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Caregiving as Infrastructure
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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The pandemic has upended caregiving and what it means to be a working mom. More than 2 million women have left the workforce because of the cost an...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2021
  • Length: 04:27
Vaccinating the World Part I: The Problem with Patents
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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President Joe Biden said the United States would be the world’s “arsenal of vaccines” but critics say current plans to donate 80 million doses arou...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2021
  • Length: 03:40
Techno-Racism & COVID at Home and Abroad
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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During the pandemic, disinformation campaigns have been targeting people of color with lies like African Americans can’t get COVID or denying the p...

  • Added: May 20, 2021
  • Length: 04:24
A Successful Summer
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we're talking to David Ross, a community artist turned advocate for youth and creativity. He's currently a me...

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 06:19
Vaccine Access in Rural America
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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In this episode, we will hear how a healthcare worker in Rural Texas is getting the word out about vaccination despite a lack of resources.

  • Added: Apr 16, 2021
  • Length: 04:16
633-Dress Rehearsal
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Bright Fireball Meteor, Credit: NASA
The situation that asteroid hunters both train for and dread is the discovery of a large space rock on a collision course with planet Earth. Recent...

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


  • Added: Mar 12, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
A More Contagious and Virulent Variant
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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This winter a new, more contagious variant of SARS-CoV-2 arose in the United Kingdom: B.1.1.7. The CDC estimates that this will become the dominant...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2021
  • Length: 04:13
604-Comet Rankin
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: The Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona captured this image of Comet NEAT on May 7, 2004. , Credit: NASA
There may be as many as a trillion small icy objects in the Oort cloud near the outer edge of our solar system. Very rarely one of these frozen ice...

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


  • Added: Aug 21, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
598-Illusive Asteroids
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groeller was observing in the constellation of Boötes with our 60 telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he d...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Simply Beautiful, WLPR , WTIP and more


  • Added: Jul 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
596-Next Solar Cycle
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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If the current trend in 11 year solar cycles for the past 50 years continues, we can expect lower than average solar activity and the Earth will...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jun 25, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
RDD: Under Quarantine - The Food Industry
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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For the month of April, The Rough Draft Diaries is going to bring you a short series of phone interviews detailing how the community has been affec...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2020
  • Length: 06:18
581-Planet Hunting
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The hunt is on for Earth like planets which are close enough for us to study in detail. The NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS for...

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


  • Added: Mar 13, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Destress with Meditation - Episode 10
From: Daisy Oz
Series: Happy News
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Join Daisy Oz in this episode on how ABC news anchorman Dan Harris destressed and became happier by meditating. His answers are amazingly simple!

  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
Meditation for Everyone - Episode 6
From: Daisy Oz
Series: Happy News
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Find out how simple meditation practices can make you happier!

  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
Gratitude Brings More Happiness - Episode 2
From: Daisy Oz
Series: Happy News
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Research is proving Gratitude practice benefits our overall well-being and lifts the spirits!

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Feb 07, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Positive School Initiatives - Episode 3
From: Daisy Oz
Series: Happy News
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Find out the latest in research on the inside-out approach that boosts student well-being and resilience with groups forming positive school programs.

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Feb 07, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Prospection & Cultural Differences - Episode 1
From: Daisy Oz
Series: Happy News
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Prospection earns happiness and so does going beyond cultural borders!

  • Added: Feb 06, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
562-Monster Space Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An object the size of this huge space rock enters the Earth's atmosphere every 180,000 years with an energy of 5,800 megatons of TNT. The only pla...

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


  • Added: Oct 31, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
560-Wet Nights
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Siding Spring Observatory, Credit: www.destinationsjourney.com
One of the most frustrating situations for an asteroid hunter is a night when the stars are shining bright above the mountain but the humidity is s...

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


  • Added: Oct 19, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
The World’s Largest Methanol Refinery (and the fight to stop it)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Claudia Riedener has lived in Tacoma since 1998, and is co-founder of the grassroots environmental group Redefine Tacoma., Credit: (photographer unknown)
Special for Climate Week: Barbara Bernstein’s story of communities in the Pacific Northwest of the United States who are fighting mammoth fracked g...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Sep 16, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
546-Snoopy
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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49 years after the Lunar Landing Module "Snoopy" was abandoned by Apollo 10 Astronauts, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls may have spott...

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


  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
520-Comet Lemmon
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An interstellar traveler visits our neighborhood on its tour of the Milky Way.

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, KUPR low power FM, WLPR and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Weird Radio Signals (from Outer Space)
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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were received...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2018
  • Length: 02:36:37
480-A Large Visitor
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Statistically, asteroid hunters are thought to have discovered 90% of our potentially dangerous celestial neighbors greater than 1 KM in diameter. ...

Bought by KENW, WLPR , KSFR, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Jul 20, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
449-Cloud 7
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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To give you an idea of the asteroid traffic in our neighborhood, on a mostly cloudy night, through holes in the clouds, in a space of less than 2 h...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KSFR, KUPR low power FM, Bandon Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7