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From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio

The pyramids of Guinness 12-packs at our High Desert grocery stores reminded us of St. Patrick’s Day coming up, but the grey cloudy skies and green...

The Spiritual Intoxication of the Wilderness Walk

From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio

One thing people like to do when they’re given some liberties — or when they take the liberty that’s usually there for the taking, if anybody wants...

Bought by KFCF FM

The Fun Part of Summer

From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish

“Sounds Jewish” welcomes summer with seasonal songs and shtick from around the Jewish world.

Bought by WLPR

Who By Fire, Who By War

From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio

It’s a beautiful spring in the desert, which naturally makes one dream of heading off to war. Maybe a secret war, a guerrilla war, an unknown soldi...

Bought by KFCF FM

Constant Wonder - Sprouting a Seed That Survived the Roman Siege

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

When Romans put down a Judean rebellion in 73 AD, they also extinguished the Judean date palm. Two thousand years later, an unlikely pair of scient...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida

Real-Estate Scoundrels & Flying Black Triangles

From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio

We are back with a new episode, all about the wonders of the High Desert, and the various aerial portents we call Wonders in the Sky. PLUS: If you'...

Bought by KFCF FM

Alien Corpses of the Great Basin

From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio

You ever drive the "Loneliest Road In America"? That's what they call U.S. 50, across the Great Basin Desert through the middle of Nevada. Not many...

Bought by KFCF FM

A Million Scorched Joshua Trees

From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio

It's almost the Great Conjunction and we've been on the run, on the road, rambling around. It was time to visit the devastation on Cima Dome, where...

Bought by KFCF FM

InsideApp201021: 3 Stories About Fierce Appalachian Women, 10/15/2020

From: West Virginia Public Broadcasting
Series: Inside Appalachia

This episode is all about one of Appalachia’s most critical natural resources — fierce women. We hear what happens when Abigail Washburn and Wu Fei...

What Creates More Greenhouse Emissions - Flying Or Driving?

From: Possibly

In general, if you're traveling alone, driving creates two times the emissions of flying in a plane. Driving with just two people in the car makes ...

Bought by PRX Remix

Is It Possible To Convert Your Gas Car Into An Electric Car?

From: Possibly

Technically yes. There are some car hobbyists who have done this, but there's no streamlined approach to converting your car. The process would be ...

Bought by PRX Remix

490-Mini Moons

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

There are likely to be hundreds smaller than softball sized and perhaps several dozen football to beachball sized, natural Earth mini moons, which ...

Bought by KGLP, KENW, WLPR , WLPR , KUPR low power FM and more

489-Martian Water

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Exciting new research indicates that there could be a lake of liquid water beneath the south Martian polar cap. Further research will be required t...

Bought by KENW, WLPR , WLPR , KUPR low power FM, WTIP and more

421-New Aten

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Aten asteroids can make close approaches to Earth. They are difficult to discover because they spend most of their time inside our orbit with thei...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WEJP-LP 107.1, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM and more

413-Fission Rocket

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

To cut the mission time to Mars, the risks, and the mass of supplies required for such a prolonged space mission NASA is looking at alternative mea...

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

408-Earth's Pet Rock

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

On it's gravitational leash, Earth's pet space rock, 2016 HO3, accompanies us at a distance of between 38 and 100 times the Moon's distance from Ea...

Bought by KENW, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM, WTIP, KKRN and more

392-Dragon Delivers

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

The SpaceX 11 Dragon mission is the first time an American spacecraft has visited the space station since the NASA Space Shuttle Program ended in A...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KSFR, KRWG and more

Interview w/ Journalist Bill Carlsen author of "Jungle of Stone: The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey & The Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya"

From: Out of Bounds

Journalist (LAT) and author BILL CARLSEN discusses his compelling book "Jungle of Stone: The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey & T...

389-Tiny Spacecraft

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

About the size of a saltine cracker and having a mass of less than 2 dimes, the single-board Sprite spacecraft has all the essentials; solar panels...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WLPR , KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and more

385-Phoning Home

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Cell phone technology will be used to explore our Moon. Lunar tourists will be able to use their smart phones after 2018.

Bought by KENW, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WLPR , KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KKRN and more

383-Moon Water

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

The Moon is water rich and can supply lunar colonists with many of their needs.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KRWG, KKRN and more

380-Southern Colleagues

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

In this age in which science is being advanced by large teams of scientists with budgets in the millions to billions of dollars, it is gratifying t...

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