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Probable Impossibilities -- Groks Science Show 2022-05-04
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Alan Lightman discussed his new book, Probable Impossibilities.

Bought by KDX Worldround Radio, KNCT FM, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Heavy Metal: An encounter with the Psyche spacecraft
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Mat Kaplan talked with Psyche mission principal investigator Lindy Elkins-Tanton with the spacecraft beside them in this JPL clean room., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Suit up for a clean room encounter with the Psyche spacecraft that will soon launch toward the asteroid belt.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WFHB, KIYU-FM, KWMR, WJCU and more


  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Coral Reefs -- Groks Science Show 2022-04-27
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Juli Berwald discussed her new book, Life on the Rocks.

Bought by KNCT FM and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
The End of Astronauts?
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Will humans go beyond low Earth-orbit to explore destinations like Mars first-hand? Or will we leave this to robots?, Credit: NASA-JPL-Caltech
Britain’s Astronomer Royal Martin Rees and science writer Don Goldsmith question the value of putting astronauts in harm’s way at great expense in ...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WFHB, KIYU-FM, WJCU and more


  • Added: Apr 26, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Apollo Astronaut -- Groks Science Show 2022-04-20
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Fred Haise discussed his new book, Never Panic Early.

Bought by KNCT FM, WYAP, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 20, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Yuri’s Night: Join the party!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Inspiration4 astronaut Sian Proctor greets the 2022 Yuri's Night audience., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Thousands celebrated the 51st anniversary of the first human voyage into space. We’ll take you to the Los Angeles party under the Space Shuttle End...

Bought by WFHB, KIYU-FM, KWMR, KRZA, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
Quantum Steampunk -- Groks Science Show 2022-04-13
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Nicole Junger Halpern discussed her book, Quantum Steampunk.

Bought by KDX Worldround Radio, KNCT FM, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 13, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise's NASA portrait., Credit: NASA
Fred Haise takes us on board the mission that almost didn’t make it home from the Moon.

Bought by WFHB, WJCU, KIYU-FM, RadioStPete Florida, KWMR and more


  • Added: Apr 12, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Planet Rescue -- Groks Science Show 2022-04-06
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Tony Hiss discussed his book, Rescuing the Planet.

Bought by KDX Worldround Radio and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 06, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Neptune Odyssey: why we need to visit an ice giant
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: HIGH-RESOLUTION GLOBAL NEPTUNE MOSAIC WITH GREAT DARK SPOT This mosaic is composed of approximately 20 images taken through green or clear filters about 2 to 3 days prior to Voyager 2's closest approach. It has been colorized with lower-resolution data ta, Credit: NASA / JPL / Björn Jónsson
Leaders of the Neptune Odyssey study for the next planetary science and astrobiology decadal survey share their team’s exciting approach for an ice...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WFHB, KIYU-FM, WJCU, KWMR and more


  • Added: Apr 06, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Supervillain Science -- Groks Science Show 2022-03-30
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Ryan North discussed his new book, How to Take Over the World.

Bought by KDX Worldround Radio and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
X-raying the universe with Martin Weisskopf
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This is IXPE, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer Principal Investigator, a new and unique X-ray space telescope., Credit: NASA/MSFC
X-ray astronomy is vital to solving some of the universe’s biggest mysteries. Martin Weisskopf’s brand new space telescope has joined the effort.

Bought by KIYU-FM, WFHB, WJCU, KWMR, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
Embodied Mind -- Groks Science Show 2022-03-23
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Thomas R. Verny discussed his book, The Embodied Mind.

Bought by KNCT FM, KDX Worldround Radio, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Searching Brain -- Groks Science Show 2022-03-16
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Benjamin Ehrlich discussed his new book, The Brain in Search of Itself.

Bought by KNCT FM and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 16, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Who has received the first STEP grants?
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The 100m Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope is used by Jean-Luc Margot to listen for technosignatures of extraterrestrial intelligence., Credit: NRAO Green Bank Observatory
The Planetary Society’s new Science and Technology Empowered by the Public (STEP) grant program will let citizens join the search for ET and enable...

Bought by WFHB, KIYU-FM, WJCU, KWMR, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Expectation Effect -- Groks Science Show 2022-03-09
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
David Robson discussed his new book, The Expectation Effect.

Bought by KDX Worldround Radio, WYAP, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 09, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Water, water everywhere with Bethany Ehlmann
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This image, from the Context Camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows chloride deposits within a channel in Bosporus Planum, Mars. For scale, the largest impact crater in the scene is 1.5 kilometers (about 1 mile) across., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems
Water may have flowed on Mars for a billion more years than was previously thought, giving possible life an extra billion years to thrive.

Bought by WFHB, KUT, KIYU-FM, KWMR, WJCU and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Timekeeping History -- Groks Science Show 2022-03-02
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Chad Orzel discussed his book, A Brief History of Timekeeping.

Bought by KNCT FM and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 02, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
5,000 worlds and counting: the success of TESS
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist concept of the TESS spacecraft in position to search for distant worlds., Credit: NASA
MIT’s Michelle Kunimoto heads the TESS Faint Star Search that has revealed over 1,600 of the more than 5,000 TESS-discovered exoplanet candidates i...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WFHB, KIYU-FM, WJCU, KWMR and more


  • Added: Mar 02, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Heartbreak Science -- Groks Science Show 2022-02-23
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Florence Williams discussed her new book, Heartbreak.

Bought by KNCT FM and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Feb 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Astrobiologist David Grinspoon on life, the universe and everything
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This map of the surface of Venus was created from observations accumulated during more than a decade of radar imaging of the planet. Observations made by NASA's Magellan spacecraft between 1990 and 1994 form the base of the image., Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS
Astrobiologist and author David Grinspoon shares his thoughts about the search for life, where we might find it and how planetary science works.

Bought by WFHB, KIYU-FM, KWMR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KRZA and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
Grow Now -- Groks Science Show 2022-02-16
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Emily Murphy discussed her book, Grow Now.

Bought by KNCT FM, KDX Worldround Radio, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Feb 16, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Saving the world one telescope at a time: The Shoemaker NEO grant winners
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Višnjan Observatory in Croatia is one of eight recipients of Gene Shoemaker near-Earth object grants from the Planetary Society., Credit: Višnjan Observatory
Meet one of the just-announced recipients of Planetary Society Gene Shoemaker NEO grants. They search the skies for asteroids and comets that could...

Bought by WFHB, KIYU-FM, KWMR, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WJCU and more


  • Added: Feb 15, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
Super Gut -- Groks Science Show 2022-02-09
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. William Davis discussed his new book, Super Gut.

Bought by KDX Worldround Radio, WYAP, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Feb 09, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
The weather on brown dwarfs, and worlds on the eve of destruction
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist’s conception of a brown dwarf, featuring the cloudy atmosphere of a planet and the residual light of an almost-star., Credit: NASA/ESA/JPL
Johanna Vos watches the weather on brown dwarf worlds while her colleague, Sam Grunblatt, finds giant planets spiraling toward their doom.

Bought by KVSC, WFHB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KIYU-FM, WJCU and more


  • Added: Feb 08, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14