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885: Does AI dream? / 886: Why do we have so much stuff?, 3/30/2024
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Does AI dream?" - Say you're an artist and you want to paint something you can't see. What if AI can? Are you dreaming together? HOUR ...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
BD - Mark Catesby in the New World and California's massive snowpack
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
Caption: Aerial view of the High Sierra snowpack in 2023, Credit: Airborne Snow Observatories Inc.
Dave visits with author Patrick Dean about his new book, Nature's Messenger: Mark Catesby and his adventures in a new world. Dean's book reveals th...

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  • Added: Jun 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
BD - Leonardo da Vinci's gravity experiments: discoveries from Leonardo's notebooks!
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
Caption: Cal Tech reproduction of Leonardo's gravity experiment Courtesy of CalTech
Dave visits with California Institute of Technology Professor of Aeronautics and Medical Engineering, Mory Gharib and Chris Roh from Cornell Univer...

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  • Added: Mar 02, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
AMOS 23.29: Ancient Roman Parasites, 2/9/2023
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Ancient Roman Parasites

  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
Futurist Ari Wallach's
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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LONGPATH by futurist Ari Wallach is about a mindset that looks at a future where new ways aren’t quite here yet and the old ways don’t work anymor...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: 10:13
Space Oddities: Episode 7-Stay Hilton, Go Everywhere...Literally
From: Joe Cuhaj
Series: Space Oddities: Forgotten Stories of Mankind's Exploration of Space
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In the early 1960s, just a few years before we had actually landed men on the moon, the U.S. based Pan American Airlines began “taking names” and w...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Nov 20, 2022
  • Length: 08:19
  • Purchases: 1
BD - Profile of a legend: a look at the career of Voyager Project Scientist Edward C. Stone
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
Caption: Ed Stone
Blue Dot spotlights the amazing career of one of America's greatest space scientists, Ed Stone. Stone was the Project Scientist for the Voyager mis...

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  • Added: Nov 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Space Oddities: Episode 4-Lost and Found
From: Joe Cuhaj
Series: Space Oddities: Forgotten Stories of Mankind's Exploration of Space
Caption: Apollo 10's "Snoopy"., Credit: NASA
Only one of the nine lunar modules flown during the Apollo moon missions is still flying in space today. Author Joe Cuhaj tells us the story of Apo...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Nov 10, 2022
  • Length: 11:27
  • Purchases: 1
Fuhgeddaboudit
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Fuhgeddaboudit, Credit: Seth Shostak
A thousand years ago, most people didn’t own a single book. The only way to access knowledge was to consult their memory. But technology – from pap...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WRGY, KMUN, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
Space Oddities: Episode 1-Moon Dust In Your Lungs, Stars In Your Eyes
From: Joe Cuhaj
Series: Space Oddities: Forgotten Stories of Mankind's Exploration of Space
Caption: Terry Slezak accidentally came in contact with moon dust during the Apollo 11 quarantine period., Credit: NASA
Episode 1 of Space Oddities discusses NASA's plans to keep the Earth from being contaminated with lunar germs during the Apollo missions. Unfortuna...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Nov 01, 2022
  • Length: 10:47
  • Purchases: 1
The Voyager Mission: A 45th Anniversary Celebration
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: On board each Voyager spacecraft is a time capsule: a 12-inch, gold-plated copper disk carrying spoken greetings in 55 languages from Earth’s peoples, along with 115 images and myriad sounds representing our home planet., Credit: NASA/JPL
It’s a party for Voyager and the team of scientists, engineers and others who have followed it across our solar system. Then we’ll visit with Ann D...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WFHB, RadioStPete Florida, KWMR, WJCU and more


  • Added: Aug 30, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14
BD - America's first satellite: the inside story of Explorer 1 and JPL
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
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Dave gets to talk about one of his favorite topics, spaceflight history, with NASA/JPL Historian Eric Conway. We cover the roots of the CalTech Pas...

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  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Next Stop: Mars (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Back in the 1950s, the Soviets were eager to follow their Sputnik success with an even bigger milestone: they would send something living to outer ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 6
Next Stop: Mars (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Back in the 1950s, the Soviets were eager to follow their Sputnik success with an even bigger milestone: they would send something living to outer ...

Bought by WFAE, WMUU-LP, KXCV, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WNED Buffalo and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 10
Next Stop: Mars (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Back in the 1950s, the Soviets were eager to follow their Sputnik success with an even bigger milestone: they would send something living to outer ...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, Harford Community Radio, WJCU, KMUN, WJCT and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Next Stop: Mars (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Back in the 1950s, the Soviets were eager to follow their Sputnik success with an even bigger milestone: they would send something living to outer ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KXCV, WNED Buffalo, Troy Public Radio, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 5
595: Our Time Of Mourning / 596: Should You Delete Facebook?, 6/19/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Our Time Of Mourning" - The pandemic is waning in many places. But before we go back to normal life, let's not forget to mourn our loss...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:01
Blue Dot: ​Mercury Rising: Jeff Shesol's New Book Casts New Light on The Right Stuff
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
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Dave delves into some familiar territory for him, the early space program, but with some fresh takes on the space race with author Jeff Shesol. Hi...

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  • Added: Jun 17, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
589: Why Do We Have So Much Stuff? / 590: Born, Again, 5/29/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Why Do We Have So Much Stuff?" - From baby showers to estate sales, we fill our lives with material possessions. Why do we do it? HOUR...

  • Added: May 28, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
The High Frontier: A New Documentary About Gerard K. O’Neill
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's concept of a giant O'Neill cylinder space settlement., Credit: NASA, Art by Rick Guidice
Gerard K. O’Neill envisioned vast, magnificent human settlements in space. His followers, including Jeff Bezos, are working to turn his vision into...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KIYU-FM, WFHB, KWMR, KRZA and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
The First Space Shuttle Pilot: Bob Crippen on the 40th Anniversary of STS-1
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: THE BOLDEST TEST FLIGHT IN HISTORY John Young (left) and Bob Crippen pose for a crew portrait prior to STS-1, the first flight of space shuttle Columbia, in April 1981., Credit: NASA
Robert Crippen and John Young became the first humans to fly a space shuttle into orbit when Columbia launched on April 12, 1981.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KIYU-FM, WFHB, KWMR, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Apr 07, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
Farming - recorded 4/2003
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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A 3 generation family farm business discusses farming

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 23:15
The Big Book of Mars: Our Obsession with the Red Planet
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Marc Hartzman's fascinating and entertaining book about Mars in popular culture and more., Credit: Quirk Books
Author Marc Hartzman’s new book celebrates the wonder of the Red Planet and how it entered popular culture.

Bought by WFHB, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WMUU-LP, KICI Iowa City, KWMR and more


  • Added: Feb 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
What's Old Is New Again: Going Medieval on the Cult of Innovation (2015)
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: The astrolabe was a marriage of the planisphere and dioptra, effectively an analog calculator capable of working out several different kinds of problems in astronomy.
It’s December 29th. For our last show of 2020 we’ll turn back to a program from July 2015 as an attempt to hit the reset button. While the book of ...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
Blue Dot: LUNAR OUTFITTERS: a conversation with space suit historian Bill Ayrey
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
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Dave once again delves into the Apollo Program 50 years ago with this in depth look at the iconic space suits that Neil Armstrong and his 11 fellow...

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  • Added: Dec 10, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1