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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
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
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
386-Interplanetary Sand Traps
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Topographic features on rubble pile asteroids are produced in a novel way.

Bought by KENW, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WLPR , KKRN, KRWG and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
385-Phoning Home
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Cell phone technology will be used to explore our Moon. Lunar tourists will be able to use their smart phones after 2018.

Bought by KENW, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WLPR , KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KKRN and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Episode 68: All the Time in the World
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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The “body farm” at Texas State University is a place almost no one except researchers and law enforcement is able to see, because it’s one of very ...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2017
  • Length: 31:13
HumaNature: One Hour Special #4
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: stories of animal encounters. A scientist risks his reputation to pursue Bigfoot; pigeons save t...

Bought by Raven Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., New Hampshire Public Radio, KUT, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Mar 09, 2017
  • Length: 58:25
  • Purchases: 5
278-Nope
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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This is the story of the big one that got away.

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


  • Added: Aug 13, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
257-Raw Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A rare nearly tailless comet has been discovered. It could be made of the primitive materials which came together to form our Earth.

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


  • Added: Jun 02, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
205-Toy Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An asteroid small enough to fit under a basketball hoop makes frequent approaches to Earth, our Moon, and Mars.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WYAP and more


  • Added: Dec 03, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
200-Comet Showers
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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It is possible that showers of comets changed the course of life on Earth.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KKRN, and KENW


  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
182-Earth Life On Mars
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Amazingly, a tough organism found in Antartica on planet Earth has adapted to Mars like conditions.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KKRN, and KENW


  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
180-An Eternal One
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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View an object which is likely to last longer than the Earth and Sky.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KKRN, and KENW


  • Added: Sep 03, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
174-Fascinating Europa
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Conditions on one of Jupiter's moons, Europa, could be similar to those near hydrothermal vents on the Earth's ocean floor. Could there be living c...

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KKRN, and KENW


  • Added: Aug 12, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
157-Kissing Frogs
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An asteroid hunter literally has to sort through millions of objects to find an unknown Earth approaching asteroid.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, and KENW


  • Added: Jun 18, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
It Shoulda Been a Giant Step for Womandkind Too
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
When the U.S. space program was launched, women were tested for astronaut duty -- and passed.

Bought by Radio Catskill, KUOW, and Radio Newark


  • Added: Jul 24, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 3
Amazing 'James Barry'
From: Documentary on One - RTE, Ireland
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The woman who became a man so she could become a doctor.

Bought by KMUN, KFAI Minneapolis, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 21, 2011
  • Length: 09:18
  • Purchases: 3
gnome - word of the day
From: Charles Hodgson
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The story behind the word "gnome"

  • Added: Nov 13, 2006
  • Length: 02:48