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742-Cuban Meteorites(530)
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 KICI Iowa City, KGLP, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX, KRWG and more


  • Added: Apr 16, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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


  • Added: Mar 19, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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


  • Added: Jan 22, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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


  • Added: Nov 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
F-Word: Build Back Green, Not Gray
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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"MacArthur 'genius award'winning landscape designer Kate Orff believes that gray infrastructure, like levees and flood gates and sea walls, can on...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2021
  • Length: 03:30
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


  • Added: Dec 04, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
613-Climate Change and Telescopes
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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


  • Added: Oct 23, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
612-Day and Night
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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


  • Added: Oct 18, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
264-Tough Guy
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A tough rocky asteroid makes close approaches to the Sun.

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


  • Added: Jun 23, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
250-Born Wild
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Our home planet was formed after a period of chaos in the solar system.

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


  • Added: May 05, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Arctic Council
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: http://www.arctic-council.org, Credit: The Arctic Council
In 1996, the high level intergovernmental Arctic Council was formed to promote cooperation and interaction among the Arctic states. In this episode...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 05:23
What To Do With Bayou Bienvenue?
From: WWNO
Series: What To Do With Bayou Bienvenue
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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, ...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2014
  • Length: 18:02
Catching Cosmic Rays
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Out There: The Science of Exploring the Universe
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In December 2012, a two-ton instrument built to detect cosmic rays ascended into the Antarctic sky, carried by a balloon the size of a football fie...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 14:00
The Beat: James Henderson - "Entropy"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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James C. Henderson is a graduate of Metropolitan State University's Creative Writing program, and Hamline University's MFA program. He lives in New...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2013
  • Length: 03:18
Acoustic Stories: Steve Downing On Singing - "Compulsively Breaking Into Song, Almost Never."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2013
  • Length: 07:38
Acoustic Stories: Michael Goldberg On Smells - "Have You Smelled the News?"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2013
  • Length: 03:30
The Apocalypse (or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the Anthropocene)
From: Generation Anthropocene
Series: Generation Anthropocene
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One month after the Mayan apocalypse of 2012, the Generation Anthropocene team of Leslie Chang, Mike Osborne, and Miles Traer chat about the relati...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2013
  • Length: 23:30
Gen Anthro 2012 Reflections: Producers' Edition
From: Generation Anthropocene
Series: Generation Anthropocene
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It’s the end of 2012, and producers Mike Osborne, Leslie Chang, and Miles Traer get together to chat about the past year of Generation Anthropocene...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2013
  • Length: 31:18
180: Where Does Water Come From?
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Where does water come from? We know from science that water evaporates from the ocean reservoir, is captured in clouds, fog and rain, descends to s...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
Sex Changing Chemicals: Endocrine Distruption
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
We read that pollutants are causing a sex change in fish.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jun 18, 2010
  • Length: 01:13
  • Purchases: 1
Soil Scientists Overlook Keg Party
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Refuse from keg party not found in sediment of lake

  • Added: Mar 14, 2010
  • Length: 01:00
The Case For Solar Power
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
In the next 10 years your electricity bill will at least double

  • Added: Jun 03, 2009
  • Length: 01:47
Coral Bleaching
From: Tom Niemisto
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Ocean biology is threatened by Climate Change

  • Added: Feb 08, 2009
  • Length: 01:46
Energy Efficient Refrigerator
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
You can save on electricity if you never open the door

Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Jan 10, 2009
  • Length: 01:54
  • Purchases: 1
#29 Coral Reefs - Distribution and Value
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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A Short Essay by Peter Neill, Director of the World Ocean Observatory

  • Added: Aug 22, 2008
  • Length: 04:31