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740-Asteroid Billiards(528)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test or DART for short will test methods to make a dangerous asteroid miss Earth

Bought by KICI Iowa City, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX, KGLP, WTIP and more

Added: Apr 02, 2023
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 8

739-Comet Groller(527)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groller was asteroid hunting with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona when he discovered his first...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX, KGLP, KKRN and more

Added: Mar 26, 2023
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 9

When Home Becomes a Hospital

From: Tradeoffs

Caption: Gabriel Kibuyu (right) receives hospital-at-home care from UMass Memorial Medical Center nurse Danae Stand (center) and Dr. Constantinos Michaelidis (left on tablet) on March 6, 2023., Credit: Photo by Lisa Abitbol for Tradeoffs.

The pandemic pushed Medicare to start paying for “hospital-at-home” care for the first time, launching the largest test ever of home-based hospital...

Added: Mar 24, 2023
Length: 24:21

Nature Out of Balance with Dr. Tim Wood

From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News

Little things can cause big trouble when man changes the environment

Bought by WMUU-LP and WYAP

Added: Mar 20, 2023
Length: 28:34
Purchases: 2

737-Collision(525)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

The object which the 2.3 mile diameter Gault hit is likely to have been a third of a mile diameter space rock. This celestial crash left Gault with...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WYAP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more

Added: Mar 12, 2023
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 10

736-Home Wrecker(524)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

The extremely remote chance that a dangerous mountain sized space rock has our number on it is what keeps my team going to our four telescopes in t...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WYAP, KGLP, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more

Added: Mar 05, 2023
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 9

734-Comets Africano(522)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

During Comet C/2018 V4 Africano's last visit to the inner solar system humans were erecting the outer ring at Stonehenge. At the rate human's are c...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WYAP, KGLP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WTIP and more

Added: Feb 26, 2023
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 8

735-One Thousand(523)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

For the first time in history, an asteroid hunting team, the Catalina Sky Survey, has discovered more than 1,000 Earth approaching asteroids in a s...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WYAP, KGLP, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more

Added: Feb 19, 2023
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 10

733-Lunar Space Rock(521)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Recently, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groller discovered an Earth approaching asteroid which has a speed consistent with it being ejecte...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WYAP, KGLP, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more

Added: Feb 12, 2023
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 10

732-Comet Lemmon(520)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

An interstellar traveler visits our neighborhood on its tour of the Milky Way.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WYAP, KGLP, Raven Radio, KKRN and more

Added: Feb 06, 2023
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 6

No More Humans? with Dr. Shanna Swan

From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News

Will endocrine disrupting chemicals that cause declines in sperm production finally finish off the human race?

Bought by WMUU-LP

Added: Feb 04, 2023
Length: 28:22
Purchases: 1

One Doctor’s Crusade to Improve Health Literacy

From: Tradeoffs

Caption: Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick believes plainspoken information from trusted messengers can help shrink health disparities, and some insurers are buying in., Credit: Ryan Levi

Black Americans report higher levels of mistrust in the health care system than white Americans and suffer worse outcomes in everything from matern...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Added: Feb 03, 2023
Length: 20:23
Purchases: 1

731-Greg's Comet(519)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

The discovery of a Jupiter family comet whose fate is to become a garden variety main belt asteroid.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WYAP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more

Added: Jan 29, 2023
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 8

Closing the Nuclear Cancer Factory

From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News

Diane Turco from Cape Downwinders talks about the company decommissioning the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant, and how they're trying to save money buy...

Added: Jan 27, 2023
Length: 28:04

The End of Humira’s $200 Billion Drug Monopoly

From: Tradeoffs

After 20 years, Humira – the best selling drug of all time – is finally facing direct competition. Typically, once generic drugs arrive on a market...

Added: Jan 27, 2023
Length: 18:07

Can You Trust Your Food? with Helena Bottemiller Evich

From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News

After the news of the week, former Pro Publica food reporter Helena Evich talks about the failure of the FDA to handle food safety, the controversy...

Added: Jan 15, 2023
Length: 28:15

729-Close Again(517)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Artists Conception: Small Space Rocks, Credit: Texas A&M

As asteroid hunters equipment and skills continue to improve we will be able to find and track some of these tiny impactors and perhaps be able to ...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WYAP, KGLP, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more

Added: Jan 15, 2023
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 9

728-Space Weather(516)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Earth Engulfed in Space Weather, Credit: NASA

Space is not all that far away. If a powerful solar eruption in 2012 had happened a week earlier, the blast of radiation would have caused wide spr...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP, KICI Iowa City, Raven Radio, Simply Beautiful and more

Added: Jan 08, 2023
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 9

727-Dust Moons(515)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Kordylewski's strange "dust moons", Credit: J. Slíz-Balogh

The discovery of two large ghostly neighbors approximately 65,000 by 45,000 miles in size at the L4 and L5 sites approximately 250,000 miles from b...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP, Simply Beautiful, KICI Iowa City, Raven Radio and more

Added: Jan 01, 2023
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 9

726-Close Space Rocks(514)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Artists Conception:Small Impacting Asteroid, Credit: NASA

Since 1900 there have been 11 close approaches by asteroids larger than 300 feet in diameter. One of them, the Tunguska Object was about 400 feet i...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KGLP, Raven Radio and more

Added: Dec 25, 2022
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 10

725-Mtn Ops(513)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Telescopes Mt. Lemmon, AZ, Credit: CSS/University of Arizona

My team, the Catalina Sky Survey, would not find a single asteroid without Steward Observatory's Mountain Lemmon Operations, or Mtn Ops for short. ...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more

Added: Dec 18, 2022
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 9

Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for December 14, 2022

From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine

Caption: Timely, In Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991

This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Georgia GOP Voter Suppression the Media Missed, Likely to Spread Across th...

Bought by WFHB and WETS