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Cook County's Bill Hansen shares tales from Kenya trip
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
Caption: Kenya road, Credit: courtesy Bill Hansen
Bill Hansen, active community leader and former longtime owner of Sawbill Canoe Outfitters, spent two weeks in Kenya recently with his son, Adam. H...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2017
  • Length: 31:39
394-Tiny Beasts
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A partnership with yeast and algae will enable spacefaring humans to use their waste products to produce food and plastics during long duration spa...

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


  • Added: Sep 21, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
393-Newest Moon
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The moon cycle from new moon through full moon and back to new moon again was used by many nations to regulate their activities and forms the basis...

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


  • Added: Sep 21, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
389-Tiny Spacecraft
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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About the size of a saltine cracker and having a mass of less than 2 dimes, the single-board Sprite spacecraft has all the essentials; solar panels...

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


  • Added: Sep 07, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
372-Trappist-1 Planets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Trappist-1 solar system consists of a dim red star and 7 Earth sized planets. Humans are beginning to explore this fascinating new potentially ...

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


  • Added: Jul 06, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
369-Finding Treasure
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Space miners can up their odds by prospecting with ground based telescopes.

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


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
364-Laser Surfing
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Laser propelled ultra light space probes could be sent to explore nearby worlds.

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


  • Added: Jun 08, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
363-Scoping Planets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Humans can measure signs of life in nearby worlds.

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


  • Added: Jun 08, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
361-Nearby Planets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Discovering and researching conditions on relatively nearby planets is within our reach.

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: 6
Turkish carpet dealer visits Grand Marais
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Carpet dealer Cemal Uzun is touring the U.S. with his carpet selection because a downturn in Turkish tourism has hit the business he works for, Ana...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2017
  • Length: 14:26
339-No Need To Smile
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The company called Planet has 149 satellites orbiting the Earth which are imaging the Earth's entire land area every day.

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


  • Added: Mar 16, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
338-Psyche Bound
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A spacecraft will be launched to visit a small metal world whose composition is likely to be worth 10,000 quadrillion dollars on today's market.

Bought by WTIP, KRWG, KUPR low power FM, KREV-LP, KKRN and more


  • Added: Mar 09, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Africa's Beating Heart (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The daffodils are blooming, days are getting longer, and gardeners are feeling those familiar twinges of excitement. At the same time, about eight ...

Bought by KENW, Radio Newark, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 24, 2017
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 3
325-Marrakech
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An observatory near Marrakech, operated remotely from France and Switzerland, is discovering new members of our solar system.

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


  • Added: Jan 26, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Flights of Fancy
From: Tom Wright
Caption: Airports, aeroplanes and airscapes, Credit: PowderPhotography
Come with Tom Wright from Australia to Great Britain over 11,000 miles and nine time zones & hear tales of flying from the Outback, Indonesia, Indi...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 42:53
324-Newborn Planets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Astronomers are able to view the rare occurrence of planets in formation with the ALMA radio telescope in Chile.

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


  • Added: Jan 20, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
319-Lost and Found
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid hunters rediscover and object first observed 15 years ago. It might be a candidate for mining in the future as space colonists look for r...

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


  • Added: Jan 05, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
306-Egg Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The NASA/JPL Mars Curiosity Rover discovers a meteorite on Mars.

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


  • Added: Nov 17, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
303-CRASH
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Traveling to Mars is a risky business.

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


  • Added: Nov 10, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Blue Water Cowboys
From: Outer Voices
Caption: Pulling up the Dinghy, Credit: Stephanie Guyer-Stevens
“Blue Water” sailing is the kind where there’s no land to be seen, hopefully for days or weeks on end, and there’s a rare group of people who contr...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 21, 2016
  • Length: 22:39
  • Purchases: 1
Cook County resident has new memoir on teaching and traveling in Turkey
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Cook County teacher and writer Ann Marie Mershon spent nine semesters teaching in Turkey. She's written a memoir of her time there, "You Must Only ...

  • Added: May 17, 2016
  • Length: 20:40
Craftsman Mike Senty on his six-week tour of Peru by motorbike
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Grand Marais craftsman Mike Senty spent six weeks this winter touring Peru by motorbike. He joined WTIP's Dick Swanson to chat about his adventure ...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: May 04, 2016
  • Length: 26:36
  • Purchases: 1
The Navigators Part 6
From: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Series: The Navigators
Caption: Hokule'a
The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.

  • Added: Dec 31, 2015
  • Length: 04:38
The Navigators Part 7
From: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Series: The Navigators
Caption: Hokule'a
The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.

  • Added: Dec 31, 2015
  • Length: 04:11
The Navigators Part 4
From: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Series: The Navigators
Caption: Hokule'a
The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.

  • Added: Dec 28, 2015
  • Length: 06:52