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Tod Cooperman, MD, President, Founder, and Editor-in-Chief at ConsumerLab.com
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that many chocolate products contain unsafe levels of cadmium and lead? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda ...

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  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
World in Progress 02/02/23
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Dangerous reporting: covering indigenous issues in Guatemala is difficult and comes with a high price - Why care about negle...

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  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
RESCUE, part 4: The Fallacy of Denial
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week we continue the multi-part RESCUE series with observations about the climate future and our relationship to facts and truth, the spread o...

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2023
  • Length: 05:20
  • Purchases: 1
JWST confirms its first exoplanet
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: An illustration of LHS 475 b based on our current understanding of the planet from JWST spectroscopy., Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Leah Hustak (STScI)
We celebrate the James Webb Space Telescope's first confirmed exoplanet discovery this week on Planetary Radio. Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, one of the lea...

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Science, Art, and Dr. Alan Lightman
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Dr. Alan Lightman, Credit: Courtesy of “Searching: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science”
Author and MIT physicist Alan Lightman explores the similarities between artistic and scientific impulses.

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
Juno Journeys to Jupiter’s Moons
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: An image of Ganymede obtained by the JunoCam imager during Juno’s June 7, 2021, flyby of Jupiter's icy moon., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS
Dive into the latest discoveries about Jupiter’s moons, Ganymede, Europa, and Io, with Scott Bolton, the principal investigator for NASA’s Juno mis...

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  • Added: Jan 24, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Celebrating NASA’s Artemis I mission to the Moon
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artemis 1 begins its successful lunar mission.
Jeremy Graeber, the assistant launch director at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, joins Planetary Radio to recount his experience on the night of A...

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  • Added: Jan 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Planetary Radio stories with Mat Kaplan
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Sarah Al-Ahmed, the new host of Planetary Radio, shaking hands with Mat, creator and former host of the show after their last in-person recording on Dec. 22, 2022., Credit: Bruce Betts/The Planetary Society
New host Sarah Al-Ahmed bids a fond farewell to Mat Kaplan, Planetary Radio’s former host, in a special interview as Mat shares stories from his tw...

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  • Added: Jan 03, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
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
753: When Mountains Are Gods / 754: The Sound Of Silence, 12/24/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "When Mountains Are Gods" - Science tells us mountains are giant piles of rock, formed millions of years ago. But that's not all they are...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
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
Solve Climate Change Now
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Don Maruska
The mere mention of climate change can cause an unpleasant, visceral reaction. It’s a subject that we’ve avoided and denied for decades. Understand...

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 28:59
  • 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
Nurdle Hurdles + Turning Plastic Into Gravel
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Neel Dhanesha
What is a nurdle, you ask? Is it the latest variation on the popular New York Times puzzle, Wordle? No, not quite. Nurdles are the tiny little petr...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
747: Forged By Hand / 748: If Your Clothes Could Talk, 12/3/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Forged By Hand" - You would think that handcrafting, like iron forging and copper smithing, would be on the way out. But COVID has shown...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
Celebrating Planetary Radio’s 20th Anniversary with Bill Nye
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Host Mat Kaplan reports from the Red Planet on Planetary Radio's 20th anniversary.
Join the Planetary Society’s CEO and others as we mark Planetary Radio’s entry into its third decade.

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  • Added: Nov 30, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
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
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
Constant Wonder - Advocating for Sharks and Other "Scary" Creatures
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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When Rachel Graham experienced a real-life sharknado on a dive trip, she knew her future was connected to these amazing and threatened creatures.

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  • Added: Nov 15, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • 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
Constant Wonder - Life As an Astronaut
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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An astronaut experiences a juxtaposition of the sublime and the mundane, sensing God while floating weightless, fixing cables outside his spacecraft.

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  • Added: Nov 07, 2022
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 3
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
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
735: Our Time Of Mourning / 736: Secrets Of Alchemy , 10/22/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Our Time Of Mourning" - Is there a better way to talk about death? And to grieve? The pandemic has brought us a period of global mournin...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:01
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

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