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255: Designing for a Regenerative Future: What’s Love Got to Do with It?, 12/13/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Jason F. McLennan, Credit: Alex Akamine Photography
What would it feel like to live in a world where our built environment was as elegant as nature's designs? What if our living and working spaces nu...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
851: How Should We Tell Our History? / 852: Searching For Order In The Universe, 12/2/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "How Should We Tell Our History?" - Debates over history are front-page news, from critical race theory to AP history classes. How should...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:01
Constant Wonder - Can Iceland's Elves Save the Planet?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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A belief in elves–or in the possibility of elves–could change the way we care for our planet.

Bought by KUHF, GCR (Global Community Radio), KFCF FM, RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 22, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 5
Constant Wonder - Eat, Poop, Die
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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The island of Surtsey is a compelling example of the way that animals distribute nutrients around the globe through their poop.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Nov 16, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 1
Constant Wonder - Compassion in the Aftermath: Recovering from Horrific Hallucinations
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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When gathering accurate descriptions of the world is crucial to your work, how do you navigate a reality full of hallucinations?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 2
Constant Wonder - Book of Delights
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Poet Ross Gay on the small, sweet delights of life's daily walk with no fireworks or fanfare.

Bought by WLRH and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 52:54
  • Purchases: 2
Constant Wonder - Changing the Face of Ballet
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Argentina, Estonia, Thailand. A ballet career could land you on just about any world stage. International success catapulted Steven Melendez to all...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 52:54
  • Purchases: 1
Constant Wonder - Death-Defying Botanists Brave the Colorado
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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How a pair of courageous botanists became the first women to run the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WYAP


  • Added: Sep 29, 2023
  • Length: 52:53
  • Purchases: 2
Constant Wonder - This Party's Dead
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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In her late 20s, Erica Buist had never been invited or expected to be anywhere near a deceased human. Death had been cloistered away from her, or s...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Sep 07, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 2
How Starshades Will Help Us Find New Worlds
From: Tony Darnell
Series: Exoplanet Radio
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Most of the 5000 exoplanets discovered so far have been found using methods that don’t actually see the planet at all. Brightness dimmings and sta...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2023
  • Length: 03:52
Constant Wonder - More Love for a Big Lake That's Often Belittled
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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It's a massive lake with a murky reputation. It's survived a carp invasion, decades of dumped raw sewage, and the draining of surrounding wetlands....

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 52:53
  • Purchases: 3
How Will nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Advance Exoplanet Research?
From: Tony Darnell
Series: Exoplanet Radio
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
We live in a golden age of exoplanet discovery. Not only are we searching for and finding new worlds around other stars all the time, but as our t...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 04:01
JWST Finds No Atmosphere on TRAPPIST-1c
From: Tony Darnell
Series: Exoplanet Radio
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
A team of astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to study the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 c, which is one of seven rocky planets orbiting an ultr...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 04:00
Trillions of Worlds With No Stars
From: Tony Darnell
Series: Exoplanet Radio
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Astronomers estimate that there are more free roaming planets in our galaxy than there are planets in orbit around stars. In fact, rogue exoplanet...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 04:00
Constant Wonder - The Never-bored Naturalist Who Plumbed the Ocean Depths
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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In the depth of the sea, where the sun is powerless to send a single ray of light, there live many strange beings. Of these sea folk, we know nothi...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Aug 25, 2023
  • Length: 52:52
  • Purchases: 2
Constant Wonder - Family Discovers that Nazi Grandfather Aided French Villagers
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Burkhard Bilger shares the surprising truth about his grandfather's life and service in Hitler's Germany, it's the latest episode of the Constant W...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 16, 2023
  • Length: 52:53
  • Purchases: 3
Rogue Planets: Not All Exoplanets Orbit Stars
From: Tony Darnell
Series: Exoplanet Radio
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
One of the most exciting recent discoveries in astronomy has been the existence of planets around other stars.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 13, 2023
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 1
Constant Wonder - Dreams and the Deep Mysteries of the Unconscious Mind
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Sleep and dreaming. It's when the unconscious mind can process events, solve problems and organize memories. But a mere 20 years ago, little consen...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Aug 10, 2023
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 1
Subsurface granite on the Moon? The anatomy of a lunar hot spot
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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Matt Siegler from the Planetary Science Institute shares his team's surprising findings about the granite formation that might lie beneath Compton-...

Bought by KIYU-FM, KVSC, RadioStPete Florida, WJCU, KWMR and more


  • Added: Aug 02, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Constant Wonder - The Batman of Mexico (and the World!)
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Undoing Dracula's nasty reputation, impossible! Reversing the undeserved reputation of bats, now that's a different task all together. And the bat ...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WYAP


  • Added: Jul 27, 2023
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 2
An essential ingredient for life in the oceans of Enceladus
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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Chris Glein, a lead scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, joins Planetary Radio to talk about the discovery of phosphorus in the oceans of...

Bought by KIYU-FM, WJCU, WMUU-LP, RadioStPete Florida, KRZA and more


  • Added: Jul 26, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Constant Wonder - Discovering Both Reverence and Humor in Dying
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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The miracle of life filled Christopher Clark with a heightened sense of awe, even as he was slowly dying. We'll get to know the Chris Clark story i...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Jul 20, 2023
  • Length: 52:52
  • Purchases: 1
Mars' Axial Tilt: A Key to Gully Formation
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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Caltech and Brown University’s Jay Dickson joins Planetary Radio to discuss the mysterious formation of gullies on Mars.

Bought by KVSC, KIYU-FM, WJCU, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jul 18, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Constant Wonder - Finding a Personal Place in the Wild World
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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A transformational summer spent with skuas, penguins, and seals.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Jul 14, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 1
Comparing the rivers of Earth, Mars, and Titan
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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Sam Birch, an assistant professor at Brown University, explores what we know about the alluvial rivers of Earth, Mars, and Saturn's moon Titan.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, KVSC, KIYU-FM, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14