Best Flux Community Media Podcasts (2025)

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As Evangelicalism grows increasingly unhinged, where is Mormonism going? 1:06:51

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Episode Summary Over the years on this program, I’ve often said that the political differences dividing Americans are really just artifacts of much deeper epistemic divides. In the episode before this one, we explored how those differences manifest psychologically—but psychology alone cannot explain why so many people feel so alienated that they w…

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The Big Beautiful Lie: Jessica Fulton on What the 2025 Budget Bill Really Means for Black Households 42:48

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In this episode of The Electorette, host Jen Taylor-Skinner speaks with Jessica Fulton, interim president and VP of Policy at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, about the 2025 budget bill—rebranded by conservatives as the "Big Beautiful Bill"—and the devastating consequences it could have for Black households. Rooted in the Joint …

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Things Do Not Have to Be This Way: Dismantling American Patriarchy with Anna Malaika Tuu 46:50

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Author and scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs joins The Electorette to discuss her powerful new book, Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us—a sweeping, incisive examination of how American patriarchy was built to exclude, erase, and control. In this conversation, Anna unpacks the nation’s gendered social order, from its origins in the Constit…

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Autonomous Navigation in an Uncertain World 25:13

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As navigation becomes increasingly vulnerable to jamming, spoofing, or complete denial, military forces operating in contested environments face significant challenges, not just in navigation, but in coordination, safety, and mission success. ANELLO Photonics has developed an innovative Silicon Photonics Optical Gyroscope (SiPhOG) to serve autonomo…

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More Than a Seat: Amanda Edwards on Legacy, Leadership, and the Fight for Texas’s 18th Congressional District 44:58

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In this episode of The Electorette, Amanda Edwards, candidate for Texas’s 18th Congressional District, joins host Jennifer Taylor-Skinner for a powerful conversation about legacy, leadership, and what it means to truly serve. A native of Houston’s 18th District, Edwards shares her deep personal ties to the community and reflects on the seat’s profo…

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The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück: Inside Hitler’s All-Female Concentration Camp 41:29

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In this episode, Jen Taylor-Skinner speaks with bestselling author Lynne Olson about her powerful new book, The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück. The conversation unearths the little-known history of French women—many from the resistance—who were captured and sent to Ravensbrück, the Nazis’ only all-female concentration camp. Though they faced starvation,…

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America’s political divide is psychological, not ideological 1:09:47

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Episode Summary Politics in the United States and everywhere else has always been about policy—which party wants to do this, which party wants to do that. But in the 21st century, a new dimension has been added: true and false. That reality has become a serious problem for left-of-center political parties, because they have traditionally oriented t…

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Design Essentials for Robust Systems 17:16

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In this episode, we talk to Jerry Twomey, an engineering consultant with a deep background in electronics design, medical devices, electro-mechanical systems, and board-level integrated circuits. He is the author of the book “Applied Embedded Electronics – Design Essentials for Robust Systems," a comprehensive reference that covers the design proce…

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Impact in Flux: Surviving a Chaotic Impact Era (Live Show) 1:16:55

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Between cuts to service agencies, slashed cause funding, and a volatile cultural and political climate, 2025 is the year of curveballs for us all. But social impact pros don't just desire to be resilient in the face of change - their jobs depend on it. And with so much learned about navigating uncertainty through various issues and crises, surely t…

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Republican men see masculinity as under attack, but most Americans seem to disagree 55:25

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Episode Summary Many people expected that Donald Trump's fate would be decided by women last year. It was, after all, the first presidential race since the Republican-dominated Supreme Court had decided to roll back a national right to abortion. But Trump upended that possibility by deciding to run a campaign that was focused very heavily on men an…

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Talking About Electronic Design with Mike Engelhardt 40:52

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Mike Engelhardt is an American computer programmer, author, and entrepreneur who is renowned for developing the SPICE-based analog electronic circuit simulator computer software. Known for his wide-brimmed hat and bow tie, Mike is the innovative mind behind Qorvo’s simulator, QSPICE, and is not just known for his technical acumen, but also for his …

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Hazel Grace on reinventing the American Dream 18:56

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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

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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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Who's Working in Impact? Snapshot of a Shaken Social Sector (Live Show) 34:29

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After the 2024 presidential election results, social impact pros knew the backdrop of their work might look very different this year - and to say that's been the case is an understatement. With stark shifts in attitudes toward civil rights, social services, and climate action on display in | America's highest office, it feels like many of the missi…

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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…