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What's Your Kid Packing for Campus?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
The NRA won the gun control debate long ago. So with the right to bear arms no matter the consequences firmly established in U.S. law and psyche o...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
(Un) Happy Anniversary for Medicare?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
July 30 marks a very important anniversary in our modern political history. In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare and Medicaid into law.

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KMUD


  • Added: Jul 26, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
Economist Robin Hahnel about the road ahead for Greece,
From: Latin Waves Media
Series: Latin Waves Media
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Latin Waves host Sylvia Richardson speaks with Economist Robin Hahnel about the road ahead for Greece, their inspiring example to the world in the ...

  • Added: Jul 12, 2015
  • Length: 27:43
Bloomington City Council Primary Candidates: District 5 Democrats
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Host Doug Storm is joined by District 5 candidates for the Democratic nomination to run for the Bloomington City Council seat in November.

  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 58:36
#1501- Healing From Regret: Michelle Van Loon
From: Sandburg Media
Series: Things Not Seen: Conversations about Culture and Faith [Standard Clock]
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Michelle Van Loon has been a writer for more than three decades. With her recent book, If Only: Letting Go of Regret, the author has written a prac...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
Still Lagging After All These Years
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
March 8 is International Women’s Day, so it’s time to check in on where the good old U S of A stands in relation to the rest of the world when it c...

Bought by WLPR and KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
Jonathan Goff Says Let’s Redirect an Asteroid
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's conception of an astronaut collecting a sample from a retrieved asteroid., Credit: NASA
ARM is the Asteroid Redirect Mission, and sometimes it seems that it doesn’t have a friend in the world. But it does, and Jonathan Goff of Altius S...

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


  • Added: Feb 23, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Found! Beagle 2 Lander is on Mars
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Orbital image of what is believed to be the Beagle 2 lander on surface of Mars., Credit: HiRISE/NASA/JPL/Parker/Leicester
The Beagle 2 Mars lander disappeared after it separated from the Mars Express orbiter on Christmas Day, 2003. Eleven years later, it has been foun...

Bought by KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KWMR, and KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 16, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 5
Year of the Icy Worlds
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Cassini Saturn mission Project Scientist and host Mat Kaplan touch the plumes of Enceladus at JPL., Credit: Merc Boyan, The Planetary Society
Emily Lakdawalla coined the phrase, and it is exquisitely appropriate. We’ll visit the Jet Propulsion Lab on its Icy Worlds Day to learn more about...

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


  • Added: Feb 10, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 3
LightSail Prepares to Take Flight
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's conception of the LightSail solar sail., Credit: The Planetary Society
The Planetary Society has just announced that LightSail A will be launched into low earth orbit in May. We’ll talk with Project Manager Doug Stets...

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


  • Added: Jan 26, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
The Acceptable MLK: Speech Over Action
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Host Doug Storm is joined by Rasul Mowatt and Jacinda Townsend to discuss why Martin Luther King, Jr. has been remembered and elevated to represent...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2015
  • Length: 56:50
Recipe for a Small Planet
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's conception of exoplanet Kepler -186f., Credit: Wikipedia
Astronomer and planetary scientist Courtney Dressing is the lead author of research that may have found the formula for the mass and composition of...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WYAP, and KFCF FM


  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 4
Dr. J and the World's Biggest Telescope
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's conception of the completed European Extremely Large Telescope, Credit: ESO
Joe Liske, host of Hubblecast, is also the top scientist on the European Southern Observatory’s European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), now und...

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


  • Added: Jan 13, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 4
The Exciting Year Ahead on the Final Frontier
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's conception of the Dawn spacecraft approaching Ceres in the asteroid belt., Credit: NASA/JPL
The Planetary Society’s experts look forward to a great year of firsts in the solar system and beyond. Bill Nye the Science Guy provides a status ...

Bought by KFCF FM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KWMR, and WYAP


  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 5
Sara Seager's Quest for Earth's Twin
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: MIT Astrophysicist and Planetary Scientist Sara Seager, Credit: Sara Seager/MIT
MIT planetary scientist and astrophysicist Sara Seager is on a quest. She wants to find a warm, wet exoplanet with signs of life. It could be Earth...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and WYAP


  • Added: Dec 15, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 3
Orion Launches Into History
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Orion awaits launch atop its Delta IV Heavy rocket., Credit: Jason Davis/The Planetary Society
NASA’s Orion spacecraft has taken its first step toward Mars and an asteroid mission. The Planetary Society’s Jason Davis was at the Kennedy Space...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and WTJU


  • Added: Dec 09, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 3
Kip Thorne and the Science of Interstellar
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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Spoiler alert. Famed physicist Kip Thorne says you might be able to survive a plunge into a black hole after all! That’s just one molecule of the ...

Bought by KWMR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Dec 02, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 3
Cassini is Safe! Mission Update From Project Scientist Linda Spilker
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Mighty Saturn and its rings, imaged by the Cassini spacecraft., Credit: JPL/NASA
Project scientist Linda Spilker returns with a regular update on Saturn, its moons and rings not long after learning that the mission is funded thr...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 17, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 3
Digging Deep With Planetary Deep Drill
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Business end of Planetary Deep Drill, Credit: Mat Kaplan
If there’s life on Mars, it’s probably deep beneath the surface. That’s just one reason we need a tool like Planetary Deep Drill on the red planet ...

Bought by WYAP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KFCF FM, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Nov 11, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 4
Interview with Latin Waves Host Sylvia Richardson
From: Latin Waves Media
Series: Latin Waves Media
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Sylvia L. Richardson is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. She is the host and producer of the internationally...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 28:39
Marti Crouch: Brave New GMOs
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Tonight’s guest is long-time critic of genetically modified organisms and foods, Marti Crouch, a noted academic research scientist in plant molecul...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 56:10
Women: Vote Your Rights Before They're Gone
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Third of five broadcasts on what's at stake for women in the upcoming elections. Topic: Reproductive rights.

  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
Yale’s Debra Fischer and the Ever More Precise Search for New Worlds
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: In this laser frequency comb, colorized for illustrative purposes, the solid lines are the star spectrum and the dots are the artificial laser spectrum. The dark gaps in the star spectrum represent different chemical elements in the starlight. Long-term s, Credit: European Southern Observatory
It’s terribly hard to find exoplanets that look like our homeworld. The search requires development of astoundingly powerful and precise instrumen...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 13, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1
#1303- Christian Responses to the Global AIDS Crisis
From: Sandburg Media
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Donald Messer on Christianity and the AIDS crisis; Katy Scrogin on Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept.

  • Added: Oct 07, 2014
  • Length: 46:09
#1407: Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Part 2
From: Sandburg Media
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Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf on religious identity in a complex modern world; Katy Scrogin on By Design: Ethics, Theology, and the Practice of Engineering.

  • Added: Oct 06, 2014
  • Length: 36:52