All Pieces for PRX

 
From Another Star
From: PRX
Series: Orbital Path
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NASA has been on the lookout for rogue asteroids for years. Then astronomers in Hawaii glimpsed a massive, cigar-shaped object — from another solar...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KICI Iowa City, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Dec 15, 2017
  • Length: 16:15
  • Purchases: 3
Winter's Night Sky
From: PRX
Series: Orbital Path
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Today’s astrophysicists probe the farthest reaches of the universe using instruments impossible to imagine when the constellations were named. But...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KICI Iowa City, KUER, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 01, 2017
  • Length: 12:00
  • Purchases: 4
Jonny Meister's Zeitfunk Acceptance Speech
From: PRX
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Jonny Meister won the "Most Licensed Debut Group" in the 2012 Zeitfunk Awards for his group, "Bluesnet Radio." Here is his acceptance speech.

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Nov 27, 2017
  • Length: :35
  • Purchases: 1
Aliens Again!
From: PRX
Series: Orbital Path
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Almost two years ago, Orbital Path launched with an episode on our fascination with space aliens. But what’s really going on out there on KIC8462852?

Bought by KPIP-LP, WCNY, KICI Iowa City, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 17, 2017
  • Length: 16:37
  • Purchases: 4
Time and Space in the Kingdom of Bhutan
From: PRX
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Physicists are coming to terms with a strange new concept of Time — strange and new, perhaps, to many western minds. But it’s a notion that feels ...

Bought by KUER and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 03, 2017
  • Length: 09:35
  • Purchases: 2
The 11 Dimensions of Brian Greene
From: PRX
Series: Orbital Path
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It’s time we get over out three-dimensional selves. 
Brian Greene — world renowned astrophysicist, New York Times bestselling author, NOVA host, an...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KICI Iowa City, and KUER


  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: 29:23
  • Purchases: 3
Minisode 5: Scary Math
From: PRX
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Michelle and NASA astronomer Andrew Booth retreat to the comfort of the hot tub — and Andrew reveals one of his deepest fears: Mathematics.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 11:42
Episode 22: Journey to the Sun
From: PRX
Series: Orbital Path
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People have dreamed of making this trip for millennia. Next year, NASA launches the first ever voyage to the sun.

Bought by KPIP-LP and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Sep 15, 2017
  • Length: 18:00
  • Purchases: 2
Minisode 4: Hot Tub Physics!
From: PRX
Series: Orbital Path
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NASA astronomer Andrew Booth joins Michelle in the hot tub to drink a glass of chardonnay, and talk weird science.

Bought by KPIP-LP, KICI Iowa City, KUER, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 01, 2017
  • Length: 11:27
  • Purchases: 4
Episode 21: First Light
From: PRX
Series: Orbital Path
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Michelle visits a Nobel Prize winner who took a “baby picture” of the universe — NASA cosmologist John Mather.

Bought by KPIP-LP, KICI Iowa City, and KUER


  • Added: Aug 18, 2017
  • Length: 22:53
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 20: Holy Sheet!
From: PRX
Series: Orbital Path
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A NASA mission probes mysteries of a planet very much like our own....

Bought by KPIP-LP and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 04, 2017
  • Length: 20:49
  • Purchases: 2
Mini-sode 3: Dr. Thaller Helps You Prep for The Eclipse
From: PRX
Series: Orbital Path
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The big one is coming! That is, the total solar eclipse of Aug. 21. Dr. Thaller shares her wisdom on how best to view the eclipse and its larger im...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 20, 2017
  • Length: 11:16
  • Purchases: 3
Mini-sode 2: What up, Jupiter?
From: PRX
Series: Orbital Path
Caption: <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/images/index.html">Jupiter from the Juno mission</a>
Recently, we’ve started to get the first images back from Juno, which is on a mission to Jupiter. Host Dr. Michelle Thaller walks us through the re...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KICI Iowa City, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: 06:47
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 19: We Are Stardust
From: PRX
Series: Orbital Path
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Dr. Michelle Thaller visits the NASA lab that discovered that meteorites contain some of the very same chemical elements that we contain. Then, Mic...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KICI Iowa City, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jun 20, 2017
  • Length: 16:55
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 18: Cassini Countdown
From: PRX
Series: Orbital Path
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When the Cassini spacecraft blasted into space on October 15, 1997, even the most optimistic scientists would have had a hard time predicting the m...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KUER, KRZA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 23, 2017
  • Length: 22:30
  • Purchases: 4
Episode 17: Making (Gravitational) Waves
From: PRX
Series: Orbital Path
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Nearly 100 years after Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves — huge undulations in the fabric of space-time itself — in 2015, det...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KICI Iowa City, and KVSC


  • Added: Apr 21, 2017
  • Length: 26:21
  • Purchases: 3
Mini-sode 1: NASA’s NICER Mission
From: PRX
Series: Orbital Path
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Listeners requested more episodes, so we present the first of our mini episodes. They’ll arrive two weeks after each monthly regular episode, and i...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KICI Iowa City, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and Radio Newark


  • Added: Apr 03, 2017
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 4
Episode 16: Lessons in Landslides
From: PRX
Series: Orbital Path
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Space science can help track what’s happening on Earth. In this episode, Orbital Path talks landslides and the satellites that monitor them for the...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KICI Iowa City, Gallatin Valley Community Radio, KVSC, KWMR and more


  • Added: Mar 20, 2017
  • Length: 22:09
  • Purchases: 7
Engineering NYC from Below
From: PRX
Series: Transistor
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Head underground to hear how the first subways were built, and how they are built today.

Bought by KUER and Radio Newark


  • Added: Mar 09, 2017
  • Length: 10:11
  • Purchases: 2
Space Robots to Europa!
From: PRX
Series: Orbital Path
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Galileo discovered Europa, Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon, in 1610. In 1977, the Voyager spacecraft buzzed past and we realized it was covered in ic...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KICI Iowa City, KWMR, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KVSC and more


  • Added: Feb 24, 2017
  • Length: 18:44
  • Purchases: 6

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