law Program, to break down the high-stakes Supreme Court case Medina v. South Atlantic. At its core, the case challenges whethe…

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Axial Flux Motors Gain Traction in Diesel Hybrids 30:45

1M ago30:45

30:45

Electric motors play a key role in converting electrical power into motive power. This episode of Inside Electronics has Andy chatting with Turntide, a designer and manufacturer of axial flux motors, about the operating principles and optimal applications for AFMs, including diesel hybrids, tidal power generation, ship propulsion, and military use …

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Neuromorphic Computing Delivers Low Power AI 22:33

1M ago22:33

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Spiking neural networks (SNN) are an implementation of neuromorphic computing, an aspect of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML). Neuromorphic computing emulates the operation of physical neurons like those found in the human brain. In this episode, Electronic Design’s Senior Content Director, Bill Wong, talks with Steven Brightfiel…

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Economic Chaos, by Design: Why economic instability is a feature, not a bug, of Trump-era policy 32:51

2M ago32:51

32:51

Tariffs, Tax Cuts & the Corporate Scam Economy In this episode of The Electorette, host Jen Taylor-Skinner sits down with Lindsay Owens, Executive Director of Groundwork Collaborative, to dissect the chaos of Trump’s economic policies—and the hidden logic behind them. From erratic tariff announcements to the looming extension of the 2017 tax cuts f…

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MISRA C/C++: What, Why and How 18:03

2M ago18:03

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In this episode, William Wong talks with with Andrew Banks, Technical Specialist at LDRA. LDRA’s MISRA C/C++ support is a central piece of its static analysis tools that exceed the requirements of MISRA C/C++. MISRA C:2012 offered new guidelines and the latest MISRA C standard is MISRA C:2023. MISRA C++ is a separate standard but with the same appr…

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The Digital Green Book: Fighting Disinformation and Reclaiming Our Digital Power 26:17

2M ago26:17

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What happens when disinformation meets cutting-edge AI—and Black communities are caught in the crosshairs? In this powerful episode of The Electorette, host Jen Taylor-Skinner speaks with Esosa Osa, Founder and CEO of Onyx Impact, about the alarming rise in AI-generated political disinformation targeting Black voters. Together, they unpack how misi…

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Discussing the Wireless Ecosystem’s Disruptive Evolution 18:48

2M ago18:48

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When it comes to wireless systems, we are in a disruptive evolutionary phase, with an interesting combination of multiple advanced solutions looking for application spaces to address. In this episode, Host Alix Paultre chats with Viavi's Ian Wong about upcoming technological advancements in the wireless and telecommunications space.…

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Power, Politics & the Grid: Kate Gordon on America’s Energy Crossroads 44:43

2M ago44:43

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What if the clean energy revolution isn’t coming—it’s already here, quietly reshaping global power, American manufacturing, and the way we heat our homes? In this episode of The Electorette, host Jen Taylor-Skinner sits down with energy policy expert Kate Gordon to unpack the largest climate investment in U.S. history—and why most Americans barely …

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Advantages of Event-based Vision Systems 15:55

2M ago15:55

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Conventional image sensors capture a frame at a time while event-based vision sensors track changes of individual pixels. In this episode, Dr. Luca Verre, Founder of Prophesee, talks about the company's event-based sensor and how it works. An event-based imaging system can detect changes more accurately while reducing bandwidth and power requiremen…

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The ‘cancel culture’ myth was always about censoring the center-to-left 1:01:50

2M ago1:01:50

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Episode Summary For decades, the American far-right has been screeching constantly that its activists and politicians are being censored by “cancel culture.” It’s nonsense, of course, because almost invariably everyone who supposed canceled ends up with a huge media following and a very profitable victim narrative. But the lies about mass censors…

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Special Coverage: Is Dr. Oz Qualified to Lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services? A Conversation with Nourbese Flint 18:50

2M ago18:50

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The Senate Finance Committee just advanced the nomination of Dr. Mehmet Oz to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), bringing his confirmation one step closer to reality. In this bonus episode, Jen Taylor-Skinner is joined by Nourbese Flint, president of All* Above All, for a critical conversation about what’s at stake. CMS over…

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Exploring 3D NOR Flash Technology 16:07

2M ago16:07

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NOR flash memory has been a mainstay for microcontrollers and microprocessors for code and data storage while NAND flash has been used for data storage. The latter has higher capacity on its side but NOR is the choice where reliability and performance are important. Electronic Design Editor Bill Wong talks with Miin Wu, Chairman and CEO at Macronix…

