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2023-07-02 Democracy By Numbers
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is it mathematically (im)possible to create a true democracy?

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  • Added: Jul 03, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
753-Impactor Lights Up The Night Sky
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Time Lapse Image 2022 WJ1, Credit: Image Credit: Dereck Bowen, Brantford Ontario Canada, November 19, 2022 3:26am
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Cetus with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona w...

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  • Added: Jul 02, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
752 Lunker
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Johnson, Credit: Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/W. Reach (SSC/Caltech)
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Jacqueline Fazekas was asteroid hunting , in the evening twilight, with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizo...

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  • Added: Jun 25, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Environmental Sound
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we responded to a listener request about trees by looking at environmental soundscape recordings,...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2023
  • Length: 28:35
2323: Minds and Matter, 6/6/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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What can we learn about human consciousness from the minds of animals?

  • Added: May 30, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
748-Ultima Thule(536)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Ulta Thule, Credit: NASA
Traveling an additional billion miles beyond Pluto, the New Horizons spacecraft is now sending back data on 2014 MU69, a strange snow man shaped ob...

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  • Added: May 28, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
The Mothers of Gynecology
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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The history of why Black women are more likely to die when giving birth than White women.

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  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 56:56
  • Purchases: 2
Is Carbon Capture Essential to Fighting Climate Change?
From: Open to Debate
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When it comes to carbon dioxide, 2022 was a record year. So...what can be done? One potential method is called carbon capture and storage, a techno...

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  • Added: May 04, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
2023-04-30 The Power of Prediction
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is your brain a camera that records the world, or a projector that imposes pictures on it?

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  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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743-Alex’s Catch(531)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroids, Credit: NASA
On a cold windy night, with clouds frustrating his search, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Alex Gibbs discovered 8 new celestial visitors while obs...

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  • Added: Apr 23, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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.

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  • Added: Apr 16, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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 ...

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  • Added: Apr 09, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
2023-03-19 Science and Skepticism
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Our understanding evolves over time—how can we explain that to impatient people who don't trust science?

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  • Added: Mar 20, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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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.

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  • Added: Mar 19, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
2312: Science and Skepticism, 3/21/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Our understanding evolves over time – how can we explain that to impatient people who don't trust science?

  • Added: Mar 14, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
734-Comets Africano(522)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet ISON, Credit: NASA
During Comet C/2018 V4 Africano's last visit to the inner solar system humans were erecting the outer ring at Stonehenge. At the rate human's are c...

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  • Added: Feb 26, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
An Enemy of the People
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Ibsen's surprisingly modern work about the dull complicity of the masses.

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:03
  • Purchases: 38
735-One Thousand(523)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroids, Credit: NASA
For the first time in history, an asteroid hunting team, the Catalina Sky Survey, has discovered more than 1,000 Earth approaching asteroids in a s...

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  • Added: Feb 19, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
733-Lunar Space Rock(521)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Lunar Space Rock, Credit: NASA
Recently, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groller discovered an Earth approaching asteroid which has a speed consistent with it being ejecte...

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  • Added: Feb 12, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
732-Comet Lemmon(520)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet ISON, Credit: NASA
An interstellar traveler visits our neighborhood on its tour of the Milky Way.

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  • Added: Feb 06, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
731-Greg's Comet(519)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Halley's Comet, Credit: NASA
The discovery of a Jupiter family comet whose fate is to become a garden variety main belt asteroid.

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  • Added: Jan 29, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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...

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  • Added: Jan 22, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
2023-01-01 The Examined Year: 2022
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Because the un-examined year is not worth reviewing!

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  • Added: Jan 01, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
Conversations: Gabor Maté, MD
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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In this episode, Emily speaks with physician and author, Dr. Gabor Maté about his latest book, The Myth of Normal, which explores the connections b...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 56:42
2022-12-04 Thinking Like A Conspiracy Theorist
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Don’t the vast majority of people believe at least some conspiracy theories?

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  • Added: Dec 05, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 3

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