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CurrentCast programming for December 9, 2019 - January 3, 2020
From: ChavoBart Digital Media
Series: CurrentCast
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This batch of CurrentCast features a bird’s-eye view of grassland restoration, teaching kids to save water, a Pennsylvania river reveals its true c...

Bought by KENW and WLPR


  • Added: Dec 03, 2019
  • Length: 20:00
  • Purchases: 2
Climate Connections December 2 - December 27, 2019
From: ChavoBart Digital Media
Series: Climate Connections
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This batch of Climate Connections features electric buses charge up quickly with wireless systems, Fort Sumter contends with rising seas and storms...

Bought by WLPR, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KCNP, KSUT, Northwest Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Nov 25, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 19
Ep 4: Social workers and police team up to fight the opioid epidemic
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season One
Caption: Social worker Lauren Rainbow and police reaching out to man who may be struggling with addiction., Credit: Leah Nash for Finding Fixes
Marshmallows in Kevlar and a foul-mouthed social worker. Coffee dates, mac n’ cheese, and body wash. The county reimagines police work and helps hu...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 30:07
Ep 3: Treating the opioid epidemic like a natural disaster
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season One
Caption: Sheriff Ty Trenary, Credit: Leah Nash for Finding Fixes
Addiction hits home for the top dog of a disaster-prone county. An old-school cop gets a wake-up call and learns “handcuffs and a trip to jail” jus...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 26:39
Ep 2: Reversing opioid overdoses with Narcan
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season One
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A life lost, a life saved. The main character of this episode isn’t a person. It’s a nasal spray. Naloxone (aka Narcan) saves lives from opioid ove...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 23:51
CurrentCast programming for November 11, 2019 - December 6, 2019
From: ChavoBart Digital Media
Series: CurrentCast
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This batch of CurrentCast features loony for a diving bird, permeable pavement, the dirt on sediment pollution, and more.

  • Added: Nov 04, 2019
  • Length: 20:00
Climate Connections November 4 - November 29, 2019
From: ChavoBart Digital Media
Series: Climate Connections
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This batch of Climate Connections features climate change linked to huge health costs, Connecticut town sets up a climate fund, solar industry lack...

Bought by WUTC, KCSB-FM, KRSC, KCNP, KICI and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 18
Spectrum 07/30/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Hands and feet - You know what's better than five fingers? Six. We look at this strange new research and talk to a "po...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
527-Comet Groeller
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groeller was asteroid hunting with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona when he discovered his fir...

Bought by KRWG, WLPR, Bandon Community Radio, WTIP, KKRN and more


  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
486-Martian Storms
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In a few weeks ,as Earth and Mars moved closer together, a dust storm engulfed most of the red planet making it impossible to see its surface featu...

Bought by WTIP, KUPR low power FM, KKRN, and WLPR


  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 4
Spectrum 12272017 "Year in Review"
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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2017 was a wild year in the science world, with discoveries and advancements galore. Presented by Conor Dillon

Bought by KRJF-lp, WYAP, KWIT, KCHU, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Dec 24, 2017
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 7
Spectrum 1212017 Space: 'Sweat the Small Stuff'
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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Zero G's... Nausea, warped eyeballs, a distorted brain and depleted bones and muscles - the list of astro-ailments is long. Is there a solution? Pr...

Bought by KRJF-lp, KRZA, KCHU, KWIT, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Dec 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 6
Spectrum 12052017
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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What happens if you try to imprint birds with a jumbled up birdsong? / British police on Cyprus aim drones at poachers / A new bird species on the ...

Bought by KCHU, KRJF-lp, KRZA, WXDU, WYAP and more


  • Added: Dec 05, 2017
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 9
Buzz Aldrin and Other Martians
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Apollo astronaut and engineer Buzz Aldrin, Credit: Gage Skidmore
He walked with Neil Armstrong on the moon, but that may not be his greatest legacy. Buzz Aldrin was joined by other space stars at the recent Human...

Bought by XRAY.fm, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WTJU, KWMR, WXAV 88.3FM and more


  • Added: May 31, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Clinical Trials and Tribulations: Steve Hauser's quest to cure MS
From: Carry the One Radio
Caption: A B Cell, Credit: NIAID
In this episode, a team of researchers disprove a decades-old dogma. The result? The first ever FDA-approved drug for primary-progressive multiple ...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2017
  • Length: 38:45
Aerospace Corporation President and CEO Steve Isakowitz
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist’s concept of Brane Craft about to wrap itself around space debris. The paper-think spacecraft will then slow and deorbit the potentially dangerous object., Credit: The Aerospace Corporation
The Aerospace Corporation has been innovating since 1960. Now it’s headed by a former leader of “New Space” company Virgin Galactic. President and...

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


  • Added: Apr 12, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Earth Microbes! Welcome to Mars
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Bacteria samples in the Pegasus Mars chamber., Credit: University of Arkansas
University of Arkansas grad student Rebecca Mickol and her team have demonstrated that some Earth bacteria can survive in the extremely thin atmosp...

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


  • Added: Feb 07, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
How the Erie Canal changed the world
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Michael Keene is an author and historian.
The Erie Canal changed the world by connecting New York City and the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes. But author and historian Michael Keene says...

Bought by WXXI, WRVO Public Media, WCPN, North Country Public Radio, WAMC and more


  • Added: Nov 23, 2016
  • Length: :56
  • Purchases: 6
Subcontractors: Making Space Happen
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Bob Hoffman and Bill Galary of Nye Lubricants, Credit: Mat Kaplan
You may never hear their names, but there are thousands of small to medium-sized companies without which space exploration and development wouldn’t...

Bought by KFCF FM, WXAV 88.3FM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, KRZA and more


  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Science News -- Groks Science Show 2016-06-15
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
A live Groks Science talk show from June 15th, 2016! Various science news topics are discussed.

Bought by KMRE-LP


  • Added: Jun 19, 2016
  • Length: 59:52
  • Purchases: 1
NASA Science Leader John Grunsfeld
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NASA Associate Administrator John Grunsfeld and Mat Kaplan show off their space ties., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Astronaut and NASA Associate Administrator John Grunsfeld closes our coverage of the Space Foundation’s 32nd annual Space Symposium in Colorado Spr...

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


  • Added: May 16, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Neil Gehrels and WFIRST—A Space Telescope for the 2020s
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), Credit: NASA/GSFC/Conceptual Image Lab
NASA has given the go-ahead for creation of the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope. It might help reveal the nature of dark energy and point the ...

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


  • Added: Mar 15, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
Humans Orbiting Mars!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's conception of the view above Mars, Credit: NASA
Scott Hubbard and John Logsdon led the Humans Orbiting Mars Workshop last spring. They return with Casey Dreier as the report on that workshop is ...

Bought by WRGY, KMUD, KWMR, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KFCF FM and more


  • Added: Sep 29, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7