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573-Sweet Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Over the past 50 years, in the interior of Australian meteorites, scientists have discovered a large variety of extraterrestrial organic substances...

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


  • Added: Jan 18, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
A Rabbi and a Bishop are Asked to Consider their Beliefs
From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: Being Reasonable
Caption: Being Reasonable
We consider the deeply-held beliefs of Rabbi Daniel Greyber of Beth El Synagogue and Bishop Ronald Godbee of The River Church.

  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:00
My Magical Monsoon Belief System
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Well, I spent so much time jabbering about my conversion to a desert rat and monsoon believer that I left some stuff out and so here is what I left...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2019
  • Length: 04:55
554-Martian Rolling Stones
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Imagine how strange and wonderful it would be to witness such an event. When the impacting object hit it produced huge boulders, which held loose...

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


  • Added: Sep 06, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
552-Night Sky Surprise
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On October 7, 2018 the moonless night sky became 25% brighter and reached the point where it is at a small light polluted city, all without human ...

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


  • Added: Aug 23, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
S1 E8 Even The Morgue Has a Wait List
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
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Hospital administrator Galen Laserson recounts the time she got an unexpected call in the middle of the night, which prompted her to learn all abou...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2019
  • Length: 30:10
542-Toughest Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An asteroid has been discovered that comes very near to the Sun where it receives 12.6 times the radiation that heats the planet Mercury's surface...

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


  • Added: May 31, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
An Expose on The Essence of Hip Hop and The Culture that's brought the world closer with Paul Miller aka Dj Spooky
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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An Expose on The Essence of Hip Hop and The Culture that's brought the world closer with Paul Miller aka Dj Spooky.

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: May 27, 2019
  • Length: 27:41
  • Purchases: 1
59: Flatworms
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Can Flatworms remember how to find food after re-growing their heads? Science rolled up its sleeves and found out.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 14, 2019
  • Length: 04:47
  • Purchases: 1
55: Super Recognizers
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Two percent of the population has the almost uncanny ability to recognize and remember faces from chance meetings even years before. We talk about ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 16, 2019
  • Length: 05:15
  • Purchases: 1
53: Barbed Wire Phones
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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One more example of how farmers MacGyver everything. No phone lines? Use the fence.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 04, 2019
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 1
530-Cuban Meteorites
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A large fireball meteor which exploded over Cuba produced a number of interesting results.

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Sam Liebl — Cheating cheatgrass in the west
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes spoke with journalist and master of environmental management candidate Sam Liebl.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Jan 31, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Poets and NEA Fellows Hadara Bar-Nadav & Kathryn Nuernberger
From: New Letters on the Air
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Poets Hadara Bar-Nadav and Kathryn Nuernberger, who were both chosen as 2017 NEA Literary Fellows, talk about their work in this interview at the K...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
34: Wombat Poop
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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It's there and it's square. And now we know why.

  • Added: Jan 14, 2019
  • Length: 02:47
522-Comets Africano
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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During Comet C/2018 V4 Africano's last visit to the inner solar system humans were erecting the outer ring at Stonehenge. At the rate human's are c...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, KRWG, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
521-Lunar Space Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Growler discovered an Earth approaching asteroid which has a speed consistent with it being eject...

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


  • Added: Jan 05, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
319: Even Stranger Things / 320: Empathy For Monsters, 10/27/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Even Stranger Things" - Paranormal psychic spy hunters? It was a real U.S. Army project. Join us for an hour of even stranger things. ...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
491-One Half Inch
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Fuzzy, spread out, asteroid images due to atmospheric and or equipment produced distortions can cause important objects to slip through an asteroid...

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


  • Added: Aug 30, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
484-Aliens?
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Most Astronomers find it hard to believe that given perhaps a trillion planets in the Milky Way alone that our Earth is the only one which hosts li...

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


  • Added: Aug 03, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
480-A Large Visitor
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Statistically, asteroid hunters are thought to have discovered 90% of our potentially dangerous celestial neighbors greater than 1 KM in diameter. ...

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


  • Added: Jul 20, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Experimental City
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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A domed city of the future right here in Minnesota? It almost happened. On this episode of Art Beat we talk with filmmaker Chad Freidrichs, directo...

  • Added: May 04, 2018
  • Length: 32:47
454-Comets and Asteroids
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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If you set your mind to it, you can find and hold a sample of an asteroid, called a meteorite, which has landed on the Earth's surface. On the ot...

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


  • Added: Apr 20, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Computational Oncology and Tumor Modeling - The Next Phase in Personalized Therapies for Cancer Patients.
From: Peter Hofland
Series: The OncoZine Brief
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In this episode of The OncoZine Brief, Peter Hofland, Ph.D and Sonia Portillo talk with Thomas Yankeelov, Ph.D, a computational biomedical engineer...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2018
  • Length: 41:01
The Development of Probody Therapeutics for the Targeting of Cancer
From: Peter Hofland
Series: The OncoZine Brief
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In this edition of The OncoZine Brief, Peter Hofland, Ph.D and Sonia Portillo talk Sean McCarthy, D.Phil, President and Chief Executive Officer of ...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2018
  • Length: 37:41