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A Cassini Update, and LightSail Spreads Its Wings

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: Cassini's last close-up view of Saturn's "creepy" moon, Hyperion., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Our most frequent guest, Cassini Project Scientist Linda Spilker, returns with another update on the magnificent mission at Saturn, including evide...

Bought by KMUD, KFCF FM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago

Added: Jun 09, 2015
Length: 28:50
Purchases: 5

Getting Humans to Mars with Chris Carberry

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: The first human steps onto Mars in this illustration from the 2015 Humans to Mars Report., Credit: Explore Mars, Inc.

Explore Mars revealed the 2015 Humans to Mars Report at a recent conference in Washington. CEO Chris Carberry gives us a quick tour of this realist...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KMUD, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KWMR, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more

Added: Jun 01, 2015
Length: 28:50
Purchases: 6

Spiraling Closer to Ceres With the Dawn Mission's Marc Rayman

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: Image of Ceres and its mysterious “bright spots” taken by the Dawn spacecraft from 13,600 km (8,400 miles) above the surface., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

It’s the biggest dwarf planet between here and Pluto, and it has a new permanent resident. The Dawn spacecraft is orbiting Ceres in the asteroid be...

Bought by KMUD, KWMR, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KFCF FM

Added: May 18, 2015
Length: 28:50
Purchases: 4

Alan Stern and the Rise of Pluto

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: Artist’s concept of the New Horizons spacecraft as it approaches Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, in July 2015., Credit: JHUAPL/SwRI

Humankind’s arrival at Pluto is barely two months away. The science and images have already started to flow from New Horizons, according to the mis...

Bought by KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KWMR, and KFCF FM

Added: May 11, 2015
Length: 28:51
Purchases: 5

Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides on LauncherOne and the Return of SpaceShipTwo

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: Elected officials hear about Virgin Galactic's LauncherOne rocket and WhiteKnightTwo air launch vehicle., Credit: Virgin Galactic

6,000 job-seekers came to the new Long Beach, California home of Virgin Galactic’s LauncherOne rocket on a recent morning. We sit down with CEO Geo...

Bought by KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KWMR, and KFCF FM

Added: Mar 10, 2015
Length: 28:50
Purchases: 5

A Citizen's Guide to the Difference Between the Truth and "Gotcha" in "Gotcha politics"

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook

If Woodward and Bernstein and Ben Bradlee had gone for the “gotcha” instead of the truth, the cost would have been the truth. The integrity that ...

Added: Oct 25, 2014
Length: 04:45

Episode 004: Mongo Speaks - Weird Stuff on YouTube

From: John Brice
Series: The EDM Hour

Once again, the best of what's new in the world of EDM, plus another audio essay when Mongo Speaks: Weird Stuff On YouTube.

Added: Sep 20, 2014
Length: 59:04

Political Junkie 8-6-14

From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)

On the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon's resignation, Political Junkie host Ken Rudin chats with John Dean, former White House counsel ...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WRKF, WXXI Rochester, and KUER

Added: Aug 06, 2014
Length: 08:00
Purchases: 5

The AGU Conference: A Big Week for Space Science

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: Chang'e 3 Lander on the Moon, Credit: CTV

The annual fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union revealed lots of science, some of it astounding. Emily Lakdawalla was there with Advocac...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and WESM 91.3 FM

Added: Dec 17, 2013
Length: 28:51
Purchases: 3

Managed Car: We Are Cancelling Your Insurance Policy Effective Today

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: New Managed car regulations require us to cover more items than we did before and our company has decided that is Unaffordable... we are cancelling your policy.", Credit: Susan Cook

Well, we thought it might happen. Over at Automobile Behavioral Health they are cancelling managed car insurance policies because the new "required...

Added: Nov 04, 2013
Length: 03:39

A Congressional Guide to Ending Gridlock

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Having survived the most recent episode of Gridlock by the skin of the Nation's teeth, we beyond the Beltway need to put our collective relational...

Added: Oct 19, 2013
Length: 03:26

A Citizen's Guide to Updating Your Truth

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

"Updating your truth" is a term not much used these days. We read that somebody "denied", "vetoed", "denounced", "maintained", "refused to consider...

Added: Jun 15, 2013
Length: 04:07

Time Zones: a World History

From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It

Time zones reflect a history of our changing politics, commerce, and technology.

Bought by Listenwise and PRX Remix

Added: Feb 22, 2013
Length: 01:53
Purchases: 2

Eric Deggans - 'Race Baiter'

From: Mark Hayes
Series: Passing Notes

Media and TV critic for the Tampa Bay Times explains how the media wields dangerous words to divide a nation in his new book, 'Race-Baiter.'

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Feb 04, 2013
Length: 05:20
Purchases: 1

That Mill House Yellow

From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories

In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, gentrification advances with a cautionary yellow light as a local property manger paints the town his own special hue.

Bought by KUT and PRX Remix

Added: Jul 24, 2012
Length: 02:59
Purchases: 2

Rudy's Gray Area

From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories

Rudy has lived on this bizarre little block since 1953, before a dozen railroad tracks and nearly as many highway lanes separated it from other res...

Bought by The Story, KUT, and PRX Remix

Added: Jul 24, 2012
Length: 02:55
Purchases: 3

Fukushima

From: Alaska Teen Media Institute

A tsunami, a country, a power plant.

Added: Feb 08, 2012
Length: 03:35

World Journey w/ John Mark Scott

From: S. Chip Wallace

Caption: John Mark Scott, Credit: W & J Directory

John Mark Scott and special guest Robert Dodge interview Joshua Stacker and Andrew Tabler both W & J Alums who have spent time in the Middle East

Added: Apr 18, 2011
Length: 36:48

Essay: Thank You Kellogg's and Goodbye

From: Chris Goldstein

Kellogg's pulled their support for Michael Phelps and American cannabis consumers have called for a boycott.

Added: Feb 11, 2009
Length: 03:21

Fred Friendly: Propaganda-Words and Actions, Contexts and Consequences

From: Murray Street Productions

Caption: Arthur Miller with panelists, Credit: Jonathan Guyer

A panel of international journalists, politicos, academics and legal experts consider propaganda in the context of a hypothetical struggle between ...

Bought by KQED, WGBH Radio Boston, KUT-HD, KCUR, KWGS and more