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240829: THINK: Decoding the Secret Language of Animals, 8/29/2024

From: KERA
Series: Think

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.

240826: THINK: When Loving Your Pet Means Letting Them Go, 8/26/2024

From: KERA
Series: Think

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...

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

Ch'i and the Lessons of "Rage": Donald Trump through the lens of Sun Tze and Hannah Arendt

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: The 1918 Truth: Wear a mask., Credit: The Topsham Crier/Charles Crosby

The revelations of Woodward's "Rage" are understood best through Sun Tze, the ancient Chinese text also known as The Art of War and the historical ...

How Do You Help Patients Who Show Up in the ER 100 Times a Year?

From: Tradeoffs

Some patients’ lives are so complicated by trauma, poverty and other social problems that routine conditions like diabetes and asthma regularly tur...

An Insurance Company Bought This Doctor’s Practice. She’s Worried About Her Patients

From: Tradeoffs

One doctor debates whether to work for the nation's largest insurance company after it purchased the independent practice she worked for in Oregon.

A New Kind of Primary Care Comes to America

From: Tradeoffs

A group of nurses in Baltimore wants to bring basic care to every person in a neighborhood regardless of age, health, income or insurance. Can this...

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

92,000 Transgender People Took This Survey. Here’s What We Learned

From: Tradeoffs

As lawmakers around the country take aim at transgender rights, we dig into findings from the largest survey ever of trans Americans.

Surprise! Plans To Resolve High Medical Bills Are Still a Mess

From: Tradeoffs

Patients are now mostly protected from surprise bills, but doctors and insurers are still fighting about the prices.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer

Imagining where love came from: Sonnet for the Primordial Gravity Waves

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: Breathing: American Sonnets (Bookshop.org), Credit: Susan Cook

The 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to those who offered proof of the existence of Primordial Gravity Waves. Einstein theorized they were ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City

On the death of Stephen Hawking "Sonnet for The Black Hole" "Sonnet for A Loss"

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: Breathing: American Sonnets , Credit: Susan Cook

Stephen Hawking has died who brought us all to imagine what black holes are and to recognize ourselves in them and him.

Bought by KICI Iowa City

How Pushing Hospitals to Give Away More Free Care Could Backfire

From: Tradeoffs

With high health bills drowning patients in debt, some lawmakers want nonprofit hospitals to give away more free care. But experts warn that could ...

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

786-Comet 31

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Alex Gibbs discovered his 31st comet while asteroid hunting in Leo with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Ariz...

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Why Are People Afraid of the Most Popular Opioid Addiction Treatment?

From: Tradeoffs

Fentanyl killed 75,000 people in 2022. Now it’s making one of the few treatments for opioid addiction harder to use.

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...

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To the First Images Seen of A Black Hole

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: " Breathing: American Sonnets" (Shermans.com), Credit: Susan Cook

Black holes still doing what they do. Re-visiting Einstein imagining his most important discovery.

Bought by KICI Iowa City

777-Psyche Bound

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Artists Conception Psyche Spacecraft, Credit: NASA

The NASA Psyche Spacecraft will use a multispectral imager, gamma and neutron spectrometers, and other instruments to map, measure, and characteriz...

Bought by KCHW, Raven Radio, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more

776-Naming Asteroids and Comets

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Artists Conception Sun and Asteroids, Credit: NASA

Historically explorers in many fields of human endeavor have been granted the privilege to name their discovery. If you find a new comet and it r...

Bought by KCHW, Raven Radio, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., RADIOLEX, WTIP and more

More Hospitals Move to Confront Medical Errors Head On

From: Tradeoffs

One out of every four Medicare patients in the hospital is the victim of a medical error. Over the past 20 years, a growing number of hospitals hav...

Growing Pains as California Adds Social Services to Medicaid

From: Tradeoffs

California’s Medicaid program is two years into the nation’s most ambitious effort yet to cover non-traditional health care services like housing a...

Medical or recreational? States Debate where Psychedelics Belong

From: Tradeoffs

A wave of new research is showing the promise of psychedelics to help with mental health conditions —- like depression and post traumatic stress di...

The 12 Million People Lost in a Maze of Medicare and Medicaid

From: Tradeoffs

Many of America’s poorest and sickest patients are stuck navigating two separate insurance programs — Medicare and Medicaid — to get the care they ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer

764 Green Airglow

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Green Airglow Over Colorado, Credit: Aaron Watson

The natural night sky is alive with its own lights. In addition to celestial sources often there is natural night sky airglow powered by space wea...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KCHW, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more

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