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Episode 4: The Road Ahead for Ukrainian Research
From: Don Hill
Series: Research In Ukraine: Where has it gone?
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episode 4: Not surprisingly, in a time of war, most of the funding available to science in Ukraine is gone. You’ll hear how Canada can help rebuild...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2022
  • Length: 19:09
Episode 2: Ukrainian Scholars in Times of War
From: Don Hill
Series: Research In Ukraine: Where has it gone?
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episode 2: How can you conduct research under extremely difficult conditions, such as they are in Ukraine? A sociologist and researcher at the Cen...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2022
  • Length: 19:25
Episode 1: Our first look inside Ukrainian research
From: Don Hill
Series: Research In Ukraine: Where has it gone?
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episode 1: It's the early days of the war. Scientists in Canada and France offer a helping hand to Ukrainian colleagues. A research scientist at t...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2022
  • Length: 19:59
It's Complicated
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip at the Trooping of Colour in 2017, Credit: Niladri Chatterjee
Kolkata was once the capital of British India. And it has a sentimental connection with royalty like the late Queen Elizabeth II. But the history o...

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  • Added: Sep 13, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
711-First One(497)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: HST-Galaxies, Credit: NASA
Asteroid hunters were able to discover a small Earth approaching asteroid after 57 nights of continuous rain and clouds.

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  • Added: Sep 11, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Putin’s new war, inside and out
From: Playbook Deep Dive
Series: Playbook Deep Dive
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It’s an event that Russians, Ukrainians and the rest of the world have been thinking about, but one that many people didn’t think would actually ha...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2022
  • Length: 22:48
An insider’s look into Putin’s long game
From: Playbook Deep Dive
Series: Playbook Deep Dive
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More than a week into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has escalated his military offensive. Ukrainian President V...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2022
  • Length: 45:07
The man fighting for Ukraine in DC
From: Playbook Deep Dive
Series: Playbook Deep Dive
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Even as President Joe Biden has emphasized that the U.S. and NATO do not want to engage with Russia militarily, Congress has pushed the administrat...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2022
  • Length: 36:08
For veterans trying to help their Afghan allies come to the U.S., it's a slow, frustrating process
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Eric Terashima (right) stands with an interpreter, an Afghan Army Colonel, and some Afghan children in a 2010 photograph., Credit: Courtesy Eric Terashima
Since the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan last year, many American veterans have tried to help Afghan allies escape the collapsing country. Though s...

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  • Added: Aug 30, 2022
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 4
After a year in the U.S., Afghan refugees face day-to-day challenges and an uncertain future
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Margaret Costantino, right, director of the Center for Refugee Services in San Antonio, organizes donations for Afghan refugees. She is assisted by Mohammad, an employee who himself is an Afghan refugee. He asked that his last name be withheld because he , Credit: Center for Refugee Services
The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan one year ago led tens of thousands of people to flee the country and come to America. But for some who are her...

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  • Added: Aug 23, 2022
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 4
The Last Straw
From: KALW
Caption: A common TetraPak and it's dreaded straw , Credit: Sandip Roy
A ban on single use plastic went into effect in India last month. But food and beverage companies like Coca Cola and Pepsico are saying they cannot...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
More Than Just Adivasi
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: President Droupadi Murmu
India refers to its original tribal inhabitants as “Adivasi’s.” Now one, Droupadi Murmu, has ascended to the office of President.

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  • Added: Jul 26, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Monsoon Lady
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Sulochana Gadgil, Credit: Sandip Roy
Dr Sulochana Gadgil started studying the Indian monsoon when she was at Harvard in the 1960s. She's been tracking it back in India since 1971. And ...

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  • Added: Jul 19, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
703-Martian Water(489)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Mars, Credit: NASA
Exciting new research indicates that there could be a lake of liquid water beneath the south Martian polar cap. Further research will be required t...

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  • Added: Jul 17, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
The Chettiars
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A grand hall in Chettinad, Credit: Sandip Roy
The great mansions in the  villages of Chettinad in South India still carry the imprints of the worlds their owners once traversed using Birmingham...

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  • Added: Jul 12, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
702-20 Years(488)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroids, Credit: NASA
It has been 20 years since the world woke up to the news that a half mile diameter asteroid, 1997 XF11, discovered by Space Watch on Kitt Peak, had...

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  • Added: Jul 10, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Soundtrack of Normalcy
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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As the world continues to limp back to a pre-COVID lifestyle, Sandip ponders the markers of “normalcy” in his life in Kolkata.

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  • Added: Jul 05, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
701-Touching The Sun(487)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Parker Spacecraft, Credit: NASA
Imagine a spacecraft traveling at a speed that would take it from New York to Tokyo in less than a minute, a mere 4 million miles from the surface ...

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  • Added: Jul 03, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Not even a Sandesh
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip considers the underwhelming response to Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee in India.

  • Added: Jun 28, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
700-Martian Storms(486)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Martian Dust Storm, Credit: NASA
In a few weeks ,as Earth and Mars moved closer together, a dust storm engulfed most of the red planet making it impossible to see its surface featu...

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  • Added: Jun 26, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
India Pride 2022
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A scene from the film Muhafiz by Pradipta Ray, Credit: Photo courtesy Bombay Berlin Film Productions
Pride in India has come out of the closet and the film world has followed suit.

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  • Added: Jun 21, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
698-Aliens?(484)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Planetary Alignment over Australian Radio Telescope, Credit: Graeme L. White & Glen Cozens (James Cook University)
Most Astronomers find it hard to believe that given perhaps a trillion planets in the Milky Way alone that our Earth is the only one which hosts li...

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  • Added: Jun 12, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Tram Along With Me
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Bikers and a Tram in Kolkata on World Environmental Day, Credit: Sandip Roy
On world Environmental Day, Sandip rediscovers an old transit system that has potential for all of us.

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  • Added: Jun 06, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
697-Double Trouble(483)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Binary Asteroid, Credit: ESA
Asteroid hunters have discovered a strange asteroid pair. How they came to be together and what humans would do if such a large double trouble obje...

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  • Added: Jun 05, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
The Necessary Truth
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee, Credit: University of Michigan
While everyone wants to move on from COVID-19, but professor of epidemiology at Michigan University Bhramar Mukherjee says that the future depends ...

  • Added: May 31, 2022
  • Length: 06:00

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