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The arrival of a unique vertical axis wind turbine

June 27, 2025 by

Wind Harvest, a Davis, California-based company, has a technology (which actually dates back to the ancient Persians) that can capture the turbulent wind that flows nearer to the ground between ridges. CEO Kevin Wolf, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about the company’s vertical axis wind turbines.

Our even-closer encounters of the AI kind

June 20, 2025 by

Lee Rainie, an author, a former Pew researcher and now the head of Elon University’s Center for Imagining the Digital Future, discusses the findings — many quite surprising — from a recent Elon survey on the adoption of AI and its impacts. Llewellyn King and Adam Clayton Powell III host.

Preserving the freedom to write and countering disinformation

June 13, 2025 by

Americans treasure their freedom of expression. But at this time, that jewel of our society is losing its glimmer — as is the truth — at a rapid rate. PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect freedom of expression in America and worldwide. Its director of the Journalism and Disinformation program, Tim Richardson, speaks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.

This traveling life

June 6, 2025 by

Jaime Alemán is a lawyer, a businessman, and a former Panamanian ambassador to the United States, but mostly he wants to be known as an adventurer. Recently, was part of the Blue Origin NS-32 crew and he talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about his passion for travel and being the first person in space to have visited all the countries on Earth.

How an Austin entrepreneur helps innovators in Mexico and globally to create a positive impact

May 30, 2025 by

Austin entrepreneur Kevin Koym began his career with Steve Jobs at NeXT. Now, as CEO and Founder of Tech Ranch Austin, Koym is on a mission to support pioneering entrepreneurs in Mexico and other countries to gain access to the markets, resources, and relationships so that they may solve local problems with global insight. He speaks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.

A journalist’s life in full

May 23, 2025 by

Dan Raviv, author, podcaster, and a former CBS News correspondent, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III (who was a CBS News colleague), about his new book, his podcasts, and broadcast journalism in the time of social media.

AI’s potential in the electricity sector

May 16, 2025 by

AI is fast becoming the essential technology in the electricity sector for cybersecurity, weather prediction, wildfire vulnerability assessment, grid risk reduction and other things. Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III discuss AI’s potential in the sector with Ron Schoff, Director of R&D at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI); and Chris Ritter, Division Director of Scientific Computing & AI at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL).

A way forward for public broadcasting

May 9, 2025 by

In this episode, Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III dig into their broadcasting pasts — including BBC, ITN, CBS, PBS and NPR — to offer a way forward for public broadcasting, after President Trump targets funding.

Pioneers in cancer treatment and therapies to treat and prevent age-related diseases

May 2, 2025 by

Imagine a new cancer treatment that also can make people younger. Then imagine therapies that can slow, halt or even reverse age-related disease progression in humans and animals. Dr. Jason R. Williams, founder of the Williams Cancer Institute, and R. Rex Parris, co-founder of ReParris, a regenerative medicine company, discuss their here-and-now medical treatments and therapies with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.

A lawyer’s view of the risks and challenges of generative AI

April 25, 2025 by

Roland Trope, partner in the New York City offices of Trope and Schramm LLP, has concerns about Apple’s asking users to opt-in for their emails to be sampled for training its generative AI model, Apple Intelligence. Trope, who has taught at the United States Military Academy at West Point, has pointers for consumers, and those in his profession, about the risks and challenges of generative AI. He talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.

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Game-Changing Wind Turbines Harvest Underused Resource Close To The Ground

Game-Changing Wind Turbines Harvest Underused Resource Close To The Ground

Llewellyn King

Jimmy Dean, the country musician, actor and entrepreneur, famously said: “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” A new wind turbine from a California startup, Wind Harvest, takes Dean’s maxim to heart and applies it to wind power generation. It goes after untapped, […]

Farewell to the U.S. as the World’s Top Science Nation

Llewellyn King

When I asked John Savage, the retired co-founder of the Department of Computer Science at Brown University, what the essential ingredient in research is, he responded with one word: “Passion.” It is passion that keeps scientists going, dead end after dead end, until there is a breakthrough. It is passion that keeps them at the […]

Europe Knows Russia and Is Deeply Afraid

Europe Knows Russia and Is Deeply Afraid

Llewellyn King

Europe is naked and afraid. That was the message at a recent meeting of the U.K. Section of the Association of European Journalists (AEJ), at which I was an invited speaker. It preceded a stark warning just over a week later from NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, also speaking in London, who said the danger […]

A Commencement Address — Get Used to Rejections, We All Get Them Sometimes

A Commencement Address — Get Used to Rejections, We All Get Them Sometimes

Llewellyn King

It is school commencement season. So I am taking the liberty of sharing my column of May 10, 2024, which was first published by InsideSources, and later published by newspapers across the country.  As so many commencement addresses haven’t been delivered yet this year, I thought I would share what I would have said to […]

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