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2024-04-19 Artificial Intelligence, Real Climate Impacts
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Artificial intelligence can do some pretty amazing things, including for the climate. AI can help optimize the electric grid, make heating and cool...

Bought by KOWS, WGCU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 4
2024-01-12 Pairing Scientists with Community Advocates
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The climate crisis can feel distant — like it’s someone else’s problem — until your town is flooded, your home is damaged by storms, or you're stru...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Spokane Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 10
240112: Pairing Scientists with Community Advocates, 1/12/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The climate crisis can feel distant — like it’s someone else’s problem — until your town is flooded, your home is damaged by storms, or you're stru...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
731-Greg's Comet(519)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Halley's Comet, Credit: NASA
The discovery of a Jupiter family comet whose fate is to become a garden variety main belt asteroid.

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


  • Added: Jan 29, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Nursing recorded 1/2003
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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A generational discussion about nursing as of 2003

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 24:08
Smoking
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Recorded in August of 2002, a generational discussion about smoking

  • Added: Mar 30, 2021
  • Length: 24:40
The Untold Story of Food Security and the SCSU Community Garden with Tracy Ore
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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It's finally gardening time in Minnesota, and this year that "hobby" might take on a little more meaning, especially when it comes to community gar...

  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 28:25
465-Returnee
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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After being lost for ten years, the asteroid 2010 WC9 was re-discovered about a week before it came very close to Earth.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM, KSFR, KKRN and more


  • Added: May 31, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
458-Large and Close
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On June 30, 1908 a celestial object exploded 28,000 feet above the Tunguska river drainage area in Siberia, Russia releasing the energy of 185 Hiro...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WTIP, KKRN and more


  • Added: May 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
455-17,000 to Go
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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So far asteroid hunters have discovered about 8,000 of the 25,000, large, potentially hazardous asteroids, suspected to exist, leaving 17,000 more...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WTIP, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Apr 26, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
453-HAMMER
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Theoretically, If an asteroid on a collision course with our planet could be slowed sufficiently it could be made to pass behind our planet as it o...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM, WLPR , KRWG and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
452-Small But Deadly
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard's discovery of, 2018 FO5, a three football field diameter asteroid that can come closer than our Moon ...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WLPR , WTIP, KKRN and more


  • Added: Apr 12, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
451-Going Far
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Perhaps C/2018 F3 (Johnson) is an interstellar visiting Comet and is thus a sample of a place currently beyond our reach.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WTIP, KKRN, KSFR and more


  • Added: Apr 12, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
449-Cloud 7
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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To give you an idea of the asteroid traffic in our neighborhood, on a mostly cloudy night, through holes in the clouds, in a space of less than 2 h...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KSFR, KUPR low power FM, Bandon Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
447-Nuking An Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Tonight, even though the chances are extremely slim, an asteroid hunter could find a sizable asteroid on a collision course with planet Earth. If w...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WTIP, KKRN, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Mar 30, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
448-Two PHA's
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The large dangerous asteroids that we don't know about are what keep asteroid hunters going to the telescope.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KSFR, KKRN, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Mar 30, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
433-Tiniest Space Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid hunters have discovered a 4 foot 6 inch diameter, baby space rock, about 478,000 miles away in the constellation of Pisces traveling in ou...

Bought by KENW, WLPR , WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Bandon Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 08, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
388-40 Years
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Your representatives, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are heading into deep interstellar space.

Bought by KENW, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WOUB, KUPR low power FM, WLPR and more


  • Added: Aug 31, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
352-Worth Tracking
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A 400 foot diameter space rock's path could bring it to within an Earth diameter of the surface of our planet.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KTRT RADIO INC, KKRN, KRWG and more


  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
347-Your Space Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Holding an object older than any other rock on the ground which is billions of years old and has traveled an unimaginable distance to be with you w...

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KTRT RADIO INC, KUPR low power FM, KKRN and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
345-364 Days
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A small asteroid orbits the Sun in less than a year.

Bought by KENW, KKRN, KUPR low power FM, and WLPR


  • Added: Apr 07, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 4
337-Lucy
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Lucy Spacecraft, named after the human fossil Lucy, will revolutionize our knowledge of the origins of our solar system.

Bought by KUPR low power FM, KKRN, KENW, Radio Newark, and WLPR


  • Added: Mar 09, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
333-Whoppers
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Large dangerous asteroids are out there for asteroid hunters to find.

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, KENW, Radio Newark, KUPR low power FM, KKRN and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
323-Big Splash
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An asteroid impacting into the ocean would create a big splash but not a tsunami.

Bought by Radio Newark, KMXT, KUPR low power FM, KENW, KRWG and more


  • Added: Jan 20, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
316-Weird Centaur
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Centaurs are named after the mythical beasts which were half human and half horse perhaps because they have characteristics of both asteroids and c...

Bought by Radio Newark, KMXT, KENW, KRWG, WLPR and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7