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The Journey of Kevin Ortiz: From Punishment to Politics
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Kevin Ortiz
How do you think your life would be different if you had spent your first five years as an adult incarcerated? This week on Sea Change Radio, we sp...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
Maria Gallucci: Zero Emission Marine Vessels
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Maria Gallucci
When it comes to energy transitions, marine vessels tend to get overlooked, even though they are some of the worst polluters of our oceans and air....

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  • Added: Apr 16, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Rod Graham: The Case For Legacy Preference in College Admissions
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rod Graham
Legacy students, applicants whose families attended the school, comprised 36 percent of Harvard’s class of 2022. Notably, 77% of students admitted ...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
Eco Report – March 15, 2024
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
Piece image
In this week’s Eco Report feature we hear from Elisa Pokral, Community Outreach Coordinator of the newly rebranded Waste Reduction District of Monr...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2024
  • Length: 30:09
Nicole Voudren: Charged Up For EVs
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Nicole Voudren
According to Reuters, electric vehicle sales leapt 50% in the US in 2023, and are expected to grow by another 30% in 2024. But driving around your ...

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  • Added: Mar 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Andrea Thompson: Battling Extreme Heat Fatigue
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Andrea Thompson
While you're shoveling snow out of the driveway this week, you may not want to hear about extreme heat - but then again, maybe you do! This week on...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
Raksha Vasudevan: Rocky Mountain Ways
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Raksha Vasudevan
Denver, Colorado’s majestic mountains, green space, and reputation as an ecologically advanced city draw people into this growing metropolis. But t...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
785-Secret Asteroid Mission
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Psyche and Spacecraft, Credit: NASA
Unlike other space missions which are conducted out in the open the asteroid mining company AstroForge’s first mission to a potentially valuable ne...

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  • Added: Feb 11, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Chris Nelder on Energy Transitions
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Chris Nelder
The transition from fossil fuels to a cleaner energy future is perhaps the most important human adaptation of our lifetime. This week on Sea Change...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
784-Josh’s Two PHAs
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
So far asteroid hunters have discovered approximately half of the 5,000 PHAs which are likely to exist. Asteroid hunters will continue to search th...

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  • Added: Feb 04, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Jacob Vigdor: College Admissions Quandries
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jacob Vigdor
Whether it be standardized testing, grades, extracurricular activities or personal essays, the question of how to level the playing field in educat...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
783--Kacper’s Centaur
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists conception of a Centaur, Credit: NASA/NEOWISE
Centaurs have long puzzled astronomers since they have traits in common with both asteroids and comets.

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Daniel Kammen: The Perils of Deep-Sea Mining
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Daniel Kammen
Most of us have never been there but according to a quick Google search, some of the things you might see at the bottom of the ocean include sea sp...

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  • Added: Jan 24, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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...

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  • Added: Jan 21, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
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Darren Samuelsohn: Untangling Trump’s Trials
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Darren Samuelsohn
The self-proclaimed “greatest country on earth” is in an unfathomable position. Heavily favored to win the Republican Party’s nomination for presid...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
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...

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  • Added: Jan 14, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Bob Berwyn of Inside Climate News on COP28
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Bob Berwyn
COP28, or the 28th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Climate Change Conference, took place recently in the United Arab...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
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...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Yonder Report - December 28, 2023
From: Center for Rural Strategies
Series: The Yonder Report
Piece image
The search for rural childcare, support for Minnesota's BIPOC farmers, and a fight to keep AM radio.

  • Added: Dec 28, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
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...

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  • Added: Dec 24, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Lauren Kim: Young Evangelicals for Climate Action
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Lauren Kim
A study from 2022 found that people who identified as non-religious or atheist were more likely to identify as pro-environment, as compared with re...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Matt Simon on Microplastics, Pt. 2
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Matt Simon
Last week on Sea Change Radio, we learned that the plastics industry plans to triple production in the next 40 years, reaching 3 trillion pounds of...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Matt Simon on Microplastics, Pt. 1
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Matt Simon
Look around you: at this very moment, chances are that within a one-foot radius of your body, there’s something plastic. The ubiquity of plastic co...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Zealous Founder Scott Hechinger
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Scott Hechinger
It’s that time of year when as the weather gets colder we warm ourselves with thoughts of gratitude and giving, which, for many, includes charitabl...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
David Ho on Carbon Offsets: Much Ado About Nothing?
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: David Ho
Carbon offsets are often touted as a solution to humanity’s bad habit of emitting an awful lot of CO2. But how many of us actually know what things...

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  • Added: Oct 28, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1