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this week on the show: Work — and no play? - As today's fast-paced world spins faster and faster, the pressure is taking a toll on people's me...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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October of 2019 was a record breaking month for my team the Catalina Sky Survey during which we discovered 240 Earth approaching asteroids. This di...

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  • Added: Nov 29, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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This week on the show: Bitter Sugar and facing the drought - Bitter lives and little hope: meeting sugarcane workers and their families in Guat...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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In the American southwest we welcome the Monsoon rainy season during which the Earth receives much needed moisture. However, after six weeks of clo...

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  • Added: Sep 27, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Imagine how strange and wonderful it would be to witness such an event. When the impacting object hit it produced huge boulders, which held loose...

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  • Added: Sep 06, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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In 2018 there were 15 Meteorite Fall Events for which observers saw a fireball streaking across the sky which then led to the discovery of pieces o...

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  • Added: Aug 16, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Statistically, asteroid hunters are thought to have discovered 90 to 95% of the Earth approaching asteroids larger than about 3,000 feet in diamete...

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  • Added: Jun 21, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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In our Milky Way Galaxy alone there are probably 25 billion planets located within the habitable zone of its star where there could be air to breat...

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  • Added: Apr 12, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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This week on the show: After the Escape - Nicaraguans living in exile push for political change in their home country, refugees with disabi...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Changing the Game - Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, they say. But according to South Korean beauty standards that us...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Green protests, greener clubs As a global phenomenon, it's no wonder that climate change's impacts can be felt in our work...

Bought by KMUN, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KRZA, and WFIU


  • Added: Feb 22, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
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This week on the show: The dark side - South Africa has been hailed as the most liberal African country when it comes to gay rights, but ther...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groeller was asteroid hunting with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona when he discovered his fir...

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  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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Izzy Young ran The Folklore Center in New York's Greenwich Village for decades and produced Bob Dylan's first public concert in 1961. Young died M...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2019
  • Length: 04:44
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The extremely remote chance that a dangerous mountain sized space rock has our number on it is what keeps my team going to our four telescopes in t...

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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This week on the show: Moving on - We look at some of the lesser-known realities of migration. Including Haitians being sent home from Chile ...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: The world's largest airport, an gigantic bridge, an new canal: ambitous infrastructure projects are supposed to make Istanb...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Making changes - The new year is a time for reflection, making changes and figuring out ways we can make this year bet...

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  • Added: Jan 04, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 5
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On Halloween night while observing with the Catalina Sky Survey's 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona I discovered 21 space rocks streaking th...

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Space is not all that far away. If a powerful solar eruption in 2012 had happened a week earlier, the blast of radiation would have caused wide sp...

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  • Added: Nov 30, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Since 1900 there have been 11 close approaches by asteroids larger than 300 feet in diameter. One of them, the Tunguska Object was about 400 feet ...

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  • Added: Nov 18, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
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My team, the Catalina Sky Survey, would not find a single asteroid without Steward Observatory's Mountain Lemmon Operations, or Mtn Ops for short. ...

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  • Added: Nov 16, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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This week on the show: What the US midterm election results mean for Europe. What's driving the surge in support for Spain's right-wing Vox par...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
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This week on the show: An isolated village in South Africa launches its own internet service provider, how resourceful students in Greece are creat...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
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Living Planet: Plastic Pollution and Us - Plastic: are we addicted? We look at our relationship with plastic pollution — and in the s...

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  • Added: Oct 12, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4