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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
622-Lonely Vigil
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On some nights an asteroid hunter searches for Earth approaching objects near the ecliptic plane where the planets and most of the asteroids are lo...

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


  • Added: Dec 26, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
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
619-Apophis Campaign
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Apophis, Credit: Dan Durda – FIAAA
Currently scientists, governments, and private citizens are preparing to mitigate a disaster caused by a large incoming space rock. To test techn...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, KSFR, WTIP, KGLP and more


  • Added: Dec 04, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
613-Climate Change and Telescopes
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently, in the journal Nature Astronomy, a team of astronomers led by Dr. Faustine Cantalloube of the Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy released...

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


  • Added: Oct 23, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
612-Day and Night
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Most life on Earth is synchronized to the regular cycles of day and night. Until about a hundred years ago, the natural night sky was familiar to ...

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


  • Added: Oct 18, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
Life of the Law #105: In Studio: Heroin Town
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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Want to know how heroin treatment centers in Canada, the Affordable Care Act, President Trump’s new budget, and Henrietta Lacks all fit into one co...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2017
  • Length: 53:54
Sonnet for the US Ducks Independently Verified to Have been Neither Forcefed for Foie-Gras Production Nor Plucked of Their Feathers and Down During Their Lifetime
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
A United States outdoor clothing store sells coats, labelled to assure us that the down is from US Ducks Independently Verified to Have been Neith...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2017
  • Length: 01:17
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
Infectious Diseases: What factors are at play during disease outbreaks?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this pilot episode of the World Affairs podcast we are looking at diseases: how they are spread, how they are contained, how they are cured. We ...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 12:42
Unspun Revisits Climate Change with Dr. Michael Mann
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Michael Mann
Dr. Doug Craig co-hosts with me, as Unspun revisits the most serious issue of our time, Climate Change (of course), with Dr. Michael Mann. Dr. Mic...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 58:25
Why Ebola Should Be Treated As Though It Is Airborne
From: John Brice
Series: Commentary by John C. Brice, J.D.
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Several reasons are presented which individually and collectively demonstrate why Ebola should be treated as though it is airborne.

  • Added: Oct 04, 2014
  • Length: 04:16
Ebola's Exponential Rate of Contagion
From: John Brice
Series: Commentary by John C. Brice, J.D.
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The World Health Organization this week announced a horrendous fact: the number of Ebola cases in West Africa is doubling every 20 days. If this t...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2014
  • Length: 04:41
In Which an Earthquake Convicts Seismologists of Manslaughter
From: Laurence Yeung
Series: The AudioPh[i]D
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Episode 2 - 12/4/12 - An investigation into the case of Italian seismologists being convicted of manslaughter, more academic news, and the inside s...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 23:35
203: Year in Review
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill will outline five of the major ocean events for the year 2012.

  • Added: Jan 03, 2013
  • Length: 06:26
2012: A Year In Your Ear - Higgs Boson!
From: Mad Genius
Series: 2012: A Year In Your Ear
Caption: The only known image of Mad Genius.
Mad Genius proudly presents the latest song in our "2012: A Year In Your Ear" series: "Higgs Boson!" Geeks rejoice! Researchers at the Large Hadr...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2012
  • Length: 04:04
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
Asthma Epidemic
From: Judy Lubow
Series: Planet Warning
Caption: PRX default Piece image
For reasons yet unknown, more and more Americans each year have been contracting asthma. In spite of the fact that 17% of black children now have...

  • Added: May 26, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
Silent Spring - Again
From: Judy Lubow
Series: Planet Warning
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Rachel Carson would not be happy to see how pervasive the endocrine disrupter BPA has become, and the deleterious effects it is having on our health.

  • Added: Mar 02, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
Dr. Steven Chu, US Secretary of Energy
From: National Press Club
Series: From the National Press Club
Caption: Dr. Steven Chu
Dr. Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy, talks about accelerating innovation to help meet our energy and climate goals at a National Press Club luncheo...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2010
  • Length: 54:00
The Lungs of the Earth in Peril
From: Judy Lubow
Series: Planet Warning
Caption: PRX default Piece image
As the rainforest is being depleted, two new areas of concern arise.

  • Added: Oct 30, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
The Polar Ice Sheets are Melting
From: Judy Lubow
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Stand-alone segment of Planet Warning Series. With the earth heating up with global warming, the polar ice sheets are melting. But nobody knows ho...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
In today's competitive job market, should you have cosmetic procedures to try to look younger?
From: Dueling Docs
Series: Dueling Docs
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In a new, entertaining 2 min. weekly module, former Time Magazine health journalist Janice Horowitz, provides the cure for contradictory medical ne...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2010
  • Length: 02:02
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