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772-M31 Our Neighbor's Surprise
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Andromeda, Unexpected, Credit: Marcel Drechsler, Xavier Strottner and Yann Sainty
Marcel Drechsler, Xavier Strottner, and Yann Sainty’s image of our neighboring galaxy, M31, in Andromeda won the 10,000 British pound Astronomer P...

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  • Added: Nov 12, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
The Art of Durga Puja
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Durga Puja that paid homage to destruction and regeneration using the Bamiyan Buddha, Credit: Sandip Roy
Kolkata's biggest festival Durga Puja has earned a UNESCO tag for intangible cultural heritage. This has led to a lot of interest among art fans in...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
Alexander McCall Smith's "From a Far and Lovely Country" #24 in No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency Series
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Host Diana Korte speaks with ⁠Alexander McCall Smith⁠, the author of more than 100 books sold around the world in 40 languages. This includes the N...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2023
  • Length: 10:53
I'll Be There for You
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: An Indian advertisement mourns Matthew Perry., Credit: Courtesy Amul.
The TV show "Friends" might have been about a group of close-knit white New Yorkers but somehow it resonated in many corners of the world including...

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
769-Green Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: C/2023 P1 (Nishimura), Credit: Trevinca-Skies on Spain
Given the effects of climate change today who can predict what planet Earth will be like when C/2023 P1(Nishimura) comes back near our home planet...

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  • Added: Oct 22, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
768- Capricornus Observatory, Csokako, Hungary
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Earth and Asteroid, Credit: Texas A&M
In 2023 T. Maroti of the Capricornus Observatory, Csokako, Hungary discovered two Earth approaching asteroids which were passing through the night...

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  • Added: Oct 15, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
IE: Inside Europe , 10/13/2023
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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How Russia is using the Israel-Hamas conflict for its own ends No show for Syria in the Hague as the country is tried for war crimes And Ukraine'...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
A new school will train U.S. troops to fight a growing threat: small weaponized drones
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Army Chief Warrant Officer Michael J. Spicer tests a "Nightfighter" anti-drone system at Fort Bliss, Texas in December 2022. The manufacturer says the system interrupts the radio signals that are used to control drones., Credit: Raquel Birk / U.S. Army
The Pentagon said the new institution - housed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma - will train about 1,000 troops a year to plan, install, and operate a variet...

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  • Added: Sep 28, 2023
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 6
Khalistan Returns
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: The breakdown of Indian-Canadian relations is front page news in India., Credit: Sandip Roy
Khalistan - a word that used to be on the front pages of Indian newspapers in the 1980s has resurfaced in headlines thanks to the diplomatic row be...

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  • Added: Sep 25, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
765 Bright Fireball
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Bright Fireball, Credit: Bill Stewart
Bright fireball meteors sometimes rain pieces of themselves onto the ground for meteorite hunters to discover.

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  • Added: Sep 24, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Toilet Man
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak tours Kolkata's Durga Puja with the widows of Vrindavan. , Credit: Sandip Roy
India’s famous “toilet man,” Dr. Bindeswar Pathak, died last month at the age of 80. But he was far more than just an inventor and business man. Sa...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
(Not So) Happy Teacher's Day
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Tripta Tyagi, the teacher in the eye of the storm in India., Credit: Photo courtesy of News9 TV, India.
This week they celebrated “Teacher’s Day” in India, but this year a teacher is in the news for all the wrong reasons.

  • Added: Sep 05, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
Moonstruck
From: KALW
Caption: The path retraced by the Chandrayaan-3 Rover on Aug. 27, 2023 as viewed by the Navigation Camera onboard the rover., Credit: Image from the ‘X’ account of @isro (Indian Space Research Organisation)
India became the first nation in the world to pull off a soft landing on the moon's south pole.

  • Added: Aug 29, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
761-Alessandra’s Duo
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Lunar Impact, Credit: NASA
In less than two hours my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Allesandra Serrano discovered two small fast moving space rocks. Both of them passed through...

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  • Added: Aug 27, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Ragging
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: The Indian newspaper The Telegraph covers the death of a teenaged student allegedly because of "ragging" by older students. , Credit: Sandip Roy
The death of a Kolkata teen allegedly because of ragging, or hazing, has re focused attention on bullying in schools and colleges.

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  • Added: Aug 22, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
760- Discover an Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Dimorphos, Credit: NASA
Carson Fuls, one of my Catalina Sky Survey teammates, is leading the effort that will allow you to join our NASA funded adventure in asteroid hunt...

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  • Added: Aug 20, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Independence
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Sandip's mother Reba Roy who saw India become independent reads Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's novel Independence set in those years., Credit: Sandip Roy
India celebrated its 77th Independence Day this week. Sandip talks to novelist Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni about the turbulent and traumatic years o...

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  • Added: Aug 15, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
759-Number 7
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fireball, Credit: NASA
Hungarian astronomer and geography teacher Krisztián Sárneczky was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Lynx with 0.6m (24 inch) telescope at...

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  • Added: Aug 13, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
758-Weird Supernova
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An extremely wide field of view camera, the Zwicky Transient Facility, operated by Caltech on Palomar Mountain in California is able to take images...

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  • Added: Aug 06, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Oppenheimer
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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One of the most memorable lines from Oppenheimer the film comes from the Hindu sacred text the Bhagavad Gita. Sandip explains our abiding cultural ...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
757-Alien Signals
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: A hypothetical alien craft transmits radio signals into space. Scientists are on the hunt for signals like these., Credit: Breakthrough Listen / Danielle Futselaar
Project Breakthrough Listen is spending $100 million over 10 years so that radio telescopes can search for signals which may indicate extraterrestr...

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  • Added: Jul 30, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
A revived program allows green card holders to become citizens faster if they enlist in the military
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Airman 1st Class Joshua Garamfel, originally from Micronesia, is awarded an Airman's coin at the end of Basic Military Training at Joint Base San Antonio - Lackland on July 12. Garamfel was one of 18 new citizen-graduates., Credit: Vanessa Adame / U.S. Air Force
The program allows recruits to naturalize at the end of basic training. Several military branches have revived it at a time when the military is ha...

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  • Added: Jul 27, 2023
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 4
IE: Inside Europe , 7/28/2023
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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On today's programme: Spain’s election ends in deadlock - but will a fugitive separatist leader be the kingmaker? Devastating wildfires in Greece ...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
756-Nice PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists conception asteroid Impact 65 million years ago, Credit: NASA (Don Davis)
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Cancer with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizon...

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  • Added: Jul 23, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
754-Very Fast Moving Objects In The Night Sky
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception of Earth and a Small Asteroid, Credit: NASA
Very small fast moving asteroids pass through our solar system.About once a month an object like 2023 KU4 enters our atmosphere, releases the ener...

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  • Added: Jul 09, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9

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