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415-Well Done
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A three football field sized asteroid survives on a harrowing path around our Sun.

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


  • Added: Dec 07, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
Working dogs help to protect wildlife
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Isabelle Groc is an environmental writer and conservation photographer based in Vancouver. She recently wrote an article for Ensia about working do...

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: Oct 31, 2017
  • Length: 14:56
  • Purchases: 1
400-Roving Venus
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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To survive on Venus where the temperature is 864F and the surface air pressure is 90 times that of Earth, NASA and JPL engineers are exploring the ...

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


  • Added: Oct 12, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
398-Mars Rocks
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A visitor from Mars lands near Tata, Morocco on July 11, 2011. Pieces of it are worth 10 times their weight in Gold.

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


  • Added: Oct 05, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
397-Spotting Meteors
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Meteors, shooting stars, or falling stars are different names for the streaks of light in the night sky which are in reality the dying embers of t...

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


  • Added: Oct 05, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
396-Jupiter
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Jupiter has been observed by humans through out history, shaped our solar system, and made it possible for Earth to form.

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


  • Added: Sep 28, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
395-House Sized Space Rocks
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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There are approximately 3.2 million Earth approaching asteroids similar in size to the Chelyabinsk impactor which injured nearly 1,500 people and d...

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


  • Added: Sep 28, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
"They're Just People" (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Learning lessons on immigration in one of the nation's largest detention centers -- Tracking poachers in Appalachia

Bought by WJCT, WUGA (part of GPB), WVAS, KMUN, KRDP and more


  • Added: Sep 15, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 8
387-Florence
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Florence is the largest asteroid in more than 100 years to approach the Earth.

Bought by KENW, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KPIP-LP, KUPR low power FM, WLPR and more


  • Added: Aug 31, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
It's A Jungle Out There (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The disappearing Amazon has lost 20% of its forest cover - Studying the toothy beasts of the Rio Negro - A Guyanan songbird's journey to NYC

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, WCQS, WUGA (part of GPB), KMUN and more


  • Added: Aug 18, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 10
379-Flying Mud Balls
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The most common type of asteroids are likely to have started out as giant convecting mud balls which could still exist at the center of large aster...

Bought by KENW, WEJP-LP 107.1, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WLPR , KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
377-Insider
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Large asteroids lurking inside the Earth's orbit can be hard to spot.

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


  • Added: Jul 27, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
374-Brute
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Large potentially dangerous asteroids are still being discovered.

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


  • Added: Jul 13, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
371-2 Headed Space Worm
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Will Earth evolved Biology allow humans to create sustainable colonies in space, on the Moon, or on Mars?

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KKRN, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jul 06, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Saving the Last Ocean
From: Generation Anthropocene
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We hear a lot in the news about the Antarctic ice sheet melting – but what else threatens a place so cold, so remote, and so seemingly barren? In t...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 21:32
368-Asteroid Alert
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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NASA's Scout and Sentry software systems allow asteroid hunters to study and keep track of potentially dangerous asteroids.

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KRWG, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
367-Future Impactor
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A 33 foot diameter asteroid has about a 1% chance of impacting the Earth in the distant future.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KRWG, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
362-Asteroid Day
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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2017 Asteroid day events are being held at more than 500 hundred locations in 72 countries world wide. Participants at Asteroid Day events are enco...

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KUPR low power FM, WLPR , KENW and more


  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
360-Rolling In
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A small space rock streaks past our home planet.

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


  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
358-Bigee
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Large potentially dangerous asteroids are still out there.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KRWG, KKRN, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: May 18, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
357-Double Trouble
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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About 16% of the Earth approaching asteroids larger than 600 feet in diameter have orbiting companions. How do we defend against such a complex obj...

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KRWG, KKRN, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: May 18, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
WorldCanvass: Women's Health and the Environment: Going Up in Smoke (Part 3)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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WorldCanvass host Joan Kjaer and a panel of experts drawn from multiple fields including engineering, urban and regional planning, public health, a...

  • Added: May 03, 2017
  • Length: 25:13
WorldCanvass: Women's Health and the Environment: Going Up in Smoke (Part 1)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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WorldCanvass host Joan Kjaer and a panel of experts drawn from multiple fields including engineering, urban and regional planning, public health, a...

Bought by Radio Catskill


  • Added: Apr 28, 2017
  • Length: 27:14
  • Purchases: 1
WorldCanvass: Women's Health and the Environment: Going Up in Smoke (Part 2)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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WorldCanvass host Joan Kjaer and a panel of experts drawn from multiple fields including engineering, urban and regional planning, public health, a...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2017
  • Length: 26:28
341-Ballooning To Space
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A ride under a balloon can give you several hours to enjoy the wonders of the Earth and its curvature against the back drop of space.

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


  • Added: Mar 23, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5