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Season 1, Episode 18 - 'Placemaking For All' feat Mark Lakeman
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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How our cities are designed has a direct impact on our humanity towards one another.

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  • Added: Feb 26, 2024
  • Length: 57:44
  • Purchases: 2
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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  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
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782-Probing The Cosmic Web
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: A Cosmic Thread, Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Feige Wang (University of Arizona)
In the past two decades astronomers have discovered that galaxies are not randomly distributed in space but rather occur along filaments of mass wi...

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  • Added: Jan 21, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
781-Comet C/2023 V5 (Leonard)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Lemmon C/2023 H2, Credit: J.D. Maddy in the Hauchuca Astronomy Club
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Aquarius with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizo...

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  • Added: Jan 14, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
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779-What If An Asteroid is About To Impact Earth?
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Concept of Asteroid Pulversation, Credit: Lubin 2021
A description of a research project whose goal to explore if it would be possible, on short notice, to pulverize a small asteroid so that it woul...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
778-Two Comets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Two Comets in Southern Skies , Credit: Jose J. Chambo (Cometografia)
Matching his wife’s discovery of two comets on the same observing run seven years previously my Catalina Sky Survey team caption Carson Fuls discov...

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  • Added: Dec 24, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Reflecting on three years of war in Tigray, Ethiopia: The 21st century's deadliest conflict
From: Jules Feeney
Caption: Salem Tewelde (left) and her cousin Jerusaliem Gebreziabher (right) during a trip to Sudan to document stories of refugees fleeing violence in Tigray., Credit: Courtesey of Salem Tewelde
On this three-year anniversary of war in Tigray, members of the diaspora spoke about their loss, grief and commitment to solidarity.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2023
  • Length: 04:50
October 13, 2023: Surveillance and Social Media
From: WFHB
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On today’s Kite Line, we are sharing more research conducted collectively by Micol Seigel’s Inside-Out class.

  • Added: Nov 03, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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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  • Added: Sep 10, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
762-Kacper’s PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid IDA, Credit: NASA
An object like 2023 MN5 impacts Earth once every 90,000 years or so creating a crater 5 miles in diameter an 1800 feet deep in sedimentary rock. 5...

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  • Added: Sep 03, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
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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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  • Added: Jun 25, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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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  • Added: Mar 19, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
The Response: Heatwaves and Energy Poverty in the Mediterranean
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We visit southern Europe with our partners at The Response podcast to see how communities are tackling the problem of energy poverty.

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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708-Guard Down(494)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Earth, Credit: NASA
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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  • Added: Aug 21, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
707-Ringed Dynamo(493)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Saturn, Credit: NASA
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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  • Added: Aug 14, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
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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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  • Added: Jul 31, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
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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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  • Added: Jul 24, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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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  • Added: Jun 19, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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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  • Added: Mar 13, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
684-Our View(462)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Night Sky, Credit: NPS
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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  • Added: Mar 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Harm Reduction’s Road From Fringe to Federal Drug Policy
From: Tradeoffs
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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...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2022
  • Length: 23:30
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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  • Added: Nov 21, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
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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  • Added: Oct 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
660-Double Comet (403)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Neat observed At Kitt Peak, Credit: NASA
What at first appeared to be an asteroid turned out to be a double comet.

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  • Added: Sep 19, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
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659-Martian Debris(382)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Mars, Credit: NASA
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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  • Added: Sep 12, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9