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Frozen River Film Festival: Conversations at the Border
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this episode of Art Beat, we go to the Frozen River Film Festival to talk to the director of Conversations at the Border, which captures life on...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2018
  • Length: 09:37
The Exodus: How It Happened and Why It Matters
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Richard Elliott Friedman, The Exodus & Wayne Potter and Pam Brown
Biblical scholar, Richard Friedman, makes the case for an historical exodus and its influence on humanity.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Feb 10, 2018
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 2
Tiger spotting
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A jungle cat (aka not a Tiger), Credit: Sandip Roy
What's in a tiger sighting? For some it's more important than anything else.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
423-Silent ET
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The hypothesis that Oumuamua, the interstellar space rock, is an alien probe is pretty farfetched, however, how it came to have it's current shape ...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WEJP-LP 107.1, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
422-Almost Dangerous
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A large asteroid barely missies being classified by NASA as potentially hazardous.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WEJP-LP 107.1, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
421-New Aten
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Aten asteroids can make close approaches to Earth. They are difficult to discover because they spend most of their time inside our orbit with thei...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WEJP-LP 107.1, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
413-Fission Rocket
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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To cut the mission time to Mars, the risks, and the mass of supplies required for such a prolonged space mission NASA is looking at alternative mea...

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


  • Added: Nov 29, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
408-Earth's Pet Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On it's gravitational leash, Earth's pet space rock, 2016 HO3, accompanies us at a distance of between 38 and 100 times the Moon's distance from Ea...

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


  • Added: Nov 09, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
Haiti & New Orleans: Is The Feeling Mutual?
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: A street scene in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti., Credit: Wynne Muscatine Graham
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with an hour-long special that explores two places linked in history. called “Haiti and New Orleans: Is the Feel...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KISA Digital Studios, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Oct 27, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
TriPod Goes To Haiti
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Laine Kaplan-Levenson in Jacmel, Haiti. , Credit: Andre Paultre
In this edition of TriPod Xtras, host Laine Kaplan-Levenson sits down with WWNO’s Janae Pierre to talk about a recent trip to Haiti, the end of Tri...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 10:56
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
392-Dragon Delivers
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The SpaceX 11 Dragon mission is the first time an American spacecraft has visited the space station since the NASA Space Shuttle Program ended in A...

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


  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Interview w/ Journalist Bill Carlsen author of "Jungle of Stone: The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey & The Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya"
From: Out of Bounds
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Journalist (LAT) and author BILL CARLSEN discusses his compelling book "Jungle of Stone: The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey & T...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
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
385-Phoning Home
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Cell phone technology will be used to explore our Moon. Lunar tourists will be able to use their smart phones after 2018.

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


  • Added: Aug 24, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Working Together
From: Stephen Baker
Series: Water is a Many Splendor'ed Thing
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Water is a pretty basic resource that is essential in our lives. So when it begins to disappear or diminish in quality, our daily routine can chang...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2017
  • Length: 07:05
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
Air India to the rescue?
From: KALW
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Air India’s reputation is of a sort of futzy dowager, very uncool. Even its mascot a Maharajah in a red coat and turban with a pointy mustache see...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
Exploring Dominica, the Nature Island
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: A Kalinago man working hard., Credit: Tonya Fitzpatrick
Explore Dominica "the nature island" as World Footprints shares their cultural and music tour of this island gem.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2017
  • Length: 59:55
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