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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
2023-07-07 Law and Oil: Taking Climate Offenders to Court
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The last several years have seen a big increase in the number of lawsuits focused on the climate crisis. Some lawsuits challenge governments for th...

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  • Added: Jul 06, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 11
230707: 2023-07-07 Law and Oil: Taking Climate Offenders to Court, 7/7/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The last several years have seen a big increase in the number of lawsuits focused on the climate crisis. Some lawsuits challenge governments for th...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
IE: Inside Europe, 7/7/2023
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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On today's programme: Could Putin really face prosecution in the Hague for the invasion of Ukraine? Will France learn anything from the latest bur...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Shoot The Messenger
From: Exile Content
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Shoot the Messenger is a new serialized, investigative-reporting podcast where we do deep dives on international news stories that warrant a reexam...

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  • Added: Jul 05, 2023
  • Length: 53:40
  • Purchases: 14
Millets!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: The International Year of Millets shared the White House state dinner menu.
The White House state dinner for Indian prime minister Narendra Modi included for the first time millets as the main grain. And that caused quite a...

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  • Added: Jul 03, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Conspiracy Bites: Who Is Behind What We Eat?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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From the dinner table to the dark web.

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  • Added: Jun 29, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
IE: Inside Europe, 6/30/2023
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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On today's programme: After the botched Russia revolt, what's next for Prigozhin in Belarus? Ukrainian prisoners of war are freed but why weren't ...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
752 Lunker
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Johnson, Credit: Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/W. Reach (SSC/Caltech)
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Jacqueline Fazekas was asteroid hunting , in the evening twilight, with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizo...

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  • Added: Jun 25, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Tupperware Party
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A classic Tupperware Party ad
One of America’s iconic plastic storage devices is still coveted in India. Sandip Roy warmly remembers Tupperware!

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  • Added: Jun 23, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Pride Then and Now
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: The South Asian contingent at the San Francisco Pride Parade in 2016 and also the last time I was there during Pride. , Credit: Sandip Roy
At a time when June is celebrated as Pride month both in Kolkata and San Francisco, Sandip reflects on a what it took to reconcile both parts of on...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
751 Ball Pit
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Kid In Ball Pit, Credit: WebMD.com
To the amazement of NASA scientists, when the NASA OSIRIS-Rex touched down on the surface of Bennu to obtain a sample, the sample collecting arm...

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  • Added: Jun 18, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
They helped American troops in Afghanistan. Now, they want to stay in the U.S.
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Nangialy Nang spends time with his youngest daughter in their San Antonio apartment. Nang worked as an interpreter for U.S. forces starting in 2007. He was ultimately evacuated from the country in 2021 along with his family. He worries he could lose every, Credit: Carson Frame / American Homefront
A temporary program that allowed tens of thousands of Afghans to live in the U.S. is scheduled to expire this summer. The Biden Administration's pl...

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  • Added: Jun 12, 2023
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 5

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