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Most life on Earth is synchronized to the regular cycles of day and night. Until about a hundred years ago, the natural night sky was familiar to ...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP and more


  • Added: Oct 18, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
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Statistically asteroid hunters have found more than 90% of the asteroids whose impact could cause global climate change. However, recently, my Ca...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Raven Radio, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
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In these last days of this cruel summer, as our wilderness burns, what we can we learn from the Other Life, the world of our pandemic dreams and un...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Sep 18, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The cost and health burdens of electricity production have long been higher for low-income communities of color than for wealthy white ones. But fo...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: The Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona captured this image of Comet NEAT on May 7, 2004. , Credit: NASA
There may be as many as a trillion small icy objects in the Oort cloud near the outer edge of our solar system. Very rarely one of these frozen ice...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KSFR and more


  • Added: Aug 21, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
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Coronavirus outbreaks in food markets, food plants, and farmworker communities have impacted food access and put a spotlight on food insecurity. Fa...

Bought by WWNO, MPR News Stations, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WYAP, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 20, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 13
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Coronavirus outbreaks in food markets, food plants, and farmworker communities have impacted food access and put a spotlight on food insecurity. Fa...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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The human thirst for knowledge about our mysterious next door neighbor is about to receive more than a sip from robotic emissaries launched in 2020...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jul 16, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
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Poet and essayist David Axelrod discusses his book "The Eclipse I call Father: Essays on Absence." He also reads a short selection.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Expanding oil extraction and clean energy, supporting capitalism while fighting climate change: can humans ever really have it all? In their new bo...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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Expanding oil extraction and clean energy, supporting capitalism while fighting climate change: can humans ever really have it all? In their new bo...

Bought by WUTC, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Jun 26, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
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If the current trend in 11 year solar cycles for the past 50 years continues, we can expect lower than average solar activity and the Earth will...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jun 25, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Kacper Wierzchos was asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he spotted a fuzzy obj...

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


  • Added: Jun 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
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Due to thoughtless outdoor night lighting on the surface and satellites in space the natural night sky is becoming a vanishing treasure. From cli...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, WLPR , Allegheny Mountain Radio and more


  • Added: May 29, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
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How do we confront the reality of a future that will be hauntingly different from today? Some authors are using fiction to create relatable narrati...

  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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How do we confront the reality of a future that will be hauntingly different from today? Some authors are using fiction to create relatable narrati...

Bought by WUTC, WJCT, KICI Iowa City, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Have you heard the Good News about St. Minerva, patron goddess of the desert wilderness? Maybe she is Minerva Hamilton Hoyt, mother of Joshua Tree ...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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We've all been dreaming a lot more than usual, or so it seems. Maybe we're just remembering our dreams during this strange time. Maybe we're just s...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 10, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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For the month of April, The Rough Draft Diaries is going to bring you a short series of phone interviews detailing how the community has been affec...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
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An appropriate new hourlong episode for these interesting times we are cursed to live in. With guest Erik Davis, bestselling author of High Weirdne...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Virgo when he spotted a fuzzy ball with a tail moving thr...

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


  • Added: Apr 03, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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Why does an invisible, life-threatening virus prompt a nationwide emergency, but invisible, life-threatening gases don’t? Experts have been emphasi...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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Why does an invisible, life-threatening virus prompt a nationwide emergency, but invisible, life-threatening gases don’t? Experts have been emphasi...

Bought by WUTC, WJCT, WAMU, Colorado Public Radio, 'The Sea' and more


  • Added: Mar 31, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 20
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Addressing the climate challenge requires incremental and transformational change on both personal and systemic levels. That means altering our per...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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Addressing the climate challenge requires incremental and transformational change on both personal and systemic levels. That means altering our per...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, WGCU, WDSE, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Mar 19, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7