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817-Interstellar Travelers In The Night
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception of a Rogue Planet, Credit: NASA/JPL/R. Hurt(Caltech-IPAC)
As astronomers learned to measure the distance to the stars and how the laws of Physics works with rockets, it seemed that travel between the stars...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
816-David's Close Approaching Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Encke, Credit: Wikipedia
My Catalina Sky Survey Teammate David Rankin was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Pegasus with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, AZ when...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, KKRN, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 15, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
053: Dyslexia And The Reading Brain, 9/13/2024
From: Embodied
Series: Embodied
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Up to 20% of the population experiences symptoms of dyslexia, a lifelong neurological disorder that makes it difficult to read fluently. Examining ...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
815-RADAR Observes a Binary PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Radar Images of Asteroid 2011UL21, Credit: NASA/JPL
RADAR is very powerful tool since it can precisely measure an asteroid’s position and velocity as well as in some cases yield information about it...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, KKRN, KGLP and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
814-Threat of Solar Storms
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Solar Eruption, Credit: NASA
Solar storms on our home planet occur when bursts of visible, ultraviolet and other photons hit our atmosphere and/or streams of energetic particle...

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


  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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
813-RADAR Observations of Close Approachers
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception of Asteroid Impact, Credit: NASA
Astronomers measure an asteroid’s position on the sky using a two dimensional system similar to the latitude and longitude coordinates we obtain w...

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


  • Added: Aug 25, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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
2024 By Degrees Climate Summit: How Local Communities are Planning for the Future
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
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New Hampshire Public Radio, in collaboration with New Hampshire PBS presents the 2024 by degrees climate summit. Over the last few years, devastati...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2024
  • Length: 52:00
2024 By Degrees Climate Summit: Rising Tide of Solutions-Based Journalism
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
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New Hampshire Public Radio, in collaboration with New Hampshire PBS presents the 2024 by degrees climate summit. Over the last few years, devastati...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2024
  • Length: 52:00
808-Global Auroras on Mars
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Ultraviolet View of Mars from MAVEN Satellite , Credit: NASA
When the Earth enters a stream of high speed protons and other charged particles in the solar wind or our home planet is impacted by a solar corona...

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


  • Added: Jul 22, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
807-Moon Orbit Crossers
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Lunar Impact Crater, Credit: NASA
During a recent 60 day period of time 23 space rocks came closer to Earth than our Moon

Bought by KCHW, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, KRWG and more


  • Added: Jul 14, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
2427: Daniel Dennett Retrospective, 7/2/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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A look at the work of one of the best-known American philosophers, who passed away earlier this year.

  • Added: Jun 28, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
803-Monster NEO
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Vesta, Credit: NASA
Since larger space rocks are rare, it was surprising when my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groller found a half mile diameter asteroid travel...

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


  • Added: Jun 16, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Sky Dancer
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: Points North
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There’s this elusive bird found throughout the Great Lakes region. If you know where to look, you can often spot it where fields and wetlands meet....

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 07:46
Birds of Paradise
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: Points North
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Alison Világ pays attention for a living. She counts migrating ducks at Whitefish Point Bird Observatory, near Paradise, Michigan. It's key to gett...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 13:27
802-Bok Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Halley's Comet, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Kacper Wierzchos was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Draco with the Steward Observatory Bok 90 inch telesc...

Bought by KCHW, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
2024-06-07 Rekindling Our Relationship With Wildfire
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Summer means peak wildfire season. And recently, we’ve seen some of the most destructive wildfires in recorded history. For years the message arou...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KCBX, Maine Public Radio, KUNM, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
240607 : Rekindling Our Relationship With Wildfire, 6/7/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Summer means peak wildfire season. And recently, we’ve seen some of the most destructive wildfires in recorded history. For years the message arou...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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
Season 1, Episode 44 - 'Maintaining Monkeys' feat Andrea Dempsey
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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Exploring the fight to save monkeys from extinction with Andrea Dempsey

Bought by WOJB


  • Added: May 27, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
799-Nature's Gateways
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Milky Way Rising Over the Gila Wilderness, Credit: Steven Miller
The Cosmic Campground International Dark Sky Sanctuary and the Aldo Leopold Gila Wilderness in New Mexico are gateways to nature where man is only ...

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


  • Added: May 19, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
The Pursuit of Happiness: Virtue or Pleasure?
From: Open to Debate
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Happiness is a complex emotion and mental state that can be achieved through virtue or pleasure. But should it be for the good of the individual or...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Boise State Public Radio, WMUU-LP, Troy Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6

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