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2024-04-19 Artificial Intelligence, Real Climate Impacts
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Artificial intelligence can do some pretty amazing things, including for the climate. AI can help optimize the electric grid, make heating and cool...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KOWS and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 8
771-Nice PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Psyche, Credit: NASA
NASA classifies 2023 SZ1 as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid since it is larger than 140m in diameter and on its current path can come to about 6 t...

Bought by Raven Radio, WYAP, RADIOLEX, KGLP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Nov 05, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
763-Hogan’s Big Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Nucleus Comet Wild-2, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Josh Hogan was asteroid hunting in the constellation Sextans with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona whe...

Bought by Raven Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KGLP, RADIOLEX, WTIP and more


  • Added: Sep 10, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
762-Kacper’s PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid IDA, Credit: NASA
An object like 2023 MN5 impacts Earth once every 90,000 years or so creating a crater 5 miles in diameter an 1800 feet deep in sedimentary rock. 5...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RADIOLEX, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KKRN, WTIP and more


  • Added: Sep 03, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
741-Africano(529)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: NASA Stardust
My Catalina Sky Survey Teammate Brian Africano discovered his 4th comet while asteroid hunting in the constellation of Ursa Major with our Schmidt ...

Bought by KGLP, WYAP, RADIOLEX, Raven Radio, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Apr 09, 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
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
699-Last One(485)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: The last of the day's sunlight pokes through a monsoon storm building up over the northwest area of the valley, generating lightning strikes but little precipitation, Saturday, July 8, 2017, Tucson, Ariz., Credit: Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star
A huge Earth approaching asteroid is discovered right before the 2018 monsoon rains settled into the American Southwest. This weather imposed break...

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


  • Added: Jun 19, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
686-Big Atira(464)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: This view of asteroid Bennu ejecting particles from its surface on Jan. 6, 2019, was created by combining two images taken by the NavCam 1 imager aboard NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft: a short exposure image, which shows the asteroid clearly, and a long-exp, Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin
The recent discovery of an asteroid, whose orbit lies completely within that of the Earth, reminds asteroid hunters to continue to search near the ...

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


  • Added: Mar 20, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
685-Exiled Asteroid(463)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist’s concept illustrating a catastrophic collision between two rocky exoplanets in the planetary system BD +20 307, turning both into dusty debris. Ten years ago, scientists speculated that the warm dust in this system was a result of a planet-to-plan, Credit: NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook
An asteroid is exiled to the outer regions of the solar system during Jupiter's rampaging tack away from the Sun long ago. During that process enou...

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


  • Added: Mar 13, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
684-Our View(462)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Night Sky, Credit: NPS
Modern technology provides us with stunning views of objects in the Universe in wavelengths invisible to our eyes, however, nothing is as moving an...

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


  • Added: Mar 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
08-14: Cosmomimicry: We’re The Universe Mattering, 1/5/2022
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: David McConville
“If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do, then how would I be and what would I do?” asked visio...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
Ecology: The Infrastructure of the Future?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In the midst of yet another year of climate catastrophe, the U.S. Senate is negotiating a $3.5 trillion infrastructure package.  President Biden, a...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK


  • Added: Sep 15, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
365-Tabby's Star
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Tabby's star varies in brightness suggesting that it swallowed one or more of it's planets in the very recent past.

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


  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
S2 Ep. 3 The Astronomers
From: Honolulu Civil Beat
Series: Offshore
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Why do astronomers feel a giant new telescope on top of Mauna Kea is so important? What will Hawaii — and the scientific community — stand to lose ...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2017
  • Length: 38:39
After a flood, solving the mystery of water
From: Jenny Chen
Caption: 2013 flood in Estes Park, Credit: Town of Estes Park
Recent floods in Texas and Oklahoma cost the country over $3 billion in economic losses. In some areas of the country, floods are growing in intens...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 23, 2015
  • Length: 08:45
  • Purchases: 1
Cornucopian Myth: William Catton #107
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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“The age of growth and the age in which growth is going to be considered a good thing is coming to an end.” The late sociologist William R. Catton ...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Bandon Community Radio, KCMJ Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 06, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 6
Energy Bite 107: Hawthorne Effect
From: 90.5 WESA
Series: Energy Bite
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Can the knowledge of being watched change how we use energy?

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Aug 11, 2015
  • Length: 01:29
  • Purchases: 1
LOVE THY NATURE -- Sylvie Rokab Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Sylvie Rokab, San Francisco, CA 4/14/15, Credit: Andrea Chase
Sylvie Rokab talks unexpected relatives, the hidden dangers of city life, and dancing with Liam Neeson.

  • Added: Apr 16, 2015
  • Length: 20:50
The Art of De-Extinction
From: Britt Wray
Caption: Will the woolly mammoth face another day?, Credit: Tyler Ingram
A group of scientists are now trying to bring extinct animals - like the woolly mammoth and passenger pigeon - back to life, in a movement called D...

Bought by WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 07, 2015
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 3
The Future
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Fusion - Everlasting and Clean Energy
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We're getting closer and closer to making fusion power a reality - limitless energy created by fusing hydrogen into helium, the same process that p...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
Fuel
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Fusion - Everlasting and Clean Energy
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Physicists are approaching closer and closer to one of the Holy Grails of modern science: creating self-sustaining fusion reactions on Earth, and u...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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
52 Hz
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
Caption: A humpback whale surfacing, Credit: Craig Shank
52 Hz is the name given to a mysterious whale that vocalizes at a different frequency than other whales. Some refer to him as "The World's Lonelies...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Hark!, KALW, New Hampshire Public Radio, WTIP and more


  • Added: Jul 15, 2013
  • Length: 07:00
  • Purchases: 6
99% Invisible #30- The Blue Yarn
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Better (and less expensive) cancer treatment started with a sensei and ball of blue yarn...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service and more


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 10:20
  • Purchases: 11