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794-An Apollo Space Rock to Follow
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Itakowa, Credit: NASA
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Vivian Carjaval was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Ursa Minor with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. ...

Bought by KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Where They Built the Bomb
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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If you want to cool off in this brutal desert summer, you need to get up someplace higher, around 7,000 feet up — the high-desert plateau around Lo...

Bought by KSJE and KFCF FM


  • Added: Aug 12, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 16
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
Caption: Sandra Witelson, Credit: David Kattenburg
Powerful new antibiotics discovered using artificial intelligence. Sitting in a restaurant, staring at a piece of fish. Is it really that expensive...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 58:52
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
682-Falling Space Rocks(459)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Over 100 meteors are recorded in this composite image taken during the peak of the Geminid meteor shower in 2014., Credit: NASA/MSFC/Danielle Moser, NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office
In the early evening of January 17, 2018 six hundred and seventy four observers in 11 States and Canada reported a fireball meteor streaking across...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Feb 20, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
The Science Journal for Kids, with Tanya Dimitrova
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
Caption: Tanya Dimitrova, founder of Science Journal for Kids, Credit: Courtesy of Tanya Dimitrova
Do scientific research articles sometimes sound like another language? To K-12 students, very often it’s yes. Tanya Dimitrova tried to help solve...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2022
  • Length: 48:59
Brad Ricca discusses "True Raiders"
From: Steven Nester
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This book tells the untold true story of Monty Parker, a rogue British nobleman who, after being dared to do so by Ava Astor, the so-called "most b...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2021
  • Length: 27:35
Toronto Business Journal: Michael Cremo, alternative archeologist and Vedic scholar, discusses Human Devolution
From: Ray Samuels
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Michael Cremo, alternative archeologist and Vedic scholar, discusses Human Devolution

  • Added: Jun 02, 2021
  • Length: 01:46:29
Aiming for Equity in K-12 Computer Science, with Rosemary Kamei
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
Caption: Rosemary Kamei of the Silicon Valley Education Foundation., Credit: Silicon Valley Education Foundation
The Silicon Valley Education Foundation (SVEF) is a nonprofit running several programs in K-12 STEM education, including its Computer Science Insti...

  • Added: May 24, 2021
  • Length: 35:39
jerk
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Mechanical engineers must work to eliminate excessive jerk. This is Episode 100 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fasc...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2020
  • Length: 05:51
The Write Question - David Quammen & Humanities Montana - 423
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Samantha Dwyer from Humanities Montana interviews acclaimed science journalist David Quammen about his book, "Spillover: Animal Infections and the ...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2020
  • Length: 23:00
Infectious Agents and Alzheimer's Disease
From: Deborah Van Fleet
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Are Herpes Simplex 1 and other microbes contributing to, if not causing, the brain changes in Alzheimer's Disease? Prominent Alzheimer's researche...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 28:19
WorldCanvass: Space, Cancer Treatments, and Iowa's Bioscience Priorities, Part 1
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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This is an intriguing conversation about research breakthroughs and the many unexpected but essential discoveries that flow from them.

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio


  • Added: Nov 08, 2019
  • Length: 25:02
  • Purchases: 1
WorldCanvass: Space, Cancer Treatments, and Iowa's Bioscience Priorites, Part 3
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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This is an intriguing conversation about research breakthroughs and the many unexpected but essential discoveries that flow from them.

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio


  • Added: Nov 08, 2019
  • Length: 26:21
  • Purchases: 1
WorldCanvass: Space, Cancer Treatments, and Iowa's Bioscience Priorities, Part 2
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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This is an intriguing conversation about research breakthroughs and the many unexpected but essential discoveries that flow from them.

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio


  • Added: Nov 08, 2019
  • Length: 22:30
  • Purchases: 1
WorldCanvass: Artificial Intelligence (Part 3)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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It’s news to very few of us that artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer only in the realm of science fiction—it’s all around us. But what is it...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 26:32
WorldCanvass: Artificial Intelligence (Part 2)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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It’s news to very few of us that artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer only in the realm of science fiction—it’s all around us. But what is it...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 26:15
Randall Fuller, author of "The Book That Changed America"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Bob Kustra interviews Randall Fuller who's written an historical take on how Darwin's Theory of Evolution ignited leaders and thinkers in the US in...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Oct 22, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
zero-indexed
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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One is fun, and zero is a hero, in our engineering programming languages. This is Episode 73 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on fa...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2018
  • Length: 03:42
468-Peek A Boo Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A strange asteroid plays hide and seek with frustrated astronomers.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM, KKRN, KRZA and more


  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Time Blindness: Jack Alpert #222 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Frustrated at the abysmal rate of adoption when seatbelts were introduced into cars in the 1960s, Jack Alpert quit his job as an automotive enginee...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Indie3 Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 4
Thriving Economy: Not Rocket Science – Kate Raworth #220 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Human civilization can thrive while living within sensible limits imposed by a finite system. “Renegade economist” Kate Raworth manages to tell the...

Bought by Indie3 Radio, KTRL, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KNVC Carson City Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 10, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
444-Near Comets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Although no comet nucleus impact on the Earth has been conclusively identified, there is some evidence that suggests the 1908 Tunguska event in Rus...

Bought by KENW, KRWG, KKRN, KSFR, WTIP and more


  • Added: Mar 15, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
443-Unsung Heroes
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In 2017 observers in 50 countries at 440 different observatories made nearly 19 million observations of asteroids and comets which enable scientist...

Bought by KENW, KRWG, KKRN, WTIP, and KUPR low power FM


  • Added: Mar 15, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
442-Brian's Debut
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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During the only 3 clears hours of his first night solo as an asteroid hunter, my new Catalina Sky Survey teammate Brian Africano discovered two new...

Bought by KENW, KRWG, WTIP, KKRN, Bandon Community Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7