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The Pearly Clouds of Mars
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NASA's Curiosity Mars rover spotted these iridescent, or "mother of pearl," clouds on March 5, 2021, the 3,048th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. , Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Atmospheric scientist Mark Lemmon discusses the beautiful clouds on Mars imaged by NASA's Curiosity rover.

Bought by WFHB, KIYU-FM, KWMR, WJCU, KRZA and more


  • Added: Jun 23, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Amateur Astronomers Saving the World
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist concept of a large asteroid crashing toward Earth., Credit: Getty Images
Planetary Society grants have enabled amateur astronomers to discover and track asteroids that cross Earth’s path. We’ll meet two of them.

Bought by WFHB, KIYU-FM, WJCU, KWMR, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Jun 16, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
WoodSongs 573: Jakob Dylan featuring Neko Case & Kelly Hogan and Jayme Stone & Yaccouba Sissoko
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Jakob Dylan of the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Jakob Dylan the lead singer of the platinum-selling band The Wallflowe...

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  • Added: Jun 14, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 29
Novelist and Retired California Supreme Court Lawyer Michael Nava
From: New Letters on the Air
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Pride Month begins with former California Supreme Court attorney, Michael Nava. The author of now ten novels in the Henry Rios mystery series, seve...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 10, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Experimental Cosmologist Brian Keating
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Simons Array will be located in Chile’s High Atacama Desert, at an elevation of about 17,000 feet. The site currently hosts the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (bowl-shaped structure at upper right) and the Simons Array (the three telescopes at bottom lef, Credit: University of Pennsylvania
A fascinating, wide-ranging conversation with Brian Keating, director of the Simons Observatory that will search for our cosmic origins from a moun...

Bought by KIYU-FM, WFHB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KWMR and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Mighty Jupiter and the Juno Mission
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this stunning compilation image of Jupiter’s stormy northern hemisphere as it performed a close pass of the gas giant planet. Some bright-white clouds can be seen at high altitudes on the right side of Jupiter’s disk. Image, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS
The Juno mission will continue its exploration of Jupiter till 2025, thanks to a four-year extension granted by NASA. Principal investigator Scott ...

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  • Added: Jun 02, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
The New Great Space Observatories
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The New Great Observatories coalition has brought together the logos for the four projects proposed in the 2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey., Credit: The New Great Observatories Coalition
Astrophysicist Grant Tremblay describes how four proposed space telescopes could reveal our solar system and the universe as never before.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WFHB, KIYU-FM, KWMR, KRZA and more


  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Captivating Fictions and The Experimenting Animal
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our guest is author Thalia Field and our show is about the way normative stories, whether told as fiction or science or religion or history, work t...

Bought by WCNY, RADIOLEX, and KWMR


  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 3
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Project Manager MiMi Aung
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: On April 30, 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover made history as the first spacecraft to record sounds from another spacecraft on another planet. During Ingenuity’s fourth flight, a microphone included with the SuperCam instrument aboard Perseverance captured, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/LANL/CNES/CNRS/ISAE-SUPAERO
The leader of the Mars Helicopter test mission celebrates her team’s success and explores the daunting challenges they overcame.

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  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Fodder
From: Black Mountain Radio
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Poet Douglas Kearney and musician Val jeanty discuss their experimental hybrid album, Fodder.

  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 14:09
MN Writer Kathleen West's 2nd Novel: "Are We There Yet?"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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"Among fake Instagram pages, long-buried family secrets, and the horrors of middle school, one suburban mom searches to find herself." What We're ...

  • Added: May 13, 2021
  • Length: 11:28
A Post-apocalyptic Novel During a Pandemic? Yes!: David Arnold's "The Electric Kingdom."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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What We're Reading producer and Staff Librarian Tammy Bobrowsky talks with writer David Arnold. His new novel is called The Electric Kingdom. It's ...

  • Added: May 13, 2021
  • Length: 13:11
TALK MUSIC WITH ME: Why Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones Matters (Single Hour Version)
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Talk Music With Me
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UPDATED WITH COPY ANNOUNCING THE DEATH OF CHARLIE WATTS, AUG 24, 2021. Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts is celebrated in this One-Hour version...

Bought by WYSO, WRVO Public Media, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WSLR, KMSU and more


  • Added: May 05, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 25
A Conversation with Kyoto Prize Recipient James Gunn
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Sloan Foundation 2.5 meter telescope at Apache Point Observatory, Credit: The Sloan Foundation
Jim Gunn co-created and led the Sloan Digital Sky Survey that has revealed the universe as never before.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KIYU-FM, WFHB, KWMR, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Apr 28, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
Healing a Country’s Wounds: Transitional Justice
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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This time on Peace Talks Radio, we’ll talk about ways that countries have addressed systematic human rights violations after they emerge from perio...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM


  • Added: Apr 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Is ‘Oumuamua a Piece of a Pluto-Like Planet? And Ingenuity’s First Flight on Mars
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's impression of interstellar object 'Oumuamua, Credit: William Hartmann
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter makes a successful first flight on the Red Planet, while two researchers offer new insights on the first interstel...

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  • Added: Apr 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
The High Frontier: A New Documentary About Gerard K. O’Neill
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's concept of a giant O'Neill cylinder space settlement., Credit: NASA, Art by Rick Guidice
Gerard K. O’Neill envisioned vast, magnificent human settlements in space. His followers, including Jeff Bezos, are working to turn his vision into...

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  • Added: Apr 14, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
Episode 162: I Fought the Law
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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The song “I Fought the Law” by the Bobby Fuller Four reached number 9 on the Billboard Charts in the week of March 12, 1966. Just months later, Bob...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 42:01
Episode 161: Only in Hollywood
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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When Joan Borsten married actor Oleg Vidov, also known as “the Soviet Robert Redford,” he introduced her to beautiful Soviet animations created in ...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 34:29
Episode 160: Hot Lotto
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 2010, a $16.5 million Hot Lotto ticket was sold at a gas station in Des Moines, Iowa. At first, no one showed up to claim the prize. And then, a...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 28:57
Episode 159: Spiritual Developments
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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One Sunday afternoon, a man named William Mumler decided to take a self portrait. He said he was alone in the photography studio, but as the photog...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 36:51
Better K-12 Engineering Post-COVID, with Dr. Corey Hall
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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STEM curriculum specialist Dr. Corey Hall shares tips and resources for teaching engineering effectively at the K-12 level in 2021, both during and...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2021
  • Length: 45:50
Writer’s Voice: Anna North OUTLAWED & Emily St. John Mandel, THE GLASS HOTEL
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with novelist Anna North about her acclaimed new novel, Outlawed. It’s about an alternate reality 1890s Hole in the Wall Gang—this one, run...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
The First Space Shuttle Pilot: Bob Crippen on the 40th Anniversary of STS-1
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: THE BOLDEST TEST FLIGHT IN HISTORY John Young (left) and Bob Crippen pose for a crew portrait prior to STS-1, the first flight of space shuttle Columbia, in April 1981., Credit: NASA
Robert Crippen and John Young became the first humans to fly a space shuttle into orbit when Columbia launched on April 12, 1981.

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  • Added: Apr 07, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10

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