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SILK: A WORLD HISTORY WITH SMITHSONIAN ASSOCIATE DR. AARATHI PRASAD

From: Paul VOGELZANG
Series: Smithsonian Associates Interview Series, Not Old Better Show

Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series, Credit: Paul Vogelzang

🌟 Dive into the Luxurious World of Silk! 🌍✨ Join us as we unravel the threads of history with Aarathi Prasad in our latest episode 🎧📖. Discover how...

804-Tracie’s Solo

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Artists Conception Of Earth And An Asteroid, Credit: Texas A&M/NASA

After months of training Tracie came full circle during her first solo 3 night observing run on the 60 inch telescope as she hosted groups of visi...

Bought by KGLP, KRWG, KICI Iowa City, and KKRN

Intersex - The Journey to Juleigh

From: Christopher Beale
Series: Stereotypes

Intersex advocate Juleigh Mayfield was forced to transition to female in her forties.

803-Monster NEO

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Since larger space rocks are rare, it was surprising when my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groller found a half mile diameter asteroid travel...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, KGLP, KKRN and more

Piping Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners: 20 Mysteries of Honey Bee Behavior Solved

From: Paul VOGELZANG

Unlocking the Secrets of Honey Bees: Smithsonian Associate Thomas D. Seeley Reveals 20 Mysteries and Their Crucial Role in Biodiversity 🐝📚🔍 Get rea...

How Do You Help Patients Who Show Up in the ER 100 Times a Year?

From: Tradeoffs

Some patients’ lives are so complicated by trauma, poverty and other social problems that routine conditions like diabetes and asthma regularly tur...

An Insurance Company Bought This Doctor’s Practice. She’s Worried About Her Patients

From: Tradeoffs

One doctor debates whether to work for the nation's largest insurance company after it purchased the independent practice she worked for in Oregon.

A New Kind of Primary Care Comes to America

From: Tradeoffs

A group of nurses in Baltimore wants to bring basic care to every person in a neighborhood regardless of age, health, income or insurance. Can this...

802-Bok Comet

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Kacper Wierzchos was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Draco with the Steward Observatory Bok 90 inch telesc...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Raven Radio and more

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 Raven Radio, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, KKRN, KUGS Bellingham, Wash. and more

The Bird Connection

From: Michigan Radio

A documentary about the decline in bird populations in the Great Lakes region and how the causes also are a warning for humans.

Bought by WVPE

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 Raven Radio, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP and more

92,000 Transgender People Took This Survey. Here’s What We Learned

From: Tradeoffs

As lawmakers around the country take aim at transgender rights, we dig into findings from the largest survey ever of trans Americans.

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

798-Destination Enceladus

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

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

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

Return of the Native with Bill Shanabruch, Part 2

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Caption: Bill Shanabruch leads Conservation Landscaping Workshop.

Bill Shanabruch left his job as regional biologist for the Piedmont with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. It was over a boondoggl...

Return of the Native with Bill Shanabruch Part 1

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Caption: Bill Shanabruch, Credit: Charles McGuigan

As staggeringly complex as the environmental catastrophe is, by tackling one small space at a time, we might be able to bring back entire ecosystem...

Surprise! Plans To Resolve High Medical Bills Are Still a Mess

From: Tradeoffs

Patients are now mostly protected from surprise bills, but doctors and insurers are still fighting about the prices.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer

Imagining where love came from: Sonnet for the Primordial Gravity Waves

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: Breathing: American Sonnets (Bookshop.org), Credit: Susan Cook

The 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to those who offered proof of the existence of Primordial Gravity Waves. Einstein theorized they were ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City

On the death of Stephen Hawking "Sonnet for The Black Hole" "Sonnet for A Loss"

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: Breathing: American Sonnets , Credit: Susan Cook

Stephen Hawking has died who brought us all to imagine what black holes are and to recognize ourselves in them and him.

Bought by KICI Iowa City

Sonnet for the Higgs Boson. The God particle.

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Upon the passing of Dr Peter Higgs, a Sonnet to explain how the Higgs boson comes into our lives.

Bought by KICI Iowa City

The Distance of Time: An American Sonnet about Relativity

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Poetry makes everything accessible, even the Special Theory of Relativity.

789-Asteroid With A Tail

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

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

788-100 Years of Wilderness

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Milky Way Rising Cosmic Campground, Credit: David Thornburg

In 1924 the Aldo Leopold Wilderness in southwestern New Mexico became the first designated wilderness and is an island from which to view the natur...

Bought by Raven Radio, WTIP, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KGLP and more

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