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01102019: Honing Our Habits and Finessing Our Focus In The Digital Age with Chris Bailey & James Clear, 1/10/2019
From: KBUU
Series: Harvesting Happiness Talk Radio
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Purpose-driven and consciously prepared brain food from the beaches of Malibu, California. Join us on this week’s show focusing on the digital age....

  • Added: Jan 03, 2019
  • Length: 56:43
A Mission to Earth: OSIRIS-REx
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist concept of the OSIRIS REx spacecraft passing Earth on its way to asteroid Bennu., Credit: NASA/GSFC/UA
Why do so many spacecraft that are headed across our solar system turn their instruments back to Earth during flybys? OSIRIS-REx was no exception....

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  • Added: Jan 01, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Countdown to Ultima: Alan Stern and New Horizons
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69, target for the New Horizons flyby, is seen here in an artist's concept., Credit: NASA/SwRI
The New Horizons spacecraft will reach faraway Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 in the first minutes of 2019. Will the body informally known as Ultima...

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  • Added: Dec 26, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Earthrise! The 50th Anniversary of Apollo 8
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The timeless "Earthrise" image captured by the Apollo 8 astronauts as they circled the Moon., Credit: NASA/Sean Doran
This is the 50th anniversary of the most audacious space mission in history. Apollo 8 blazed a path for the first moon landing seven months later, ...

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
A Conversation With Former NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: • Former NASA Administrator Charles “Charlie” Bolden asks a question at the NSS Space Settlement Summit., Credit: Mat Kaplan
He led NASA for eight years, but not till he had flown on four Space Shuttle missions and enjoyed a long military career. Charlie Bolden talks with...

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  • Added: Dec 12, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Last Week, Mars. This week, An Asteroid Called Bennu.
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Asteroid Bennu in an image captured by OSIRIS REx at its arrival., Credit: NASA/University of Arizona
The InSight lander has only just arrived on Mars. Now, OSIRIS REx has reached asteroid Bennu after traveling through deep space for a year and a ha...

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  • Added: Dec 05, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
12062018: Digital Dalliances and Interpersonal Civility: Socializing in the 21st Century with Luvvie Ajayi & Professor Russell Golman, 12/6/2018
From: KBUU
Series: Harvesting Happiness Talk Radio
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Purpose-driven and consciously prepared brain food from the beaches of Malibu, California. Join us on this week’s show focusing on digital communic...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2018
  • Length: 47:48
A Great Day for Space Explorers: The Landing of InSight
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: InSight Launch Party at Caltech's Beckman Auditorium. L to R: Bruce Betts, Troy Hudson, Mat Kaplan and Jennifer Jackson, Credit: Andrew Pauly, The Planetary Society
Join 1,000 anxious yet thrilled space fans at Caltech for our live InSight landing party. You’ll meet Mat Kaplan’s onstage experts and check in wi...

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  • Added: Nov 28, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
We Know Where the 2020 Rover Will Look for Martian Life
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The landing site of Mars 2020 will be in Jezero crater, on the northwest edge of the basin. , Credit: NASA / MIT / Goudge et al 2017
NASA announced on November 19th that the multi-billion dollar 2020 Mars rover will land in Jezero crater, where it will begin the search for the si...

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  • Added: Nov 20, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Moon Mission 3D from Queen Guitarist Brian May and David Eicher
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Moon Mission 3D: A New Perspective on the Space Race, Credit: MIT Press
You haven’t seen the best pictures from the Apollo era and other great space achievements till you’ve seen them in 3D. Queen guitarist and astroph...

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  • Added: Nov 14, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
323: Writing Truth And Lies / 324: Shame, 11/10/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Writing Truth And Lies" - How close to reality were the "Little House" books? Does it matter? This hour, we'll talk morality in memoirs....

  • Added: Nov 09, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
Celebrating Kepler
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist concept of Kepler spacecraft observing a vast, oil-painted universe., Credit: NASA / Wendy Stenzel / Daniel Rutter
The Kepler mission has ended. Listen to highlights of the October 30th media briefing that included the father of the fantastically successful pla...

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  • Added: Oct 31, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
Sailing to an Asteroid on the Light of the Sun
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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LightSail 2 is not the only solar sail in the universe. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and the Jet Propulsion Lab are preparing to send NEA Sc...

