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Drinking Plastic with Mike Belliveau
From: Doug Wood
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Every plastic bottle is filled with hundreds of thousands of tiny pieces of plastic. Here's what you need to know.

  • Added: Feb 27, 2024
  • Length: 28:25
710-Boomer(496)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fireball, Credit: Arne Danielsen
The fireball meteor streaking across the sky the early evening of January 17, 2018, witnessed by 700 observers in 11 States and Canada was also rec...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, RADIOLEX, KKRN, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Sep 04, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
706-Wonders to Behold(492)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: M107, Credit: HST-NASA
From the time 3 million years ago that our ancestor Lucy walked in what is now Ethiopia until the widespread use of electric lighting began in the ...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, WTIP, RADIOLEX, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 07, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
699-Last One(485)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: The last of the day's sunlight pokes through a monsoon storm building up over the northwest area of the valley, generating lightning strikes but little precipitation, Saturday, July 8, 2017, Tucson, Ariz., Credit: Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star
A huge Earth approaching asteroid is discovered right before the 2018 monsoon rains settled into the American Southwest. This weather imposed break...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KICI Iowa City, KRWG and more


  • Added: Jun 19, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
695-A Large Visitor(480)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Statistically, asteroid hunters are thought to have discovered 90% of our potentially dangerous celestial neighbors greater than 1 KM in diameter. ...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KICI Iowa City, KGLP and more


  • Added: May 22, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
689-Botswana Bound(471)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fragments of the asteroid 2018 LA scattered over a wide area in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve., Credit: Alexande Proyer
A small space rock with a diameter less than the height of an NBA basketball player had just crossed the orbit of our Moon on a collision course wi...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KICI Iowa City, KGLP and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
671-Long Winter Nights(424)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Mt. Lemmon, AZ snow storm, Credit: A.D. Grauer
Long Winter nights with good seeing, from start to finish, are those on which the asteroid hunter makes new discoveries while being treated to view...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Dec 05, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
640-Rocks or Rockets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid hunters have discovered a curious object. It appears likely to be either a rock ejected from the Moon or a piece of space junk from a hu...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 02, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
624-In Coming
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard was asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he spotted a movi...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jan 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
605-Monsoon Nights
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: A lightning bolt strikes in the western part of the city, part of the second of two bands of monsoon storms to roll over the area, Tucson, Ariz., August 28, 2019., Credit: Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star
Every year the Monsoon summer rains come to the American southwest in July and August. After the threat of wild fires has been rained out, monsoo...

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


  • Added: Aug 28, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Bored Animals
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
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An animal welfare researcher calls the study of the biological basis of boredom in animals.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, KENW, and WLPR


  • Added: Jul 29, 2017
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 5
Building Green
From: Bill Baue
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1