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Teaching HTML/CSS, Unplugged and Offline
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
Caption: Sam Taylor with The Coding Workbook., Credit: Sam Taylor
How do you learn web development without a computer, or without any electronic device? Sam Taylor wrote a book to help learners do just that. As a ...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2021
  • Length: 39:51
A Cosmic Odyssey: Decades of Discovery at the Palomar Observatory
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Hale Telescope dome at the Palomar Observatory, Credit: Palomar/Caltech
How astronomers at California’s Palomar Observatory revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos.

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  • Added: Feb 03, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
‘Oumuamua: Avi Loeb says it may have been artificial
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Harvard professor Avi Loeb takes issue with this cigar-like impression of interstellar object 'Oumuamua., Credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser
Is interstellar object ‘Oumuamua an alien artifact? Harvard professor Avi Loeb explores his hypothesis in a new book and in a fascinating conversat...

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
Aerospace Engineering Entrepreneur
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
Caption: Pictured: Mishaal Ashemimry, Credit: Mishaal Ashemimry
Mishaal Ashemimry is an aerospace engineer and pilot who, after working for major aerospace organizations, formed her own aerospace startup to desi...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2021
  • Length: 53:03
7 More Minutes of Terror: Perseverance Arrives at Mars
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This illustration shows the events that occur in the final minutes of the nearly seven-month journey that NASA's Perseverance rover takes to Mars. Hundreds of critical events must execute perfectly and exactly on time for the rover to land on Mars safely , Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
JPL engineer Gregory Villar prepares us for the perilous descent and landing of the 2020 Mars rover on February 18th.

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  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Top of Mind - Black Women, Laser Weapons, Solar Flares
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1 - Black Women; Topic 2 - Laser Weapons; Topic 3 - Solar Flares

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  • Added: Jan 19, 2021
  • Length: 51:44
  • Purchases: 5
A Symphony for 7 Moons
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Volcano Loki Patera erupts on Jupiter's moon Io. Io inspired the first movement of The Moons Symphony., Credit: NASA
Composer Amanda Lee Falkenberg is joined by Cassini project scientist Linda Spilker and retired astronaut Nicole Stott as she shares excerpts from ...

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  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Solar Cruiser: A Giant Sail Prepares for Space
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist concept of the Solar Cruiser sail approaching the Sun, though it won't actually get nearly this close., Credit: NASA
NASA has given the green light to Principal Investigator Les Johnson and his team for construction of a solar sail that dwarfs all that have come b...

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  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
Covid-19
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Book cover, Credit: Jacket design Danielle Allyssa
In March of 2020, after months of downplaying of COVID by officials, the death rate could no longer be ignored. By late fall, as many Americans wer...

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  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Planetary Society All-Stars Review 2020 Space Milestones
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NASA astronauts Bob Behnken (left) and Doug Hurley are all smiles after safely returning to Earth aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon on 2 August 2020. The mission, Demo-2, was the first crewed flight of NASA's Commercial Crew program., Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
In spite of everything, 2020 was a good year for space exploration according to five of The Planetary Society’s experts.

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  • Added: Dec 30, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
What's Old Is New Again: Going Medieval on the Cult of Innovation (2015)
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: The astrolabe was a marriage of the planisphere and dioptra, effectively an analog calculator capable of working out several different kinds of problems in astronomy.
It’s December 29th. For our last show of 2020 we’ll turn back to a program from July 2015 as an attempt to hit the reset button. While the book of ...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
Astronaut Stephanie Wilson Might Walk on the Moon
From: Mat Kaplan
Caption: NASA astronaut Stephanie Wilson in the International Space Station cupola during one of her space shuttle missions., Credit: NASA
18 astronauts on the Artemis Team have a shot at walking on the Moon, and Stephanie Wilson is one of them.

