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The Origins of Vaccine Hesitancy
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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More than half of all American adults have received a COVID-19 vaccine. But even though we’ve made great strides in our vaccination efforts, there ...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2021
  • Length: 03:27
649-30 Days of Traffic
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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During a recent 30 day period asteroid hunters spotted 88 small space rocks passing through our neighborhood. Their diameters ranged from the leng...

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  • Added: Jul 03, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Public Health Under Attack
From: Celine Gounder
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During the pandemic public health workers have been threatened, and in some cases, been the targets of violence. This misdirection of anger has led...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2021
  • Length: 03:21
648-Smoky Nights
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Smith Telescope McDonald Observatory, Credit: McDonald Observatory
Until recently smoky nights at the observatory were rare. Now they have become more common place as wild fires continue to devastate portions of th...

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  • Added: Jun 27, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
646-Young Martian Volcanoes
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Recent explosive volcanic deposit around a fissure of the Cerberus Fossae system. , Credit: NASA/JPL/MSSS/The Murray Lab
Relatively recent volcanic activity observed on Mars suggests that where subsurface martian magma and frozen water meet is where microbial life cou...

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  • Added: Jun 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Dr. Richard Lachmann discusses New York City mayoral choices
From: Ray Samuels
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Are you a New Yorker who is somewhat confused about who you should support in the upcoming mayor election? In this interview, Professor Lachmann p...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2021
  • Length: 50:34
Peter Bussian, author of Trans New York plus Bernadette on Lesbian dating
From: Ray Samuels
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Peter Bussian, author of Trans New York plus Bernadette on Lesbian dating

  • Added: Jun 05, 2021
  • Length: 42:48
Taimi an LGBTQ+ app, Maryanne Parker, Tsion Cafe, and more on relationships
From: Ray Samuels
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Taimi an LGBTQ+ app, Maryanne Parker, Tsion Cafe, and more on relationships #LGBTQ #Newyorkcity #dating #singles #etiquetteshowbuzz #etiquettesho...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
643-Space Vehicles
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: SpaceX Starship, Credit: SpaceX
New Rocket engines will revolutionize space travel to the Moon and Mars.

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  • Added: May 22, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
641-Backyard Astronomy
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Hubble Image, Credit: NASA
In March and April every year amateur astronomers, around the world, in Messier Marathons, attempt to view all of 110 objects in the Messier cata...

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  • Added: May 08, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
640-Rocks or Rockets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid hunters have discovered a curious object. It appears likely to be either a rock ejected from the Moon or a piece of space junk from a hu...

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  • Added: May 02, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
639-Earth Approachers
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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During a recent 60 day period asteroid hunters discovered 29 space rocks as they passed closer to us than the Moon. These small asteroids averaged...

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  • Added: Apr 24, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
638-Methane
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist’s conception of early Earth after several large asteroid impacts, moving magma on to the surface. , Credit: Simone Marchi/SwRI
How ET could know there is life on Earth.

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  • Added: Apr 18, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Middle School Re-Openings Leave Students Behind
From: Renee Roden
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News story covering middle school reopenings for in-person learning in New York City on February 25, 2021.

  • Added: Apr 11, 2021
  • Length: 03:03
637-Martian Dust
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Zodiacal Light and Mars , Credit: Joshua Rhoades
After sunset in the spring and before sunrise in the fall, at a natural night sky location like the Cosmic Campground International Dark Sky Sanctu...

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  • Added: Apr 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
635-Exploring Mars
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: This artist's concept depicts NASA's Mars 2020 rover on the surface of Mars., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
We are lucky to be alive in an age when anyone with an internet connection can participate in the exploration of Mars. Your unique brain-eye combi...

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  • Added: Mar 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
634-Meteor Goes Splat
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On 28 February 2021 at 9:54PM a large slow moving fireball meteor was observed over England, Northern Ireland, Wales, and Scotland. The Wichcombe m...

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  • Added: Mar 20, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
633-Dress Rehearsal
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Bright Fireball Meteor, Credit: NASA
The situation that asteroid hunters both train for and dread is the discovery of a large space rock on a collision course with planet Earth. Recent...

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  • Added: Mar 12, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
632-Couch Potato
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Vesta, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Richard Kowalski is the first person in our group and perhaps the first person in the world to discover a potential...

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  • Added: Mar 07, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
629-Loneliest Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Canes Venatici with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, ...

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  • Added: Feb 14, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
625-Record Year
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In 2020 the asteroid hunting community discovered 2,946 Earth approaching space rocks orbiting our Sun. My team, the Catalina Sky Survey, led the ...

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  • Added: Jan 16, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 14
624-In Coming
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard was asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he spotted a movi...

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  • Added: Jan 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
616-100 Million Year Old Crater
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fitzgerald River National Park in Western Australia, Credit: Yewenyi, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1370203
In western Australia, rock samples and maps of the local geology obtained while exploring for gold show evidence of a 3 mile diameter meteor crater...

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  • Added: Nov 13, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
614-Rare Atira
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Atira class of Earth approaching asteroids are ones whose orbit is entirely within that of the Earth's path about the Sun. Less than 3 dozen o...

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
611-Aurora Mysteries
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Auroral displays have been observed and reported on throughout human history. Data from NASA's 5 Themis (Themm us) satellites analyzed by powerfu...

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  • Added: Oct 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12