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815-RADAR Observes a Binary PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Radar Images of Asteroid 2011UL21, Credit: NASA/JPL
RADAR is very powerful tool since it can precisely measure an asteroid’s position and velocity as well as in some cases yield information about it...

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Democracy Under Siege: Battling Disinformation in the 2024 Election
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In the wake of Donald Trump's shooting, falsehoods flooded our feeds faster than facts. The problem of disinformation, the deliberate spread of fal...

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  • Added: Jul 31, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
807-Moon Orbit Crossers
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Lunar Impact Crater, Credit: NASA
During a recent 60 day period of time 23 space rocks came closer to Earth than our Moon

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  • Added: Jul 14, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Why People Don’t Vote Week: Some of the Solutions to Getting Nonvoters to Register & Vote
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
Why People Don’t Vote Week: Some of the Solutions to Getting Nonvoters to Register & Vote

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  • Added: Jul 11, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
803-Monster NEO
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Vesta, Credit: NASA
Since larger space rocks are rare, it was surprising when my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groller found a half mile diameter asteroid travel...

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Season 1, Episode 18 - 'Placemaking For All' feat Mark Lakeman
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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How our cities are designed has a direct impact on our humanity towards one another.

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  • Added: Feb 26, 2024
  • Length: 57:44
  • Purchases: 4
787-Far Out
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Milky Way Rising Over the Gila Wilderness, Credit: David Thornburg
In 2024, Voyager I is 163 times further from the Sun than we are and is the most distant, human made, traveler in the night.

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  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
763-Hogan’s Big Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Nucleus Comet Wild-2, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Josh Hogan was asteroid hunting in the constellation Sextans with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona whe...

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  • Added: Sep 10, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
752 Lunker
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Johnson, Credit: Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/W. Reach (SSC/Caltech)
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Jacqueline Fazekas was asteroid hunting , in the evening twilight, with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizo...

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  • Added: Jun 25, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
738-Tiny Visitor(526)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid Near Earth, Credit: ESA
A tiny space rock passes through the cloud of communications satellites surrounding the Earth.

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  • Added: Mar 19, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
708-Guard Down(494)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Earth, Credit: NASA
In 2018, July and August were cloudy and rainy in both Arizona and Hawaii sidelining the worlds two most productive asteroid hunting surveys. A cos...

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  • Added: Aug 21, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
707-Ringed Dynamo(493)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Saturn, Credit: NASA
Even though humans have been aware of the planet Saturn from from the dawn of history this beautiful object still offers mysteries for us to explore.

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  • Added: Aug 14, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
705-One Half Inch(491)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Hubble Image. Sharp star images., Credit: NASA
Fuzzy, spread out, asteroid images due to atmospheric and or equipment produced distortions can cause important objects to slip through an asteroid...

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  • Added: Jul 31, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
704-Mini-Moons(490)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Earth Captures Mini-Moon, Credit: K. Teramura UHIFA
There are likely to be hundreds smaller than softball sized and perhaps several dozen football to beachball sized, natural Earth mini moons, which ...

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  • Added: Jul 24, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
699-Last One(485)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: The last of the day's sunlight pokes through a monsoon storm building up over the northwest area of the valley, generating lightning strikes but little precipitation, Saturday, July 8, 2017, Tucson, Ariz., Credit: Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star
A huge Earth approaching asteroid is discovered right before the 2018 monsoon rains settled into the American Southwest. This weather imposed break...

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  • Added: Jun 19, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
685-Exiled Asteroid(463)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist’s concept illustrating a catastrophic collision between two rocky exoplanets in the planetary system BD +20 307, turning both into dusty debris. Ten years ago, scientists speculated that the warm dust in this system was a result of a planet-to-plan, Credit: NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook
An asteroid is exiled to the outer regions of the solar system during Jupiter's rampaging tack away from the Sun long ago. During that process enou...

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  • Added: Mar 13, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
684-Our View(462)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Night Sky, Credit: NPS
Modern technology provides us with stunning views of objects in the Universe in wavelengths invisible to our eyes, however, nothing is as moving an...

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Harm Reduction’s Road From Fringe to Federal Drug Policy
From: Tradeoffs
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More people died from drug overdoses during the first year of the pandemic — over 100,000 — than in any previous year. In response, the Biden admin...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2022
  • Length: 23:30
669-Seeds(356)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Voyager Leaving Solar System, Credit: NASA
What plant seeds will be left for interstellar travelers to take with them?

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  • Added: Nov 21, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 13
663-Alien Rock?(409)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid Illustration, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
A rock from another solar system is likely to have streaked by Earth before heading back into interstellar space.

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  • Added: Oct 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
659-Martian Debris(382)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Mars, Credit: NASA
Martian Trojan asteroids have stable orbits around the Sun, leading and trailing the red planet by 60 degrees, where the Sun's and Mars's gravity a...

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  • Added: Sep 12, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
654-Night Vision (401)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Experience the wonders of the Universe first hand using your night vision.

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  • Added: Aug 07, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
A Perfect Storm for Depression
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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All across the country, life is inching towards a pre-pandemic normal, but the mental health impact of the pandemic will cast a long shadow. This s...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2021
  • Length: 04:26
The Post-Pandemic College Experience
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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Coronavirus concerns forced many universities to close their campuses this fall. The mix of fewer students on campus, canceled athletics, and onlin...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2021
  • Length: 04:12
Vaccine Access in Rural America
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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In this episode, we will hear how a healthcare worker in Rural Texas is getting the word out about vaccination despite a lack of resources.

  • Added: Apr 16, 2021
  • Length: 04:16