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Most of the 5000 exoplanets discovered so far have been found using methods that don’t actually see the planet at all. Brightness dimmings and sta...
- Added: Aug 31, 2023
- Length: 03:52
We live in a golden age of exoplanet discovery. Not only are we searching for and finding new worlds around other stars all the time, but as our t...
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 04:01
A team of astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to study the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 c, which is one of seven rocky planets orbiting an ultr...
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 04:00
Astronomers estimate that there are more free roaming planets in our galaxy than there are planets in orbit around stars.
In fact, rogue exoplanet...
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 04:00
One of the most exciting recent discoveries in astronomy has been the existence of planets around other stars.
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Aug 13, 2023
- Length: 02:35
- Purchases: 1
In this segment we meet with Bois Forte Elder and Spiritual Advisor for the Band, Gene Goodsky - who shares his stories on how he learned about Her...
- Added: Aug 12, 2021
- Length: 23:08
In Florida's Miami-Dade County, tensions are mounting over a fragment of endangered pine rockland.
- Added: Feb 17, 2015
- Length: 13:31
For most of human history, famine was only a single bad harvest away. Now, thanks to modern agriculture and fertilizers, we’ve almost eliminated hu...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
He was one of the pioneers of jazz on the violin. Though largely self taught, his career lasted some 77 years, and he recorded hundred of albums. p...
- Added: Nov 21, 2011
- Length: 06:00
His too-short life story reads like adventure fiction.
- Added: Oct 14, 2011
- Length: 03:00
Officially the last American to be killed in World War I. In a cruel twist of fate, Henry Gunther "cheated life" by dying needlessly on a field in ...
Bought by WRVG - Georgetown College Student Radio and KTRL
- Added: Oct 09, 2011
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 2
Explorer, naturalist, writer ... in his too-short life, Lewis helped to make this country ... literally ... what it is today. From sea to shining s...
- Added: Sep 30, 2011
- Length: 03:00
As a child in the 1930s, Irwin predicted he would travel to the moon ... at a time when anything written on the topic was clearly labeled "science ...
- Added: Aug 10, 2011
- Length: 03:00
Although she was physically tiny ... just four foot eleven ... we saw her on television living an outrageous sort of large life, an amazing roller ...
- Added: Jul 19, 2011
- Length: 03:00
Who was Sim Webb? Well, fifty-seven years earlier, April of 1900, he was the man who lived. It happened like this ...
- Added: Jul 04, 2011
- Length: 03:00
Who was she? Imagine Indiana Jones or Lawrence of Arabia ... think of them in skirts ... and you're close. Archeologist, diplomat, writer and poet ...
- Added: Jul 03, 2011
- Length: 03:00
Hannibal who? The story of an all-but-forgotten man who WOULD HAVE BEEN President after Lincoln's assassination, likely changing our lives.
- Added: Jun 22, 2011
- Length: 03:00
Armstrong was born in Storyville, a redlight district of New Orleans, 1901. His father left and his mother was probably a prostitute. He first lear...
- Added: Jun 18, 2011
- Length: 03:00
If the sound of his name isn't familiar, the sound of his voice certainly is. This is the unlikely story of four Detroit kids who went to a birthda...
- Added: Jun 13, 2011
- Length: 03:00
Although he appeared on stage and in more than 20 motion pictures, Dooley Wilson won immortality for his role as "Sam" in the 1942 film Casablanca....
- Added: May 19, 2011
- Length: 03:00
He was shy, geeky ... a genius ... and helped turn the tide in World War II.
- Added: Apr 28, 2011
- Length: 03:00
One night, entering a clearing, he and a companion came face to face with a well-armed Nazi patrol. Desperately outnumbered, he took an amazing cha...
- Added: Apr 18, 2011
- Length: 03:00
He was a runner, early on. Before it was popular. Before Spandex, before Nike and Gatorade. At one time, he was one of a handful of the fastest hum...
- Added: Apr 09, 2011
- Length: 03:00
The true story of the first state to sponsor a rock concert ... nicknamed "the Governor's Pot Party"... and what became of that governor.
Bought by KLCC
- Added: Dec 22, 2010
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
When he finally went home to Viet Nam, he began using a name from an I.D. card he had purchased: Ho Chi Minh ... which means "bringer of light." An...
- Added: Dec 09, 2010
- Length: 03:00
