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429-2017's Catch
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In 2017 my team the Catalina Sky Survey led the world in the discovery of Earth approaching objects by identifying 987 of them as they whizzed by us.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WLPR , Bandon Community Radio, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
425-Greg's Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Greg's comet comes into our neighborhood once per human lifetime and spends most of it's time in the lonely space high above or far below the rest ...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WEJP-LP 107.1, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
424-Long Winter Nights
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Long Winter nights with good seeing, from start to finish, are those on which the asteroid hunter makes new discoveries while being treated to view...

Bought by KENW, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WEJP-LP 107.1, KKRN, WTIP and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
WorldCanvass: Journalism and a Free Press in the Age of Fake News (Part 1)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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News. Fake news. Disinformation. Fact-checking. Sourced news. Unverified sources. Social media incursions by foreign nations. Cleverly disguised ma...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2017
  • Length: 27:25
406-2 Close Ones
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In less than 24 hours, while observing with the Catalina Sky Survey's 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona , I discovered two 25 foot diameter ...

Bought by KENW, KKRN, WTIP, KSFR, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
WorldCanvass: Journalism and a Free Press in the Age of Fake News (Part 3)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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News. Fake news. Disinformation. Fact-checking. Sourced news. Unverified sources. Social media incursions by foreign nations. Cleverly disguised ma...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2017
  • Length: 28:08
WorldCanvass: Journalism and a Free Press in the Age of Fake News (Part 2)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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News. Fake news. Disinformation. Fact-checking. Sourced news. Unverified sources. Social media incursions by foreign nations. Cleverly disguised ma...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2017
  • Length: 26:05
348-16
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A snap shot of the kinds of objects which constantly streak past our Earth.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KTRT RADIO INC, KUPR low power FM, KKRN and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
Duane Swierczynski discusses "Revolver"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Duane Swierczynski is an Edgar-nominated novelist.

  • Added: Aug 22, 2016
  • Length: 09:54
Thomas O'Malley and Douglas Graham Purdy discuss "Serpents in the Cold"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Thomas O'Malley was raised in Ireland and England, and emigrated to the U.S. from Ireland at the age of sixteen. Douglas Graham Purdy grew up in Bo...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2015
  • Length: 11:38
Anthony Slide discusses "It's the Pictures That Got Small"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Anthony Slide is a writer who has produced more than seventy books and edited a further 150 on the history of popular entertainment.

  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 13:24
Slapping Both Cheeks: Incarceration As A Barrier To Social Justice
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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“Slapping Both Cheeks” will try to offer some insight into the facts of incarceration in our society and community and into the idea of social just...

  • Added: Nov 11, 2014
  • Length: 01:54:02
Women Rising #25 Activists Against Global Armaments and War
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Miriam Nobre, Credit: http://marchamulheres.files.wordpress.com/
We profile women fighting the expansion of global militarism and violence; Stella Soh, Kathy Kelly, and Miriam Nobre.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
Run! for your brain
From: Carry the One Radio
Series: On Evolution
Caption: Dr. Gary Westbrook, OHSU
A neuroscientist examines how exercise may increase the production of new brain cells in adults

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KALW


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 10:57
  • Purchases: 3
A Conversation with Writer, M. Evelina Galang
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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M. Evelina Galang's work spans generations with her writing of young Filipina-Americans and the surviving World War II "comfort women." [22:15]

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KZUM, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 22:16
  • Purchases: 3
Larry Himes: "Because if he's got a bomb, I'm gonna blow up."
From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: Combat Stories: Vets on War and Why They Went
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Larry G. Himes served in the U.S. Air Force, the U.S Army National Guard and the U.S. Army. His service began in 1980. He deployed with the Nationa...

Bought by KALH


  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Shhh! The "B" Word's Back In Town
From: Erica Stimolo
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The B word is out and about. I’m talking about the word “Bubble”. As prices in the stock market have increased and old market highs are breached, w...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
No 'Cheongsams or Opium Beds please'
From: Claudia Cragg
Caption: Angelica Cheung, Editor Vogue China
Angelica Cheung, Editor Vogue China, on Luxury and Fashion Trends in Mainland China, from an interview @INYTLuxury 2013

  • Added: Nov 25, 2013
  • Length: 08:11
Author Adam Johnson, an American obsessed with North Korea
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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In “The Orphan Master’s Son,” this Stanford University creative writing teacher introduces us to the people of modern-day North Korea. Johnson spe...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 17, 2013
  • Length: 10:04
  • Purchases: 1
if music be the love of food?
From: PhilipDavid Ellwand
Caption: pork walk, Credit: archive
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:00
Mission Accomplished: How Wars End
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: May 1, 2003: President George W. Bush declares an end to major combat operations in Iraq , Credit: (Paul Morse, White House photographer).
The declaration of "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq was famously premature. But have America's other wars had neat or definitive endings?  In this ep...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KFOK-LPFM, KBRP Community Radio, WRPI, Louisville Public Media and more


  • Added: May 03, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
The Americana Minute: Daniel Romano's "Come Cry With Me"
From: Michael Verity
Series: The Americana Minute
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A :60 review of Daniel Romano's "Come Cry With Me"

  • Added: Apr 21, 2013
  • Length: 01:00
Rembrandt's Selfie: A Humblebrag Portrait
From: Megan Sukys
Caption: Rembrandt Self Portrait with Two Circles, Credit: courtesy of Gary Faigin
Artist and art critic Gary Faigin decodes the mystery of one of Rembrandt's most famous self-portraits to show how a Master does the 'selfie'.

  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 19:08
Before Roe v. Wade -- The Price Women Paid
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
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On the 40th anniversary of the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion throughout the U.S., series host Martha Burk interviews ...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2013
  • Length: 28:23
Avstry Trim 4 - Neil Brooks
From: J.R. Warmkessel
Series: Aviation Trim
Caption: Neil Brooks, Credit: J.R. Warmkessel
Neil Books tells is about his time flying a 727.

  • Added: Oct 11, 2012
  • Length: 04:12