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The FDA Super Bowl
From: Tradeoffs
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Every 5 years, the FDA has to renegotiate billions of dollars in user fees with the drug and medical device companies it regulates. Congress has to...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 18:33
Off Script: One Pharmacist's COVID Woes and Wins
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Dr Kelly Kent with patients.
A pharmacist and co-owner of an independent pharmacy in Iowa shares what life is like nearly two years into the pandemic.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2022
  • Length: 17:28
680-Comets and Asteroids(454)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fragments of the Sutter’s Mill meteorite fall collected by NASA Ames and SETI Institute meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens in the evening of Tuesday April 24, 2012, two days after the fall. This was the second recovered find., Credit: NASA Ames/Eric James
If you set your mind to it, you can find and hold a sample of an asteroid, called a meteorite, which has landed on the Earth's surface. On the othe...

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  • Added: Feb 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Answering the Call, Part 1: America’s New Mental Health Crisis Line
From: Tradeoffs
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Starting July 16, 2022, anyone in the U.S. experiencing a mental health crisis will be able to dial 988 for help. We explore what it will take for ...

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  • Added: Feb 03, 2022
  • Length: 25:04
  • Purchases: 1
Harm Reduction’s Road From Fringe to Federal Drug Policy
From: Tradeoffs
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More people died from drug overdoses during the first year of the pandemic — over 100,000 — than in any previous year. In response, the Biden admin...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2022
  • Length: 23:30
678-Greg's Comet(425)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Lovejoy, Credit: NASA
Greg's comet comes into our neighborhood once per human lifetime and spends most of it's time in the lonely space high above or far below the rest ...

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  • Added: Jan 22, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
677-30 Years of Fireballs(457)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: 30 years of fireballs, Credit: NASA
Fireballs are meteors which become brighter than the planet Venus and can sometimes be seen in the daytime. If you are lucky to see a fireball send...

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  • Added: Jan 16, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
676-Cloud 7(449)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroids and Earth, Credit: ESA:P. Carril
To give you an idea of the asteroid traffic in our neighborhood, on a mostly cloudy night, through holes in the clouds, in a space of less than 2 h...

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  • Added: Jan 09, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
MN Native News: New Year, New COVID Clarity
From: Ampers
Series: Minnesota Native News
Caption: Workers at Native American Community Clinic, Minneapolis (pre-pandemic), Credit: Courtesy of NACC Healthcare
As we enter the new year 2022, we also enter the time of new COVID Variants and guidelines. Reporter Emma Needham caught up with Dr. Antony Stately...

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  • Added: Jan 05, 2022
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 7
675-Nuking An Asteroid(447)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception, Credit: Dan Durda
Tonight, even though the chances are extremely slim, an asteroid hunter could find a sizable asteroid on a collision course with planet Earth. If w...

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  • Added: Jan 02, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
674-Asteroid Homestead(446)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid Mining, Credit: NASA
In the future one can envision a space mining family boarding a descendent of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch Vehicle for a trip into low Earth orb...

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  • Added: Dec 25, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Follow your recycling from bin to bale
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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Ride along with a sanitation worker who collects everything in San Francisco’s blue bins, and learn some dos and don’ts of recycling at a Recology ...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
673-Christmas Comet(437)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Halley's Comet, Credit: NASA
On December 25, 2017, while searching for Earth approaching asteroids in the constellation of Virgo, the Universe gave my Catalina Sky Survey team...

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  • Added: Dec 19, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
672-Meteor Whispers(427)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fireball Exploding, Credit: NASA
Recent scientific studies have begun to shed light on the interesting mystery of how the small number of what we now call electrophonic meteors pro...

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  • Added: Dec 12, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
671-Long Winter Nights(424)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Mt. Lemmon, AZ snow storm, Credit: A.D. Grauer
Long Winter nights with good seeing, from start to finish, are those on which the asteroid hunter makes new discoveries while being treated to view...

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  • Added: Dec 05, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
670-Laser Surfing(364)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Laser Sail, Credit: Project Breakthrough
Laser propelled ultra light space probes could be sent to explore nearby worlds.

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  • Added: Nov 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Indigenous organizers mark 52 years since the Alcatraz occupation — with the interior secretary
From: KSFP
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The first Native American Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, spoke to the activists who first occupied Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay in 1969. T...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Let's Make a Deal...on Drug Prices
From: Tradeoffs
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Democrats are on the brink of passing a historic set of drug price reforms. How will they impact patients, insurers and the drug industry?

  • Added: Nov 15, 2021
  • Length: 18:21
668-Dry Sands(420)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Mars, Credit: NASA
Intriguing features which change with the Martian seasons mimic flows of liquid water on the Earth's surface.

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  • Added: Nov 14, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
MN Native News: A New Kind of Pipeline
From: Ampers
Series: Minnesota Native News
Caption: Part of the Press Release for the Midwest Inter-Tribal EV Project , Credit: SAGE Development Authority & Native Sun Community Power Development
Electric vehicles are gaining traction on Minnesota’s roadways. This week on Minnesota Native News, reporter Emma Needham shares how a Native-led o...

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2021
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 8
Call 311 about tents? Here’s what homeless people and advocates say happens
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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What happens in San Francisco if you call the authorities about a tent encampment in your neighborhood? We're told they will be offered shelter and...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
Has Medicaid Managed Care Delivered On Its Promise?
From: Tradeoffs
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Letting private insurers offer Medicaid coverage was supposed to lower costs and improve care. We dig into the research on Medicaid managed care.

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 22:32
  • Purchases: 1
666-Red Dwarf Planets(417)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Gliese 887C, Credit: Mark Garlick/ University of Göttingen
Earth like planets are being discovered circling the most common type of star in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy.

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  • Added: Oct 31, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
665-Odd Ball(416)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid Shattering, Credit: NASA
A small asteroid soars into the lonely space high above and below the plane of our solar system.

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  • Added: Oct 24, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Knock-knock: Have you been vaccinated against COVID-19?
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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Outreach workers go door-to-door in San Francisco's Bay View neighborhood to encourage more people to get the vaccine to reduce the risk and harm f...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:30

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