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My Magical Monsoon Belief System
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Well, I spent so much time jabbering about my conversion to a desert rat and monsoon believer that I left some stuff out and so here is what I left...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2019
  • Length: 04:55
554-Martian Rolling Stones
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Imagine how strange and wonderful it would be to witness such an event. When the impacting object hit it produced huge boulders, which held loose...

Bought by WTIP, WLPR, and KSFR


  • Added: Sep 06, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 3
552-Night Sky Surprise
From: Al 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 WTIP, KSFR, WLPR, KRZA, and KRWG


  • Added: Aug 23, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
S1 E8 Even The Morgue Has a Wait List
From: Emily Silverman
Series: The Nocturnists
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Hospital administrator Galen Laserson recounts the time she got an unexpected call in the middle of the night, which prompted her to learn all abou...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2019
  • Length: 30:10
542-Toughest Asteroid
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An asteroid has been discovered that comes very near to the Sun where it receives 12.6 times the radiation that heats the planet Mercury's surface...

Bought by WLPR, WTIP, KKRN, KRWG, and KSFR


  • Added: May 31, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
An Expose on The Essence of Hip Hop and The Culture that's brought the world closer with Paul Miller aka Dj Spooky
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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An Expose on The Essence of Hip Hop and The Culture that's brought the world closer with Paul Miller aka Dj Spooky.

  • Added: May 27, 2019
  • Length: 27:41
59: Flatworms
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Can Flatworms remember how to find food after re-growing their heads? Science rolled up its sleeves and found out.

  • Added: May 14, 2019
  • Length: 04:47
Live From The Fantasy Garden
From: Katie Stone
Series: The Children's Hour
Caption: Children's Fantasy Garden, Credit: ABQ Biopark
The Children's Hour broadcast live from the Albuquerque Biopark's Children's Fantasy Garden, exploring horticulture and entomology with park scient...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2019
  • Length: 59:47
55: Super Recognizers
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Two percent of the population has the almost uncanny ability to recognize and remember faces from chance meetings even years before. We talk about ...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2019
  • Length: 05:15
53: Barbed Wire Phones
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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One more example of how farmers MacGyver everything. No phone lines? Use the fence.

  • Added: Apr 04, 2019
  • Length: 03:42
Poet and Essayist Kathryn Nuernberger
From: New Letters on the Air
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Women's History Month concludes with poet and essayist Kathryn Nuernberger. She discusses how she once shied away from being a "woman writer" and w...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
530-Cuban Meteorites
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A large fireball meteor which exploded over Cuba produced a number of interesting results.

Bought by WTIP, KUPR low power FM, WLPR, and KKRN


  • Added: Mar 08, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 4
Sam Liebl — Cheating cheatgrass in the west
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes spoke with journalist and master of environmental management candidate Sam Liebl.

Bought by KBUT


  • Added: Jan 31, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Poets and NEA Fellows Hadara Bar-Nadav & Kathryn Nuernberger
From: New Letters on the Air
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Poets Hadara Bar-Nadav and Kathryn Nuernberger, who were both chosen as 2017 NEA Literary Fellows, talk about their work in this interview at the K...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Arcadia (Part Two) and The Unexpected Man
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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The conclusion of Tom Stoppard's crash course in landscape gardening, literature, and chaos theory.

Bought by KKRN, Spokane Public Radio, KMUN, KKRN, KWMR and more


  • Added: Jan 16, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 15
Arcadia (Part One)
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A crash course in mathematics, landscape gardening, literature, and chaos theory, courtesy of Tom Stoppard.

Bought by KKRN, Spokane Public Radio, KKRN, KWMR, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jan 16, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 15
34: Wombat Poop
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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It's there and it's square. And now we know why.

  • Added: Jan 14, 2019
  • Length: 02:47
522-Comets Africano
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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...

Bought by KRWG, WLPR, WTIP, KKRN, and KUPR low power FM


  • Added: Jan 12, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
521-Lunar Space Rock
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Growler discovered an Earth approaching asteroid which has a speed consistent with it being eject...

Bought by WLPR, WTIP, KRZA, KKRN, KRWG and more


  • Added: Jan 05, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
Tooth and Claw
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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In one of the most complex ecosystems on the planet, a vicious battle for resources in underway.

Bought by WCPN, KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio, KMUN, KWMR and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 26
507-Eric's Night
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid hunters are developing the equipment and skills which enable them to predict the impact of tiny space rocks. Thus in the future you may h...

Bought by WLPR, KUPR low power FM, KRWG, WTIP, and KKRN


  • Added: Oct 28, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
319: Even Stranger Things / 320: Empathy For Monsters, 10/27/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Even Stranger Things" - Paranormal psychic spy hunters? It was a real U.S. Army project. Join us for an hour of even stranger things. ...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
491-One Half Inch
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Fuzzy, spread out, asteroid images due to atmospheric and or equipment produced distortions can cause important objects to slip through an asteroid...

Bought by WLPR, KUPR low power FM, KKRN, WTIP, and KRWG


  • Added: Aug 30, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
484-Aliens?
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Most Astronomers find it hard to believe that given perhaps a trillion planets in the Milky Way alone that our Earth is the only one which hosts li...

Bought by WTIP, KUPR low power FM, WLPR, KKRN, and KSFR


  • Added: Aug 03, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
480-A Large Visitor
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Statistically, asteroid hunters are thought to have discovered 90% of our potentially dangerous celestial neighbors greater than 1 KM in diameter. ...

Bought by WLPR, KSFR, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM, and WTIP


  • Added: Jul 20, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5

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