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The BabySafe Project with Patti Wood
From: Doug Wood
Series: Grassroots
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After discussing the environmental news, Patti & Doug talk about how and why to protect your baby from wireless radiation.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 29:10
  • Purchases: 1
798-Destination Enceladus
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Enceladus, Credit: ESA
Life on Earth appears to have formed in our oceans. Scientists are thus on the hunt for other worlds which have oceans of liquid water and thus po...

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


  • Added: May 12, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
How Pushing Hospitals to Give Away More Free Care Could Backfire
From: Tradeoffs
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With high health bills drowning patients in debt, some lawmakers want nonprofit hospitals to give away more free care. But experts warn that could ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2024
  • Length: 15:44
Drinking Plastic with Mike Belliveau
From: Doug Wood
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Every plastic bottle is filled with hundreds of thousands of tiny pieces of plastic. Here's what you need to know.

  • Added: Feb 27, 2024
  • Length: 28:25
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.

Bought by KRWG, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
786-Comet 31
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Enke, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Alex Gibbs discovered his 31st comet while asteroid hunting in Leo with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Ariz...

Bought by Raven Radio, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KGLP and more


  • Added: Feb 18, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
784-Josh’s Two PHAs
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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So far asteroid hunters have discovered approximately half of the 5,000 PHAs which are likely to exist. Asteroid hunters will continue to search th...

Bought by Raven Radio, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KKRN and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
783--Kacper’s Centaur
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists conception of a Centaur, Credit: NASA/NEOWISE
Centaurs have long puzzled astronomers since they have traits in common with both asteroids and comets.

Bought by Raven Radio, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Jan 28, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
773-Discovery and Recovery
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception of an Asteroid and the Earth, Credit: ESA
New observations linked with discovery observations 10 years earlier provide a significant improvement in the precision of our knowledge of 2013 T...

Bought by Raven Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RADIOLEX, WTIP, KGLP and more


  • Added: Nov 19, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
More Hospitals Move to Confront Medical Errors Head On
From: Tradeoffs
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One out of every four Medicare patients in the hospital is the victim of a medical error. Over the past 20 years, a growing number of hospitals hav...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2023
  • Length: 22:59
Growing Pains as California Adds Social Services to Medicaid
From: Tradeoffs
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California’s Medicaid program is two years into the nation’s most ambitious effort yet to cover non-traditional health care services like housing a...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 16:55
Medicare’s Open Enrollment Mess
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Confusing Medicare ads are everywhere!, Credit: Leslie Walker/Tradeoffs
Every fall, an avalanche of advertising bombards the phones, televisions and mailboxes of the country’s 65 million Medicare beneficiaries. Private...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2023
  • Length: 19:15
766 Korean Asteroid Hunters
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Korean Asteroid Hunting Telescope, Credit: Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
The Catalina Sky Survey and the Korean teams of asteroid hunters will discover and track Earth approaching objects making the residents of our home...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RADIOLEX, Raven Radio, KGLP, KKRN and more


  • Added: Oct 01, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
When Research and the Realities of Practicing Medicine Collide
From: Tradeoffs
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This summer, our research reporter Soleil Shah added a new role to his resume: first-year medical resident. Now he spends his days alternating betw...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2023
  • Length: 17:02
756-Nice PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists conception asteroid Impact 65 million years ago, Credit: NASA (Don Davis)
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Cancer with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizon...

Bought by KGLP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RADIOLEX, WTIP, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jul 23, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
What White House COVID Coordinator Ashish Jha Learned on the Job
From: Tradeoffs
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Ashish Jha shifted from the role of academic theorizing about health policy into a calm, reassuring voice leading the White House’s COVID response....

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 21, 2023
  • Length: 16:54
  • Purchases: 1
Progress and Pain Points in National Crisis Line's First Year
From: Tradeoffs
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It’s been one year since 988 — the country’s new mental health crisis line — went live with hopes of transforming crisis services in America. So fa...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2023
  • Length: 24:53
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...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KGLP, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KGHI and more


  • Added: Jun 25, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Drugs Changing How We Treat Obesity
From: Tradeoffs
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A new class of drugs can help people lose up to one-fifth of their body weight and manage serious health conditions associated with obesity. But th...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 16:32
Hospice Care’s Midlife Crisis
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Bethany Snider encouraged her nonprofit hospice agency to participate in a federal experiment to revamp Medicare's 40-year-old hospice policy, but she worries about its potential unintended consequences., Credit: Jon Cherry for Tradeoffs.
About half of people on Medicare use hospice care before they die, but as the popular benefit turns 40 this year, it is struggling with waste, acce...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2023
  • Length: 20:42
Cracking the Havana Syndrome with Dr. Beatrice Golomb
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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The symptoms suffered by diplomats and White House staff came from the same kind of radiation emitted by cell phones and cell towers.

Bought by WRFA-LP, WNED Buffalo, and WYAP


  • Added: Apr 03, 2023
  • Length: 57:10
  • Purchases: 3
When Home Becomes a Hospital
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Gabriel Kibuyu (right) receives hospital-at-home care from UMass Memorial Medical Center nurse Danae Stand (center) and Dr. Constantinos Michaelidis (left on tablet) on March 6, 2023., Credit: Photo by Lisa Abitbol for Tradeoffs.
The pandemic pushed Medicare to start paying for “hospital-at-home” care for the first time, launching the largest test ever of home-based hospital...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2023
  • Length: 24:21
One Doctor’s Crusade to Improve Health Literacy
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick believes plainspoken information from trusted messengers can help shrink health disparities, and some insurers are buying in., Credit: Ryan Levi
Black Americans report higher levels of mistrust in the health care system than white Americans and suffer worse outcomes in everything from matern...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 03, 2023
  • Length: 20:23
  • Purchases: 1
The End of Humira’s $200 Billion Drug Monopoly
From: Tradeoffs
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After 20 years, Humira – the best selling drug of all time – is finally facing direct competition. Typically, once generic drugs arrive on a market...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2023
  • Length: 18:07
710-Boomer(496)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fireball, Credit: Arne Danielsen
The fireball meteor streaking across the sky the early evening of January 17, 2018, witnessed by 700 observers in 11 States and Canada was also rec...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, RADIOLEX, KKRN, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Sep 04, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7