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You'll hear about ongoing food insecurity issues from food scholar Raj Patel, and hopeful solutions from families in the Black Creek community gard...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jan 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week, we speak with Lill, a resident of Whitesburg, Kentucky. Whitesburg is located in Letcher County the proposed home to a new federal priso...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2020
  • Length: 29:15
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This week’s story is that of Kara Wild. An anarchist prisoner from Chicago, Kara is a trans woman who has been in a French prison for over a year a...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2020
  • Length: 28:59
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In 2019, asteroid hunters set a new record by discovering 2,433 Earth approaching objects including 85 which could potentially become a threat to p...

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


  • Added: Jan 23, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Daniel Dicker
On the heels of being impeached by the House of Representatives, Donald Trump unsurprisingly created a diversion, having a key Iranian General assa...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
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Recently, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin's backyard all sky camera in Tucson, Arizona recorded a brilliant fireball meteor which took...

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


  • Added: Jan 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Bob Berwyn
As we embark upon a new decade, many of us are contemplating ongoing environmental challenges and what may be in store for the earth in the decade ...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Comet Neat, Credit: NASA/NOAO/NSF/T. Rector/Z. Levay/L.Frattare
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groeller was asteroid hunting, in the constellation of Hydra, with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Ariz...

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


  • Added: Jan 02, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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Recent findings, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research suggests that there is more water locked in the minerals of nearby asteroids, whi...

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


  • Added: Dec 21, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Tzeporah Berman
Those who attended the 25th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP25 in Madrid this past week were hopeful that it would deepen th...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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At its closest point, a small space rock comes to only 1/3 of Mercury's average distance from the solar surface and receives 9 times the amount of...

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


  • Added: Dec 13, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Gigi Berardi
For many, along with all that good cheer, the holidays bring a bunch of food-related conundrums: what to bring to the pot luck, what to eat and not...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KVNF


  • Added: Dec 11, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Nine hours after it was discovered a tiny, 4 foot in diameter, space rock streaked less than 4,000 miles above southern Africa as it passed throug...

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


  • Added: Dec 06, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: John Stoehr
Has it ever struck you as odd how white evangelicals in this country consistently and enthusiastically back a president with a verifiable history o...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Phil Ting
Can you imagine how hard it must be for legislators to know where to focus their energies? The problems that require reform and improved public pol...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 26, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In the space of less than 13 hours four small space rocks zipped through the Earth-Moon neighborhood. All of them were discovered by my team, the N...

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


  • Added: Nov 16, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Sammy Roth
If you follow tech news, it’s pretty hard to miss stories reminding us of the tremendous potential that lithium-ion batteries have in store for the...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 12, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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What is The Red Deal? Tune in to hear one member of The Red Nation share about this movement document and how it aims for the liberation of Indigen...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2019
  • Length: 14:57
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On a clear but windy night, near the fall equinox, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard was able to discover and verify 23 new Earth approa...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, KENW, WTIP, WLPR and more


  • Added: Nov 10, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Ben Ehrenreich
There’s a quote often attributed, perhaps incorrectly, to the great economist John Maynard Keynes that “Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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This week on the show: Adaptation & Change - How do we inspire the fundamental changes that are needed to safeguard our planet? On this program...

Bought by WRGY, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WFIU


  • Added: Oct 31, 2019
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 3
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An object the size of this huge space rock enters the Earth's atmosphere every 180,000 years with an energy of 5,800 megatons of TNT. The only pla...

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


  • Added: Oct 31, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Carter Rubin
Do you ever find yourself driving down a familiar street and suddenly encounter an unfamiliar right turn only sign that diverts all traffic off you...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 23, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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During the monsoon rainy season, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate, Hannes Groeller took a vacation in his native Austria. Returning to begin the fa...

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


  • Added: Oct 23, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Siding Spring Observatory, Credit: www.destinationsjourney.com
One of the most frustrating situations for an asteroid hunter is a night when the stars are shining bright above the mountain but the humidity is s...

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


  • Added: Oct 19, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7