PRX » Search » Browse

Destroyer of Worlds

From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix

Jess speaks with Oppenheimer biographer Kai Bird about one of Earth's most influential humans and his scientific and political legacies.

743-Alex’s Catch(531)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

On a cold windy night, with clouds frustrating his search, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Alex Gibbs discovered 8 new celestial visitors while obs...

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

742-Cuban Meteorites(530)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

A large fireball meteor which exploded over Cuba produced a number of interesting results.

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

738-Tiny Visitor(526)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Asteroid Near Earth, Credit: ESA

A tiny space rock passes through the cloud of communications satellites surrounding the Earth.

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

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

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

F-Word: Build Back Green, Not Gray

From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary

"MacArthur 'genius award'winning landscape designer Kate Orff believes that gray infrastructure, like levees and flood gates and sea walls, can on...

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...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, KSFR, WTIP, KGLP and more

613-Climate Change and Telescopes

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Recently, in the journal Nature Astronomy, a team of astronomers led by Dr. Faustine Cantalloube of the Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy released...

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

612-Day and Night

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

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 ...

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

597-Aging Satellites

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

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

Pandemic Special Edition: Viruses

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

In this special episode, we go microscopic to learn about viruses. We explore how they work, and we discuss our odds of defeating them. We also lea...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle

(Episode #15) Social Spheres: Academia and Pop Culture

From: Odegaard Writing and Research Center
Series: Character Development

Riding on the heels of the recent release of Captain America: Civil War, the Character Development team gathers three OWRC tutors—our creative dire...

Exploring Alzheimer's

From: Hold That Thought

David Holtzman, professor and chairman of the neurology department at the Washington University School of Medicine, explores Alzheimer's disease an...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

Infectious Diseases: What factors are at play during disease outbreaks?

From: Mateo Schimpf

In this pilot episode of the World Affairs podcast we are looking at diseases: how they are spread, how they are contained, how they are cured. We ...

The Arctic Council

From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio

In 1996, the high level intergovernmental Arctic Council was formed to promote cooperation and interaction among the Arctic states. In this episode...

The Humanist Hour #103: “Repairing” Gays Through Therapy with Dr. Michael LaSala

From: Bo Bennett
Series: The Humanist Hour

In this episode, Bo interviews Dr. Michael LaSala on the topic of reparative therapy—an attempt on converting primarily gay men and lesbian women t...

Bought by KFOI Radio

What To Do With Bayou Bienvenue?

From: WWNO
Series: What To Do With Bayou Bienvenue

The Lower 9th Ward's Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle of today is what is called a “ghost swamp”. Until the 1960s, it was a full of cypress trees, ...

Two Guys on Your Head: Why Being Put On Hold is So Frustrating

From: KUT
Series: Two Guys On Your Head

Horrible music, incredible wait times and an inscrutable labyrinth of phone prompts: We've all experienced the frustrations of being on hold. Even ...

Into the Heart of Mathematics

From: Hold That Thought
Series: People, Places, and Ideas to Explore

Math unfairly gets a bad rep in popular culture, but what's so scary about it? Mathematics professor John. E. McCarthy attempts to demystify mathem...

Lunar Mysteries

From: Hold That Thought
Series: Out There: The Science of Exploring the Universe

Dr. Bradley Jolliff describes how lunar samples and orbiters provide insights into the history of Earth's closest neighbor.

Bought by XRAY.fm

Episode 17 (2013-01-23)

From: Ruji C.
Series: Ruji C.'s "The Meta-Podcast"

Klaatu from the podcast "GNU World Order" interviews me about e-cigarettes, and we get some unintentional vocal effects on his track due to feedbac...