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802-Bok Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Halley's Comet, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Kacper Wierzchos was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Draco with the Steward Observatory Bok 90 inch telesc...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
Queer Comedy Reps Open Relationships
From: Christopher Beale
Series: Stereotypes
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Gay and bisexual men are more likely to be in open relationships, but Frank Arthur Smith says that is seldom represented in pop culture. With his q...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2024
  • Length: 06:51
Fountain of Passion
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Dhruva Jain, the vintage fountain pen collector at the Pen Mahotsav festival., Credit: Sandip Roy
Fountain pens might seem part of a vanishing world but a group of pen enthusiasts seen signs of hope in India. Sandip visits a Fountain Pen festiva...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
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


  • Added: Jun 02, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
IE: Inside Europe, 5/31/2024
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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Elections 101: with just one week to go before EU Parliament elections, DW’s Jack Parrock tells you all you need to know Breaking the news: the in...

  • Added: May 30, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Crypto Crime
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Mitali Mukherjee’s “Crypto Crimes” book cover, Credit: Courtesy of Mitali Mukherjee
Some hailed it as a brave new financial revolution. But where there’s big money to be made, and made fast, there will also be people playing fast a...

  • Added: May 29, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
Scrappy Ohio Pride Survives
From: Christopher Beale
Series: Stereotypes
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A pair of conservative small towns hosted their first LGBTQIA pride in 2023 to much success, then local residents tried to shut it down.

  • Added: May 28, 2024
  • Length: 06:30
800-Telescope Reborn
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: In an artist’s rendering, light from quasars passes through intergalactic clouds of hydrogen gas. The light offers clues to the structure of the distant cosmos, Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld and DESI
In an astonishing rebirth, the Mayall 4-m telescope has jumped to the forefront of astronomy once again because it is sturdy and precise enough to...

Bought by KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KGLP and more


  • Added: May 26, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Year of the Netizen
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: election posters in Kolkata., Credit: Sandip Roy
There’s a new focus this election season in India, a new type of influencer, the ‘Netizen.’ But what does this really mean for the democratic process?

Bought by WXXI Rochester


  • Added: May 21, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Season 1, Episode 41 - 'Transformative Generation' feat Christabel Reed
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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Taking care of ourselves goes hand in hand with taking care of the planet.

Bought by WOJB


  • Added: May 19, 2024
  • Length: 58:07
  • Purchases: 1
799-Nature's Gateways
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Milky Way Rising Over the Gila Wilderness, Credit: Steven Miller
The Cosmic Campground International Dark Sky Sanctuary and the Aldo Leopold Gila Wilderness in New Mexico are gateways to nature where man is only ...

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


  • Added: May 19, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
798-Destination Enceladus
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Enceladus, Credit: ESA
Life on Earth appears to have formed in our oceans. Scientists are thus on the hunt for other worlds which have oceans of liquid water and thus po...

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


  • Added: May 12, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Up Close And Acoustic with JM Stevens
From: Charlie Silvestri
Series: Up Close And Acoustic
Caption: JM Stevens, Credit: Up Close And Acoustic
JM Stevens is a singer/songwriter based out of Austin, Texas. He grew up in West Point, Mississippi fortunate enough to have a mother who was a sin...

  • Added: May 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:05
IE: Inside Europe, 5/10/2024
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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It’s Eurovision Finals week so we’ve gone all out on a Euro-Culture special! Alongside the hottest-takes from Malmo 2024, we’ll be bringing you th...

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
797-Recoveries
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid 2014 JO25, Credit: NASA Goldstone RADAR
It is essential that asteroid hunters keep track of potentially dangerous asteroids to make sure that their orbits haven’t changed as they encounte...

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


  • Added: May 05, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Summers of Discontent
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Summer Fruits in Kolkata., Credit: Sandip Roy
As the Indian heat descends on Kolkata, Sandip considers how our perceptions about the rituals of summer have changed.

  • Added: Apr 30, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
QueerMandu
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: The faces behind the QueerMandu gay tour group in Nepal., Credit: Sandip Roy
Nepal’s constitution protects sexual minorities. Most recently after a long struggle Nepal registered its first same sex marriage, something India ...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
vix Vacare
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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The very word vacation has its roots in vacare or to be unoccupied. But in reality vacations are anything but unoccupied. Sandip recounts the woes ...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
Reproductive Rights, The Issue that Could Define the 2024 Election
From: Mateo Schimpf
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The Dobbs Domino Effect

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), RADIOLEX, WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Which Came First?
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: An example of the classic 'butter chicken', Credit: Photo by Joe mon bkk, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
A new food fight has erupted in India. And it’s about one of the most famous dishes to come out of India, one that every other Indian restaurant in...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
IE: Inside Europe, 3/29/2024
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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Will Putin use the Moscow theatre attack to further tighten his grip? What if a pro-Western candidate wins Slovakia's presidential election... And ...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
Good Holi Ramadan
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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The stars are aligned this week. Its a week for Holi, Ramadan and Good Friday, which is a perfect way to showcase how many faiths in Kolkata exist ...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
Self Help Me!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Self-help books promise a secret formula to individual success and Jay Shetty is just the latest Dale Carnegie to do so. But, even after the Guardi...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
789-Asteroid With A Tail
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet ISON, Credit: HST
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Josh Hogan was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Taurus with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona wh...

Bought by Raven Radio, RADIOLEX, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KGLP, KRWG and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Kara Swisher: Where the Tech Love Story Went Wrong
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Plus, a surprising story about reality TV in Kenya

Bought by WMUU-LP, RADIOLEX, WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4

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