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What Does Rural America Want? A Conversation with Sarah Jaynes of the Rural Democracy Initiative 39:50

2M ago39:50

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How can we combat disinformation in rural communities and empower voters with accurate information? In this episode, host Jen Taylor-Skinner sits down with Sarah Jaynes, Executive Director of the Rural Democracy Initiative, to explore how grassroots efforts, local media, and community influencers are pushing back against misinformation and mobilizi…

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Can Rust Work for Safety Critical Embedded System? 27:24

3M ago27:24

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Rust is a relatively new programming language that has garnered support from developers working on everything from Linux device drivers to cloud services. Rust pointer management is one thing that makes the language stand out. As an open-source project, it cannot be used directly in many applications where things like IEC 62304 and ISO 26262 are ne…

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How Additive Manufacturing is Impacting the Electronics Industry 17:34

3M ago17:34

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The advantages that electronics manufacturers and their customers can leverage from using additive manufacturing (compared to traditional processes) include faster, more cost-effective design and development of high-quality prototypes in just a few days with more design iterations to accelerate go-to-market times, improve process integration, and o…

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She Waited 20 Hours for Care—The Abortion Ban Cost Her Life | Amber Thurman's Mother Speaks Out 43:56

3M ago43:56

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Amber Nicole Thurman was a 28-year-old medical assistant, devoted mother from Georgia, and one of the first women to die following the Dobbs decision. In August 2022, she sought a medication abortion due to an unplanned pregnancy. Following the procedure, she experienced severe complications, including a grave infection. Despite her critical condit…

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Vehicle Electrification in Patrol Cars 24:21

3M ago24:21

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When many consider vehicle electrification, they tend to dive into the granularity of the solution sets and how do we get to where we're going. However, there are also application-specific needs that should be addressed in their migration to electric vehicles. Andy Turudic from Electronic Design and Paul Peluso from Officer Magazine chat about cons…

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Importance of Timing in Advanced Embedded Systems 17:46

3M ago17:46

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Timing and synchronization are vital to electronics in many ways, from on-board circuit control to inter-device communications, to network management and beyond. The ability to accurately time and coordinate events, data, and signals is fundamental to the performance of a smart connected embedded system today. We talk to Q-Tech's former president, …

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The SAVE Act: The Biggest Voter Suppression Bill in U.S. History? | A Deep Dive with Eliza Sweren-Becker from the Brennan Center for Justice 29:47

3M ago29:47

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Congressional Republicans have fast-tracked the SAVE Act (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act)—legislation that could disenfranchise tens of millions of American voters by imposing strict new citizenship verification requirements. Is this bill really about election integrity, or is it an unprecedented voter suppression effort? Host Jen Taylor-…

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Transforming Postpartum Care: Addressing America's Maternal Health Crisis | Natalie Davis of United States of Care 37:12

3M ago37:12

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Natalie Davis, CEO of United States of Care, joins The Electorette host Jen Taylor-Skinner to examine the critical postpartum care crisis in the United States. Despite being a high-income nation, America’s maternal mortality rates highlight significant gaps in postpartum support. Davis discusses The 100 Weeks Project, a groundbreaking initiative de…

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The NAACP’s Fight for Democracy: Patrice Willoughby on 2024, Project 2025 & Black Voter Power 43:37

3M ago43:37

43:37

For over a century, the NAACP has been a driving force in the fight for civil rights, shaping American democracy through groundbreaking legal victories, grassroots activism, and political advocacy. From dismantling segregation in Brown v. Board of Education to championing the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, the NAACP’s impact is undeniable. An…

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The Key to Defining Successful Products in the Age of AI 34:18

3M ago34:18

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Engineering a product that is disconnected from customers and markets risks time, money, and reputations. In this episode, Laura Reese, Silicon Valley engineer and author of business book, “Align,” joins Electronic Design's Andy Turudic and Endeavor Business Intelligence EVP Paul Mattioli, to discuss her experiences and insights for defining succes…

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The Electronics Industry and Trump Tariffs 20:38

4M ago20:38

20:38

Electronics companies are concerned about how new and potential tariffs might disrupt their global supply chain. Many vendors rely heavily on production in China, Canada, and Mexico. Unfortunately, much of this remains in flux as threats and follow-through are changing almost daily. In this episode, Power & Motion's Sara Jensen, IndustryWeek's Robe…

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