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749-Earth Glow(537)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Earth Glow, Credit: NASA/ESA
In 1972 Apollo 16 astronauts took an ultraviolet image of the Earth from the Moon which shows that like the Sun ,the Earth too, has a faint corona ...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KGLP and more


  • Added: Jun 04, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Rooting Out Racial Bias in Health Care AI, Part 2
From: Tradeoffs
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There’s growing excitement that artificial intelligence can make health care better by speeding up care, improving diagnoses and easing the burden ...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2023
  • Length: 23:21
IE: Inside Europe, 6/2/2023
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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On today's program: Erdogan triumphant: what next for Turkey? Spy ships and fishing tackle: a trip to Norway’s far north Plus, two summits in one w...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
This Asian American Life
From: Mateo Schimpf
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How are Asian-Americans fighting back against accusations of divided loyalties and the sense of “perpetual foreignness”?

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
New York City Rabbis Tackle the Israel Conversation
From: Henrietta McFarlane
Caption: Protestors gather in Washington Square Park to oppose the Israeli government’s proposed judicial reforms. April 16 2023. , Credit: Henrietta McFarlane
For weeks now, protests against the Israeli government have been taking place in Washington Square Park. Israel, the Jewish state, is at a tipping ...

  • Added: May 26, 2023
  • Length: 07:56
747-Alone or Not(535)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Solar Sail and Laser Power Interstellar Spacecraft, Credit: Breakthrough Starshot
In our Milky Way Galaxy alone there are probably 25 billion planets located within the habitable zone of its star where there could be air to breat...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KICI Iowa City, KGLP, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: May 21, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Black Pills
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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If there is no such thing as biological race, why do we have race-specific drugs?

  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 54:18
746-Followups(534)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroids, Credit: NASA
Without followup data, many if not most of the Earth approaching objects would be lost as they move away from us leaving us with no idea when they ...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KICI Iowa City, KGLP, Raven Radio, WTIP and more


  • Added: May 14, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
745-100 Moons(533)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Schmidt Telescope Mt. Bigelow, Arizona, Credit: CSS/U. Arizona
A small telescope makes a substantial contribution to our knowledge of the celestial visitors to our neighborhood

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  • Added: May 07, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
744-Teddy’s Debut(532)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Opening the 60 Inch on Mt. Lemmon , Credit: CSS/U. Arizona
On a recent training night with Teddy Pruyne at the controls of our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona, this duo discovered six new Earth App...

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  • Added: Apr 30, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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
Fading Beauties: Streetcars of Desire Pt. 2
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Kolkata’s streets continue to clog with cars. The fate of an already established, cleaner transit option, teeters in the balance.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
NPHW Bonus Episode: Meet the MPHs
From: Brown University School of Public Health
Series: Humans in Public Health
Caption: Host Megan Hall MPH'15 in the studio
Students in the Masters in Public Health program talk discuss their work and what brought them to Brown University.

  • Added: Apr 17, 2023
  • Length: 10:50
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
The Latest Threat to the Affordable Care Act
From: Tradeoffs
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The Affordable Care Act faces yet another in a long string of legal challenges. Last Thursday's ruling, by a conservative federal judge who has tar...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2023
  • Length: 14:07
The Fontwala
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Some of the typefaces designed by Rajeev Prakash for Indian scripts., Credit: Sandip Roy
Responsible for typefaces of all slants and bolds, Rajeev Prakash is India’s Fontwala!

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 04, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
740-Asteroid Billiards(528)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Vega's Asteroids, Credit: NASA
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test or DART for short will test methods to make a dangerous asteroid miss Earth

Bought by KICI Iowa City, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX, KGLP, WTIP and more


  • Added: Apr 02, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
The Treacherous Transition Awaiting Millions Losing Their Medicaid
From: Tradeoffs
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We dig into three research papers to make sense of what will happen to 15 million people set to lose their Medicaid over the next year.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 16:55
  • Purchases: 1
739-Comet Groller(527)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet ISON, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groller was asteroid hunting with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona when he discovered his first...

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  • Added: Mar 26, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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
737-Collision(525)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid Breakup, Credit: NASA
The object which the 2.3 mile diameter Gault hit is likely to have been a third of a mile diameter space rock. This celestial crash left Gault with...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WYAP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Mar 12, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Episode 2: Into the Field
From: David Levin
Series: Deep Soundings: Stories from the Ocean Floor
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In this episode, go into the field with a team of scientists working to map the coastal seafloor in detail—and learn how their technologies could r...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2023
  • Length: 20:11
Episode 1: Mapping the Coastal Oceans
From: David Levin
Series: Deep Soundings: Stories from the Ocean Floor
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When it comes to mapping the seafloor, the hardest spots to see are the ones just off the coast. In this episode, find out why that's the case—and ...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2023
  • Length: 14:52
736-Home Wrecker(524)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: IDA, Credit: NASA
The extremely remote chance that a dangerous mountain sized space rock has our number on it is what keeps my team going to our four telescopes in t...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WYAP, KGLP, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Mar 05, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
What do you do when rising waters threaten a neighborhood?
From: Possibly
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Warren, Rhode Island is one of the smallest towns in the smallest state — but when it comes to dealing with climate change, it has big plans. Locat...

Bought by WRFA-LP and Raven Radio


  • Added: Feb 17, 2023
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 2

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