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Spectrum (Science unscripted) 11/17/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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Surely, in the face of a deadly pandemic, people would give anything to get a vaccination. Right? Think again. On this show, you'll hear from peopl...

Bought by WXDU and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 19, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
616-100 Million Year Old Crater
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fitzgerald River National Park in Western Australia, Credit: Yewenyi, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1370203
In western Australia, rock samples and maps of the local geology obtained while exploring for gold show evidence of a 3 mile diameter meteor crater...

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


  • Added: Nov 13, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
615-Solar Storm Forecasts
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A large solar coronal mass ejection could put astronauts, airline passengers, power grids, electronic devices, and satellites at risk. Participa...

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


  • Added: Nov 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 11/03/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Is the rapid increase of confirmed positive cases of the coronavirus around the world due simply to more tests being done?...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
Countries Shaped by Threats, Little Free Libraries, Video Games and Violence
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1 - How Perceived Threat Shapes Countries; Topic 2 - Little Free Libraries Bring Free Books to Neighborhoods Near You; Topic 3 - Video Games ...

Bought by KOWS and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Nov 02, 2020
  • Length: 51:50
  • Purchases: 2
614-Rare Atira
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Atira class of Earth approaching asteroids are ones whose orbit is entirely within that of the Earth's path about the Sun. Less than 3 dozen o...

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


  • Added: Oct 30, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
613-Climate Change and Telescopes
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently, in the journal Nature Astronomy, a team of astronomers led by Dr. Faustine Cantalloube of the Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy released...

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


  • Added: Oct 23, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 10/20/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Could having Neanderthal DNA be beneficial if you contract COVID-19? How can scary movies, haunted houses, and apocalypti...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 10/13/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Humans are unpredictable, reality, chaotic. So how is it that from this mess, a certain kind of theorist can use tools an...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
612-Day and Night
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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
Spectrum (Science Unscripted) 10/06/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: - A small Chinese study suggests wearing glasses correlates with lower COVID-19 rates. The question is, why would that b...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Oct 07, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 09/29/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Stillbirths, ethics & satire - Why have stillbirth rates gone up during the pandemic? What does it mean to behave "ethi...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
610-Atmospheric Gravity Waves
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Atmospheric gravity waves seen from space, Credit: Jeff Schmaltz – (NASA)
Atmospheric gravity waves can be powerful. In September of 2018 two glider pilots surfed an atmospheric gravity wave created by high speed polar w...

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


  • Added: Oct 02, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 09/22/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Just how does COVID-19 impact the brain? A look at human brain organoids connects the dots. Also, we hear the latest from ...

Bought by WRKF


  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
609-Lurking
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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
Dispatch 352 - The incorrigible vice
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Chewie wears his mask. Be like Chewie., Credit: Sandip Roy
…the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. — From ...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
608-Triple Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently amateur astronomer, Worachate Boonplod discovered the 4049th comet recorded in the imaging data produced by SOHO, the ESA/NASA Solar and ...

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


  • Added: Sep 18, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
Spectrum (Science Unscripted) 09/15/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: new data shows reduced stadium seating isn't doing what we hoped. Also, predictions for autumn and winter — and for patient...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
607-Good Night
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artistic illustration of an asteroid approaching Earth. , Credit: Image Credit: Dieter Spannknebel / Getty Images
Nearly every day during the monsoon rainy season in the American southwest, afternoon thunderstorms require putting mountain top telescopes and ca...

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


  • Added: Sep 11, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for September 9, 2020
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Nurses Union Warns Public About Hazards of a Trump Rush to Distribute Vacc...

Bought by WKPW


  • Added: Sep 09, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
606-Falling Stones
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Approximately 100 million metric tons of mostly sand grained sized space dust enters the Earth's atmosphere every day. Occasionally, larger pieces ...

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


  • Added: Sep 04, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
604-Comet Rankin
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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
Spectrum/ Science unscripted o8/11/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Feeling down? Join the (global) club! In this episode we tackle some of the pandemic-induced mental health issues facing ...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
603-Discovering Alien Life
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Our star is only one among hundreds of billions in the Milky Way galaxy which itself is only one of a hundred billion or more galaxies in the known...

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


  • Added: Aug 14, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 13
602-Solar Flares
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Some stars can have flares which can cause them to more than double in brightness in a few minutes. Fortunately our Sun does not do that and the Ea...

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


  • Added: Aug 07, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12

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