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Surprise! Plans To Resolve High Medical Bills Are Still a Mess
From: Tradeoffs
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Patients are now mostly protected from surprise bills, but doctors and insurers are still fighting about the prices.

  • Added: Apr 15, 2024
  • Length: 17:20
Can Washington Make Medicare and Medicaid Work Better Together?
From: Tradeoffs
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A bipartisan bill takes aim at a $500 billion health care problem that few people have ever heard of. Will it make care better for some of the coun...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2024
  • Length: 19:17
789-Asteroid With A Tail
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet ISON, Credit: HST
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Josh Hogan was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Taurus with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona wh...

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  • Added: Mar 10, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
788-100 Years of Wilderness
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Milky Way Rising Cosmic Campground, Credit: David Thornburg
In 1924 the Aldo Leopold Wilderness in southwestern New Mexico became the first designated wilderness and is an island from which to view the natur...

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  • Added: Mar 03, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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
‘She Didn’t Want to Die. But She Didn’t Want to Suffer’
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Steven Petrow (R) and Jay Petrow (L) kiss their sister Julie Petrow-Cohen. Julie used New Jersey’s medical aid in dying law after a six-year battle with ovarian cancer., Credit: Courtesy of the Petrow family
A handful of states allow terminally ill people to take life-ending medications prescribed by a doctor instead of waiting for death. This week, we ...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2024
  • Length: 21:12
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
NY Times Columnist David Brooks on How to Know and See a Person
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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In this episode, we talk with New York Times columnist David Brooks, about his new book - How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 29:30
5 ways America's Courts Could Change Health Care in 2024
From: Tradeoffs
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Key court decisions in 2024 about prescription drug prices, abortion bans, gender affirming care and the Affordable Care Act could change the way h...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2024
  • Length: 18:49
Navigating the Murky Waters of Copyfraud
From: Adam Scull
Series: WPRN Public Radio
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Copyright has become increasingly crucial in safeguarding intellectual property in the ever-evolving digital landscape. However, a less discussed b...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2024
  • Length: 03:26
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
Why Are People Afraid of the Most Popular Opioid Addiction Treatment?
From: Tradeoffs
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Fentanyl killed 75,000 people in 2022. Now it’s making one of the few treatments for opioid addiction harder to use.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 23:50
Nikki Haley's Emergence
From: Adam Scull
Series: WPRN Public Radio
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Nikki Haley’s Emergence January 22, 2024 Photo by Gage Skidmore Analysis | Nikki Haley: Navigating Challenges and Shaping the 2024 Republican Pr...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2024
  • Length: 05:28
Analyzing Ron DeSantis’s Unexpected Withdrawal from the Presidential Race
From: Adam Scull
Series: WPRN Public Radio
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Governor Ron DeSantis unexpectedly withdraws from the presidential race, citing personal reasons and hinting at family health issues, reshaping the...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2024
  • Length: 10:43
782-Probing The Cosmic Web
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: A Cosmic Thread, Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Feige Wang (University of Arizona)
In the past two decades astronomers have discovered that galaxies are not randomly distributed in space but rather occur along filaments of mass wi...

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  • Added: Jan 21, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Looking for the Wounded Deer: Doing Good in the Face of Culturally Sanctioned Aggression
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
A Registered Maine Guide I know searched for a wounded deer - wounded but not felled- he still seeking to do good for evil - as it is perceived by ...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2024
  • Length: 04:50
When the Press Becomes A Casualty of War
From: Mateo Schimpf
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The dangers of conflict reporting past and present

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  • Added: Jan 17, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
781-Comet C/2023 V5 (Leonard)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Lemmon C/2023 H2, Credit: J.D. Maddy in the Hauchuca Astronomy Club
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Aquarius with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizo...

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  • Added: Jan 14, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
780-Scary Space Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Earth and an Asteroid, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was being filmed and interviewed by the NASA 360 crew at our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona ...

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  • Added: Jan 07, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
779-What If An Asteroid is About To Impact Earth?
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Concept of Asteroid Pulversation, Credit: Lubin 2021
A description of a research project whose goal to explore if it would be possible, on short notice, to pulverize a small asteroid so that it woul...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
A World in Turmoil: 2023's Defining Moments
From: Mateo Schimpf
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That's a wrap.

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  • Added: Dec 22, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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
775-3 Close Ones
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Earth,Moon, and Asteroid, Credit: NASA and Texas A&M
During a six hour period three small space rocks passed through the Earth-Moon system. At discovery 2023 TO4 was in Pegasus, 2023 TD7 was in Aries...

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  • Added: Dec 03, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
774-Loss and Gain
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Vera Rubin Main Telescope Under Construction, Credit: Eric Christensen
The Catalina Sky Survey searches the sky as rapidly as possible in search of Earth approaching objects that could pose a threat to our home planet....

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  • Added: Nov 26, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7