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The "New Normal" Relationship / Leadership Expertise / Nips and Tucks / Spice Up Your Life / Weather
From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
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Segment 1: Dr. Pepper Schwartz/"normality" in sex and love Segment 2 &3: Shar McBee/leadership and volunteerism Segment 4: Dr. Rob Sigal/plastic...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Apr 07, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Do You Need that Kidney?
From: Distillations
Caption: Advertisement encouraging people to donate a kidney., Credit: Science Museum, London, Wellcome Images
Rethinking the ethics of organ transplants.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 21:10
Living Purpose
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Elements by Open Orchard Productions
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Robert Parker realized that his destiny in life was to help others and make the world a better place. Now, as a cancer research scientist, he refle...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 25, 2016
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 1
215-Blinky
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A rapidly spinning asteroid comes close to both the Earth and our Moon.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KRWG and more


  • Added: Jan 07, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
210-Life's Core
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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All life has a common core which can guide our search for life outside of our planet.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KRWG and more


  • Added: Dec 17, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Yale President Peter Salovey Talks about Emotional Intelligence and the Emotion Roadmap
From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel
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Peter Salovey and his colleagues share their insights regarding the history of emotional intelligence and the practical applications contributed by...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2015
  • Length: 12:32
Ready to be Completely Wrong? Conjectural Genomics.
From: Robert Frederick
Series: The Conjectural
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"Ultraconserved elements" could be the most important parts of our genome, but scientists have no idea what they're for. And after a decade of stud...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2015
  • Length: 04:28
197-Rik's 2 Homers
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Rik Hill discovers two potentially hazardous asteroids on successive nights.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KKRN, WYAP and more


  • Added: Nov 05, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
196-Dark, Bright, and Beautiful
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Time spent under the natural night sky is one of the great joys of being human.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WYAP and more


  • Added: Oct 29, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
193-Survivor
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A small asteroid survives a close approach to planet Earth.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WYAP and more


  • Added: Oct 22, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
191-Two Odd Fellows
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Two quite different Earth approaching asteroids were discovered in a clear hole in the sky between storms.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WYAP and more


  • Added: Oct 15, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
185-So Many Possibilities
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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New research has revealed a truly mind boggling number of potentially habitable locations in the Universe.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, and KENW


  • Added: Sep 24, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 4
173-An Earth Like Planet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The NASA Kepler spacecraft has found an Earth like planet which has spent 6 billion years in the habitable zone of its star. It is mind blowing to...

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KKRN, and KENW


  • Added: Aug 12, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
172-Number 1602
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The asteroid hunting community has discovered 1602 potentially hazardous asteroids.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KKRN, and KENW


  • Added: Aug 06, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
170-Encounter With Pluto
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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After 9 years, 3 billion miles, and 18 sleeping periods the NASA New Horizons spacecraft is discovering wonders in the far reaches of our solar sys...

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, and KENW


  • Added: Jul 30, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
169- Neighborhood's Edge
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Our knowledge of the solar system now includes many objects out near and past Pluto.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, and KENW


  • Added: Jul 30, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
151-A Climate Changer
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Large asteroids which impact the Earth can cause global change.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KKRN, KALH and more


  • Added: May 28, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
148-Radio Eyes
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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If you woke up tomorrow with eyes sensitive to radio waves, you would be in for some interesting surprises.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, KKRN and more


  • Added: May 15, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
144-One Of A Million
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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There are millions of small space rocks which come near the Earth. Here is the story of one of them.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, KMXT and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
140-A Weird Orbit
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroids which travel outside the plane of our solar system are likely to have been involved in a collision sometime in the past.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, KKRN and more


  • Added: Apr 16, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
139-Next Step To Mars
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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NASA is proposing that the next step towards the human exploration of Mars be a manned mission to an asteroid which has been placed into orbit arou...

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, KKRN and more


  • Added: Apr 16, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
138-An Inter-Planetary Visitor
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A small asteroid visits the vicinity of both Earth and Mars.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, KKRN and more


  • Added: Apr 09, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
137-Bad Seeing
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Earth's atmosphere make our life possible as well as keeping us from seeing objects in space clearly.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, KKRN and more


  • Added: Apr 09, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
129- A 3 City Block Sized Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An asteroid the size of three city blocks was spotted 50 million miles from Earth. Someday it will make a close approach to our planet.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, KMXT and more


  • Added: Mar 12, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
128-Buzzed By An Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A tiny space rock comes unusually close to Earth.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, KKRN and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8