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196-Dark, Bright, and Beautiful
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Time spent under the natural night sky is one of the great joys of being human.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WYAP and more


  • Added: Oct 29, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
194-Star Wanderer
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Comets have blazed a path to the stars for humans to follow.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WYAP and more


  • Added: Oct 22, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
181-Beyond Moon
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Take a trip to view the far side of the Moon.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KKRN, and KENW


  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
176-Weird Life
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Strange life forms at the bottom of Earth's oceans may provide clues about creatures which may exit on other worlds.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KKRN, and KENW


  • Added: Aug 21, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
It's a Jungle Out There (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Over the past 50 years, the Amazon rainforest has lost nearly 20% of its forest cover. We talk with the Amazon expert who coined the term “biodive...

Bought by WCNY, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WTJU, KEDT, and WABE


  • Added: Aug 14, 2015
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 5
Attack Squirrels, Zombies and a Park Ranger
From: Bryan Orr
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A sound rich narrative interview with former Washington state park ranger and storyteller Jody Maberry

  • Added: Aug 07, 2015
  • Length: 17:53
SABRE The New Rocket Engine
From: terry mechan
Series: Interesting interview Clips
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Split into Two clips for your own programming SABRE is at heart a rocket engine designed to power aircraft directly into space (single-stage to or...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2015
  • Length: 08:56
Hampton Sides, author of "In the Kingdom of Ice"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Sides tells the the thrilling and harrowing story of an early attempt to be the first to reach the North Pole in his book, "In the Kingdom of Ice: ...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2015
  • Length: 30:31
Take Care #9
From: WRVO Public Media
Series: Take Care
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Episode topics: Overcoming a fear of flying and precautions against germs during cold and flu season.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2015
  • Length: 28:00
156-8 Close Ones
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In the space of less than ten nights, my Catalina Sky Survey teammates discovered 8 new Earth approaching objects. One of them can pass closer to ...

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, and KENW


  • Added: Jun 11, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
Virginia’s Restless Archipelago Part 3
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Colony of American oyster catchers on a lesser Barrier Island., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Oyster Virginia is an old fishing village on the seaside of the Easter Shore. On the road in there are old dead rises, some half submerged in the s...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2015
  • Length: 26:36
152-Big and Bad
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In the space of a couple of days the Catalina Sky Survey found 3 potentially dangerous asteroids.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, KMXT and more


  • Added: May 28, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
151-A Climate Changer
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Large asteroids which impact the Earth can cause global change.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KKRN, KALH and more


  • Added: May 28, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
144-One Of A Million
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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There are millions of small space rocks which come near the Earth. Here is the story of one of them.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, KMXT and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
143-Busy Little One
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A small asteroid has paid numerous visits to the vicinity of the Earth, Mars, and our Moon.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, KKRN and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
140-A Weird Orbit
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroids which travel outside the plane of our solar system are likely to have been involved in a collision sometime in the past.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, KKRN and more


  • Added: Apr 16, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
139-Next Step To Mars
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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NASA is proposing that the next step towards the human exploration of Mars be a manned mission to an asteroid which has been placed into orbit arou...

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, KKRN and more


  • Added: Apr 16, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Leaves are Falling
From: WDSE
Series: The North Shore
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Bryan talks about the best leaf-peeping options in the Northland - not just the North Shore.

  • Added: Mar 23, 2015
  • Length: 07:36
The Animals of Isle Royale
From: WDSE
Series: The North Shore
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There is one very wild Island is here on the North Shore. Guest host Bryan French talks about the history of Isle Royal and their moose and wolf s...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 23, 2015
  • Length: 12:31
  • Purchases: 1
The "Galapagos of North America": California's Channel Islands
From: H2O Radio
Series: Journalism About Water
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Leaping dolphins, towering sea caves, long stretches of isolated beaches within a stone's throw of LA, but few visit this amazing place... but you ...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio


  • Added: Feb 10, 2015
  • Length: 13:27
  • Purchases: 1
115-Ballistic Capture
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A new plan for a space trip to Mars will be able to deliver a steady stream of supplies to a human space colony on the red planet.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Bringing Up Babies
From: Josh Clement
Series: All Things Natural With Ed Kanze
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I've raised baby possums, raccoons, skunks, robins, starlings, and great-horned owls. Which are the most cuddly and fun to be around? The answer ma...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
110-Asteroids Accessible By Human Space Flights
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid hunters have discovered nearly 100 small objects which are accessible by astronauts.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KMXT, and KENW


  • Added: Jan 01, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
109-Eighteen Sleeps Later
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The NASA New Horizons Spacecraft is on a voyage of discovery to the distant parts of our solar system.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WRST-FM Oshkosh, Radio Newark, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jan 01, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
107-Mining Asteroids
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Mining asteroids may seem farfetched, however, some on our planet are actively pursuing this goal.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KMXT, Radio Newark and more


  • Added: Dec 26, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6