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BD - Preparing for the next Great American Eclipse: a visit with Rick Fienberg
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
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Dave is joined by Sky and Telescope magazine senior contributing editor Rick Fienberg to preview the big celestial event coming up soon, the total ...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, PRX Remix, WCNY, and KSPB Pebble Beach


  • Added: Sep 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Blue Dot - Eclipse 2024 and more: Preparing for the next great American solar eclipse
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
Caption: Gordon Telepun
Dave is joined by eclipse guru Gordon Telepun to talk about the upcoming total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. While that may seem a ways off, anyo...

Bought by KSPB Pebble Beach


  • Added: Jun 23, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Blue Dot - ALL ABOUT TROUT: Cold Water species are a "Canary in the Coal Mine"
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
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Millions of people enjoy spending summer months fishing for a variety of trout species with the rainbow being perhaps the most popular. But in this...

Bought by KSPB Pebble Beach


  • Added: Aug 19, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
GN_3.65_Walk On The Wildside
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
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Nature is medicine for your mind.

Bought by KKRN and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
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
513-Mtn Ops
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My team, the Catalina Sky Survey, would not find a single asteroid without Steward Observatory's Mountain Lemmon Operations, or Mtn Ops for short. ...

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


  • Added: Nov 16, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
UnCommonCore Podcast Episode 18 | Reef-A-Palooza: Part 2
From: Tom Howell
Series: Reef-A-Palooza
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The UnCommonCore Podcast is about the ideas, experiences and perspectives that make us different from each other. Content includes live to tape rec...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2017
  • Length: 47:02
Predictably Irrational: Dan Ariely #114 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Do we behave rationally? You might be surprised how often our decision-making deviates from what is in our best interest. Behavioral economist Dan ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Indie3 Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Donovan Hohn - Moby-Duck
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents Donovan Hohn author of Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea & of the Beachcombers, Oceanographer...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
Thunder Storm in St. Augustine
From: JoAnne Maffia
Series: ReFoundSound an audio blog
Caption: field recording
Thunder storm early evening hours. St Augustine, FL. Original clip with no effects, no alterations. Stereo mic/track. No Effects: No EQ.

  • Added: Jan 23, 2017
  • Length: 09:55
Tristan Gooley author How To Read Water interview
From: Doug Miles
Series: Book Talk with Doug Miles
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Doug Miles talks with Tristan Gooley author "How to Read Water"

  • Added: Dec 13, 2016
  • Length: 08:42
295-Close Passes
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Small close approaching space rocks are part of our environment.

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


  • Added: Oct 14, 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
256-Pale Blue Dot
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The light reflected by a distant planet can tell us if we could live there.

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


  • Added: May 26, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
End of the Road for the Tumbleweed?
From: Lana Straub
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USDA has found a fungi to kill the tumbleweed

  • Added: Apr 22, 2015
  • Length: 03:58
Flying Blind (for Pledge Drive)
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Flying Blind book cover
When a biologist with the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department approaches Middlebury writing professor Don Mitchell about tracking endangered India...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 01, 2014
  • Length: 22:19
  • Purchases: 1
High Tide
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: High Tide book cover, Credit: jacket design by Kata Jancso
One week before super storm Sandy hit, oceanographer John Englander released his book about the short, medium and long term scenarios we can expect...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 25, 2013
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
Ring Them and Fling Them
From: Gerald Zahavi
Caption: Gordon Howard in conversation with a Blue Jay, Credit: Gerald Zahavi
A profile of two master bird banders (and their trainees) who converge every May on the Crown Point State Historic site along the shores of Lake Ch...

Bought by WRPI and WRPI


  • Added: May 29, 2013
  • Length: 26:43
  • Purchases: 2
The Moon in the Nautilus Shell
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Daniel Botkin
According to a recent Gallup Poll, 46 percent of Americans believe in creationism. Is this belief hurting our planet? In his new book, professor, ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 27, 2012
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
The remarkable rose-breasted grosbeak
From: WTIP
Series: North Woods Phenology
Caption: Rose-breasted grosbeak
: One of the showiest birds at the feeder, as well as one of the most vocally proficient is the rose-breasted grosbeak. Jay Andersen of WTIP North...

Bought by KSRQ, KSRQ, and Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: May 22, 2012
  • Length: 07:03
  • Purchases: 3
The Global Warming Reader
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Bill McKibben
Into the national conversation about climate change and our planet's natural resources comes The Global Warming Reader: A Century of Writing About ...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2012
  • Length: 28:40
Otter techniques for coping with cold weather
From: WTIP
Series: North Woods Phenology
Caption: Otter
Beavers have fat as well as fur to keep them warm in cold water, but otters have a different technique for dealing with frigid winters and spring. ...

Bought by KSRQ and Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Apr 03, 2012
  • Length: 06:56
  • Purchases: 2
Warm winter, early spring
From: WTIP
Series: North Woods Phenology
Caption: Early spring scene
March was a warm one. Spring seemed to be in a hurry to get here. As such many birds and plants also started early. Jay Andersen of WTIP North Shor...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 07:24
  • Purchases: 1
Nature moving into March and late winter
From: WTIP
Series: North Woods Phenology
Caption: North Shore ice
Moving from February into March, there are many natural phenomena occurring as we edge to spring. Jay Andersen of WTIP North Shore Community Radio ...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2012
  • Length: 06:29
Birds who cache their winter food
From: WTIP
Series: North Woods Phenology
Caption: Black-capped chickadee
Are chickadees being fussy when they pick up a seed at your feeder and drop it for another? What to blue jays do with all those seeds they gulp dow...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 07:00
  • Purchases: 1