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Caption: Artist's concept of humans exploring Mars, Credit: NASA/JPL-CALTECH
This year’s Humans to Mars Summit in Washington DC once again ended with a panel of Martian all-stars talking about their hopes for a future that i...

Bought by KVSC, KDNK, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KWMR, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: May 29, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
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Our city's economy – what is it for? New York's has been very good at piling up profits and building tall buildings. But all that private profit ha...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: May 28, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, Credit: NASA
The former Oklahoma congressman and Navy aviator stepped into the leadership role barely a year ago. Now he wants to see humans back on the Moon by...

Bought by KDNK, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KWMR, WMUU-LP, KRZA and more


  • Added: May 22, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
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NOTE: THIS PROGRAM IS ALSO AVAILABLE IN A 59:00 VERSION. https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/279226-peacemaking-in-lgbtq-communities This time on PEA...

Bought by KMUN, KISU, WMPG, and KUNM


  • Added: May 20, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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The Green New Deal is shaking up climate politics in Washington. The resolution’s ambitious clean energy goals are championed by several leading De...

  • Added: May 16, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
Caption: LightSail 2 in the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo clean room, Credit: Mat Kaplan
Mat Kaplan visits Cal Poly San Luis Obispo for a last, clean room visit with LightSail 2, the Planetary Society’s solar sailing cubesat. While the...

Bought by KDNK, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: May 14, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
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This week, we hear about a radical plan to end poverty: Universal Basic Income. Lauren talks to the team behind an experiment with Guaranteed Incom...

Bought by KKRN, Louisville Public Media, WNIN, WLPR , KCSB-FM and more


  • Added: May 09, 2019
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Mat Kaplan and his Planetary Radio Live panel at the Planetary Defense Conference public event.  From left to right:  Mat, Nancy Chabot, Gerhard Drolshagen, Kelly Fast, Rüdiger Jehn, and Carrie Nugent, Credit: Antonio Peronace for The Planetary Society
Leaders of the global effort to avoid a catastrophic Near Earth Object impact gathered at the 2019 Planetary Defense Conference. On the evening of ...

Bought by KDNK, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KWMR, WMUU-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: May 07, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
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PG&E has had a bad few years. A series of record-breaking wildfires culminating with 2018’s devastating Camp Fire propelled the California utility ...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, WMUU-LP, KFCF FM, WLPR and more


  • Added: May 02, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Artist’s impression of a recently discovered super-Earth that orbits the nearby star GJ 1214. Discovered with the European Southern Observatory’s 3.6-meter telescope at La Silla, GJ 1214b is the second super- Earth exoplanet for which astronomers have det, Credit: ESO / L. Calcada
There appear to be more mini-Neptunes (also known as Super Earths) across our galaxy than any other type of planet. Hannah Wakeford wants to learn...

Bought by KDNK, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KWMR, WMUU-LP, KRZA and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
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What’s the difference between charitable giving from ordinary people and philanthropic giving from the very wealthy?

Bought by KMUN, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WDSE, KMSU, KSKQ and more


  • Added: Apr 29, 2019
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 9
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPeople host Alan Wartes spoke with housing expert Willa Williford.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Apr 25, 2019
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Melanie & Rusty had the privilege of speaking with Dr. Imad Naji Rasheed recently. He was a professor at the University of Baghdad, Iraq and is a s...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2019
  • Length: 04:14
Caption: Artist concept of the Lucy spacecraft during one of its Trojan asteroid flybys., Credit: NASA
A rare alignment of planets and other objects will enable the solar-powered Lucy spacecraft to examine seven asteroids, six of which are among the ...

Bought by KDNK, WRGY, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KWMR, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Apr 23, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Picture taken after coal sludge spill from TVA coal-fired power plant in Kingston, TN December 2008
This week we’re debuting a new podcast series called Broken Ground, produced by the Southern Environmental Law Center and hosted by Claudine Ebeid ...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, KXCV, WRGY, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2019
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Picture taken after coal sludge spill from TVA coal-fired power plant in Kingston, TN December 2008
This week we’re debuting a new podcast series called Broken Ground, produced by the Southern Environmental Law Center and hosted by Claudine Ebeid ...

Bought by WJCT, WUGA (part of GPB), Kansas Public Radio, KRDP, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: SpaceIL's Beresheet takes a selfie as it passes over the far side of the Moon., Credit: SpaceIL
The Beresheet lunar lander failed in the last few kilometers of its descent to the Moon. Two days later we learned that its team would try again. D...

Bought by KIYU-FM, KDNK, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KWMR, KRZA and more


  • Added: Apr 16, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
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How far would you go to make your voice heard on climate change? College student Tim DeChristopher disrupted an auction for oil and gas leases - an...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, NPR Now, KVMR, WDSE and more


  • Added: Apr 16, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: “While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”
Our program features an in-studio interview with Paul Buhle; Debs’ words brought to life by four local writers; and ends with Buhle talking to an a...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Neptune, as seen during the brief Voyager 2 flyby in 1989, Credit: NASA/JPL
When will we return to Uranus and Neptune? Planetary scientist Amy Simon explains why a mission to the so-called ice giants is a high priority as s...

Bought by KDNK, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KWMR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Apr 02, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
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We'll meet the founders of the New Mexico Peace Choir, and also a military veteran and long-time peace activist Sally-Alice Thompson who, at 95, is...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Mar 30, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
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We'll meet the founders of the New Mexico Peace Choir, and also a military veteran and long-time peace activist Sally-Alice Thompson who, at 95, i...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
Caption: Sarah Hörst demonstrates the glove box in her Johns Hopkins University planetary science lab., Credit: Mat Kaplan
A conversation with Johns Hopkins University planetary scientist Sarah Hörst is capped by a tour of her fascinating lab. That’s where Sarah and her...

Bought by KDNK, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KWMR, KRZA, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
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The media layoffs are here. It's new media’s sky-is-falling moment. Instead of the promised golden age, we're seeing rolling cutbacks and massive l...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Mar 21, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Joshua and Eric Preven
They say the squeaky wheel gets the grease. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak to two brothers who are trying to make a little noise for the i...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2019
  • Length: 29:00