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260-Gliding to Space
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An engineless glider will take two humans and scientific gear to the edge of space.

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


  • Added: Jun 09, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
259-Trans-Neptunian
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The discovery of an object which travels out to well beyond Pluto.

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


  • Added: Jun 09, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
253-Lunar Village
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The world's spacefaring community is preparing to build a village on our moon.

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


  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
252-The King
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Jupiter, the king of our solar system, has provided us with a place to stand and air to breathe.

Bought by KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KENW, WVBI-LP and more


  • Added: May 12, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
251-Fresh Lunar Craters
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Fresh lunar craters tell us about objects which enter the Earth-Moon system.

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


  • Added: May 12, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
247-Potential Mining Target
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammates have discovered an asteroid which could be a potential mining target.

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


  • Added: Apr 28, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
246-Anatomy of an Extinction Crater
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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By drilling into a crater rim, researchers hope to discover how the Earth and it's life forms recovered from an asteroid impact.

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


  • Added: Apr 21, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
243-Comet Ahoy
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The third closest comet approach to planet Earth in recorded history.

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


  • Added: Apr 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Mayor John Hamilton Discusses Contaminates in the Water Supply
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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Water supply in Bloomington and its contaminates are discussed.

  • Added: Jan 14, 2016
  • Length: 08:32
211-Smoking Moon
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Humans have discovered oceans of liquid salty water on four small worlds in our solar system. Could living things be flourishing in these alien en...

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


  • Added: Dec 24, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
EPA’s New Farmworker Pesticide Standards Leave Unanswered Questions
From: Side Effects Public Media
Series: Side Effects News
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The people who grow and harvest our food risk exposure to toxic pesticides in the fields. This month the EPA published its first update to pesticid...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2015
  • Length: 03:25
This Week in Water for November 22, 2015
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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EPA’s Fracking Study Faulted By Its Own Scientists. That and other stories in H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Nov 22, 2015
  • Length: 06:44
  • Purchases: 1
Infectious Diseases: What factors are at play during disease outbreaks?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this pilot episode of the World Affairs podcast we are looking at diseases: how they are spread, how they are contained, how they are cured. We ...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 12:42
Windows Expert Hacks 'Droid Rifle at RAMming speed
From: Lyle Troxell
Series: GeekSpeak
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Brand new very fast memory, Windows 10 rolls out slowly, how to stay safe online: experts vs non-experts, and more Geeky News.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WYAP


  • Added: Sep 02, 2015
  • Length: 50:59
  • Purchases: 2
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for the week ending August 21, 2015
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: House Passes Bill That Would Ban State Laws Mandating Labeling of GMO Food...

Bought by WRIR and KSFR


  • Added: Aug 08, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Countdown to LightSail: An Update
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: LightSail voyages across the cosmos., Credit: The Planetary Society
The road to space has been a rocky one for most spacecraft, and LightSail is no different. Challenges remain even with the May 20th launch of a tes...

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


  • Added: Apr 27, 2015
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 5
Unspun Revisits Climate Change with Dr. Michael Mann
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Michael Mann
Dr. Doug Craig co-hosts with me, as Unspun revisits the most serious issue of our time, Climate Change (of course), with Dr. Michael Mann. Dr. Mic...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 58:25
Unspun Talks Ebola With Robert Walker, President of the Population Institute
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Robert Walker
Unspun takes a serious look at the Ebola Crisis facing the world and our part in the creation and possible solutions.

  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:38
Why Ebola Should Be Treated As Though It Is Airborne
From: John Brice
Series: Commentary by John C. Brice, J.D.
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Several reasons are presented which individually and collectively demonstrate why Ebola should be treated as though it is airborne.

  • Added: Oct 04, 2014
  • Length: 04:16
Reaching Mars is not the only ISRO success!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Mission specialists cheer at ISRO
India's Mangalyaan orbiter has reached Mars, but the mission means as much for the women of India as it does for science.

  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
Ebola's Exponential Rate of Contagion
From: John Brice
Series: Commentary by John C. Brice, J.D.
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The World Health Organization this week announced a horrendous fact: the number of Ebola cases in West Africa is doubling every 20 days. If this t...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2014
  • Length: 04:41
Two Guys on Your Head: Creativity
From: KUT
Series: Two Guys On Your Head
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The part of our brains that is responsible for generating creativity evolved throughout human existence to serve a problem solving function. If yo...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2013
  • Length: 07:20
Two Guys on Your Head: Choose Your Delusion
From: KUT
Series: Two Guys On Your Head
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So how do we define delusion? Well, actually, like most other things, that definition can be left up to the person who is doing the defining. Mer...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2013
  • Length: 07:20
Two Guys On Your Head: Automaticity
From: KUT
Series: Two Guys On Your Head
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We may think we are making conscious decisions to do what we do on a daily basis, yet a large portion of things we do during the day we do without ...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 07:20