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210409: Investing in a Clean and Equitable Recovery, 4/9/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The COVID-19 shutdown has hit women and minorities hardest: four times as many women as men dropped out of the workforce in September 2020, with La...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
With Us, For Us
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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Black healthcare workers are taking on the mission to inform and hopefully convince more people of color to get vaccinated. We’ll hear where this o...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2021
  • Length: 03:52
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
633-Dress Rehearsal
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Bright Fireball Meteor, Credit: NASA
The situation that asteroid hunters both train for and dread is the discovery of a large space rock on a collision course with planet Earth. Recent...

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


  • Added: Mar 12, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
210305: Temperature Check: Science, Texas, and Climate Chaos, 3/5/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Just two months into 2021, deadly winter temperatures left millions of Texans without water and power. Meanwhile, California is preparing for anoth...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
2021-03-05 Temperature Check: Science, Texas, and Climate Chaos
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Just two months into 2021, deadly winter temperatures left millions of Texans without water and power. Meanwhile, California is preparing for anoth...

Bought by WCNY, WAMU, Maine Public Radio, MPR News Stations, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 18
In For The Long Haul
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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COVID “long-haulers” are people who have extended experiences with COVID symptoms that never let up, or keep recurring. The virus is so new that we...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:03
Deaths of Despair
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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Overdoses have spiked during the pandemic. One of the reasons is a breakdown in the community support so critical to keeping people off drugs. Soci...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 04:21
2020-12-06 Are We Alone?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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If there is intelligent life beyond Earth, how would that change life ON Earth?

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  • Added: Dec 07, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
619-Apophis Campaign
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Apophis, Credit: Dan Durda – FIAAA
Currently scientists, governments, and private citizens are preparing to mitigate a disaster caused by a large incoming space rock. To test techn...

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  • Added: Dec 04, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
2020-12-27 The Examined Year: 2020
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What (didn't) happen this past year to challenge our assumption and make us think about things in new ways?

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  • Added: Dec 03, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
613-Climate Change and Telescopes
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently, in the journal Nature Astronomy, a team of astronomers led by Dr. Faustine Cantalloube of the Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy released...

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  • Added: Oct 23, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
612-Day and Night
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Most life on Earth is synchronized to the regular cycles of day and night. Until about a hundred years ago, the natural night sky was familiar to ...

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
Synchronicity
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Paul Halpern
There always seems to be a peculiar twist in understanding our world. How it works. Just when we think of have a grip on it, like a greased pig, it...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
609-Lurking
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Statistically asteroid hunters have found more than 90% of the asteroids whose impact could cause global climate change. However, recently, my Ca...

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  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
2020-08-23 (There's Still) Time for Summer Reading
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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There's still time for deep reading this summer (and our 500th episode).

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
604-Comet Rankin
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: The Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona captured this image of Comet NEAT on May 7, 2004. , Credit: NASA
There may be as many as a trillion small icy objects in the Oort cloud near the outer edge of our solar system. Very rarely one of these frozen ice...

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  • Added: Aug 21, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
Growing Young
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Marta Zaraska
Humankind seems to be on eternal search for an answer on how to live longer. Our efforts naturally lead us to spirituality. But then we take pills ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 04, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
599-Path to Mars
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The human thirst for knowledge about our mysterious next door neighbor is about to receive more than a sip from robotic emissaries launched in 2020...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
598-Illusive Asteroids
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groeller was observing in the constellation of Boötes with our 60 telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he d...

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  • Added: Jul 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
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...

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  • Added: Jul 02, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 13
596-Next Solar Cycle
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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If the current trend in 11 year solar cycles for the past 50 years continues, we can expect lower than average solar activity and the Earth will...

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  • Added: Jun 25, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
593-Kacper's First Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Kacper Wierzchos was asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he spotted a fuzzy obj...

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  • Added: Jun 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Industrial Strength Denial
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Barbara Freese
Corporations have a very long history of denying wrongdoing. Think Wells Fargo, Volkswagen, Exxon Mobile. The list is lengthy. In fact ,the persist...

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  • Added: Jun 02, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
592-Invasion
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Due to thoughtless outdoor night lighting on the surface and satellites in space the natural night sky is becoming a vanishing treasure. From cli...

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  • Added: May 29, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12