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648-Smoky Nights
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Smith Telescope McDonald Observatory, Credit: McDonald Observatory
Until recently smoky nights at the observatory were rare. Now they have become more common place as wild fires continue to devastate portions of th...

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


  • Added: Jun 27, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
589-Defending Earth
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The International Asteroid Warning Network, or IWAN (Eye-Whan) for short has been established to link scientists who are discovering, monitoring, a...

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


  • Added: May 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
565-Ancient Crater
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In ancient times, Aboriginal people in southwestern Australia quarried fine grained rock on an ancient hill called Barlangi Rock to make very sharp...

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


  • Added: Nov 22, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
545-Celestial Congestion
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Imagine being under a clear natural night sky, with no moon, waiting to see stars down to the horizon, the Milky Way, star clusters, planets, the z...

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


  • Added: Jun 28, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
439-Big and Close
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A large asteroid approached Earth from the direction of the Sun with little advanced warning.

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


  • Added: Mar 01, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
356-Seeds
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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What plant seeds will be left for interstellar travelers to take with them.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KUPR low power FM, KKRN, KTRT RADIO INC and more


  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
328-The Heat is On
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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2016 is the warmest year the Earth has been in the more than 180 years of record keeping.

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


  • Added: Feb 02, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
Joby Warrick, author of "Black Flags"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra talks with Joby Warrick about his book, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction.

  • Added: Jan 25, 2017
  • Length: 30:01
Jonathan Katz, author of "The Big Truck That Went By"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra talks with Katz about his book, "The Big Truck that Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster."

  • Added: Jun 17, 2016
  • Length: 30:56
Alabama
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Once there was a great hue and cry about racial profiling by law enforcement in America and it resulted in a landmark called Driving while Black. T...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 17, 2015
  • Length: 06:04
  • Purchases: 2
Ebola's Exponential Rate of Contagion
From: John Brice
Series: Commentary by John C. Brice, J.D.
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The World Health Organization this week announced a horrendous fact: the number of Ebola cases in West Africa is doubling every 20 days. If this t...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2014
  • Length: 04:41
India's most wanted phone
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Police officials escort a suspect (C), in the gang-rape of a female photographer, from a crime branch unit station in Mumbai., Credit: First Post
The most wanted cellphone in the country belongs to someone no one had heard of a week ago - a 21-year-old resident of Central Mumbai. The phone’s...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 26, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Tibet: Protest or Sacrifice?
From: The Tibet Connection
Caption: Dr. Robert J. Barnett, Credit: Columbia University
As self-immolations con­tinue in Tibet, producer Rebecca Novick speaks with Dr. Robert Barnett, Director of the Modern Tibet Studies Program at Col...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 02, 2012
  • Length: 06:29
  • Purchases: 1
The Fire This Time
From: The Tibet Connection
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Desperation leads to dramatic self-immolations in Tibet. Tibetan reporter Lhakpa Kyizom reports from Dharamsala, India.

  • Added: Mar 02, 2012
  • Length: 06:40
VENEZUELA -- ANOTHER CUBAN MISSLE CRISIS
From: Joseph Carraro
Series: THE AVERAGE JOE
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Joe Carraro discusses the risks of continuing to antagonize and not engage with Venezuela and the rest of South America while Russia and Cuba cozy ...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 05:46