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Aqua-Cultural Thoughts
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Seafood is a world staple, under siege by increased consumption and over-fishing. Aquaculture is the necessary alternative, yet is a polarizing iss...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2024
  • Length: 05:18
Healing Wounds with Fish
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This summer we are revisiting some of our favorite World Ocean Radio episodes that highlight optimism for the ocean. This week we are discussing an...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2022
  • Length: 05:19
The Spilhaus World Ocean Map
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Image The Spilhaus Projection World Ocean Map. A world ocean map based on the Spilhaus projection. The Spilhaus map projection was developed in 1942 by Dr. Athelstan Spilhaus. Centered in Antarctica, the world oceans come together to form a singular, conn, Credit: Photo credit: StoryMaps ArcGIS
Visualization is a powerful tool for understanding beyond data, opening our minds and enabling transformative change through a new way of seeing. T...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2021
  • Length: 05:16
21st Century Alchemy: Capturing Carbon from the Ocean
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week on World Ocean Radio we are discussing the challenges of excess carbon dioxide in the air and some of the engineered solutions now being ...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2021
  • Length: 04:47
Batteries, the Rare Metal Quandary and the Deep Sea
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Hydrothermal vent extraction, Credit: © Nautilus Minerals
This week on World Ocean Radio: part twenty-eight of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode we talk about batteries, increasingly in dema...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 05:26
Mapping the Ocean: Physical Cartography
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week on World Ocean Radio: part twenty-one of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode we introduce listeners to the concept of ocean ...

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  • Added: Jan 19, 2021
  • Length: 05:19
  • Purchases: 1
Certify Water
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Market in Ubud, Indonesia , Credit: Bernard Hermant @bernardhermant
There are numerous examples of the ways that water consumption and use go unseen in our daily lives. From clothing to food, from paper to metal and...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2020
  • Length: 04:25
Per Mortem Oleum: Death by Oil
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: The sun is setting on fossil fuels , Credit: @zburival on Unsplash
This week on World Ocean Radio we assert that the age of oil is over: from the rise of renewable energy production worldwide to the reevaluation of...

  • Added: May 19, 2020
  • Length: 05:23
Science News -- Groks Science Show 2016-06-15
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
A live Groks Science talk show from June 15th, 2016! Various science news topics are discussed.

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  • Added: Jun 19, 2016
  • Length: 59:52
  • Purchases: 1
Saving the Planet: Voices From the Planetary Defense Conference
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Some of the attendees at the 2015 Planetary Defense Conference in Frascati, Italy., Credit: ESA CC BY-SA IGO 3.0
We’ve already brought you Planetary Radio Live from the 2015 PDC near Rome, Italy. Now you’ll hear a small sampling of the scientists, engineers, p...

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  • Added: Jun 30, 2015
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 5
LightSail Triumphant! A Mission Press Conference
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: LightSail stretches its sails in low Earth orbit., Credit: The Planetary Society
After a roller coaster ride that included a maddening eight-day silence, the LightSail test mission finally achieved all of its major goals. Leader...

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  • Added: Jun 14, 2015
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 5
A Cassini Update, and LightSail Spreads Its Wings
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Cassini's last close-up view of Saturn's "creepy" moon, Hyperion., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Our most frequent guest, Cassini Project Scientist Linda Spilker, returns with another update on the magnificent mission at Saturn, including evide...

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  • Added: Jun 09, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 5
Getting Humans to Mars with Chris Carberry
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The first human steps onto Mars in this illustration from the 2015 Humans to Mars Report., Credit: Explore Mars, Inc.
Explore Mars revealed the 2015 Humans to Mars Report at a recent conference in Washington. CEO Chris Carberry gives us a quick tour of this realist...

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  • Added: Jun 01, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Spiraling Closer to Ceres With the Dawn Mission's Marc Rayman
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Image of Ceres and its mysterious “bright spots” taken by the Dawn spacecraft from 13,600 km (8,400 miles) above the surface., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
It’s the biggest dwarf planet between here and Pluto, and it has a new permanent resident. The Dawn spacecraft is orbiting Ceres in the asteroid be...

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  • Added: May 18, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 4
Alan Stern and the Rise of Pluto
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist’s concept of the New Horizons spacecraft as it approaches Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, in July 2015., Credit: JHUAPL/SwRI
Humankind’s arrival at Pluto is barely two months away. The science and images have already started to flow from New Horizons, according to the mis...

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  • Added: May 11, 2015
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 5
Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides on LauncherOne and the Return of SpaceShipTwo
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Elected officials hear about Virgin Galactic's LauncherOne rocket and WhiteKnightTwo air launch vehicle., Credit: Virgin Galactic
6,000 job-seekers came to the new Long Beach, California home of Virgin Galactic’s LauncherOne rocket on a recent morning. We sit down with CEO Geo...

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  • Added: Mar 10, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 5
Jonathan Goff Says Let’s Redirect an Asteroid
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's conception of an astronaut collecting a sample from a retrieved asteroid., Credit: NASA
ARM is the Asteroid Redirect Mission, and sometimes it seems that it doesn’t have a friend in the world. But it does, and Jonathan Goff of Altius S...

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  • Added: Feb 23, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Found! Beagle 2 Lander is on Mars
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Orbital image of what is believed to be the Beagle 2 lander on surface of Mars., Credit: HiRISE/NASA/JPL/Parker/Leicester
The Beagle 2 Mars lander disappeared after it separated from the Mars Express orbiter on Christmas Day, 2003. Eleven years later, it has been foun...

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  • Added: Feb 16, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 5
Year of the Icy Worlds
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Cassini Saturn mission Project Scientist and host Mat Kaplan touch the plumes of Enceladus at JPL., Credit: Merc Boyan, The Planetary Society
Emily Lakdawalla coined the phrase, and it is exquisitely appropriate. We’ll visit the Jet Propulsion Lab on its Icy Worlds Day to learn more about...

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  • Added: Feb 10, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 3
LightSail Prepares to Take Flight
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's conception of the LightSail solar sail., Credit: The Planetary Society
The Planetary Society has just announced that LightSail A will be launched into low earth orbit in May. We’ll talk with Project Manager Doug Stets...

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  • Added: Jan 26, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Recipe for a Small Planet
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's conception of exoplanet Kepler -186f., Credit: Wikipedia
Astronomer and planetary scientist Courtney Dressing is the lead author of research that may have found the formula for the mass and composition of...

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  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 4
Dr. J and the World's Biggest Telescope
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's conception of the completed European Extremely Large Telescope, Credit: ESO
Joe Liske, host of Hubblecast, is also the top scientist on the European Southern Observatory’s European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), now und...

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  • Added: Jan 13, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 4
The Exciting Year Ahead on the Final Frontier
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's conception of the Dawn spacecraft approaching Ceres in the asteroid belt., Credit: NASA/JPL
The Planetary Society’s experts look forward to a great year of firsts in the solar system and beyond. Bill Nye the Science Guy provides a status ...

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  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 5
Sara Seager's Quest for Earth's Twin
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: MIT Astrophysicist and Planetary Scientist Sara Seager, Credit: Sara Seager/MIT
MIT planetary scientist and astrophysicist Sara Seager is on a quest. She wants to find a warm, wet exoplanet with signs of life. It could be Earth...

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  • Added: Dec 15, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 3
Orion Launches Into History
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Orion awaits launch atop its Delta IV Heavy rocket., Credit: Jason Davis/The Planetary Society
NASA’s Orion spacecraft has taken its first step toward Mars and an asteroid mission. The Planetary Society’s Jason Davis was at the Kennedy Space...

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  • Added: Dec 09, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 3