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Science unscripted (DW) 05/21/2024 - Mea culpa!
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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Science unscripted got an email this week about orgasms. What's more, someone wrote to let us know why a dying countess in a classic German novel w...

  • Added: May 17, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
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...

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  • Added: May 12, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Bio-Regional Thinking and the Deep Sea
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Bio-regions on Earth are organized into types, then realms, and are further distinguished and mapped for planning, strategizing, developing, and as...

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  • Added: May 08, 2024
  • Length: 05:13
  • Purchases: 1
Science unscripted (DW) 05/07/24 - Do you feel safe in your neighborhood?
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week we hear about what interventions might improve the perception of safety on residential streets. Also: a (relatively) new cognitive bias t...

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  • Added: May 08, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Science unscripted (DW) 04/30/24 - How science can help you shoot free throws
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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Unhappy with your body? Deleting Instagram may help (if you're a woman). Also, forget 'cold tubs' if you want bigger muscles — and why do we consum...

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  • Added: May 03, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Should We Be Afraid of Gene-Editing?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Should we use CRISPR to protect children from disease?

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  • Added: May 02, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
796-COMET C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos)-Preview
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: COMET C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos), Credit: skylive.com
On the 3rd of March 2024 while asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon , Arizona my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Kacper Wierzcho...

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  • Added: Apr 28, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Weekly roundup - A healthy dose of wisdom
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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In this episode, we talk avian flu, the importance of not sitting, strangers knowing you better than you think, and a very strange library of evoca...

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
795-Spiral Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Nucleus of Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, Credit: Jan Erik Vallestad
Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks comes near the Sun once every 71 years. It was discovered in 1812 by Jean Louis Pons at Marseilles, France and then rediscov...

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  • Added: Apr 21, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Science unscripted (DW) 04/16/24 - Are songs becoming stupider?
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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We're assuming at one point or another that you have heard (probably from an older relative?) that music is in decline. Songs these days just aren'...

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  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
794-An Apollo Space Rock to Follow
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Itakowa, Credit: NASA
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Vivian Carjaval was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Ursa Minor with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. ...

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  • Added: Apr 14, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Science unscripted (DW) 04/09/24 - Where am I feeling this music?
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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On this week's show, we learn about a new way to manage anger effectively. Also, what kind of music do we feel in our heart, and what kind do we fe...

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  • Added: Apr 11, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 5
Science unscripted (DW) 04/02/24 - Does your life have a purpose?
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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In a world where loneliness is becoming more ubiquitous, it appears having a purpose makes us feel less alone. Also, Gabe finds out why he shouldn'...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
Science unscripted (DW) 03/26/24 - Eclipse hunting? Drive carefully!
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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Once in a while on Science uncripted we have concrete advice for listeners that might save their lives. If you're planning on watching the solar ec...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
791-A Fireball and It’s Gifts
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: A fragment of the Asteroid 2024 BX1 recovered in Germany is a rare meteorite class called Aubrite, Credit: SETI
It all started when Krisztián Sárneczky at the Konkoly Observatory near Budapest, Hungary reported the position and brightness of an unknown astero...

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  • Added: Mar 24, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Season 1, Episode 23 - 'Rainforest Trust' feat James Deutsch
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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A bottom up solution for saving rainforests worldwide.

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  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:34
  • 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
  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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.

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Science unscripted (DW) 01/09/2024 - Weekly roundup — Buk, buk, buk, buk... ba-gawk!
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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Chickens can communicate emotions (like exasperation), and we humans can understand it. Also, our listeners have a wild variety of new status symbo...

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  • Added: Jan 11, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Science unscripted (DW) 01/02/2024 -The status symbols they are a-changin’
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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An expensive car, a shiny watch, a hot body, video game skins, a vegan diet — regardless of how different they can be, status symbols will always b...

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  • Added: Jan 05, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Science unscripted (Spectrum) 12/26/23
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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Thanks for listening to (or watching) our show this year. And please don't forget these quick tips on how to have a safe and fun party on December 31.

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  • Added: Dec 28, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Science unscripted - Homeopathic sugar balls for Christmas!
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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Pain might rob your Christmas cheer - And drag you through depressing muck - But don't you worry, and don't you fear - For you, dear listener are i...

Bought by Central Florida Public Media


  • Added: Dec 22, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
777-Psyche Bound
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Psyche Spacecraft, Credit: NASA
The NASA Psyche Spacecraft will use a multispectral imager, gamma and neutron spectrometers, and other instruments to map, measure, and characteriz...

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  • Added: Dec 17, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8