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Everyday Facts 1
From: Dan Moore
Series: Everyday Facts you Never Knew
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Trains, DJs, Plastic Bottles

  • Added: Mar 23, 2015
  • Length: :32
Jonathan Goff Says Let’s Redirect an Asteroid
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's conception of an astronaut collecting a sample from a retrieved asteroid., Credit: NASA
ARM is the Asteroid Redirect Mission, and sometimes it seems that it doesn’t have a friend in the world. But it does, and Jonathan Goff of Altius S...

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


  • Added: Feb 23, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Found! Beagle 2 Lander is on Mars
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Orbital image of what is believed to be the Beagle 2 lander on surface of Mars., Credit: HiRISE/NASA/JPL/Parker/Leicester
The Beagle 2 Mars lander disappeared after it separated from the Mars Express orbiter on Christmas Day, 2003. Eleven years later, it has been foun...

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


  • Added: Feb 16, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 5
The Quantum Moment -- Groks Science Show 2015-01-21
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Robert Crease discusses how terms from quantum mechanics have found their way into everyday discourse.

Bought by KPVL and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 32:16
  • Purchases: 2
Recipe for a Small Planet
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's conception of exoplanet Kepler -186f., Credit: Wikipedia
Astronomer and planetary scientist Courtney Dressing is the lead author of research that may have found the formula for the mass and composition of...

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


  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 4
Larry Hildes, Civil Rights Attorney, and Karen Weill, Legal Assistant, Part 2
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Karen Weill and Larry Hildes
Interview: Larry and Karen continue to explain a complicated legal case that exposes the federal government’s overreach and abusive spying policie...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 09, 2015
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 1
Larry Hildes, Civil Rights Attorney, and Karen Weill, Legal Assistant, Part 1
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Karen Weill and Larry Hildes
Interview: Larry and Karen explain a complicated legal case in two interviews that exposes the federal government’s overreach and abusive spying p...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2015
  • Length: 27:53
2014: The Year in Space
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Orion spacecraft is recovered by the USS Anchorage, Credit: NASA
Our annual review of the greatest events and accomplishments over the last year features analysis and commentary by Bill Nye the Science Guy, Emily...

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


  • Added: Dec 30, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 5
Sara Seager's Quest for Earth's Twin
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: MIT Astrophysicist and Planetary Scientist Sara Seager, Credit: Sara Seager/MIT
MIT planetary scientist and astrophysicist Sara Seager is on a quest. She wants to find a warm, wet exoplanet with signs of life. It could be Earth...

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


  • Added: Dec 15, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 3
All Tangled Up -- Groks Science Show 2014-12-03
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Jason Gallicchio discusses the physics of particle entanglement.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, CHSR-FM 97.9, WRNC-LP, WYAP, and KPVL


  • Added: Dec 03, 2014
  • Length: 32:08
  • Purchases: 5
Kip Thorne and the Science of Interstellar
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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Spoiler alert. Famed physicist Kip Thorne says you might be able to survive a plunge into a black hole after all! That’s just one molecule of the ...

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


  • Added: Dec 02, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 3
Digging Deep With Planetary Deep Drill
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Business end of Planetary Deep Drill, Credit: Mat Kaplan
If there’s life on Mars, it’s probably deep beneath the surface. That’s just one reason we need a tool like Planetary Deep Drill on the red planet ...

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


  • Added: Nov 11, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 4
Dr David E. Kirkland, Transforming the world with more inclusive education methods
From: Latin Waves Media
Series: Latin Waves Media
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Dr David E. Kirkland, Transforming the world with more inclusive education methods

  • Added: Oct 30, 2014
  • Length: 28:57
Dr Robert Jensen about economic fundamentalism and imperialism
From: Latin Waves Media
Series: Latin Waves Media
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Robert Jensen is a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin and author of “Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Human...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2014
  • Length: 23:37
Interview with Latin Waves Host Sylvia Richardson
From: Latin Waves Media
Series: Latin Waves Media
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Sylvia L. Richardson is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. She is the host and producer of the internationally...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 28:39
John Holloway on his latest book “Crack Capitalism”
From: Latin Waves Media
Series: Latin Waves Media
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John Holloway author of “Crack Capitalism” and “Changing the world without Taking Power” speaks of the role of the individual in perpetuating a sys...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 28:50
Yale’s Debra Fischer and the Ever More Precise Search for New Worlds
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: In this laser frequency comb, colorized for illustrative purposes, the solid lines are the star spectrum and the dots are the artificial laser spectrum. The dark gaps in the star spectrum represent different chemical elements in the starlight. Long-term s, Credit: European Southern Observatory
It’s terribly hard to find exoplanets that look like our homeworld. The search requires development of astoundingly powerful and precise instrumen...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 13, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1
Smashing Holes in Mars to Find Life
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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Explore Mars wants to look for life on the Red Planet. Not past life. Life thriving under the Martian surface right now. Chris Carberry will tel...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Sep 01, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1
Journey to the Center of Jupiter: The World's Largest Lasers Simulate the Cores of Giant Planets
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The interior of the target chamber at the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The object entering from the left is the target positioner, on which a millimeter-scale target is mounted. Researchers recently used NIF to stu, Credit: Damien Jemison/LLNL
The most bizarre things happen to matter at pressures millions of times higher than what we feel on Earth’s surface. Physicist Rip Collins of the L...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1
The Search for Extraterrestrial Polluters?
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Earth-like planet In this artist's conception, the atmosphere of an Earth-like planet displays a brownish haze - the result of widespread pollution. New research shows that the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope potentially could detect certain polluta, Credit: Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Harvard’s Henry Lin led work that determined the soon-to-be-launched James Webb Space Telescope may be able to detect an alien civilization by anal...

Bought by XRAY.fm and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 2
Political Junkie 8-6-14
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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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
A Death-Defying Climax for Venus Express
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Venus Express Enters the Venusian Atmosphere, Credit: European Space Agency
Venus Express Project Scientist Håkan Svedhem tells us about the spacecraft’s harrowing descent into the Venusian atmosphere, what it is currently ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Aug 04, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1
The Problem with Internet Search Engines: A Citizen's Guide
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Internet search engines have no way of taking context into consideration. The closest Google has come is to hone the search by user’s zip code, wh...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2014
  • Length: 06:37
Keith Cowing and the Outrageous ISEE-3 Rebooters
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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They have generated excitement, enthusiasm and support throughout the world. The ISEE-3 Reboot Project has succeeded in gaining control over the 36...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jul 22, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1
Astronomers Without Borders: Spreading the Wonder Worldwide
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Sky party in Northern Iraq, Credit: Mike Simmons
Astronomers Without Borders Founder and President Mike Simmons and his colleagues share the passion, beauty and joy of the night sky from Argentina...

Bought by KVSC, WESM 91.3 FM, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jun 10, 2014
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 3