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Caption: The astrolabe was a marriage of the planisphere and dioptra, effectively an analog calculator capable of working out several different kinds of problems in astronomy.
It’s December 29th. For our last show of 2020 we’ll turn back to a program from July 2015 as an attempt to hit the reset button. While the book of ...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
Caption: California Congressman Adam Schiff 	, Credit: Adam Schiff
They may disagree about nearly every other issue, but many Republican and Democratic congressional representatives find common ground where there i...

Bought by KDNK, WTJU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 15, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: New Horizons enhanced color image of Pluto, Credit: NASA/JHUAPL
Alan Stern of the New Horizons mission to Pluto and beyond was in Pasadena for the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society’s Division f...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WMUU-LP, KRZA and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Screen shot of SETI@Home at work, digging through data for ET’s call., Credit: SETI@Home
We follow last week’s conversation with Ann Druyan about the $100 million funding of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence by visiting two o...

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


  • Added: Aug 11, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: An artist’s conception of what Kepler 138b, its sister planets and its star might look like., Credit:  Danielle Futselaar, SETI Institute
SETI Institute scientist Jason Rowe returns to tell us about the smallest exoplanet so far that has had its size and mass determined. Jason also ta...

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


  • Added: Jul 13, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
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In his book, “Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era,” James Barrat peers into the future to explore the perils ...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2015
  • Length: 30:11
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Fritz Pleitgen is a journalist who covered the Stasi in East Germany during the 1980s. He explains how one lives and acts in a surveillance state.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 1