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Laugh and then think: What it's like to win the Ig Nobel Prize

From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf

On this episode of Audacious, meet three Ig Nobel Prize winners! Their achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)

The Big Book of Mars: Our Obsession with the Red Planet

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: Marc Hartzman's fascinating and entertaining book about Mars in popular culture and more., Credit: Quirk Books

Author Marc Hartzman’s new book celebrates the wonder of the Red Planet and how it entered popular culture.

Bought by WFHB, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WMUU-LP, KICI Iowa City, KWMR and more

29th Ig Nobel Prizes awarded at Harvard - science that makes you laugh, then think

From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse

The 29th Ig Nobel Prize ceremony took place on September 12 at Harvard University.

Ben Miller Says The Aliens are Coming!

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: Ben Miller's The Aliens are Coming, Credit: The Experiment Publishing Company

British physicist turned comedian and actor Ben Miller has written The Aliens are Coming-- The Extraordinary Science Behind our Search for Life in ...

Bought by KRZA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WMUU-LP, KMUD and more

Cassini at Saturn: The Final Year

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: Saturn and Cassini, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The great Cassini spacecraft has a year to go before it plunges into the ringed planet. Project Scientist Linda Spilker returns with more amazing m...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WMUU-LP, KRZA, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more

Planetary Radio Live: All These Worlds

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: Artistic rendering of Planet 9 with the distant Sun in the background., Credit: Caltech / R. Hurt (IPAC)

Our live conversation about “Planet 9” and the amazing diversity of our solar system, featuring Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown of Caltech, Senio...

Bought by KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WMUU-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more

A 35th Anniversary Party With Neil Tyson!

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: Nichelle Nichols presents the Cosmos Award to Neil deGrasse Tyson, Credit: Navid Baraty/The Planetary Society

It was a grand night at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. CEO Bill Nye led the Planetary Society’s 35th anniversary party with guests including Neil d...

Bought by WRGY, KMUD, KFCF FM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more

A Conversation With Andy Weir of "The Martian"

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: Matt Damon as "The Martian", Credit: 20th Century Fox

It was the #1 New York Times bestseller, and as this week’s Planetary Radio premiered it was once again the most popular movie in the USA. “The Ma...

Bought by WRGY, KMUD, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR and more

The Mikie Show #73, Alessondra

From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show

Join us for an interesting and fun conversation with planetary astronomer, Alessondra Springmann. She’s working on NASA’s Osiris project and could ...

Yale’s Debra Fischer and the Ever More Precise Search for New Worlds

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: In this laser frequency comb, colorized for illustrative purposes, the solid lines are the star spectrum and the dots are the artificial laser spectrum. The dark gaps in the star spectrum represent different chemical elements in the starlight. Long-term s, Credit: European Southern Observatory

It’s terribly hard to find exoplanets that look like our homeworld. The search requires development of astoundingly powerful and precise instrumen...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago

The Mikie Show #71, EveAnna

From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show

Join us for episode seventy-one as we speak with EveAnna Manley, President of Manley Laboratories, a manufacturer of beautifully engineered and cra...

The Mikie Show #70, Tan Lin

From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show

Join us for a fascinating conversation with poet, Tan Lin. He expands poetry’s palette to include data, video, films, hashtags; our newest observab...

Planetary Radio Live With Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs at the USA Science and Engineering Festival

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: Planetary Radio Live at the 2014 USASEF, Credit: Loren Roberts

Join thousands of space and science geeks at the world’s biggest public science event in Washington DC. On the Einstein stage to talk about dirty ...

Bought by WMNF, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and WESM 91.3 FM

Technology= Facebook= Cheating + break-up?

From: Brooklyn College Radio

Technology makes the communication between family and friends faster. Also it makes it easier to access someone’s information which could lead to i...