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788-100 Years of Wilderness

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Milky Way Rising Cosmic Campground, Credit: David Thornburg

In 1924 the Aldo Leopold Wilderness in southwestern New Mexico became the first designated wilderness and is an island from which to view the natur...

Bought by Raven Radio, WTIP, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KGLP and more

782-Probing The Cosmic Web

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: A Cosmic Thread, Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Feige Wang (University of Arizona)

In the past two decades astronomers have discovered that galaxies are not randomly distributed in space but rather occur along filaments of mass wi...

Bought by Raven Radio, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KGLP and more

781-Comet C/2023 V5 (Leonard)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Comet Lemmon C/2023 H2, Credit: J.D. Maddy in the Hauchuca Astronomy Club

My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Aquarius with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizo...

Bought by RADIOLEX, WTIP, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Raven Radio, KGLP and more

780-Scary Space Rock

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Artists Conception Earth and an Asteroid, Credit: NASA

My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was being filmed and interviewed by the NASA 360 crew at our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona ...

Bought by Raven Radio, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., RADIOLEX, KGLP, KNVC Carson City Community Radio and more

779-What If An Asteroid is About To Impact Earth?

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Concept of Asteroid Pulversation, Credit: Lubin 2021

A description of a research project whose goal to explore if it would be possible, on short notice, to pulverize a small asteroid so that it woul...

Bought by Raven Radio, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP and more

778-Two Comets

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Two Comets in Southern Skies , Credit: Jose J. Chambo (Cometografia)

Matching his wife’s discovery of two comets on the same observing run seven years previously my Catalina Sky Survey team caption Carson Fuls discov...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., WTIP, KKRN, Raven Radio and more

Pilotworks

From: Heritage Radio Network
Series: Meat + Three

On the season two finale of Meat + Three, we bring you the story of a major national food tech company that turned the lives of over five hundred p...

Demand for Power

From: Claudine Ebeid McElwain
Series: Broken Ground

Caption: by the Southern Environmental Law Center

An elderly couple steps up to defend their farm and neighbors when pipeline developers won’t back down from a risky, environmentally damaging proje...

544-Missing

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Statistically, asteroid hunters are thought to have discovered 90 to 95% of the Earth approaching asteroids larger than about 3,000 feet in diamete...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP and more

Sex Machines in Our History

From: Ben Orlando
Series: History Repeating Itself

Steam-powered vibrators the size of kitchen tables, the importance of dildos in Ancient Greece, and the future of sex machines in the second instal...

Live from the Tenderloin

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

In the heart of the Tenderloin, amid the crowded corners and occupied stoops, there’s an anomaly that’ll catch your eye. It’s a man in a suit and a...

Bought by PRX Remix

Learning from the Uncivilized

From: Ben Orlando
Series: History Repeating Itself

We tend to view our hunter-gatherer ancestors with pity for their primitive ways. But what if they employ strategies for leading a depression-free ...

Can Oakland successfully curb illegal dumping?

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

Caption: A mountain of mattresses in West Oakland, Credit: Todd Whitney

For over a decade, Oakland has attempted to abate the illegal dumping of mattresses, electronics, furniture, and other large items onto city street...

Art In The Real World

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Word of Mouth

Conversations with artists of all kinds doing work in and about the real world. Hour long, magazine format episode of Word of Mouth.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and NPR Illinois

High unemployment, toxic environment – one solution

From: KALW

Caption: Tony Lanz (left) and Noel Yakubu (right) suit up for work at EPA lead remediation site, Credit: Callie Shanafelt

The city of Oakland has received more than $140 million in stimulus money over the past three years for workforce development and energy efficiency...