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Planetary Society All-Stars Review the Year in Space
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals emerging stellar nurseries and individual stars in the Carina Nebula that were previously obscured., Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
For his last episode as host, Mat Kaplan welcomes many of his Planetary Society colleagues for a review of a spectacular year of space exploration.

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  • Added: Dec 28, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
Howard Zinn at 100: A People’s History, Urgent Lessons for the Present
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Historian Howard Zinn would have turned 100 in 2022. His monumental work, A People’s History of the United States, published in 1980, continues to ...

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  • Added: Dec 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Artemis 1 Orion capsule comes home
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft on board the USS Portland after its historic journey around the Moon., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Host Mat Kaplan greets the Orion capsule that has just returned from the Moon.

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  • Added: Dec 20, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
The A-Word
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This week, we explore an often-overlooked issue in the Arab world; racism towards Black Arabs. In this episode, Kerning Culture reporter Ahmed Twai...

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  • Added: Dec 11, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Good Night Oppy! Hello Mars!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: A Mars Exploration Rover crosses the Red Planet in this artist's concept., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Bill Nye and Planetary Society members join Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity scientists at a screening of the excellent new documentary about the...

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  • Added: Dec 07, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Giving the University of Arizona Mirror Lab a spin
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Planetary Radio host and his Mirror Lab tour guide Buell Jannuzi with one of the seven huge mirrors for the Giant Magellan Telescope. , Credit: Mat Kaplan
Join us for a tour of the University of Arizona’s Mirror Lab where they use a giant, spinning oven filled with molten glass to create the primary m...

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  • Added: Nov 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
743: Going For Broke: Can Work Be Love? / 744: Everything Is Exhausting, 11/19/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Going For Broke: Can Work Be Love?" - In this final part of our series, we’re talking about work — about the right to meaningful work, t...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:59
Voyager Mission Project Scientist Linda Spilker
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Linda Spilker and Planetary Radio host Mat Kaplan check out the geysers emanating from a model of Saturn's moon Enceladus at JPL., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Cassini Mission Project Scientist Linda Spilker has now taken on the same job for the Voyager Interstellar Mission.

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  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
741: Going For Broke: Making Up Our Minds / 742 Music Without Genre, 11/12/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Going For Broke: Making Up Our Minds" - In episode two of our three-part series on the care economy: Mental health challenges can push p...

  • Added: Nov 11, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
Burn Wild Episode 2
From: Dylan Haskins
Series: Burn Wild
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Episode 2 of 2 of Burn Wild. Journalist and writer Leah Sottile presents the story of two of America’s most wanted fugitive environmentalists. F...

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  • Added: Nov 09, 2022
  • Length: 52:31
  • Purchases: 3
Ann Druyan wishes you a happy Sagan Day
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Carl Sagan was a co-founder of The Planetary Society., Credit: The Planetary Society
Celebrate Carl Sagan’s birthday with his longtime collaborator and life partner Ann Druyan.

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  • Added: Nov 09, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
739: Going For Broke: Change Of Address / 740: Traditional Knowledge, 11/5/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Going For Broke: Change of Address" - In the first episode of a three-part series on the care economy, we're thinking about housing. Man...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
DART smacked an asteroid! So what’s next in planetary defense?
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This artist's concept shows the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE spacecraft, in its orbit around Earth. In 2013, the mission was brought out of hibernation to hunt for more asteroids and comets in a project called NEOWISE., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test was a brilliant success. The leaders of NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office tell us what’s next in th...

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  • Added: Nov 01, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14
Going For Broke, Part Three: Can Work Be Love?
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Going For Broke (A Three Part Series from To the Best of Our Knowledge)
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In this final part of our series, we’re talking about work — about the right to meaningful work, the search for jobs that pay enough to live, and w...

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  • Added: Oct 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Going For Broke, Part Two: Making Up Our Minds
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Going For Broke (A Three Part Series from To the Best of Our Knowledge)
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In episode two of our three-part series on the care economy: Post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health challenges can push people into...

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  • Added: Oct 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Going For Broke, Part One: Change Of Address
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Going For Broke (A Three Part Series from To the Best of Our Knowledge)
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In the first of three episodes of "Going For Broke," all about the care economy, we're thinking about housing. Many of us would consider it a basic...

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  • Added: Oct 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Meet the new Planetary Radio host!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: New host Sarah Al-Ahmed is introduced by current host and Planetary Radio creator Mat Kaplan in this week's episode.
After 20 years at the helm, Mat Kaplan introduces the person who will take over Planetary Radio when the new year begins.

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  • Added: Oct 25, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Eyes on the Sky: Spacewatch and the Catalina Sky Survey
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: One of the Catalina Sky Survey/Steward Observatory telescopes on Mt. Lemmon prepares for another night of asteroid hunting., Credit: CSS/Steward Observatory
Meet leaders of two of the most successful Earth-based searches for asteroids, including many thousands that could threaten Earth.

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
No Such Thing as The Latino Vote? Hispanic American Swing Voters (Part 3 of 3)
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
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Historian Geraldo Cadava and comedians Carlos Mencia and Cristela Alonzo discuss the many different perspectives that shape Latino politics.

  • Added: Oct 12, 2022
  • Length: 30:32
Innovate! NASA’s leading-edge fellows share their amazing projects
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's concept of an advanced, spaceship., Credit: NASA/MSFC
Join us at the 2022 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Symposium for a taste of projects that just might change the world.

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  • Added: Oct 12, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
The Untold Story of the Trail Mix Art Exhibit at the Whit Gallery
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today's Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with Trail Mix Art Exhibit Project Coordinator D...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
Grounded: The director of the SOFIA flying observatory on its termination
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: With its giant infrared telescope open to the sky, SOFIA flies toward another night of observation, Credit: NASA/DLR
Director of SOFIA Science Mission Operations Margaret Meixner joins us to lament the end of the giant flying observatory and to celebrate its treme...

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  • Added: Oct 05, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Bull’s-eye! DART impacts Dimorphos
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Asteroid Dimorphos imaged by the Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft seconds before the probe impacted., Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL
Listen as the Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft closes in on asteroid Dimorphos, followed by a triumphant conversation with DART Coordina...

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  • Added: Sep 27, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14
Countdown to DART: Will We Move an Asteroid?
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The DART spacecraft races toward its impact on asteroid Dimorphos in this artist's concept., Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL
The DART spacecraft’s impact on asteroid moonlet Dimorphos is set for Sept. 26. We’ll get a preview of this historic smackdown from the mission’s c...

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  • Added: Sep 20, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
A Space Coast Conversation with European Space Agency Leader Josef Aschbacher
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: An Artemis astronaut collects a promising rock on the Moon., Credit: NASA
Host Mat Kaplan spends a few minutes talking with Josef Aschbacher, Director General of the European Space Agency, at the first attempt to launch A...

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  • Added: Sep 14, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13

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