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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.

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  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
289-Strange Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A new comet is likely to have the characteristics of a really weird traveler in the night.

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
287-Heavenly Palace
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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China is challenging America's historical preeminence in space exploration. At some point in the future, America may be still trying to get to huma...

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  • Added: Sep 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
280-Ice Volcanoes
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On a dwarf planet, ice volcanos appear to have shaped the surface of Ceres.

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  • Added: Aug 18, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
279-Hottest
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Our world is undergoing an alarming warming.

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  • Added: Aug 18, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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...

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  • Added: Aug 13, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
274-New Horizons Continues
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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After a successful trip through the Pluto system, the New Horizons Spacecraft is heading towards an even more distant object.

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
273-Hunt for Planet 9
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Evidence is mounting that a Planet 9 exists in the outer region of our solar system.

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
272-Big Eye
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A giant telescope, under construction, will give us a picture of how objects in the Universe change with time.

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  • Added: Jul 21, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
271-Race to Mars
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The red planet is teaming with human activity.

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  • Added: Jul 21, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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.

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  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
266-Colliding Planets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Collisions between planets, planetesimals, asteroids, and comets have produced the place where we live and breathe.

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  • Added: Jun 30, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
264-Tough Guy
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A tough rocky asteroid makes close approaches to the Sun.

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  • Added: Jun 23, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
259-Trans-Neptunian
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The discovery of an object which travels out to well beyond Pluto.

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  • Added: Jun 09, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
258-Odds of Aliens
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Chances are that we are not alone in the Universe.

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  • Added: Jun 02, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
253-Lunar Village
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The world's spacefaring community is preparing to build a village on our moon.

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  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
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.

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  • Added: May 05, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
Emergency Response Learning Center - Edward Waltz - PHM
From: Public Health Minute
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We’re mainly known for our online resources. We have interactive online courses and video broadcasts.We also do a lot with local public health, and...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2016
  • Length: :59
247-Potential Mining Target
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammates have discovered an asteroid which could be a potential mining target.

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  • Added: Apr 28, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Children’s Formation of Social Categories - Marjorie Rhodes - PHM
From: Public Health Minute
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Adults can guide whether children categorize based on race or ethnicity through subtle changes in the way they use language. Bill Latimer finds out...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2016
  • Length: :59
Divorce and Stress - David Sbarra - PHM
From: Public Health Minute
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A subset of people going through divorce and separation are at increased risk for poor health. Bill Latimer finds out more on Public Health Minute.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
Gender and Infectious Disease - Martha Anker - PHM
From: Public Health Minute
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Women are the main caretakers of the sick and the majority of nurses all around the world are women; therefore, women are more exposed to some infe...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2016
  • Length: :59
Health Disparities - Barbara Baquero - PHM
From: Public Health Minute
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Health inequalities related to obesity and cancer among Latinos in low-resource communities require interventions with a community-engaged approach...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2016
  • Length: :59
HIV Affected Youth - Theresa Betancourt - PHM
From: Public Health Minute
Series: Public Health Minute
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Dr. Theresa Betancourt, Director of the Research Program on Childran and Global Adverty at the Harvard School of Public Health and Affiliated Facul...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
245-Asteroid Awareness
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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You are less likely to be injured by a space rock than you might think.

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  • Added: Apr 21, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7