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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
90 Second Naturalist - January 2015 Modules
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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90 second modules that celebrate the natural world and bring the wonder of nature into daily life

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 22, 2014
  • Length: 33:00
  • Purchases: 1
90 Second Naturalist - December 2014 Modules
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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90 second modules that celebrate the natural world and bring the wonder of nature into daily life

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KCBX, and KMXT


  • Added: Nov 24, 2014
  • Length: 34:30
  • Purchases: 3
90 Second Naturalist - November 2014 Modules
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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90 second modules that celebrate the natural world and bring the wonder of nature into daily life

Bought by KCBX, WXPR, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Oct 28, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
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
90 Second Naturalist - October 2014 Modules
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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90 second modules that celebrate the natural world and bring the wonder of nature into daily life.

Bought by KREV-LP


  • Added: Sep 23, 2014
  • Length: 34:30
  • Purchases: 1
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
90 Second Naturalist - September 2014 Modules
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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90 second modules that celebrate the natural world and bring the wonder of nature into daily life.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 33:00
90 Second Naturalist - August 2014 Modules
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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90 second modules that celebrate the natural world and bring the wonder of nature into daily life.

  • Added: Jul 23, 2014
  • Length: 31:30
Obsession
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human
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This week on State of the Human, we're looking at obsessions, the helpful and the debilitating.

Bought by WMUU-LP, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and CHSR-FM 97.9


  • Added: Jun 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:46
  • Purchases: 3
90 Second Naturalist - July 2014 Modules
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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90 second modules that celebrate the natural world and bring the wonder of nature into daily life.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2014
  • Length: 34:30
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
90 Second Naturalist - June 2014 Modules
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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90 second modules that celebrate the natural world and bring the wonder of nature into daily life

Bought by WDCB


  • Added: May 27, 2014
  • Length: 31:30
  • Purchases: 1
Neil deGrasse Tyson of COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Neil deGrasse Tyson
The host of COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey, returns to our show with a behind the scenes look at the spectacular television series. Neil also tells u...

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


  • Added: May 06, 2014
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 3
90 Second Naturalist - May 2014 Modules
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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90 second modules that celebrate the natural world and bring the wonder of nature into daily life

  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 33:00
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
Building the geologic history of Game of Thrones
From: Generation Anthropocene
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Ever wonder what Westeros looked like long before the Starks, Baratheons, Lannisters, or Targaryens roamed its surface? How far back can we really ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 10, 2014
  • Length: 05:07
  • Purchases: 1
90 Second Naturalist - April 2014 Modules
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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90 second modules that celebrate the natural world and bring the wonder of nature into daily life

Bought by WMRA


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 33:00
  • Purchases: 1
90 Second Naturalist - March 2014 Modules
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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The 90 Second Naturalist connects to listeners' innate love of nature through compelling stories that entertain, inform and promote interaction wit...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2014
  • Length: 31:30
90 Second Naturalist - February 2014 Modules
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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The 90 Second Naturalist connects to listeners' innate love of nature through compelling stories that entertain, inform and promote interaction wit...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
90 Second Naturalist - January 2014 Modules
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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The 90 Second Naturalist connects to listeners' innate love of nature through compelling stories that entertain, inform and promote interaction wit...

Bought by WLRN


  • Added: Dec 20, 2013
  • Length: 34:30
  • Purchases: 1
Comet ISON's Spectacular Science Legacy
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Karl Battams, Comet ISON Observer
Maybe it wasn’t “the comet of the century,” but ISON has left a scientific legacy that is beyond compare. That’s according to Karl Battams of NASA’...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXDU, WESM 91.3 FM, and KMXT


  • Added: Dec 10, 2013
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 4
Episode 2: How To Do Science: Eat Lunch and Drink Coffee
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Measuring Marine Microbes
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Two professors walk up to a lunch truck, and the conversation they have there may change the way we study microbiology. Sometimes science has a lot...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2013
  • Length: 07:21
Alyssa Rhoden and the Rise of the Europa Underground
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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Alyssa Rhoden studies Jupiter’s moon Europa…from a distance. She, many other scientists and millions of space exploration fans around the globe wan...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WESM 91.3 FM


  • Added: Nov 26, 2013
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 2