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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
The Royal Observatory, Greenwich and the Quest for Longitude
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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Come with us on a visit to the home of the prime meridian for a conversation with the curator of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich about the race to...

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


  • Added: Jul 28, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Planetary Radio Live-New Horizons Phones Home From Pluto!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Mat Kaplan and guests at KPCC waiting for New Horizons to phone home from Pluto., Credit: Southern California Public Radio
Join our live audience for highlights of an amazing evening, featuring Jim Bell, Bruce Betts, Mike Brown, Emily Lakdawalla and Bill Nye the Science...

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


  • Added: Jul 20, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 5
Getting Humans to Mars with Chris Carberry
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The first human steps onto Mars in this illustration from the 2015 Humans to Mars Report., Credit: Explore Mars, Inc.
Explore Mars revealed the 2015 Humans to Mars Report at a recent conference in Washington. CEO Chris Carberry gives us a quick tour of this realist...

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


  • Added: Jun 01, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Making Love to Siri: The Seductiveness of Robots
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Tonight’s show “Making Love to Siri,” seeks to understand what is seductive to us about robots. Which question should we ask: Can we make love to S...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2015
  • Length: 58:33
Jim Bell Welcomes "The Interstellar Age"
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Jim Bell's new book chronicles the Voyager mission to the outer solar system and beyond., Credit: Dutton Publishing
Planetary scientist and author Jim Bell has just written “The Interstellar Age—Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission.” He talks with Mat Kaplan abo...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Mar 03, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 1
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
A MESSENGER From Mercury-Principal Investigator Sean Solomon
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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MESSENGER is the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging mission that has been orbiting the innermost planet for more than thr...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 28, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1
That Water in Your Glass May be Older Than the Sun
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Researchers have theorized that up to half of Earth's water is older than the sun. It likely formed in the cold molecular cloud that spawned our solar system., Credit: Bill Saxton, NSF/AUI/NRAO
Ilse Cleeves is lead author of a paper that concludes up to half of our solar system’s water is older than the solar system itself. The implication...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 1
A Visit to Wind Cave National Park
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits Wind Cave National Park in the Black Hills of southwest South Dakota, and speaks with the park's Chief of Interpretation Tom F...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2014
  • Length: 29:01
Planetary Radio Live! We See Thee Rise: The Canadian Space Program
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: "We See Thee Rise" University of Toronto Convocation Hall, October 1, 2014, Credit: The Planetary Society
We welcomed 1,600 Canadian space enthusiasts to the University of Toronto for our October 1st celebration of Canada in space! Join Mat Kaplan and ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 07, 2014
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 1
Pathogens' Rally
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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You know we’re causing a problem for the planet when even the viruses think we’re the worst disease the Earth has ever seen.

  • Added: Oct 02, 2014
  • Length: 07:53
Planetary Radio Live: MAVEN Arrives at Mars!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Planetary Radio Live celebrates MAVEN's arrival at Mars in Southern California Public Radio's Crawford Family Forum, Credit: Loren Roberts
The latest guest of the Red Planet arrived in orbit on the evening of September 22, 2014. Planetary Radio Live was watching with fingers crossed in...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Sep 23, 2014
  • Length: 57:42
  • Purchases: 1
Body Language
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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You’re body doesn’t lie—whether you’ll know it or not, you’re going to love this pleasantly warped body language expert.

  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:52
Talking to Idiots
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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Like the Freedom Riders of yore, modern defenders of sanity train in passive resistance—to the senseless scientific arguments of internet morons.

  • Added: Sep 02, 2014
  • Length: 02:40
Mourning Remembrance--Alastair Cameron
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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The late scientist behind the theory of the moon’s creation gets honored in the grand tradition of Jim Earl and The Final Edition—with a series of ...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2014
  • Length: 01:45
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
The Humanist Hour #102: Live at the 73rd Annual Conference in Philadelphia!
From: Bo Bennett
Series: The Humanist Hour
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In this episode, Bo, Kim, and Todd host this episode in front of a live audience at the AHA Conference in Philadelphia. Our guest is Lifetime Achie...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2014
  • Length: 53:24
12: Playground Sounds (Standard Length)
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds (Standard Length)
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The sounds of childhood: jokes and playground songs.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
10: Rhythm Discovery (Standard Length)
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds (Standard Length)
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Drums, Wind Chimes and Meteorites are all forms of percussion in the Rhythm Discovery Center in Indianapolis.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
Two Guys on Your Head: Why Being Put On Hold is So Frustrating
From: KUT
Series: Two Guys On Your Head
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Horrible music, incredible wait times and an inscrutable labyrinth of phone prompts: We've all experienced the frustrations of being on hold. Even ...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2014
  • Length: 07:20
Two Guys on Your Head: Why We Go Out
From: KUT
Series: Two Guys On Your Head
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Human beings are a social species. Part of our natural programming, which has evolved as we’ve evolved with the rest of the planet into our current...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2014
  • Length: 07:20
Two Guys on Your Head: Personality Tests
From: KUT
Series: Two Guys On Your Head
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When it comes to the Myers-Briggs personality type test, are you an introvert or an extrovert? Do you focus on sensing, or do you use your intuitio...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2014
  • Length: 07:20
Two Guys on Your Head: Learning Styles
From: KUT
Series: Two Guys On Your Head
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Are you an auditory learner or a visual learner? If you answered "yes" you would be right. We use all our senses to learn and process information....

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Jan 24, 2014
  • Length: 07:20
  • Purchases: 1
From Earth to the Edge of the Universe: A New Edition of "The Cosmos"
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: New 4th Edition of "The Cosmos", Credit: Cambridge University Press
Astronomers Jay Pasachoff and Alex Filippenko have just published the 4th edition of “The Cosmos: Astronomy in the New Millenium.” They join us fo...

Bought by WMNF, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KSKQ, WESM 91.3 FM, and WOUB


  • Added: Jan 21, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 5