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  • Added: Dec 22, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 3
What Do You Need to Make Martian Oxygen? MOXIE!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist concept of the Perseverance rover examining an outcrop on Mars., Credit: NASA/JPL-CALTECH
Making oxygen from the Martian atmosphere will be essential if humans are ever to visit and work on the Red Planet, and the MOXIE experiment will s...

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  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Lloyd Alter: Design Trends in Housing + E-Bikes
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Lloyd Alter
2020 has certainly been a strange year. Everyone is waiting for things to go “back to normal” but what will normal be? Will there be any adaptation...

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  • Added: Dec 09, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Welcoming a New Leader, and China’s Audacious Moon Mission
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: China's Chang'e-5 lunar lander makes an impression on the Moon., Credit: PRC
Bill Nye helps us welcome the Planetary Society’s new president who also leads a new Moon mission, while China’s lunar sample return spacecraft is ...

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  • Added: Dec 09, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Observatory Director Francisco Córdova on the Devastating Loss of Arecibo
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The great radio telescope at Arecibo in better days., Credit: NSF/UCF
Host Mat Kaplan talked with the Arecibo Observatory director just hours before the giant radio telescope came crashing down.

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  • Added: Dec 02, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
Top of Mind - Vietnam Stories, Artificial Intelligence Friend
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1 and 2 - “The Mountains Sing”: Trauma, Resilience and the Legacy of War in Vietnam, Topic 3 - An App That’s Designed to Be Your BFF

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  • Added: Nov 30, 2020
  • Length: 52:07
  • Purchases: 3
More Moon Water and an Update from Venus
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This illustration highlights the Moon’s Clavius Crater with an illustration depicting water trapped in the lunar soil there, along with an image of NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) that found sunlit lunar water., Credit: NASA/Daniel Rutter
Astronomer Jane Greaves returns with an update on the phosphine gas floating above Venus, before Casey Honnibal takes us through her team’s discove...

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  • Added: Nov 25, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 11/24/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Gabe makes a house call with Conor in quarantine to find out he's tested negative for the coronavirus. But he's not out of ...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
Future Rising
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Andrew Maynard
Most of us spend a good part of our time in the future. That is, we ponder what tomorrow brings. Or, even later today. Though we only have a snapsh...

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  • Added: Nov 23, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Revealing Mars From Above, and Crew Dragon is Go!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured these sand ripples and the large dune (at center) on Feb. 9, 2009. Color has been added to make textures easier to see., Credit: NASA/JPL-CALTECH
Two pioneering Mars orbiters are still doing great work above the Red Planet, while the first operational Crew Dragon spaceship has delivered four ...

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  • Added: Nov 18, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
A Rogue World Wanders as PlanetVac Heads for the Moon and Mars
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: An artist's impression of a gravitational microlensing event by a free-floating planet., Credit: Jan Skowron / Astronomical Observatory, University of Warsaw
A distant, lonely planet has been discovered as it wanders the galaxy, while Bill Nye helps us celebrate selection of a radically-simple sample col...

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
Planetary Health
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Howard Frumkin
Recent events around the globe clearly demonstrates the interconnectedness of human health and the health of our planet. Heat waves in California, ...

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Return to Asteroid Mining, and Digging Into Space Ethics with Joel Sercel
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist impression of TransAstra spacecraft., Credit: TransAstra Corporation
Joel Sercel believes we are entering an era in which asteroid mining and other commercial development of space are imminent, but he’s concerned abo...

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  • Added: Nov 04, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
A Deep Dive into Asteroid Bennu With Dante Lauretta
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: TOUCHDOWN ON ASTEROID BENNU! Rocks fly off asteroid Bennu after NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft touched the surface to collect a sample on 20 October 2020. The sample head touched Bennu's surface for 6 seconds while a bottle of nitrogen gas stirred rocks and, Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
The leader of the OSIRIS REx asteroid sample return mission shares more details of last week’s encounter in an exclusive interview, while we also l...

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  • Added: Oct 27, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11

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