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Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 67
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two episodes about working through some of life’s big questions.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Feb 23, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
751 Ball Pit
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Kid In Ball Pit, Credit: WebMD.com
To the amazement of NASA scientists, when the NASA OSIRIS-Rex touched down on the surface of Bennu to obtain a sample, the sample collecting arm...

Bought by KRWG, KICI Iowa City, KGLP, RADIOLEX, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 18, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
730-Busy Night(518)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid, Credit: -Dieter-Spannknebel-Getty-Images
On Halloween night while observing with the Catalina Sky Survey's 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona I discovered 21 space rocks streaking th...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WYAP, KGLP, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Jan 22, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
719-What A Night(505)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist's Conception Benu and Asteroids, Credit: NASA
To give you an idea of the celestial traffic in our neighborhood, on a recent clear night, using our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona, my C...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, WTIP, KICI Iowa City, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
715-Carson’s Night(501)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Asteroid and Earth, Credit: ESA
A small space rock is spotted 4 days before it came very close to the Earth and our Moon.

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


  • Added: Oct 09, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Science unscripted (Spectrum) 08/02/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: We were so overwhelmed by your emails we could hardly keep your names straight!

  • Added: Aug 05, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
Science unscripted (Spectrum) 05/10/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: The stuff you breathe out can tell an enormous amount about your health — and intentions.

  • Added: May 13, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
597-Aging Satellites
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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If we don't place some new space weather observing satellites into orbit it is possible that you will wake up one day to no electricity, no cell p...

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


  • Added: Jul 02, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
Concerns about legalizing marijuana? Use revenue to support social and emotional learning
From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel
Caption: Feel Better and Live Healthier
Children who experience social and emotional learning (SEL) in schools are less likely to drink alcohol, take drugs, or smoke. On the plus side the...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2019
  • Length: 52:25
Atlas for the End of the World: Urbanization Joins Conservation
From: Teosson Wells
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“It's the end of the world where we thought nature was an infinite resource and we could exploit it without consequence,” Professor Richard Weller ...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 57:07
Sonnet for the US Ducks Independently Verified to Have been Neither Forcefed for Foie-Gras Production Nor Plucked of Their Feathers and Down During Their Lifetime
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
A United States outdoor clothing store sells coats, labelled to assure us that the down is from US Ducks Independently Verified to Have been Neith...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2017
  • Length: 01:17
270-Space Opals
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Opals from space are likely to have brought some of the water we drink to planet Earth.

Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark and more


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
269-Gamma Ray Eyes
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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With gamma ray eyes one half of your sky would be dominated by two huge bubbles coming from the center of the Milky Way.

Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark and more


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
268-Mars Weather Report
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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You will need long woolies and a spacesuit to survive on Mars.

Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark and more


  • Added: Jul 07, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
267-Hiding From ET
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Should humans hide from ET or should ET hide from us?

Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark and more


  • Added: Jul 07, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
265-Dancing with Earth
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A small asteroid has become a third partner in the Earth-Moon dance.

Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark and more


  • Added: Jun 30, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
264-Tough Guy
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A tough rocky asteroid makes close approaches to the Sun.

Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark and more


  • Added: Jun 23, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
254-Blinded
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Viewing the wonders of the night sky is bound to be good for your soul.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KENW and more


  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
250-Born Wild
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Our home planet was formed after a period of chaos in the solar system.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KENW and more


  • Added: May 05, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
Fogs of War: The Many Lives of Chemical Weapons
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Gas mask exercise, Scott Field, Illinois.1942. , Credit: Library of Congress
Chemical weapons have played a chilling role in human history ever since World War I. As accounts of recent uses permeate the news, we decided to f...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2014
  • Length: 44:21
The Beat: Robert Jevne - "Disappearing"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Robert Jevne lives, works, and talks about himself in the third person in the greater Jacobson area. This manner of speaking is most likely an outg...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
The Beat: Julie Hart - "Physics For Poets"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Julie Hart grew up in Rochester, Minnesota. She went to Carlton College, and has been pursuing her education ever since...to the ends of the earth....

  • Added: Sep 04, 2013
  • Length: 02:15
The Beat: James Henderson - "Entropy"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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James C. Henderson is a graduate of Metropolitan State University's Creative Writing program, and Hamline University's MFA program. He lives in New...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2013
  • Length: 03:18
Acoustic Stories: Steve Downing On Singing - "Compulsively Breaking Into Song, Almost Never."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2013
  • Length: 07:38
The Beat: Angela Foster - "Dirt"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Angela Foster is a Pine City poet who, with her sister Candace Simar, has written a book of poems and essays, "Farm Girls," which was recently publ...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2013
  • Length: 01:55