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Why is America So Afraid of China?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Have the US and China given up on engagement?

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


  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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...

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  • 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.

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  • 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?

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  • Added: Apr 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Triangle of Sadness
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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Ruben Östlund’s satire on the ruling class takes us on a luxury cruise headed for disaster.

  • Added: Apr 12, 2023
  • Length: 03:33
Banning TikTok: The Latest Viral Dance in the US-China Trade War
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Can we find common ground with China in the face of escalating tensions?

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  • Added: Apr 06, 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

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  • Added: Apr 02, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
781: The Year Of Return / 782: Listen To Your City, 4/1/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "The Year Of Return" - 2019 marked the "year of return" to Ghana – attracting visitors from throughout the African diaspora. Now, scores ...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:01
A Woman’s Seat at the Table
From: Mateo Schimpf
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How can women level the playing field, and what happens when one woman takes matters into her own hands?

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  • Added: Mar 23, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Pandemic Lessons We Haven’t Learned (And Why It’s Not Too Late)
From: Mateo Schimpf
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It’s been three years since the lockdowns of COVID-19. How can we make up for lost time?

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  • Added: Mar 16, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
RESCUE, part 10: UNCLOS and Biological Diversity
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week we continue the multi-part RESCUE series with a continuation of UNCLOS, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. In early Mar...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2023
  • Length: 04:58
How Long Can Ukraine Hold On?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we look at the remarkable resilience of Ukraine, and the complex geopolitical stakes for Russia, the US, and China as Putin’s war drags on.

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  • Added: Mar 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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Why China Can’t Forget the Century of Humiliation
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Authors Orville Schell and John Delury join Ray to discuss China’s quest for global dominance.

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  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Sacred Sueños Reforestation Project: Off-Grid and Off-Road in the Andes - EcoJustice Radio
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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Yves Zehnder tells how he ended up off-grid, off-road and offline in a quest to live simply as a homesteader with a far smaller than average footpr...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
The NRA Takes Aim In Brazil
From: Mateo Schimpf
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How did Brazil’s love of guns lead to an attack on its Congress earlier this year?

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  • Added: Feb 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Should We Be Worried About the Great Global Slump?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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What does inflation mean for our pocketbooks, and for our mental health?

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2023
  • Length: 59:45
  • Purchases: 7
730-Busy Night(518)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid, Credit: -Dieter-Spannknebel-Getty-Images
On Halloween night while observing with the Catalina Sky Survey's 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona I discovered 21 space rocks streaking th...

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  • Added: Jan 22, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Maria Candelaria
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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A drama of a woman unjustly ostracized reveals deeper meanings, in a breakthrough work of Mexican cinema.

  • Added: Jan 18, 2023
  • Length: 02:26
Blue Dimensions L04: The Universe's Wildest Dream from Marcus Strickland
From: Bluesnet Radio
Series: Blue Dimensions
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exciting new music from saxophonist/composer Marcus Strickland on the album "The Universe's Wildest Dream."

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
What a GOP-Controlled House Means for US Foreign Policy, with Andy Kim
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Ray sits down with Rep. Andy Kim and CFR's Chris Tuttle to answer why Washington needs to do a better job of including the American people in forei...

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  • Added: Jan 11, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
BD-L03: New music from singer Kari Kirkland and drummer Jonathan Mills
From: Bluesnet Radio
Series: Blue Dimensions
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The new album "If (When You Go)" from singer Kari Kirkland and a debut album from drummer Jonathan Mills

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  • Added: Jan 11, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
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...

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  • Added: Jan 08, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Blue Dimensions L02: Lisa Hilton's "Paradise Cove"
From: Bluesnet Radio
Series: Blue Dimensions
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new music from Lisa Hilton, Eddie Palmieri, Gilbert Castellanos, and the band Out To Dinner

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  • Added: Jan 04, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
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...

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  • Added: Jan 01, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Women, Life, and Freedom for Iran, with Reza Aslan and Golnaz Esfandiari
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Two stories about Iranians' struggle for freedom...100 years apart.

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  • Added: Dec 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5