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Our resolutions for 2021
From: Possibly
Caption: Happy New Year from the Possibly team, Credit: Fatima Husain
Twenty-twenty was quite a year, and we're guessing that most people are hoping 2021 will be better. So, our Possibly team got together to think ab...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2021
  • Length: 03:53
What Do Equations Sound Like on the Piano?
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
Caption: A piano image made on the coordinate plane., Credit: Pios Labs
Let’s make equations musical. Instead of visualizing equations on a graph, let’s listen to them on the piano, merging all our math and music knowl...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2020
  • Length: 49:30
2020-12-06 Are We Alone?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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If there is intelligent life beyond Earth, how would that change life ON Earth?

Bought by KMUN, WCNY, RadioStPete Florida, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMUN and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
619-Apophis Campaign
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Apophis, Credit: Dan Durda – FIAAA
Currently scientists, governments, and private citizens are preparing to mitigate a disaster caused by a large incoming space rock. To test techn...

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  • Added: Dec 04, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
2020-12-27 The Examined Year: 2020
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What (didn't) happen this past year to challenge our assumption and make us think about things in new ways?

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, RadioStPete Florida, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KSKQ


  • Added: Dec 03, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
Like the Banks of a River: Deborah Foutch's Fiber & Mixed Media Art
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Rooted Earth by Deborah Foutch, Credit: Photo Courtesy of Deborah Foutch
Minneapolis artist Deborah Foutch creates rich and complex work with fiber and mixed media that expresses her love of the natural world. Her Soil H...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Nov 27, 2020
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 1
Permian Extinction
From: KZMU Moab Community Radio
Series: Science Moab
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A unique combination of events came together at the end of Permian time (250 million years ago)that resulted in the extinction of more the 90% of l...

Bought by KDXI - Radio St George


  • Added: Oct 31, 2020
  • Length: 31:05
  • Purchases: 1
Hasta la última gota
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Edición Especial de la Pandemia en Español
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¿Intentando destruir el coronavirus? ¡La Organización Mundial de la Salud dice que se lave las manos! Veinte segundos en el lavamanos es suficiente...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 26, 2020
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
613-Climate Change and Telescopes
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently, in the journal Nature Astronomy, a team of astronomers led by Dr. Faustine Cantalloube of the Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy released...

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


  • Added: Oct 23, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
Black Voices in Healthcare - Ep.3: Home
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Black Voices in Healthcare
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As healthcare workers, many of us have had to leave our home and go wherever our profession takes us. This week we asked you to reflect on what hom...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 19, 2020
  • Length: 31:03
  • Purchases: 1
Black Voices in Healthcare - Ep.1: Again
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Black Voices in Healthcare
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There is so much to explore about what it means to be Black in healthcare, but for our first episode we wanted to take a moment to sit with the gri...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Oct 19, 2020
  • Length: 34:23
  • Purchases: 1
612-Day and Night
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Most life on Earth is synchronized to the regular cycles of day and night. Until about a hundred years ago, the natural night sky was familiar to ...

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
Seeking and Blundering – The Discovery of Penicillin
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: Fehler (Mistakes)
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This episode of the FEHLER podcast is an exploration of mistakes in science and their connection to art. Listen for more!

  • Added: Oct 09, 2020
  • Length: 14:27
Synchronicity
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Paul Halpern
There always seems to be a peculiar twist in understanding our world. How it works. Just when we think of have a grip on it, like a greased pig, it...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
609-Lurking
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Statistically asteroid hunters have found more than 90% of the asteroids whose impact could cause global climate change. However, recently, my Ca...

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  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
The Brain on Partisan Politics
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
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Why Not So Great Minds Polarize Alike, with NYU Neural Scientist, Dr. Jay Van Bavel

  • Added: Sep 21, 2020
  • Length: 29:11
2020-08-23 (There's Still) Time for Summer Reading
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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There's still time for deep reading this summer (and our 500th episode).

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
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...

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  • Added: Aug 21, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
Growing Young
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Marta Zaraska
Humankind seems to be on eternal search for an answer on how to live longer. Our efforts naturally lead us to spirituality. But then we take pills ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 04, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Heard from the Herd: Psychology and Partisanship
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Episode 4: Heard from the Herd
Episode 4: Heard from the Herd: Psychology and Partisanship, featuring Dr. Abigail Marsh, author of The Fear Factor, Professor of Neuropsychology a...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 22:52
599-Path to Mars
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The human thirst for knowledge about our mysterious next door neighbor is about to receive more than a sip from robotic emissaries launched in 2020...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 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...

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  • Added: Jul 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
597-Aging Satellites
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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If we don't place some new space weather observing satellites into orbit it is possible that you will wake up one day to no electricity, no cell p...

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


  • Added: Jul 02, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 13
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
Stories from a Pandemic - Episode 10: Mourning
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from a Pandemic
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How does the COVID-19 pandemic end? Does it end in a bang, or just fizzle out? What we know for sure is that this story is far from over. In today...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 12, 2020
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 1

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