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Building a house in 24 hours.

  • Added: Aug 24, 2018
  • Length: 02:30
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On this week's show: Pesticides and our Food - Thanks to the invention of pesticides, fresh foods can be imported from every corner of the worl...

Bought by KMUN, KRZA, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KUPR low power FM, and WFIU


  • Added: Aug 24, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 5
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On this week's show: Avocados are hailed as healthy superfood, but the craze is wrecking havoc in many communities. For instance in Chile where ...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
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On this week's Spectrum: An apple a day keeps the doctor away - We take a look at how South Africa has become a world leader in penis transplant...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
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It has been 20 years since the world woke up to the news that a half mile diameter asteroid, 1997 XF11, discovered by Space Watch on Kitt Peak, had...

Bought by KENW, WLPR , WTIP, KRWG, KKRN and more


  • Added: Aug 17, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Living Planet: Apes - Apes are humans' closest relatives, but these creatures are increasingly endangered. From Asia to Africa, human activi...

Bought by KRZA, KMUN, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KUPR low power FM, and WFIU


  • Added: Aug 17, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 5
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Imagine a spacecraft traveling at a speed that would take it from New York to Tokyo in less than a minute, a mere 4 million miles from the surface ...

Bought by KENW, WLPR , WTIP, KKRN, KSFR and more


  • Added: Aug 16, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Spectrum: Robot for chronically ill children - On this week's show: can a robot really stop loneliness for sick kids? We talk to a researcher ...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
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A huge Earth approaching asteroid is discovered right before the 2018 monsoon rains settled into the American Southwest. This weather imposed bre...

Bought by KENW, WLPR , KRZA, WTIP, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Aug 09, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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On this week's show: we dedicate a full show to the important resource of water. We'll hear from water conservationist Rajendra Singh who's bringi...

Bought by KRZA, KUPR low power FM, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WFIU


  • Added: Aug 09, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
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In this week's show : we hear from the first 'test tube baby' 40 years later, find hot and bothered Germans (who also sit too much), long live the...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Aug 08, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Asteroid hunters have discovered a strange asteroid pair. How they came to be together and what humans would do if such a large double trouble obje...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WLPR , KKRN, and KUPR low power FM


  • Added: Aug 02, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
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This week on Living Planet: how much is too much? Just how many visitors are too many? The Greek island of Santorini struggles with tourism number...

Bought by KMUN, KRZA, KUPR low power FM, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WFIU


  • Added: Aug 02, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 5
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An object is tracked in outer space, seen to explode in our atmosphere, and had a fragment of it discovered on the ground. Its analysis will help h...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jul 29, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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On July 8, 2018 a beautiful fireball Meteor was seen streaking across the sky in evening twilight. So far the American Meteor Society has receive...

Bought by KENW, WLPR , WTIP, KUPR low power FM, KSFR and more


  • Added: Jul 26, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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On this week’s show: A huge political storm kicks off after a German soccer player with Turkish heritage quits the national team. Rescuers conti...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
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Living Planet: Drought grips farmers - It's hot out there. The heat wave sweeping across the northern hemisphere this week has farmers worried, e...

Bought by KUPR low power FM, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WFIU


  • Added: Jul 26, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
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On this week's show: Bracing ourselves for heat waves, earthquakes and poor infrastructure: We'll hear how cities are vulnerable to heat and how ...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
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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
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Living Planet: Disgusting creatures - Tarantulas, scorpions and cockroaches are not appealing — but they are important! Eels in Canada are bei...

Bought by KMUN, KRZA, KUPR low power FM, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WFIU


  • Added: Jul 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 5
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard knew he had bagged his third comet when he spotted an unknown fuzzy object with a broad tail moving th...

Bought by KENW, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, WTIP, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jul 13, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Living Planet: Strokes of genius - When it comes to protecting the environment, sometimes the most unusual ideas are the best ones. From using d...

Bought by KRZA, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KUPR low power FM, and WFIU


  • Added: Jul 12, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 4
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World in Progress: Mines, Migrants and Resistance - In this 'week's edition: Secret resistance in Cambodia; Mining in Brazil - does it reall...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
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On July 1, 1770 Comet Lexell passed about 6 times the moon's distance from planet Earth, the closest a comet has ever come to humanity. After tha...

Bought by KENW, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, WTIP, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jul 06, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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A 2000 foot diameter space rock has stories to tell about violent events long ago. Asteroid hunters are eager to track this huge collision fragment...

Bought by KENW, KUPR low power FM, WTIP, KKRN, Bandon Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6