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Amy Mainzer and a New Asteroid-Hunting Space Telescope
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This artist's concept of NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor Mission shows the space telescope in front of a star field captured by the WISE telescope., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/The Planetary Society
NASA has approved development of the NEO Surveyor space telescope. Project lead Amy Mainzer will share her hopes for this vital planetary defense t...

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  • Added: Jul 20, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
We’re Going Back to Venus
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's concept of active volcanos on Venus, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Peter Rubin
Leaders of the DAVINCI and VERITAS missions tell us what their spacecraft will reveal about the planet that is so much like Earth and yet so terrib...

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  • Added: Jul 14, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
21-35 Bach, Mozart, Grieg, Mangoré, and more, Interview: Susan Sayles of Baylor University Medical Center
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: Susan Sayles, Director of Arts In Medicine Program, Baylor University Medical Center (Dallas, TX), Credit: Baylor University Medical Center
This week's edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features music by Bach, Mozart, Grieg, Agustin Barrios Mangoré ,Jaime Zenamon, and a 2020 PBS filmed...

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  • Added: Jul 08, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 65
21-34 Grieg, Debussy, Beethoven, Faure, Philip Glass, & more, Interview: Harpist/Music Thanatologist Terese Cullen
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: Harpist Terese Cullen, Credit: Tony Morris January 2020
This week's edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features music by Grieg, Debussy, Faure, Philip Glass, Jorge Morel, and Lou Harrison, and a 2020 PBS...

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  • Added: Jul 08, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 66
21-33 Moonlight Sonata, Interview: Dr. Robert Fine, MD
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: Dr. Robert Fine, MD, Credit: Baylor University Medical Center
This week's edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata,” and music by Paul Simon, Philip Glass, Agustin Barrios Mang...

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  • Added: Jul 08, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 65
21-32 Beethoven and more, Interviews: Music Therapist Chad Harmon, NICU Nurse Lilla Caho
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: Music Therapist Chad Harmon with infant Jace Armstrong, Kendra Armstrong, Camera Op Spencer Greene, Baylor University Medical Center , Credit: Tony Morris January 2020
This week's edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features music by Beethoven, Argentine composer Maximo Diego Pujol, Roberto di Marino, and Atanas Ou...

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  • Added: Jul 08, 2021
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 63
21-31 Bach, Ravel, Sor, Interview: Baylor Medical Musician Tony Arant
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: Tony Arant, Credit: Baylor University Medical Center
This week's edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features music by Bach/Gounod, Bach, Ravel, and Sor, and a 2020 interview with Tony Arant, music pra...

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  • Added: Jul 08, 2021
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 64
21-30 Vivaldi, Rodrigo, Albeniz Arvo Part, Dr Robert Fine Interview
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: Dr. Robert Fine, MD, Credit: Baylor University Medical Center
This week's edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features music by Vivaldi, Rodrigo, Arvo Part, Albeniz, and Egberto Gismonti, and a 2020 interview w...

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  • Added: Jul 07, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 62
Visiting the James Webb Space Telescope
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope sits with its five-layer sunshield fully deployed during testing at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, California., Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn
Host Mat Kaplan visits the James Webb Space Telescope in California to see the observatory before it launches and speak with project leaders.

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  • Added: Jul 07, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Finding Life by Looking for Complexity
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Chemical Space, Credit: Naomi Johnson and Lee Cronin
University of Glasgow chemist Lee Cronin believes he and his collaborators have found a way to recognize life as we know it and as we don’t know it.

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  • Added: Jun 30, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
The Pearly Clouds of Mars
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NASA's Curiosity Mars rover spotted these iridescent, or "mother of pearl," clouds on March 5, 2021, the 3,048th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. , Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Atmospheric scientist Mark Lemmon discusses the beautiful clouds on Mars imaged by NASA's Curiosity rover.

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  • Added: Jun 23, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Peter T. Coleman
Once a segment of the population becomes miserable, stabilization begins. That shouldn’t be a goal in American politics, but it certainly seems lik...

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  • Added: Jun 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Amateur Astronomers Saving the World
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist concept of a large asteroid crashing toward Earth., Credit: Getty Images
Planetary Society grants have enabled amateur astronomers to discover and track asteroids that cross Earth’s path. We’ll meet two of them.

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
Sarah Nelson Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that climate change impacts water quality and foodwebs? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and registered dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for ...

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  • Added: Jun 11, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Experimental Cosmologist Brian Keating
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Simons Array will be located in Chile’s High Atacama Desert, at an elevation of about 17,000 feet. The site currently hosts the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (bowl-shaped structure at upper right) and the Simons Array (the three telescopes at bottom lef, Credit: University of Pennsylvania
A fascinating, wide-ranging conversation with Brian Keating, director of the Simons Observatory that will search for our cosmic origins from a moun...

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  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Crystal Kolden: Prepping For Wildfire Season
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Crystal Kolden
Yes, there will be millions of collective sighs as the deadliest pandemic in a century begins to abate and a more open summer kicks off. But summer...

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  • Added: Jun 08, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mighty Jupiter and the Juno Mission
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this stunning compilation image of Jupiter’s stormy northern hemisphere as it performed a close pass of the gas giant planet. Some bright-white clouds can be seen at high altitudes on the right side of Jupiter’s disk. Image, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS
The Juno mission will continue its exploration of Jupiter till 2025, thanks to a four-year extension granted by NASA. Principal investigator Scott ...

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  • Added: Jun 02, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
The New Great Space Observatories
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The New Great Observatories coalition has brought together the logos for the four projects proposed in the 2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey., Credit: The New Great Observatories Coalition
Astrophysicist Grant Tremblay describes how four proposed space telescopes could reveal our solar system and the universe as never before.

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  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Project Manager MiMi Aung
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: On April 30, 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover made history as the first spacecraft to record sounds from another spacecraft on another planet. During Ingenuity’s fourth flight, a microphone included with the SuperCam instrument aboard Perseverance captured, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/LANL/CNES/CNRS/ISAE-SUPAERO
The leader of the Mars Helicopter test mission celebrates her team’s success and explores the daunting challenges they overcame.

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  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Bryon Wiegand Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that ”alternative” meat products are a $1 billion (and growing) market in the US? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and registered dietitian...

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  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
John Englander: Moving To Higher Ground
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: John Englander
Summer is nearly upon us. The next time you’re at the beach, gazing upon the blue horizon, take a moment to contemplate the depths of the sea, and ...

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  • Added: Apr 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Kyoto Prize Recipient James Gunn
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Sloan Foundation 2.5 meter telescope at Apache Point Observatory, Credit: The Sloan Foundation
Jim Gunn co-created and led the Sloan Digital Sky Survey that has revealed the universe as never before.

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  • Added: Apr 28, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
Is ‘Oumuamua a Piece of a Pluto-Like Planet? And Ingenuity’s First Flight on Mars
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's impression of interstellar object 'Oumuamua, Credit: William Hartmann
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter makes a successful first flight on the Red Planet, while two researchers offer new insights on the first interstel...

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  • Added: Apr 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
The High Frontier: A New Documentary About Gerard K. O’Neill
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's concept of a giant O'Neill cylinder space settlement., Credit: NASA, Art by Rick Guidice
Gerard K. O’Neill envisioned vast, magnificent human settlements in space. His followers, including Jeff Bezos, are working to turn his vision into...

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  • Added: Apr 14, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
Charles “Chip” Osborne, Jr. Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that herbicides account for the highest usage of pesticides in the home and garden sector with over 90 million pounds applied on lawns...

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  • Added: Apr 08, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1