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524-Home Wrecker
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The extremely remote chance that a dangerous mountain sized space rock has our number on it is what keeps my team going to our four telescopes in t...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, KRWG, Bandon Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
523-One Thousand
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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For the first time in history, an asteroid hunting team, the Catalina Sky Survey, has discovered more than 1,000 Earth approaching asteroids in a s...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, KRWG, Bandon Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
508-Quiet Sun
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Don't count on the decrease in solar activity to save you from human produced global warming, however something potentially important to you is hap...

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


  • Added: Oct 28, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
506-Large PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Richard Kowalski was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Pegasus with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bi...

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


  • Added: Oct 21, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
503-Fuls III
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls discovered his third comet, Comet C/2018 R4 (Fuls). It is now on its way back into deep space...

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


  • Added: Oct 11, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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
458-Large and Close
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On June 30, 1908 a celestial object exploded 28,000 feet above the Tunguska river drainage area in Siberia, Russia releasing the energy of 185 Hiro...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WTIP, KKRN and more


  • Added: May 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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
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
251-Fresh Lunar Craters
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Fresh lunar craters tell us about objects which enter the Earth-Moon system.

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


  • Added: May 12, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
246-Anatomy of an Extinction Crater
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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By drilling into a crater rim, researchers hope to discover how the Earth and it's life forms recovered from an asteroid impact.

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


  • Added: Apr 21, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Right Relationship with Mother Earth - Dr. Jim Collins and Peggy Rebol on Unspun
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Jim Collins
Unspun honors local environmental advocates, Peggy Rebol and Dr. Jim Collins, as we look at our relationships with Mother Earth and current environ...

Bought by 'The Sea' and KMUD


  • Added: Apr 17, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
226-Cosmic Campground
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Cosmic Campground is one of the last places where one can experience the natural night sky in the lower 48.

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


  • Added: Feb 11, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Fuel
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Fusion - Everlasting and Clean Energy
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Physicists are approaching closer and closer to one of the Holy Grails of modern science: creating self-sustaining fusion reactions on Earth, and u...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
Acoustic Stories: Michael Goldberg On Foot-In-Mouth Situations - "More Or Less Human Than A Human.""
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays.

  • Added: Jan 29, 2014
  • Length: 03:34
Acoustic Stories: Dan Sinykin - Christmas In A Swamp
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
Caption: Dan Sinykin
Dan Sinykin is a writer and frequent contributor of essays and book reviews to Northern Community Radio. In "Christmas In A Swamp" Sinykin recounts...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 05:32
  • Purchases: 1
Byran Crigler of Herbal Turtle Farms Talks About Sustainable Foods
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
Caption: Owners of Herbal Turtle Farms: Kate Foerster with partner Bryan Crigler and son Ayden
Local farmer and President of The Winona Farmers Market, Bryan Crigler stops by to inform us on Community Supported Agriculture, the importance of ...

Bought by KSRQ and KSRQ


  • Added: May 07, 2012
  • Length: 24:25
  • Purchases: 2
Culturology: Mary Strother's toned and hand painted photography
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
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Mary Strother discusses how she has evolved her artistic process and how she gathers her photography's subject matter. Her exhibit appear during Fe...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 04:53
  • Purchases: 2
Turtles of the Upper Mississippi Refuge and it's Watershed
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
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On this episode of Don't Cha Know we feature Ed Lagace and Michael J Pappas as they talk to us about turtles of the Upper Mississippi Refuge and it...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2011
  • Length: 43:32
Soil Scientists Overlook Keg Party
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Refuse from keg party not found in sediment of lake

  • Added: Mar 14, 2010
  • Length: 01:00
Recycling in St. George, Maine
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
St. George epitomizes the social experience they call recycling

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jan 21, 2010
  • Length: 02:10
  • Purchases: 1
The Case For Solar Power
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
In the next 10 years your electricity bill will at least double

  • Added: Jun 03, 2009
  • Length: 01:47
A Weather Report From Maine
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
In Maine it is either too hot or too cold to put on or take off storm windows.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: May 13, 2009
  • Length: :37
  • Purchases: 1
Getting the News
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
With the demise of stores, post offices and garages, where do rural people now congregate to exchange the news?

  • Added: Jan 17, 2009
  • Length: 01:47
Energy Efficient Refrigerator
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
You can save on electricity if you never open the door

Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Jan 10, 2009
  • Length: 01:54
  • Purchases: 1