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Want to know the truth about Valentine’s Day? Me Too.
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
I thought it would be simple. Just google Valentine’s Day and learn all about it – when and where it started and modern ways it’s celebrated arou...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
784-Josh’s Two PHAs
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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So far asteroid hunters have discovered approximately half of the 5,000 PHAs which are likely to exist. Asteroid hunters will continue to search th...

Bought by Raven Radio, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KKRN and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Living Planet 11/03/23
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Making fuel out of food. Sounds like it could be pretty sustainable, right? But then again, does it make sense to be growing...

Bought by Radio Kansas and WXDU


  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 29:58
  • Purchases: 2
Science unscripted 06/13/2023
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: ‘Ouch!’ — Physical pain rises with envy

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jun 16, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Science unscripted (Spectrum) 12/20/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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It's the most wonderful time (to think about relationships)

  • Added: Dec 23, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
724-Aten(512)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid, Credit: NASA
Aten Asteroids are stealthy space rocks which can be dim and hard to detect since for most of their path about the Sun their illuminated side is fa...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KICI Iowa City, KGLP, WTIP and more


  • Added: Dec 11, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Science unscritped 10/18/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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Weekly roundup — Wait, did that really happen?

  • Added: Oct 21, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
Science unscripted (Spectrum) 10/04/22
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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Weekly round-up: Do you regret getting your dog? New research shows that some dog/owner relationships aren't actually healthy.

  • Added: Oct 07, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
661-Roving Venus (400)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: An illustration of a concept for a possible wind-powered Venus rover., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
To survive on Venus where the temperature is 864F and the surface air pressure is 90 times that of Earth, NASA and JPL engineers are exploring the ...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
636-90 Inch
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: 90 Inch Bok Telescope, Credit: Steward Observatory
On Kitt Peak in Arizona, the Steward Observatory's Bok telescope's 90 inch light collecting mirror enables the discovery, study, and tracking of sp...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP, WTIP and more


  • Added: Apr 02, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
601-Phaethon's Child
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Phaethon (Faith on) is a strange, 4 mile diameter, blueish asteroid. It travels on an orbit which comes so close to the Sun that its exterior is h...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jul 31, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
Preserving Cultural Heritages of Brooklyn’s Hasidic community and Ecuador’s Huaorani people
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Hasidic men at Western Wall, Credit: courtesy of Pixabay
Join World Footprints as we learn about the cultural heritages of Brooklyn’s Hasidic neighborhoods and Ecuador’s Huaorani people.

  • Added: Mar 23, 2020
  • Length: 43:17
The Big Pond #43: Under the Skin – Tattoo Artists
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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It seems like there are more people nowadays with tattoos than there used to be – of the body art is hidden, but most are quite visible. Men and wo...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WOUB


  • Added: Aug 28, 2019
  • Length: 09:56
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Pond #38: Seeing in the Dark – Volkmar Wentzel’s Photography
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In this episode, producer Katie Davis profiles German-American photographer Volkmar Wentzel who was born in Dresden, Germany in 1915 before moving ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 24, 2019
  • Length: 12:31
  • Purchases: 1
507-Eric's Night
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid hunters are developing the equipment and skills which enable them to predict the impact of tiny space rocks. Thus in the future you may h...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WLPR , KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
480-A Large Visitor
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Statistically, asteroid hunters are thought to have discovered 90% of our potentially dangerous celestial neighbors greater than 1 KM in diameter. ...

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


  • Added: Jul 20, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
Phil Rowlands: A Focus on Global R & D
From: Peter Hofland
Series: The OncoZine Brief
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In this Edition of the OncoZine Brief, brought to you from the 59th annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology held December 9-12, 2017 i...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2018
  • Length: 43:25
Targeted Anticancer Agents: Changing Treatments to Benefit Patients
From: Peter Hofland
Series: The OncoZine Brief
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Recorded during the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), being held June 2 - 6, 2017 in Chicago, Ill, the team ...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 27:47
Bonnie J. Addario: An Urgent Need to Impact Lung Cancer Care in a Big Way
From: Peter Hofland
Series: The OncoZine Brief
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Each year, 1.4 million people are diagnosed with lung cancer worldwide. The 5-year survival rate for these patients is only 15.9%. In this episod...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2017
  • Length: 29:51
Developing Novel Therapies for HER2-positive Advanced or Metastatic Breast Cancer: An Interview with Daichi Sankyo's Antoine Yver
From: Peter Hofland
Series: The OncoZine Brief
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In this interview during the 2017 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, or ASCO, which took place June 2nd to 5th in Chicago...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2017
  • Length: 39:02
Gandhi the human
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A statue of Mahatma Gandhi
On October 2 India will mark the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. South Africans say India gave us Mohandas Gandhi. We returned him as the Maha...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2017
  • Length: 05:59
Tim Townsend reads from Mission At Nuremberg: An American Army Chaplain and The Trial of The Nazis (5/14)
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014
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100-second module, from our daily readings for May. A difficult assignment.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
Nadia Hashimi reads from The Pearl That Broke Its Shell (5/6)
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014
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One of our 100-second weekday readings for MAY; an unusual Afghani custom.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
The Dave Holland Interview
From: Jake Feinberg
Series: In The Land of Giants
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Bassist Dave Holland started his performing career in London. One night, he received word that a visiting musician from the states wanted to hire ...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 09:46
The Taj Mahal Interview
From: Jake Feinberg
Series: In The Land of Giants
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Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg with Roots Music Icon Taj Mahal. A discussion about the genesis of roots music and the music ...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 11:13