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Season 1, Episode 2 - 'Immigration Dive' feat Bekah McNeel
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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Immigration journalist Bekah McNeel speaks on the subtleties of this controversial topic.

Bought by KSTK, WDSE, and WOJB


  • Added: Dec 28, 2023
  • Length: 58:02
  • Purchases: 3
“OK Boomers” Get Back to Work
From: Mateo Schimpf
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While many Baby Boomers have already left the workforce behind, almost half are considering coming out of retirement in search of a new purpose in ...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), KICI Iowa City, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Oct 18, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
750-Asteroid Slam(538)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: DART, Credit: NASA
Humans are slamming projectiles into space rocks. These experiments will give us the know how to deal with a dangerous space rock which has our num...

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


  • Added: Jun 11, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
749-Earth Glow(537)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Earth Glow, Credit: NASA/ESA
In 1972 Apollo 16 astronauts took an ultraviolet image of the Earth from the Moon which shows that like the Sun ,the Earth too, has a faint corona ...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KGLP and more


  • Added: Jun 04, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
744-Teddy’s Debut(532)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Opening the 60 Inch on Mt. Lemmon , Credit: CSS/U. Arizona
On a recent training night with Teddy Pruyne at the controls of our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona, this duo discovered six new Earth App...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, Raven Radio, WTIP, RADIOLEX, KGLP and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
743-Alex’s Catch(531)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroids, Credit: NASA
On a cold windy night, with clouds frustrating his search, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Alex Gibbs discovered 8 new celestial visitors while obs...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP, KICI Iowa City, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Apr 23, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
742-Cuban Meteorites(530)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A large fireball meteor which exploded over Cuba produced a number of interesting results.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KICI Iowa City, KGLP, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Apr 16, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
War Games: The High Stakes of North Korea’s Nuclear Armament
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Does anyone win in nuclear war?

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
740-Asteroid Billiards(528)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Vega's Asteroids, Credit: NASA
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test or DART for short will test methods to make a dangerous asteroid miss Earth

Bought by KICI Iowa City, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX, KGLP, WTIP and more


  • Added: Apr 02, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
728-Space Weather(516)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Earth Engulfed in Space Weather, Credit: NASA
Space is not all that far away. If a powerful solar eruption in 2012 had happened a week earlier, the blast of radiation would have caused wide spr...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP, KICI Iowa City, Raven Radio, Simply Beautiful and more


  • Added: Jan 08, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
727-Dust Moons(515)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Kordylewski's strange "dust moons", Credit: J. Slíz-Balogh
The discovery of two large ghostly neighbors approximately 65,000 by 45,000 miles in size at the L4 and L5 sites approximately 250,000 miles from b...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP, Simply Beautiful, KICI Iowa City, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 01, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Historic Political Transitions in Honduras, Colombia, and Haiti - EcoJustice Radio
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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Jack Eidt discusses new government transitions in Honduras and Colombia. Professor Gerard Pigeon covers the history of Haiti, and why we have seen...

Bought by KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
698-Aliens?(484)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Planetary Alignment over Australian Radio Telescope, Credit: Graeme L. White & Glen Cozens (James Cook University)
Most Astronomers find it hard to believe that given perhaps a trillion planets in the Milky Way alone that our Earth is the only one which hosts li...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KICI Iowa City, RADIOLEX, WTIP and more


  • Added: Jun 12, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Lt. Col. Alex Vindman and the New Cold War with Russia
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In an interview with Ray Suarez, retired Lt. Col. Alex Vindman speaks about his time in the Trump White House, the consequences of the politicizati...

Bought by RADIOLEX, Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Mar 31, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Medical Apartheid and the COVID-19 vaccines (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The world is struggling to contain COVID-19, as variants continue to emerge in countries where the virus is spreading unchecked, killing thousands....

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Colombian Military Complex
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we’re looking at Colombia, its increasingly tenuous peace process, and how US intervention has shaped the country, for better or for worse.

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Aug 12, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Are the Olympics Worth It? Athletes and Historians Weigh In
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this week’s episode, we take a look at what it takes (and costs) to host the world’s largest sporting event during a global crisis. We hear from...

Bought by Classic107.3, GCR (Global Community Radio), WMUU-LP, RADIOLEX, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Jul 15, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Salvaging the Iran Nuclear Deal
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this week’s episode, we talk about the tenuous state of US-Iran relations. Just who is the newly elected president of Iran -- and will the Iran ...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Jul 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
How Has COVID-19 Changed Education?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this episode, we look at the lasting effects of the pandemic on education around the world.

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, RADIOLEX, WHCP-LP Cambridge, and Maine Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Israel and Palestine: Will the Ceasefire Last?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this episode, we look at this seemingly never-ending Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Biden and Netanyahu’s approaches to the conflict, and emergin...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, RADIOLEX, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Jun 03, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
When Your Country Doesn’t Trust You (AAPI Heritage Month Story)
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this episode, we hear from US Congressman Andy Kim about how the power competition between China and the US creates fear and anxiety on the home...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, RADIOLEX, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: May 13, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Democracy in Peril + A Resurgent Russia
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this episode, we’re partnering with the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University to talk about the state of dem...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Feb 17, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Brexit: What Happens Now?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we talk with Irish Times columnist Fintan O’Toole and two political activists on opposite sides of the Brexit debate.

Bought by Classic107.3 and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Feb 03, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
How White Supremacy Fueled the Attack on the Capitol
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, former FBI special agent Michael German explains why the bureau deprioritized the threat posed by white supremacists. Then, historian Ne...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Strongmen: From Mussolini to Trump
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat has spent her career warning about the stealth strategies authoritarian leaders use to gain power. In her new book, Strong...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4