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AMOS 22.021: Travelers' Diarrhea Has a Type, 1/31/2022
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Travelers' Diarrhea Has a Type

  • Added: Jan 24, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
550-Lunar Telescopes
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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From the naked eye to the Hubble Space telescope each advance has enabled new astronomical discoveries. We have thus begun to understand our place...

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


  • Added: Aug 10, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
490-Mini Moons
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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There are likely to be hundreds smaller than softball sized and perhaps several dozen football to beachball sized, natural Earth mini moons, which ...

Bought by KGLP, KENW, WLPR , WLPR , KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
284-Dark Trails
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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After a meteor is no longer visible to the human eye it leaves a dark trail which can be followed by Doppler Weather RADAR. Researchers are using ...

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


  • Added: Sep 01, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
283-Micro-Astronomy
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The history of our spot in the Universe is written in the composition of meteorites and other samples of materials we have obtained from space. Ev...

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


  • Added: Sep 01, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
282-Biggest Rocket
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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NASA's Space Launch System Core Stage will start a new age of space exploration,

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


  • Added: Aug 27, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Bringing Up Babies
From: Josh Clement
Series: All Things Natural With Ed Kanze
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I've raised baby possums, raccoons, skunks, robins, starlings, and great-horned owls. Which are the most cuddly and fun to be around? The answer ma...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
Rocketing Into the Aurora With Neal Brown
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: A two-stage rocket lifts off from the Poker Flat Research Range near Fairbanks, Alaska., Credit: NASA/Christopher Perry
It’s back to Alaska, this time to the Poker Flat Research Range, where former Director Neal Brown and his staff launched sounding rockets into the ...

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and WOUB


  • Added: Mar 31, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 3
Food Sleuth Radio, Daphne Miller Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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What happens when a doctor looks at health and healing through an ecological lens? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda He...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
Imaginary Island of California
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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The Island of California appeared on maps for over a century.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Railroads as a Life Line: Then, Now and the Future…
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Richard Jergensen to discuss the history future of railroad travel in Mendocino County.

  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
Bosque del Apache
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: A sandhill crane flies over Bosque del Apache., Credit: Megan Wilde
Every winter, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico hosts a spectacular congregation of snow geese and sandhill cranes. Why do t...

Bought by KUPR low power FM and KENW


  • Added: Jan 26, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
Texas' Aspens
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: Quaking aspens in Big Bend National Park, Credit: James Zech
With their towering white trunks and fluttering leaves, quaking aspens are icons of the Rocky Mountains. Yet every fall, aspen stands paint West Te...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Nov 11, 2010
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Insects Galore
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Insects and the world we humans share with them is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious. Our guest is anthropologist Hugh Raffles, the author...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 29:23