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773-Discovery and Recovery
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception of an Asteroid and the Earth, Credit: ESA
New observations linked with discovery observations 10 years earlier provide a significant improvement in the precision of our knowledge of 2013 T...

Bought by Raven Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RADIOLEX, WTIP, KGLP and more


  • Added: Nov 19, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
772-M31 Our Neighbor's Surprise
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Andromeda, Unexpected, Credit: Marcel Drechsler, Xavier Strottner and Yann Sainty
Marcel Drechsler, Xavier Strottner, and Yann Sainty’s image of our neighboring galaxy, M31, in Andromeda won the 10,000 British pound Astronomer P...

Bought by Raven Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RADIOLEX, WTIP, KGLP and more


  • Added: Nov 12, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Pain, Fear and Waste: The Costs of Unnecessary Care
From: Tradeoffs
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We explore “cascades of care” — how a doctor’s desire to be thorough can snowball into a harmful spiral of unnecessary care.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2022
  • Length: 18:18
605-Monsoon Nights
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: A lightning bolt strikes in the western part of the city, part of the second of two bands of monsoon storms to roll over the area, Tucson, Ariz., August 28, 2019., Credit: Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star
Every year the Monsoon summer rains come to the American southwest in July and August. After the threat of wild fires has been rained out, monsoo...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, WTIP and more


  • Added: Aug 28, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
575-Big, Dangerous, and Tough
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Teddy Pruyne, discovered a potentially dangerous and perhaps valuable asteroid with our 60 inch telescope ...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Apple Health Records
From: Kasiana McLenaghan
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How Apple's electronic health records feature works, and why it's concerning to privacy experts.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 04:15
Secrecy in the Sunshine Era
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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In the 1970’s, a series of laws ushered in a so-called “sunshine era” of government transparency. A new book examines the dark side of the Sunshine...

Bought by KENW, WABE, and KPVL


  • Added: Mar 27, 2015
  • Length: 03:53
  • Purchases: 3
The Pillsbury A Mill
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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The Pillsbury A Mill is a National Historic Landmark, and in the midst of a $150 million redevelopment project. But back in the 1800s, it was the b...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2015
  • Length: 04:31
Cowles Center offers distance dance instruction
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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The internet has transformed classroom education around the world. Here in Minneapolis, the Cowles Center for Dance is doing something unique--offe...

Bought by WABE and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 04:38
  • Purchases: 2
Welcome to the future, Sir: At the cusp of virtual reality
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Programmers show off their virtual reality experiments.
Cris Miranda believes in the promise of virtual reality. After decades of hype, 2015 may be the year that it breaks into homes around the country.

  • Added: Feb 04, 2015
  • Length: 11:41
The San Francisco Bookstore Survival Guide
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Green Apple Books before the opening of their second store, Credit: Holly J. McDede
So you want to open a bookstore? Excellent news. Here's your guide to survival.

  • Added: Dec 28, 2014
  • Length: 06:07
Making a book from beginning to end, with one of San Francisco’s last remaining bookbinders
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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Stepping inside the Taurus Bookbindery is kind of like stepping back in time.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 11:20
  • Purchases: 1
3D printed prosthetics are fashion statements for amputees
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: A selection of different types of Bespoke fairing designs., Credit: Angela Johnston
When Deborah Bevilacqua lost her leg in a motorcycle accident ten years ago, she had to get a prosthetic leg. It’s been functional she says, but it...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 11:41
The Meaning of Friendship in the Era of Facebook (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Aristotle said there are three kinds of friendships—those of utility, pleasure, and virtue. But what about Facebook friendships? One scholar is stu...

Bought by KENW and WXDU


  • Added: Sep 30, 2013
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 2
Podcasting Patent Threatens Independent Media
From: JP Davidson
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Personal Audio LLC owns a patent that it says covers the entire concept of podcasting. Podcasters are being asked to pay licensing fees for the rig...

Bought by KUOW and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 05, 2013
  • Length: 07:36
  • Purchases: 2
Not Your Mother's Shop Class
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Shop class 20 years ago meant hacksaws and hammers, but today's shop class is about teaching innovation and creation through computer programming, ...

Bought by WJCT, KVLU, and Radio Newark


  • Added: Apr 11, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 3
CO2 Storage In Utah
From: Ross Chambless
Caption: Dr. Brian McPherson in his University of Utah lab
Who will be liable for the CO2 geophysicists plan to pump underground?

  • Added: May 20, 2009
  • Length: 05:32
Bassist Lyle Ritz: Father of Jazz Ukulele
From: Heidi Chang
Caption: Lyle Ritz "Father of Jazz Ukulele", Credit: Courtesy: Lyle Ritz
Ever since Lyle Ritz recorded the world's first jazz ukulele album in 1957, he earned the title, "Father of Jazz Ukulele." He was also a bass play...

Bought by PRX Remix, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and WYSO


  • Added: Aug 07, 2007
  • Length: 09:02
  • Purchases: 3