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Cell Phones and Brain Cancer with Ellen Marks
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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One woman's heartbreaking story of her husband's brain cancer diagnosis, and why cell phone manufacturers warn users never to hold the phone agains...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Oct 23, 2023
  • Length: 28:17
  • Purchases: 2
Spinning Science for Profit with Dr. Laura Vandenberg
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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After the news headlines, Dr. Vandenberg talks about her work studying the techniques big companies use to undermine science and create doubt.

Bought by WMUU-LP, WRFA-LP, and WYAP


  • Added: Oct 16, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Nuclear Weapons in Space with Karl Grossman
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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How the military is preparing space for the next world war.

Bought by WRFA-LP and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:45
  • Purchases: 2
Blue Light Trouble with Dr. Josh Rosenthal
From: Doug Wood
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Blue light from device screens can upset your body's internal clock with dangerous consequences.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 28:51
Kids & Tech Addiction with Dr. Victoria Dunckley
From: Doug Wood
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End Meltdowns, Raise Grades, and Boost Social Skills by Reversing the Effects of Electronic Screen-Time

  • Added: Jul 10, 2023
  • Length: 28:42
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
The Politics of Plastic with Judith Enck
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Fore EPA Region II Administrator Judith Enck tells why we need legislation to make companies like Coca Cola do the right thing.

Bought by WRFA-LP and WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:32
  • Purchases: 2
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
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
Glow Kids with Dr. Nicholas Kardaras
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Addiction expert Dr. Nick Kardaras, author of the best-selling book "Glow Kids" talks about how our kids are suffering psychologically from too muc...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:24
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
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
652-Our Number(314)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard discovered, 2016 WJ1, a relatively large asteroid which can come close but will not hit the E...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, WTIP and more


  • Added: Jul 25, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
620-Interstellar Travelers
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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For millennia humans have gazed into the night sky and have dreamed of traveling to the stars. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that one ...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, WLPR , WTIP and more


  • Added: Dec 11, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Highlights of SXSW Edu 2019
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
Caption: Photo of the VR Merge technology on display at the SXSW Edu 2019 expo. , Credit: Pius Wong
If you missed the 2019 edition of the South by Southwest Education (SXSW Edu) conference in Austin, Texas, we rehash some highlights that you may h...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2019
  • Length: 26:46
EP 8 When Vermont's "Precision Valley" Changed The World
From: Sarwar Kashmeri
Series: Orient Espresso
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The tools, techniques, and the methods which make mass production possible were pioneered at the Robbins & Lawrence Armory in Windsor, Vermont. But...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2016
  • Length: 04:49
#744- Changes are happening in solar stocks and the markets they are in
From: marc cuniberti
Series: Money Matters Economic Forum
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
Change is coming to solar stocks and their markets as the solar industry grows and big utilities begin to invest heavily in this alternative energy...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
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.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jun 19, 2016
  • Length: 59:52
  • Purchases: 1
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine Week Ending November 28, 2014
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: New U.S. -China Carbon Targets Fall Short of Reductions Needed to Avert C...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine Week Ending November 7, 2014
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Recent Attacks Targeting Canadian Soldiers Offer Politicians Rationale to ...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
172: American Freedom?
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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The U.S. House of Representatives voted this week to destroy the program that has enabled the recovery of six endangered species through a successf...

  • Added: May 21, 2012
  • Length: 05:25
Building Green
From: Bill Baue
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1