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333-Whoppers
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Large dangerous asteroids are out there for asteroid hunters to find.

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, KENW, Radio Newark, KUPR low power FM, KKRN and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
318-Caves of Mars
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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It is intriguing to consider that deep inside Mars all of the necessary ingredients for life may be present together.

Bought by Radio Newark, KMXT, KENW, KKRN, KRWG and more


  • Added: Dec 30, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
317-Psyche Water
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Psyche is a small world about 116 miles in diameter and is composed of almost pure nickel-iron metal.

Bought by Radio Newark, KMXT, KENW, KKRN, KRWG and more


  • Added: Dec 30, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
315-See Comets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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2017 will be a good year to view comets with your unaided eye or a pair of binoculars.

Bought by Radio Newark, KMXT, KENW, KRWG, WLPR and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
314-Our Number
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The extremely unlikely scenario of an impactor with our number on it.

Bought by Radio Newark, KMXT, KENW, WLPR , KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Dec 15, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
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.

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


  • Added: Sep 29, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
285-Mars Impactors
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A given piece of ground on Mars is more likely to be hit by a space rock than is an equal sized area on planet Earth.

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


  • Added: Sep 08, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
284-Dark Trails
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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After a meteor is no longer visible to the human eye it leaves a dark trail which can be followed by Doppler Weather RADAR. Researchers are using ...

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


  • Added: Sep 01, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
283-Micro-Astronomy
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The history of our spot in the Universe is written in the composition of meteorites and other samples of materials we have obtained from space. Ev...

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


  • Added: Sep 01, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
270-Space Opals
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Opals from space are likely to have brought some of the water we drink to planet Earth.

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


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
269-Gamma Ray Eyes
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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With gamma ray eyes one half of your sky would be dominated by two huge bubbles coming from the center of the Milky Way.

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


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
268-Mars Weather Report
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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You will need long woolies and a spacesuit to survive on Mars.

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


  • Added: Jul 07, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
260-Gliding to Space
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An engineless glider will take two humans and scientific gear to the edge of space.

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


  • Added: Jun 09, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
256-Pale Blue Dot
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The light reflected by a distant planet can tell us if we could live there.

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


  • Added: May 26, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
223-Back Home
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A mysterious piece of space hardware comes back to Earth.

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


  • Added: Feb 04, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Economic Heresy: Herman Daly #113
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Robust economic growth has become the Holy Grail of public policy and politics. But some economists and many scientists have come to believe growth...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Bandon Community Radio, WMUU-LP, and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 17, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Island Stories: Virginia's Restless Archipelago, Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: Barry Truitt., Credit: Charles McGuigan
This is the fastest moving real estate on the entire East Coast, and behind the sandy shores of these Virginia Barrier Islands is the purest ocean...

  • Added: May 29, 2015
  • Length: 27:16
Dr. John Smol, one of the world's top Arctic researchers, studies climate change through lake sediment samples
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Buck Benson spoke recently with Prof. John Smol of Queen's University in Ontario about his work in paleolimnology, or the study of lake sedi...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 18:56
  • Purchases: 1
What's Neonicotinoid? Hint: It has to do with Bees
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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What’s the buzz around bees? Bees and beekeeping are incredibly popular, which is great because bees are dying in crazy numbers and they are the pr...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 29, 2013
  • Length: 03:04
  • Purchases: 1
Earth's Tipping Points & Abrupt Climate Change
From: Generation Anthropocene
Series: Generation Anthropocene
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Richard Alley, a climate researcher and the host of PBS’s Earth: The Operators’ Manual, discusses rapid changes in Earth’s climate through history ...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 27:55
Are you afraid of climate change?
From: Generation Anthropocene
Series: Generation Anthropocene
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Michael Shellenberger addresses climate change through the eyes of his Breakthrough Institute and offers up some ideas that some see as controversi...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 19:48
Emerging Infectious Diseases
From: Generation Anthropocene
Series: Generation Anthropocene
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In this interview, we learn from James Holland Jones how diseases emerge and spread as humans encroach into the wilderness, and how the patterns wi...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 37:41
Tropical Ecology in the Anthropocene
From: Generation Anthropocene
Series: Generation Anthropocene
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Spirited biologist Rodolfo Dirzo discusses the complex interplay of climate change with other systems, and his personal relation to the Anthropocen...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 46:56
We Can't Save Everything
From: Generation Anthropocene
Series: Generation Anthropocene
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Conservation biologist Terry Root discusses the road to triage and her somewhat controversial approach to saving species in the face of climate cha...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 37:16
The Blue Revolution
From: Chrys Bocast
Series: Aquaculture and You
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The history of aquaculture from the mid-20th century to the present.

  • Added: Jun 13, 2012
  • Length: 16:26