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Season 1, Episode 18 - 'Placemaking For All' feat Mark Lakeman

From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1

How our cities are designed has a direct impact on our humanity towards one another.

787-Far Out

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Milky Way Rising Over the Gila Wilderness, Credit: David Thornburg

In 2024, Voyager I is 163 times further from the Sun than we are and is the most distant, human made, traveler in the night.

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763-Hogan’s Big Rock

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Nucleus Comet Wild-2, Credit: NASA

My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Josh Hogan was asteroid hunting in the constellation Sextans with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona whe...

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752 Lunker

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Comet Johnson, Credit: Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/W. Reach (SSC/Caltech)

My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Jacqueline Fazekas was asteroid hunting , in the evening twilight, with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizo...

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738-Tiny Visitor(526)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Asteroid Near Earth, Credit: ESA

A tiny space rock passes through the cloud of communications satellites surrounding the Earth.

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708-Guard Down(494)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

In 2018, July and August were cloudy and rainy in both Arizona and Hawaii sidelining the worlds two most productive asteroid hunting surveys. A cos...

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707-Ringed Dynamo(493)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Even though humans have been aware of the planet Saturn from from the dawn of history this beautiful object still offers mysteries for us to explore.

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705-One Half Inch(491)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Hubble Image. Sharp star images., Credit: NASA

Fuzzy, spread out, asteroid images due to atmospheric and or equipment produced distortions can cause important objects to slip through an asteroid...

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704-Mini-Moons(490)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Earth Captures Mini-Moon, Credit: K. Teramura UHIFA

There are likely to be hundreds smaller than softball sized and perhaps several dozen football to beachball sized, natural Earth mini moons, which ...

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699-Last One(485)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: The last of the day's sunlight pokes through a monsoon storm building up over the northwest area of the valley, generating lightning strikes but little precipitation, Saturday, July 8, 2017, Tucson, Ariz., Credit: Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star

A huge Earth approaching asteroid is discovered right before the 2018 monsoon rains settled into the American Southwest. This weather imposed break...

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685-Exiled Asteroid(463)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Artist’s concept illustrating a catastrophic collision between two rocky exoplanets in the planetary system BD +20 307, turning both into dusty debris. Ten years ago, scientists speculated that the warm dust in this system was a result of a planet-to-plan, Credit: NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook

An asteroid is exiled to the outer regions of the solar system during Jupiter's rampaging tack away from the Sun long ago. During that process enou...

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684-Our View(462)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Modern technology provides us with stunning views of objects in the Universe in wavelengths invisible to our eyes, however, nothing is as moving an...

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Harm Reduction’s Road From Fringe to Federal Drug Policy

From: Tradeoffs

More people died from drug overdoses during the first year of the pandemic — over 100,000 — than in any previous year. In response, the Biden admin...

669-Seeds(356)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Voyager Leaving Solar System, Credit: NASA

What plant seeds will be left for interstellar travelers to take with them?

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663-Alien Rock?(409)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Asteroid Illustration, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

A rock from another solar system is likely to have streaked by Earth before heading back into interstellar space.

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659-Martian Debris(382)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Martian Trojan asteroids have stable orbits around the Sun, leading and trailing the red planet by 60 degrees, where the Sun's and Mars's gravity a...

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654-Night Vision (401)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Experience the wonders of the Universe first hand using your night vision.

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A Perfect Storm for Depression

From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic

All across the country, life is inching towards a pre-pandemic normal, but the mental health impact of the pandemic will cast a long shadow. This s...

The Post-Pandemic College Experience

From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic

Coronavirus concerns forced many universities to close their campuses this fall. The mix of fewer students on campus, canceled athletics, and onlin...

Vaccine Access in Rural America

From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic

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.

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...

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A More Contagious and Virulent Variant

From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic

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...