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An asteroid is exiled to the outer regions of the solar system during Jupiter's rampaging tack away from the Sun long ago. During that process enou...
Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KICI Iowa City and more
- Added: Mar 13, 2022
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 9
Modern technology provides us with stunning views of objects in the Universe in wavelengths invisible to our eyes, however, nothing is as moving an...
Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, WTIP and more
- Added: Mar 06, 2022
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 10
If you set your mind to it, you can find and hold a sample of an asteroid, called a meteorite, which has landed on the Earth's surface. On the othe...
Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, RADIOLEX and more
- Added: Feb 06, 2022
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 10
Cactus wrens were one of the first Sonoran Desert birds I learned when I arrived in Tucson to go to the University of Arizona. They are such rascal...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:44
This is Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey. Cloudy Cold days these days. Petey talks about lifesaving snow in the desert, the beauty of Sandhill C...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:52
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 05:09
I have a bunch of photos from Christmas tree hunts and most of them are 35 mm slides. These few here were taken over the last several years. I alwa...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 05:07
I was reading a Christmas card from some very dear friends and in the hand written portion of the card it mentioned this season as being the “holie...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:53
There are around 30 species of Porophyllum, the majority of which are found in Mexico and southward. Around me in the borderlands of Arizona Sonora...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:52
- Added: Dec 13, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
A postcard from Earth's largest living being: the Pando Aspen Grove near Fish Lake, Utah.
Bought by KTNA
- Added: Dec 13, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
This week on the show: Forcing people to vaccinate is not an appealing option — at all. It might happen anyway.
- Added: Nov 26, 2021
- Length: 30:00
In July of 2002 I produced an episode about the summer monsoon and spadefoots. It was so much fun to write and record. In July of 2013 I re-recorde...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 04:35
I grew up in Kentucky where the state flower is goldenrod. The particular species that has that honor is Solidago gigantea. I wonder how it was cho...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 05:21
Recently there were four fireball meteors, brighter than the planet Venus, which exploded over Germany, France, Ohio, and Arizona within the space ...
Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, WTIP, KGLP, RADIOLEX and more
- Added: Sep 05, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 9
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 ti...
Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, RADIOLEX and more
- Added: Jul 17, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 10
This week on the show: Is it fair to say you've been outraged by some of the risky things you've seen people doing during this pandemic? And is it...
- Added: Jun 27, 2021
- Length: 30:00
When Egypt comes to mind, most think about the desert. Thanks to German and Egyptian scientists the country could soon be covered in trees.
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 02:32
A start-up company in the Netherlands is looking for new solutions for renewable energy and finding them in plants.
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Protecting your skin from the sun is a must. So is protecting coral reefs from toxic sunscreen.
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 02:30
- Added: May 06, 2021
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
The aviation industry is one of the largest users of fossil fuels. The solution could be in the middle east where A branchy-like plant is looking v...
- Added: May 03, 2021
- Length: 02:32
Move over Tesla, a collaborator of Swiss Companies has created a prototype dump truck that might even be able to sell electricity back to the grid!
- Added: Apr 23, 2021
- Length: 02:30
A British company finds a way to turn food waste into renewable energy and bio-fertilizer using anaerobic digestion.
- Added: Apr 23, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Bees are good for much more than stinging. With bee populations rapidly declining, Cedar Rapids is finding a way to give them a second shot.
- Added: Apr 20, 2021
- Length: 02:30
