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US Senator Tim Kaine’s “Walk, Ride, Paddle: A Life Outside”
From: Diana Korte
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Host Diana Korte speaks with US Senator Tim Kaine from VA and former Democratic vice-presidential candidate. He is the author of a new memoir-...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 08:53
Return of the Native with Bill Shanabruch Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Bill Shanabruch, Credit: Charles McGuigan
As staggeringly complex as the environmental catastrophe is, by tackling one small space at a time, we might be able to bring back entire ecosystem...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2024
  • Length: 24:26
Sustainable Art; Rethinking Toxic Art Supplies
From: Nicole Christina
Series: Zestful Aging Podcast
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A professor of Art at Syracuse University specializing in printmaking now aware of how toxic some art materials are and how damaging the mining and...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
Nico Cathcart: A Contemporary Renaissance. Part 2 (Conclusion)
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Nico Cathcart working on a mural on Lakeside Avenue, Credit: Charles McGuigan
It’s interesting how every great work of music, literature, visual art is immune to the predilections of time and space. Whether they were crafted ...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 27:38
Nico Cathcart: A Contemporary Renaissance. Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Nico at the unveiling of her three-story mural, A New Dawn in Hopewell, Virginia., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Nico Cathcart has been an artist practically since birth. From the time her fingers could grip the ferrule of a paintbrush and guide it along a fla...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2024
  • Length: 25:47
789-Asteroid With A Tail
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet ISON, Credit: HST
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Josh Hogan was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Taurus with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona wh...

Bought by Raven Radio, RADIOLEX, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KGLP, KRWG and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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


  • Added: Mar 03, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
What is wilderness?
From: Possibly
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Last summer, our reporter Charlie Adams spent ten weeks working in the Bob Marshall Wilderness. It’s a slice of northwest Montana that’s over one m...

Bought by WRFA-LP and Raven Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2024
  • Length: 04:02
  • Purchases: 2
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...

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


  • Added: Feb 11, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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.

Bought by Raven Radio, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Jan 28, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Taking What Is Not Yours To Take; Giving What's Not Yours To Give
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
What leads people to take what is not theirs to take? Or give what is not theirs to give or for that matter, withhold from others? These are questi...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 04:59
Season 1, Episode 7 - 'Green Amendment' feat Maya K van Rossum
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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We all deserve clean air and clean water.

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB


  • Added: Jan 22, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
  • Purchases: 9
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


  • Added: Jan 14, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Look For The Helpers - Part 1
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
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In the first part of this special Clean Transportation mini-series Jess talks with Adam Browning of Forum Mobility about the future of heavy-duty e...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
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 ...

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  • Added: Jan 07, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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


  • Added: Dec 31, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Yonder Report - December 28, 2023
From: Center for Rural Strategies
Series: The Yonder Report
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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...

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


  • Added: Dec 24, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Yonder Report - December 21, 2023
From: Center for Rural Strategies
Series: The Yonder Report
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Small-town papers; wildfire smoke and mental health; working out with recovery court judges

  • Added: Dec 21, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
John Nichols: Writing the Southwest
From: David Dunaway
Caption: John Nichols, Credit: Taos Writers' Conference
The writer John Nichols first achieved national fame at age 24 with 'The Sterile Cuckoo', but went on to a second act when he moved to Taos, New Me...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2023
  • Length: 27:14
What does the future of natural gas look like in Rhode Island?
From: Possibly
Series: What does a Public Utilities Commission have to do with climate change?
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It’s getting colder, and a lot of people are turning on their furnaces. Many of those run on “natural” gas, which is basically methane, a potent gr...

Bought by WRFA-LP and Raven Radio


  • Added: Dec 04, 2023
  • Length: 03:52
  • Purchases: 2
775-3 Close Ones
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Earth,Moon, and Asteroid, Credit: NASA and Texas A&M
During a six hour period three small space rocks passed through the Earth-Moon system. At discovery 2023 TO4 was in Pegasus, 2023 TD7 was in Aries...

Bought by RADIOLEX, WTIP, Raven Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KKRN and more


  • Added: Dec 03, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
774-Loss and Gain
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Vera Rubin Main Telescope Under Construction, Credit: Eric Christensen
The Catalina Sky Survey searches the sky as rapidly as possible in search of Earth approaching objects that could pose a threat to our home planet....

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  • Added: Nov 26, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
771-Nice PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Psyche, Credit: NASA
NASA classifies 2023 SZ1 as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid since it is larger than 140m in diameter and on its current path can come to about 6 t...

Bought by Raven Radio, WYAP, RADIOLEX, KGLP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Nov 05, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8

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