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OSIRIS REx: Ready for a Voyage to Bennu
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: OSIRIS REx spacecraft at Bennu in artist's conception., Credit: NASA/University of Arizona
OSIRIS-REx will launch toward Near Earth Asteroid Bennu soon. In an early celebration of Asteroid Day, mission leader Dante Lauretta tells us how l...

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  • Added: Jun 21, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
JunoCam, The People’s Jupiter Camera
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Jupiter's Great Red and Great White Spots, Credit: NASA
The Juno spacecraft will enter orbit at Jupiter on July 4th. It carries a camera that will send back spectacular images from just above the swirlin...

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  • Added: Jun 14, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Chris McKay, Larry Niven and Andy Weir at the Contact Conference
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Fact and fiction Contact Conference all-stars. Left to right: Carol Stoker, Michael Sims, Kim Stanley Robinson, Andy Weir, Penny Boston, Chris McKay and Larry Niven., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Space art and science fiction joined science fact at the 2016 Contact Conference in Sunnyvale, California. We talk with three well-known visionarie...

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  • Added: Jun 07, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Food Sleuth Radio, Laura Lengnick Interview, Part 2/2
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know the table of tomorrow will need to reflect a more regionalized food system? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Meli...

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  • Added: May 26, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Laura Lengnick Interview, Part 1/2
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that resilience is an underlying condition of sustainability? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn...

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  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Death Valley Conversation About Life, The Universe and Everything
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Mat Kaplan, Jill Tarter and Tyler Nordgren, Credit: Mat Kaplan
Beautiful Death Valley National Park was the setting for a fascinating conversation with famed SETI researcher Jill Tarter and celebrated astronome...

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Food Sleuth Radio, Charles Benbrook Interview, Part 2
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that organic food production methods confer nutritional benefits to both plant foods and meat and dairy products? Join Food Sleuth Rad...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
39: Dr. Dava Newman, Deputy Administrator of NASA & Write On Campaign founders Sabrina Moyle and Tess Darrow
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Dr. Dava Newman, Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Dr. Dava Newman, the Deputy Administrator of NASA has a goal to usher in the next mission to Mars. Will this next mission be one giant step for wom...

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  • Added: Apr 20, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 4
Celebrate Yuri's Night With Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, Credit: Susan Karlin @SueKarlin
Happy Yuri’s Night! We’re partying under Space Shuttle Endeavour in the first of two shows featuring interviews from the worldwide celebration of s...

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  • Added: Apr 12, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Take Care #57
From: WRVO Public Media
Series: Take Care
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Episode topics: Calm online and caregiver compassion fatigue.

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  • Added: Apr 11, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Food Sleuth Radio, Lisa McDowell Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that smart sports nutrition focuses on “food first” and the “recovery” period post-exercise? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registere...

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  • Added: Mar 31, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ashwin Vasavada, Leader of Scientists Roving Mars
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Ashwin Vasavada of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory became the project scientist for the Mars Science Laboratory Project in January 2015., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The new Mars Science Laboratory Project Scientist is not new to the mission. Ashwin Vasavada has worked on the Curiosity rover since 2004. Emily L...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
12-11: Education for Action: Reinventing Everything, 6/22/2016
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: David Orr
Perhaps the single greatest systems error of human civilization is the illusion that people are somehow separate from nature – not subject to the g...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
Globalocal: The Migration of Grassroots Solutions
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 11
Caption: Mallika Dutt
Innovations usually arise locally. If conditions are right, they spread globally. That story is playing out around the world today. In India, human...

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  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 7
07-11: Globalocal: The Migration of Grassroots Solutions, 5/18/2016
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Mallika Dutt
Innovations usually arise locally. If conditions are right, they spread globally. That story is playing out around the world today. In India, human...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
Pluto’s Big Discoveries
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A trickle of data from the New Horizons spacecraft is building into a flood of new findings.

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  • Added: Mar 23, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 3
MIT Team Turning Fumes Into Fuel
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Gregory Stephanopoulos
You know that sick feeling when you look at a smokestack belching noxious gases into the air? Well, what if you knew that the gas waste coming from...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KRZA, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 4
HERA Heroine Julielynn Wong and Printing Medical Tools in Deep Space
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Julielynn Wong and her alter ego, Dr. “J”, Credit: Jared Chambers
Julielynn Wong came directly from her 30-day long HERA IX deep space simulation to our microphone. We talk with her about the experience, and her p...

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  • Added: Mar 08, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Dawn Flies Low Over Ceres
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Dawn had this view of Ceres at 86 degrees south latitude on Dec. 10, only three days after completing its descent to an average orbital altitude of 240 miles (385 kilometers). , Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA
The Dawn Mission Chief Engineer Marc Rayman returns for another report on the ion-engine powered mission, now orbiting 240 miles above dwarf planet...

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  • Added: Jan 19, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Food Sleuth Radio, Representative Louise Slaughter Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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The routine use of antibiotics in livestock contributes to the growing threat of antibiotic resistant infections in humans. Join Food Sleuth Radio ...

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  • Added: Dec 25, 2015
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Congressman John Culberson on a Good Day for Space
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: An artist imagines viewing a Europa water geyser from the surface of Jupiter’s moon., Credit: NASA/ESA/K. Retherford/SWRI
The newly-approved federal budget includes great news for fans of space exploration and development. Texas Congressman John Culberson led the fight...

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  • Added: Dec 22, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Food Sleuth Radio, Kelay Trentham Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Medical cannabis has been approved in 23 states as of January 2017, and cancer patients are seeking information about using marijuana for relief fr...

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  • Added: Dec 11, 2015
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Journey to Space
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Humans near Mars in this still image from Journey to Space 3D, Credit: K2 Films/Giant Screen Films
Journey to Space is both a new and spectacular IMAX movie and an exciting, hands-on exhibition at the California Science Center. We learn about bot...

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  • Added: Dec 08, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
Food Sleuth Radio, Catherine Badgley Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Are you curious about the keys to sustainability – for achieving abundant foods from a healthy ecosystem? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Register...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2015
  • Length: 28:00
Three Letters Met on Broom Bridge
From: Samuel Hansen
Caption: Broom Bridge Plaque, Credit: Francesco Perini
Every October 16th hundreds of people gather in Dublin for a walk from Dunsink Observatory to Broom Bridge that celebrates Ireland's greatest mathe...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 20, 2015
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 1