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328-The Heat is On
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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2016 is the warmest year the Earth has been in the more than 180 years of record keeping.

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  • Added: Feb 02, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
320-WOW What A Ride
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Riding the surface of the asteroid that my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Richard Kowalski recently discovered would be an incredible experience.

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  • Added: Jan 05, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
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...

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  • Added: Dec 22, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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.

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  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
310-Ethics and Mars
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Should martian microbes be sacrificed to human space exploration.

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  • Added: Dec 01, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Laudato Si
From: KXCI
Series: The Weekly Green
Caption: Papal seal
Dan Laüt on Pope Francis' encyclical letter about the environment

  • Added: Dec 01, 2016
  • Length: 03:30
Shifting the Baseline: Perception is Everything
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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How our perception of the world changes, from generation to generation. We talk about "Shifting Baseline Syndrome" with the man who coined the phrase.

  • Added: Nov 28, 2016
  • Length: 02:03
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
Episode 1: Jeanette & Alice
From: Natalie Hillerson
Series: Cycles: Climate Change and Indigenous Women
Caption: PRX default Piece image
All we are is stories: Jeanette Bushnell, lecturer at the University of Washington, and Alice Tsoodle, education manager at Friends of North Creek ...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Oct 27, 2016
  • Length: 27:32
  • Purchases: 1
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.

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  • Added: Oct 27, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
13-06: How Close Does It Have to Get?: The Open Space of Democracy, 11/2/2016
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Terry Tempest Williams
In her writing and her life, Terry Tempest Williams reflects an expression of something better and higher in each of us. Here she wrestles with th...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 28:29
298-Rosetta
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Rosetta spacecraft visited a comet and obtained interesting unique data and images.

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  • Added: Oct 20, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
297-White Sky
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Millions of children will never see the Milky Way or a meteor streaking across the night sky.

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  • Added: Oct 20, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
295-Close Passes
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Small close approaching space rocks are part of our environment.

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  • Added: Oct 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
293-From Luna
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A rock blasted from the Moon by the impact of an asteroid or comet may be on its way to Earth.

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


  • Added: Oct 06, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
292-Disintegrating Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a disintegrating comet 67 million miles from us.

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Why do we love Lake Superior?
From: WTIP
Series: The Lake Superior Project
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Lake Superior is a big part of the landscape in northeastern Minnesota…and it has special meaning for most visitors and residents. In this edition ...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2016
  • Length: 06:02
290-Screaming Aten
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An interesting object is spotted streaking across the night sky at the rate of 17 full moon diameters per day.

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


  • Added: Sep 22, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Dragonfly Swarms
From: renee wilde
Series: Community Voices
Caption: Bob Glotzhober at Big Darby Creek, Credit: renee wilde
Every year a huge swarm of dragonflies appear on the producer's farm. She goes in search of information on this behavior and finds out that, even t...

  • Added: Sep 07, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
281-Starlight Walking
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Experience the age old sense of wonder which happens when a human looks into deep space and thinks about what might be out there.

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


  • Added: Aug 27, 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
Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Rashad Shabazz
Imagine a large population of Americans living in prison-like-conditions. That’s what it’s like in the so-called Black Belt of South Side Chicago.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 09, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
275-No Place Like Home
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Astronomers are finding thousands of planets orbiting distant stars. Your home the Earth is still the only one where you could live without a space...

Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Aug 05, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Coping with Tricky Party Convos
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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Chuck Klosterman, author of The Ethicist, guides us through the tricky social waters of the holiday season.

  • Added: Jul 05, 2016
  • Length: 03:17
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.

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


  • Added: Jun 30, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8

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