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316-Weird Centaur
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Centaurs are named after the mythical beasts which were half human and half horse perhaps because they have characteristics of both asteroids and c...

Bought by Radio Newark, KMXT, KENW, KRWG, WLPR and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
313-Martian Motherlode
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Using ground penetrating RADAR on the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, scientists have discovered an ice deposit on Mars the size of New Mexico.

Bought by KRWG, Radio Newark, KMXT, KENW, WLPR and more


  • Added: Dec 15, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
312-200 Yards of Trouble
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An asteroid which can come to within about an Earth circumference of the surface of our home planet needs watching.

Bought by Radio Newark, KMXT, KENW, WLPR , KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
311-Bright and Bald
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Humans are developing the ability to study an Earth approaching object to prepare for one that is on an impact trajectory with our home planet.

Bought by WTIP, Radio Newark, KMXT, WLPR , KENW and more


  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
307-Stepping It Up
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid hunting competition.

Bought by Radio Newark, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KKRN and more


  • Added: Nov 25, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
306-Egg Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The NASA/JPL Mars Curiosity Rover discovers a meteorite on Mars.

Bought by Radio Newark, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KRWG and more


  • Added: Nov 17, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
304-Close One
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Tracking a small asteroid as it makes a very close approach to planet Earth.

Bought by Radio Newark, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW and more


  • Added: Nov 10, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
303-CRASH
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Traveling to Mars is a risky business.

Bought by WTIP, Radio Newark, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: Nov 10, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
302-Sensing A Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Combining Art and Science gives us a new way to appreciate the wonders of the Universe.

Bought by Radio Newark, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
301-Visitors From Afar
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A pair of comets visiting our neighborhood are discovered in a matter of 4 days.

Bought by Radio Newark, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
299-Sporadic Geysers
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted geysers erupting from Jupiter's Moon Europa.

Bought by Radio Newark, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW and more


  • Added: Oct 27, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Drugmakers are Making Us Addicts
From: Teosson Wells
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Opioids are Pitched as the Wonder Drug: Profit vs. Health

  • Added: Sep 19, 2016
  • Length: 21:54
Members of the 1% navigate cross-class relationships
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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In parallel but separate tales, Michelle and Abe inherited immense wealth at a young age. For many years, they didn't talk about it, or know what t...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Sep 16, 2016
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 1
A fundamentalist Christian transforms his views on abortion
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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Chris Ladd was raised as a fundamentalist Christian in East Texas, believing he possessed the secret to how everything in the universe worked. A br...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2016
  • Length: 34:45
278-Nope
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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This is the story of the big one that got away.

Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW and more


  • Added: Aug 13, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
277-Old Girl
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Imagine a telescope old enough for Senior Citizen discounts, which has traveled between mountains, and started life with a metal mirror measuring o...

Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW and more


  • Added: Aug 13, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
276-Big 3
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Large potentially dangerous asteroids are still out there.

Bought by WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, Radio Newark and more


  • Added: Aug 05, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Twisted Sister - Episode 12 - Season One
From: Clive Desmond
Series: Pod Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
College girl goes wild and learns important lesson along the way.

  • Added: Jul 29, 2016
  • Length: 11:16
269-Gamma Ray Eyes
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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With gamma ray eyes one half of your sky would be dominated by two huge bubbles coming from the center of the Milky Way.

Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark and more


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
257-Raw Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A rare nearly tailless comet has been discovered. It could be made of the primitive materials which came together to form our Earth.

Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark and more


  • Added: Jun 02, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
An unlikely friendship transforms the gun debate
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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In the mid-90’s, Dr. Mark Rosenberg was leading gun violence research at the CDC. Republican Arkansas Congressman Jay Dickey, the NRA’s so-called '...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KFAI Minneapolis, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: May 20, 2016
  • Length: 37:50
  • Purchases: 3
Defecting from the Donald
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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Media coverage of Donald Trump is incessant, but misses a seemingly critical question: why do Trump supporters defect? Alex Mamach was a staunch Tr...

  • Added: May 12, 2016
  • Length: 35:09
250-Born Wild
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Our home planet was formed after a period of chaos in the solar system.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KENW and more


  • Added: May 05, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caring Relationships: Negotiating Meaning and Maintaining Dignity
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Alana Theriault, disability benefits counselor in Berkeley, California and Alice Wong, Making Contact Community Storytelling Fellow, Credit: Alice Wong
Whether you’re a paid home care provider, or rely on personal assistance to meet your daily needs, or a family member caring for a loved one, the n...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WVAS, and WRIR


  • Added: Apr 08, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Monacan Voices Promo #3
From: Kimberley Little White Owl Lambert
Series: Native American Heritage
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:20 Promo for Monacan Voices

  • Added: Mar 09, 2016
  • Length: :20

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