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163-Space Junk
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Humans have left their trash in space. Space junk threatens our current activities in many ways.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, and KENW


  • Added: Jul 09, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
162-Icarus Pays A Visit
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The minor planet Icarus travels the inner solar system and makes close approaches to our Sun as well as to the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and M...

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, and KENW


  • Added: Jul 02, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
161-Half A World Away
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Using the long arm of the internet, Russian astronomers are making discoveries using a telescope in New Mexico, USA.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KRZA, KALH and more


  • Added: Jul 02, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
160-ALMA Spots Juno
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Astronomers now have the ability to detect the faint glow from asteroids and other solar system objects.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, and KENW


  • Added: Jun 26, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
159-Good News
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid hunters are starting to discover nearby objects before they make their closest approach to planet Earth.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, and KENW


  • Added: Jun 26, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
157-Kissing Frogs
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An asteroid hunter literally has to sort through millions of objects to find an unknown Earth approaching asteroid.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, and KENW


  • Added: Jun 18, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
156-8 Close Ones
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In the space of less than ten nights, my Catalina Sky Survey teammates discovered 8 new Earth approaching objects. One of them can pass closer to ...

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, and KENW


  • Added: Jun 11, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
Dr Robert Jensen “Arguing for Our Lives: A User’s Guide to Constructive Dialog,”
From: Latin Waves Media
Series: Latin Waves Media
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Dr Robert Jensen on his latest book “Arguing for Our Lives: A User’s Guide to Constructive Dialog,”

  • Added: Jun 05, 2015
  • Length: 28:07
Live from the Tenderloin
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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In the heart of the Tenderloin, amid the crowded corners and occupied stoops, there’s an anomaly that’ll catch your eye. It’s a man in a suit and a...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 05, 2015
  • Length: 07:15
  • Purchases: 1
154-100 Years Of Data
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Soon it will be possible to study changes in the Universe which have occurred over the past 100 years.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, KENW and more


  • Added: Jun 04, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Incredible by Modern Standards
From: WWNO
Series: Katrina: The Debris
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New Orleans is a weather town. As hurricane season begins, hear the most emotional federal weather bulletin ever written. Plus, more on how the Nat...

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: Jun 01, 2015
  • Length: 17:53
  • Purchases: 1
152-Big and Bad
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In the space of a couple of days the Catalina Sky Survey found 3 potentially dangerous asteroids.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, KMXT and more


  • Added: May 28, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
151-A Climate Changer
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Large asteroids which impact the Earth can cause global change.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KKRN, KALH and more


  • Added: May 28, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
LIVE LAW 1: Stupid Motions
From: LIVE LAW
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Calvin Duncan spent over 28 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. In prison, he taught himself the law. He became a jailhouse lawyer and he...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 25, 2015
  • Length: 17:08
  • Purchases: 1
150-How Big It Is
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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For most asteroids our size estimates come from its brightness in the night sky.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, KMXT and more


  • Added: May 21, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
149-Near Venus to Past Jupiter
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A potentially hazardous asteroid has been found which travels on a path which is quite different from most other asteroids.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KREV-LP, KALH and more


  • Added: May 21, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Most Luxurious Vacations
From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
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For the last decade, Mary Murrin lived and worked in Europe as a Cruise Director on the most luxurious riverboats afloat - traveling the Rhine, Dan...

  • Added: May 15, 2015
  • Length: 07:10
146-Stuff of Life
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Astronomers, using a powerful radio telescope in Chile, have discovered that the building blocks of life are present in baby solar systems.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, KMXT and more


  • Added: May 07, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
144-One Of A Million
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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There are millions of small space rocks which come near the Earth. Here is the story of one of them.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, KMXT and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
141-Sailing the Cosmos
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Planetary Society is testing and deploying a small satellite to explore the use of solar sails in space.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, KKRN and more


  • Added: Apr 23, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
140-A Weird Orbit
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroids which travel outside the plane of our solar system are likely to have been involved in a collision sometime in the past.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, KKRN and more


  • Added: Apr 16, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
139-Next Step To Mars
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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NASA is proposing that the next step towards the human exploration of Mars be a manned mission to an asteroid which has been placed into orbit arou...

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, KKRN and more


  • Added: Apr 16, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
138-An Inter-Planetary Visitor
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A small asteroid visits the vicinity of both Earth and Mars.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, KKRN and more


  • Added: Apr 09, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
How the prodigal son became a preacher
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - San Quentin Prison Report
Caption: Derrick Holloway serves as an inmate preacher in San Quentin State Prison., Credit: Nigel Poor
Derrick Holloway grew up in a Christian family, but chose to sell drugs and participate in a lifestyle that resulted in him committing a murder. Af...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2015
  • Length: 06:43
A runner's high in prison
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - San Quentin Prison Report
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Chris Schumacher may be serving a life sentence, but when he runs, he feels a sense of freedom. Once an addict, he now finds that exercise can curb...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2015
  • Length: 04:30

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