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At What Cost?
From: Colin Wright
Series: Let's Know Things
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This week we talk about blackballing, #DeleteUber, and the spirit of the law. We also touch on taxes, Freemasons, and ride-share unions.

  • Added: Mar 30, 2017
  • Length: 41:52
Nancy Atkinson’s Incredible Stories from Space
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Nancy Atkinson's Incredible Stories From Space, Credit: Page Street Publishing
The longtime editor of outstanding online space news source Universe Today has just written about nine robotic missions of exploration in Incredibl...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, KRZA, WMUU-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Mar 29, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Ready for Space: LightSail 2 Update
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist concept of LightSail in space, Credit: The Planetary Society
The Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 solar sail spacecraft is ready to be packed away for its ride to orbit on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. Mat Kap...

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  • Added: Mar 22, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 5
Hope for Pluto—Should We Re-Redefine Planets?
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Enhanced-color image of planet (?) Pluto, Credit: JHUAPL/SWRI/NASA
Planetary geologist Kirby Runyon is lead author of an abstract that proposes a new, geophysical definition of what a planet is. It would grant our...

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  • Added: Mar 08, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
The Worlds of TRAPPIST-1
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist concept of the surface of TRAPPIST-1f, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The discovery of seven, Earth-sized planets in a nearby solar system was announced last week. Astrophysicist and planetary scientist Sara Seager wa...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Pugs
From: Colin Wright
Series: Let's Know Things
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This week we discuss brachycephalic dogs, maize, and birth control.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2017
  • Length: 38:41
Imitation
From: Colin Wright
Series: Let's Know Things
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This week we discuss hackers, video games, and Project Xanadu.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2017
  • Length: 32:10
Obsolete
From: Colin Wright
Series: Let's Know Things
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This week, we talk about self-driving trucks, Malthusian catastrophes, and human obsolescence.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2017
  • Length: 47:03
Frontiers
From: Colin Wright
Series: Let's Know Things
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This week we talk about the net-casting spider, space junk, and Kessler syndrome.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2017
  • Length: 42:04
Earth Microbes! Welcome to Mars
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Bacteria samples in the Pegasus Mars chamber., Credit: University of Arkansas
University of Arkansas grad student Rebecca Mickol and her team have demonstrated that some Earth bacteria can survive in the extremely thin atmosp...

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  • Added: Feb 07, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
The Final Countdown at Saturn
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Cassini was able to capture its closest-ever view of Daphnis toward the end of its mission, during its F-ring orbit phase, when it passed between the F and G rings once per orbit. Daphnis is only about 8 kilometers across., Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI / Ian Regan
Planetary Radio’s most frequent guest, Project Scientist Linda Spilker, returns with another update on the Cassini mission that is approaching its ...

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  • Added: Jan 31, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
326-Asteroids 2016
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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2016 was another record year for asteroid hunters during which we discovered 1,894 new Earth approaching objects.

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


  • Added: Jan 26, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Got pollution? Canadian city puts it in giant box
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: John Gee with Environment and Climate Change Canada stands on a platform overlooking the Randle Reef restoration project., Credit: Veronica Volk
Imagine a huge steel box – whose lid is 10 football fields across. It's being built in Hamilton's harbor on the western end of Lake Ontario. It’s d...

Bought by WMUK, WRVO Public Media, North Country Public Radio, WLPR , WCPN and more


  • Added: Jan 23, 2017
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 8
Week in review for January 22, 2017
From: Jonah Meadows
Series: Snow Crash Radio
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Hacking Facebook, hacking the inaugural, and a cyber-news digest.

  • Added: Jan 23, 2017
  • Length: 12:59
Ben Miller Says The Aliens are Coming!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Ben Miller's The Aliens are Coming, Credit: The Experiment Publishing Company
British physicist turned comedian and actor Ben Miller has written The Aliens are Coming-- The Extraordinary Science Behind our Search for Life in ...

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  • Added: Jan 10, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Marvelous Martian MAVEN
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's concept of MAVEN orbiting Mars, Credit: Lockheed Martin
MAVEN, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution orbiter, has gone a long way toward solving the mystery of the Red Planet’s missing water and air...

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  • Added: Dec 27, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Great Lakes targeted for offshore wind farms
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Lorry Wagner, CEO of LEEDCo, Credit: Elizabeth Miller
The nation's first offshore wind farm recently began operating in New England, and developers now are eying vast body of water: the Great Lakes. Pr...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, KUVO, WCMU Michigan, WRVO Public Media, WDET Detroit Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 20, 2016
  • Length: 03:28
  • Purchases: 8
311-Bright and Bald
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Humans are developing the ability to study an Earth approaching object to prepare for one that is on an impact trajectory with our home planet.

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


  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Running Before the Sun: Astronomer Jay Pasachoff
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Astronomer and author Jay Pasachoff, Credit: Jay Pasachoff
No one is more excited about eclipses than famed solar astronomer and author Jay Pasachoff. He looks forward to the total solar eclipse in August ...

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  • Added: Dec 06, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Leading the Search: Bill Diamond of the SETI Institute
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array, Credit: SETI Institute
The SETI Institute is about much more than the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. President and CEO Bill Diamond of the Institute explains. ...

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  • Added: Nov 28, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Pluto and Titan and Iran, Oh My!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The liquid methane lakes of Titan, Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI
Back to the annual meeting of the AAS Division for Planetary Sciences this week, where Mat Kaplan visited with experts on worlds of ice including T...

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  • Added: Nov 15, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Matt Taylor Rocks Rosetta
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Rosetta Mission Manager Patrick Martin and Project Scientist Matt Taylor simulate the spacecraft touchdown at Planetary Society HQ., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Last year it was New Horizons at Pluto. In 2016, the thrilling end of the Rosetta comet mission generated the greatest public interest and enthusia...

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  • Added: Nov 01, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
New web tool aims to prevent invasive species sales online
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Invasive hydrilla, also called water thyme , Credit: N.Y. Department of Environmental Conservation
The Great Lakes Commission created a web tool designed to prevent sales of aquatic invasive species over the Internet. Now, the commission is worki...

Bought by North Country Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCPN, WCMU Michigan, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Oct 27, 2016
  • Length: 01:54
  • Purchases: 8
Alan Stern and a Triumph at Pluto
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: New Horizons enhanced color image of Pluto, Credit: NASA/JHUAPL
Alan Stern of the New Horizons mission to Pluto and beyond was in Pasadena for the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society’s Division f...

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  • Added: Oct 24, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Charley Kohlhase and the Greatest Voyage
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: James Blinn (l.) and a young Charley Kohlhase (r.) working at JPL on pioneering computer animations of the Voyager flybys., Credit: Charley Kohlhase
How did the Voyager spacecraft manage to weave their magnificent way through the outer planets of our solar system? Mission Design Manager Charley...

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  • Added: Oct 17, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 3

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