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  • Added: Oct 23, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Back to Saturn for Brand New Cassini Science
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This illustration shows NASA's Cassini spacecraft about to make one of its dives between Saturn and its innermost rings as part of the mission's Grand Finale., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Our most frequent guest returns with exciting, just-published research enabled by the 20-year mission’s enormous success. Linda Spilker has served ...

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  • Added: Oct 17, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Celebrating Astronomy Day with the Giant Magellan Telescope
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist concept of the Giant Magellan Telescope at sunset, Credit: GMTO
Happy Astronomy Day, October 13, 2018! We salute humankind’s long history of stargazing by checking in on what will be our planet’s largest telesc...

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  • Added: Oct 09, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
John Logsdon and the Dawn of the Space Age
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: America's "Right Stuff" men, the Mercury 7 astronauts., Credit: NASA
The Dean of space policy, John Logsdon, returns with stories and a new book of original documents that shaped the US space program from the birth o...

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  • Added: Oct 03, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
SpaceX Builds a Big Falcon Rocket
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist concept of a performance aboard a SpaceX Big Falcon Spaceship (BFS), Credit: SpaceX
A mostly SpaceX episode as the ambitious company provides updated details regarding its huge new rocket and introduces its first astronauts. Mat Ka...

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Big Science and a Big Rocket at the Marshall Space Flight Center
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Space Launch System leaves Earth in this artist's concept., Credit: NASA
Mat Kaplan’s Huntsville, Alabama trip wraps up with a tour of the historic and history-making Marshall Space Flight Center. Join him at the control...

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  • Added: Sep 05, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Space, Rockets, and a Senatorial Conversation in Huntsville, Alabama
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Saturn V moon rocket on display inside the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, Credit: Mat Kaplan
Host Mat Kaplan begins a two-episode visit to Huntsville and the Marshall Space Flight Center, recorded this week at the US Space and Rocket Center...

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
Pluto Occults! Join Us on the Mountain
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: At the Lake Henshaw Overlook preparing for the Pluto occultation with an Unistellar eVscope prototype and a large Celestron C14 telescope. From left to right: Martin Costa, Franck Marchis, Joana Oliveira Marques and Mat Kaplan, Credit: Chris Hendren
Pluto passed in front of a star on the evening of August 14. Mat Kaplan joined pro and amateur astronomers on a mountain to observe this rare event...

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  • Added: Aug 22, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Dark Energy’s Co-Discoverer and the Leader of Chinese Space Science
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This large scale simulation of galaxies represents the large-scale light distribution in the Universe., Credit: Max Planck Institute
It has been 20 years since we learned the expansion of the universe is accelerating due to the mysterious force called dark energy. Saul Perlmutter...

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  • Added: Aug 07, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Diving Into That Lake on Mars
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This beautiful image of Mars’ south pole was captured by the Mars Express orbiter in 2015. Now there’s good evidence for liquid water 1.5 kilometers below it., Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/Bill Dunford
Our world was rocked by last week’s announcement of good radar evidence for a liquid water “lake” under the Red Planet’s south pole. Senior Edito...

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  • Added: Jul 31, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Hayabusa2 Reaches a Dark Diamond in Space
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Asteroid Ryugu imaged by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft, Credit: JAXA
Japan’s Hayabusa2 is just 6 kilometers from asteroid Ryugu as it prepares to snatch samples of the space rock for return to Earth. Mission Project...

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  • Added: Jul 25, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
An African Observatory Hunts Killer Asteroids
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: A view of Oukaïmeden Observatory, with the Morocco Oukaïmeden Sky Survey (MOSS) dome in the foreground., Credit: Morocco Oukaïmeden Sky Survey
One of the Planetary Society’s 2018 Shoemaker Near-Earth Object grants has gone to the astronomers searching the sky from a mountaintop in the Nort...

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  • Added: Jul 18, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Something Old and Something New: Exciting Research on the International Space Station
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst learns how to use a sextant in the ISS cupola., Credit: NASA
Sextants have helped sailors find their way across oceans for centuries. Now one is onboard the International Space Station so that astronauts can ...

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  • Added: Jul 11, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8