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From Oakland to Johannesburg: Can We Reform the Police?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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The United States is three months into a mass movement against police violence. We are the midst of a national conversation about the relationship ...

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  • Added: Sep 09, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
606-Falling Stones
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Approximately 100 million metric tons of mostly sand grained sized space dust enters the Earth's atmosphere every day. Occasionally, larger pieces ...

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  • Added: Sep 04, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Will Democratic Capitalism Survive?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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As inequality rises around the world, citizens are losing faith in the free market democracy that emerged over the 20th century. Protests from the ...

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  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Why We Still Need to Talk About White Supremacy
From: Mateo Schimpf
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It’s been three months since George Floyd was killed by a white police officer in Minnesota. The movement prompted an outpouring from lawmakers in ...

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  • Added: Aug 26, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Coronavirus and Sub-Saharan Africa
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we’re looking at Uganda and Rwanda, two countries who have fought pandemics before and were ready for this one. Both countries have lost...

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  • Added: Aug 19, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
603-Discovering Alien Life
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Our star is only one among hundreds of billions in the Milky Way galaxy which itself is only one of a hundred billion or more galaxies in the known...

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  • Added: Aug 14, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 13
How Developing Nations Are Fighting COVID-19...And Winning
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Even with its close proximity to China, where the pandemic started, parts of Southeast Asia have managed to control the coronavirus far better than...

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  • Added: Aug 12, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
602-Solar Flares
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Some stars can have flares which can cause them to more than double in brightness in a few minutes. Fortunately our Sun does not do that and the Ea...

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  • Added: Aug 07, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
MS-13 and El Salvador's World of Violence
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this episode, we revisit and update a program we recorded in January about the origins of El Salvador’s bloody gang war with journalist William ...

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  • Added: Aug 05, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
601-Phaethon's Child
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Phaethon (Faith on) is a strange, 4 mile diameter, blueish asteroid. It travels on an orbit which comes so close to the Sun that its exterior is h...

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  • Added: Jul 31, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
Russia, Afghanistan and America’s Longest War
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this episode, we take a closer look at how the war in Afghanistan has served as a proxy conflict between the US and Russia and how it fits into ...

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  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Fixing Law Enforcement from Within + Policing After Apartheid
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Black Lives Matter might be the largest social movement in American history. In the first half of the episode, we hear from Jinho “The Piper” Ferre...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
600-Big and Close
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groeller was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Pegasus with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Ariz...

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  • Added: Jul 24, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Why Hong Kong is Protesting Again
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Protesters are back in the streets in Hong Kong to fight against a new security law that tightens the Chinese government’s grip over the city. On ...

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  • Added: Jul 22, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Global Economy After COVID-19
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode, we tackle these big issues and examine our new digital economy with James Manyika, Chairman and Director of the McKinsey Gl...

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  • Added: Jul 09, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
597-Aging Satellites
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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If we don't place some new space weather observing satellites into orbit it is possible that you will wake up one day to no electricity, no cell p...

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  • Added: Jul 02, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 13
Is the United Nations Still Relevant at 75?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode, we look at the United Nation’s achievements, its shortcomings and what the future holds for international cooperation with ...

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  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
596-Next Solar Cycle
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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If the current trend in 11 year solar cycles for the past 50 years continues, we can expect lower than average solar activity and the Earth will...

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  • Added: Jun 25, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
The Struggle To Test and Trace COVID-19
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode, we take a closer look at contact tracing in California and what it might look like in the future. We hear from San Francisc...

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  • Added: Jun 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
White Supremacy, at Home and Abroad
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week on the podcast, we’re looking at what white supremacy means and the role it plays in policing in the Western Hemisphere. Anthropologist C...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
Fiona Hill and Putin’s People
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode, Fiona Hill, who was a top Russia advisor under three presidents, talks with KQED’s Mina Kim about how Vladimir Putin uses o...

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  • Added: Jun 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
595-Monster Comet C/2020 H2 (Pruyne)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Teddy Pruyne was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Pegasus with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizon...

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  • Added: Jun 19, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 13
594-Earth Grazer
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid hunters have discovered that the Earth encounters many tiny asteroids as it zips around the Sun at 67,000 miles per hour. Recently my Cata...

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  • Added: Jun 13, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
592-Invasion
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Due to thoughtless outdoor night lighting on the surface and satellites in space the natural night sky is becoming a vanishing treasure. From cli...

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  • Added: May 29, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
589-Defending Earth
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The International Asteroid Warning Network, or IWAN (Eye-Whan) for short has been established to link scientists who are discovering, monitoring, a...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW and more


  • Added: May 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9

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