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This week on the show: A less healthy Gabe returns to talk long COVID, new variants & the best corona metric we still have.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: Artist's concept of what binary asteroid 2017 YE5 might look like. The two objects showed striking differences in radar reflectivity, which could indicate that they have different surface properties., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
A strange asteroid plays hide and seek with frustrated astronomers.

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KICI Iowa City, KGLP and more


  • Added: Apr 17, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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This week on the show: He outran it for two years. But this week, COVID caught up with Gabe.

  • Added: Apr 16, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
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Tosca Terán creates soundscapes using fungi. In this immersive piece, Tosca takes listeners on a soundwalk, pausing periodically to interview other...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 14, 2022
  • Length: 25:59
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: It's important for us to know what animals are "saying." And new technology lets us do just that. Also, a select few of you...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Apr 09, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: How could a diabetes medicine be connected with a '40% increase' in birth defects? And with stealth omicron now dominating....

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WXDU


  • Added: Apr 01, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Producer's Award for 2021 Music Find- Art Bears!
Today we’ll hear four clips from four shows that weave together ideas of slavery, imperialism, and ideological and environmental pollution.

Bought by KNCT FM


  • Added: Mar 31, 2022
  • Length: 58:24
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: The coronavirus is spreading in Germany like never before. And restrictions are vanishing as if the pandemic didn't exist....

  • Added: Mar 26, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
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Three hundred years ago this Easter, Europeans landed on what they called "Easter Island," and ever since, the statues there have been a mystery. B...

Bought by WKSU, KWIT, WYAP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2022
  • Length: 51:58
  • Purchases: 18
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This week on the show: Just as a pandemic 'ends,' a (potentially cataclysmic) war of aggression begins — with no end in sight.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: When a child asks you about war and impending death, what exactly should you say? In other news, the Black Death may not ha...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: TESS Spacecraft, Credit: NASA
To find planets close to home NASA has launched TESS the Transiting Exoplanet Satellite which will monitor more than 200,000 nearby, stars over the...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KGLP and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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This week on the show: Got omicron twice? - There is more than one kind of omicron. And data has just come out on whether you might get infecte...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: Over 100 meteors are recorded in this composite image taken during the peak of the Geminid meteor shower in 2014., Credit: NASA/MSFC/Danielle Moser, NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office
In the early evening of January 17, 2018 six hundred and seventy four observers in 11 States and Canada reported a fireball meteor streaking across...

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  • Added: Feb 20, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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This week on the show: As support drops for COVID-19 measures, the people who are violently opposed to them are gaining strength.

  • Added: Feb 18, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
Caption:  NEO Surveyor will be based on NEOCam (above), a finalist in the previous round of the Discovery program, and will feature an infrared telescope to look for near Earth objects., Credit: Credit: NASA/JPL
So far asteroid hunters have discovered about 8,000 of the 25,000, large, potentially hazardous asteroids, suspected to exist, leaving 17,000 more ...

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  • Added: Feb 13, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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This week on the show: We received so many messages this past week about the lopsided male COVID-19 mortality rate. Maybe you wrote one of them?

  • Added: Feb 05, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: Artist's illustration of NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) which will crash into the asteroid Didymos., Credit: NASA/John Hopkins University/Cov
When Asteroid Hunters find a relatively large asteroid on a collision course with planet Earth, the challenge is to change its path to make it miss...

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  • Added: Jan 30, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Comet Lovejoy, Credit: NASA
Greg's comet comes into our neighborhood once per human lifetime and spends most of it's time in the lonely space high above or far below the rest ...

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  • Added: Jan 22, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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On this week’s episode, Dr. Seth Berkley, CEO of GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, talks with Ray Suarez about overcoming the challenges of vaccine distr...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: 30 years of fireballs, Credit: NASA
Fireballs are meteors which become brighter than the planet Venus and can sometimes be seen in the daytime. If you are lucky to see a fireball send...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Jan 16, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
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This week on the show: Take a look around — because this is the wildest part of the pandemic anyone's ever seen. And we've started to normalize a ...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Jan 14, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Immersive artwork breaks down the border between the viewer and the artist, submerging the spectator in the exhibit. Nancy Pettinicchio discusses t...

Bought by KVSC, KMXT, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 06, 2022
  • Length: 27:02
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Artists Conception, Credit: Dan Durda
Tonight, even though the chances are extremely slim, an asteroid hunter could find a sizable asteroid on a collision course with planet Earth. If w...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
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This week on the show: The omicron numbers are already awful. Yet there's a case for cautious optimism based on what we've seen so far.

  • Added: Dec 31, 2021
  • Length: 30:00