PRX » Search » Browse

801-Jacqui’s PHA

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Astronaut on an Asteroid , Credit: NASA (Advanced Concepts Program)

My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Jacqueline Fazekas was asteroid hunting with our small but mighty Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona when sh...

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

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

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...

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

Dispatch 382 - COVID Twitter Wave

From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

Caption: A "reminder" from India's Chamber of Commerce, Credit: Sandip Roy

As India’s second wave of COVID-19 batters India, Twitter is becoming the go to for communication.

When Phobia Becomes Hate

From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

When does phobia cross over into hate speech? Does a social media site need a bloodthirsty exhortation to deliver a 6-inch deep cut before it can act?

Time and Patience

From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

We don’t have to win the war against Covid as much as we need to learn to make peace with its existence in our world for now.

Mangos and cyclones

From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

Caption: Sandip's mango tree, Credit: Sandip Roy

When life gives you cyclones, make mango rice.

Dispatch 326: Social Distance

From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

Could the global outbreak of COVID-19 keep us apart, in more ways than just physical.

Bought by KFCF FM, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Pilotworks

From: Heritage Radio Network
Series: Meat + Three

On the season two finale of Meat + Three, we bring you the story of a major national food tech company that turned the lives of over five hundred p...

Just Like Family

From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

Alex Tizon recently wrote about his family’s slave, Lola. Some praise Alex TIzon for his courage in confronting a dark chapter in his family’s hist...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio

What's that poking at your conscience?

From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

We are inundated by a circus of gratuitous and salacious images in our media everyday, but one recent photograph has cut through the clutter.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.

Looking Back, Moving Forward: 2011 Year in Review

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

A look back at some of the most important issues of 2011: Attacks on organized labor, the Egyptian revolution, and the struggle to address climate ...

Bought by KHNS, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KMUN