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Uncomfy - Sharing a Painful Truth for the Very First Time – Erik DaRosa
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Uncomfy: Sticking with Moments That Challenge Us
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After suffering a mental health crisis, Erik DaRosa made the difficult decision to seek help, and finally share everything he’d been keeping inside.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2024
  • Length: 17:02
240829: THINK: Decoding the Secret Language of Animals, 8/29/2024
From: KERA
Series: Think
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THURSDAY, 8/29 Did you know dolphins call each other by name? Krys Boyd talks with a zoologist about new research into how animals communicate.

  • Added: Aug 28, 2024
  • Length: 58:54
240826: THINK: When Loving Your Pet Means Letting Them Go, 8/26/2024
From: KERA
Series: Think
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MONDAY, 8/26 We all want our beloved pets to live as long as they possibly can. Krys Boyd talks about how expensive – and often unpleasant – treatm...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2024
  • Length: 58:54
811-Martian Meteorite Hunters
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Cacao, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Perhaps someday humans will travel to Mars, walk the surface of the red planet, and collect meteorites. Recent studies suggest Mars to be an excit...

Bought by KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
801-Jacqui’s PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Astronaut on an Asteroid , Credit: NASA (Advanced Concepts Program)
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Jacqueline Fazekas was asteroid hunting with our small but mighty Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona when sh...

Bought by KCHW, Raven Radio, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jun 02, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
787-Far Out
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Milky Way Rising Over the Gila Wilderness, Credit: David Thornburg
In 2024, Voyager I is 163 times further from the Sun than we are and is the most distant, human made, traveler in the night.

Bought by KCHW, KRWG, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
782-Probing The Cosmic Web
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: A Cosmic Thread, Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Feige Wang (University of Arizona)
In the past two decades astronomers have discovered that galaxies are not randomly distributed in space but rather occur along filaments of mass wi...

Bought by KCHW, Raven Radio, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP and more


  • Added: Jan 21, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
2022-03-25 Coping with COVID and Climate Fatigue
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Since March 2020, the global community has grappled with an unprecedented pandemic. At first, most people were willing to do what it takes to keep ...

Bought by KUHF, KGUA, WMUU-LP, Maine Public Radio, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Mar 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
20220325: Coping with COVID and Climate Fatigue, 3/25/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Since March 2020, the global community has grappled with an unprecedented pandemic. At first, most people were willing to do what it takes to keep ...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Zoonotic Viruses and Their Origins
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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There’s a lot we don’t know about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus but there is a consensus that it came from animals. This is called zoonosis. H...

  • Added: May 14, 2021
  • Length: 04:18
A World Wide Web of COVID Conspiracies
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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In this segment of EPIDEMIC, Dr. Celine Gounder looks at disinformation during the pandemic. Specifically, we’re going to look at how the Russian g...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2021
  • Length: 04:06
Deaths of Despair
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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Overdoses have spiked during the pandemic. One of the reasons is a breakdown in the community support so critical to keeping people off drugs. Soci...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 04:21
Hasta la última gota
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Edición Especial de la Pandemia en Español
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¿Intentando destruir el coronavirus? ¡La Organización Mundial de la Salud dice que se lave las manos! Veinte segundos en el lavamanos es suficiente...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 26, 2020
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
Stories from a Pandemic - Episode 10: Mourning
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from a Pandemic
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How does the COVID-19 pandemic end? Does it end in a bang, or just fizzle out? What we know for sure is that this story is far from over. In today...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 12, 2020
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 1
Stories from a Pandemic - Ep.9: Bad Trip
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from a Pandemic
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It takes surprisingly little for the human psyche to come undone. We know that the virus can’t survive when we isolate ourselves, the question is, ...

  • Added: May 28, 2020
  • Length: 30:47
Stories from a Pandemic - Ep.8: Insomnia
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from a Pandemic
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Over the past few weeks, there have been so many news articles about healthcare workers as heroes, or soldiers fighting the battle of coronavirus. ...

  • Added: May 28, 2020
  • Length: 31:40
Stories from a Pandemic - Ep.7: Exhale
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from a Pandemic
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We’ve been holding our breath for weeks now, waiting to turn some corner. While it’s still unclear what the future holds, this week we invite you t...

  • Added: May 28, 2020
  • Length: 30:53
Stories from a Pandemic - Ep.5: Helpless
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from a Pandemic
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What is it like to be a healthcare worker forced to stand on the sidelines during a global pandemic? This week, you’ll hear from diarists from Cali...

  • Added: May 28, 2020
  • Length: 26:29
Stories from a Pandemic - Ep.4: Air
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from a Pandemic
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This week, we continue with audio diaries from healthcare workers around the country who speak about ventilator hacks, breathing tubes, search and ...

  • Added: May 28, 2020
  • Length: 30:55
Stories from a Pandemic - Ep.3: Virus
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from a Pandemic
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In the third episode of our special podcast series on COVID19, you will hear voices of a MICU nurse in San Francisco, an internal medicine resident...

  • Added: May 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:03
Stories from a Pandemic - Ep.2: Arrival
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from a Pandemic
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In this episode of The Nocturnists: Stories from a Pandemic, you will hear diary entries from healthcare workers from New York, California, Massach...

  • Added: May 28, 2020
  • Length: 31:10
Stories from a Pandemic - Ep.1: New World
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from a Pandemic
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In this first episode of our special podcast series, healthcare workers reflect on the imminent patient surge that we have all been bracing for acr...

  • Added: May 28, 2020
  • Length: 31:14
Every Last Drop
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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Trying to destroy coronavirus? The World Health Organization says get to scrubbing! Twenty seconds at the sink should do it. But what if you don’t ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
546-Snoopy
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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49 years after the Lunar Landing Module "Snoopy" was abandoned by Apollo 10 Astronauts, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls may have spott...

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


  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
388-40 Years
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Your representatives, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are heading into deep interstellar space.

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


  • Added: Aug 31, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8