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Science unscripted (Spectrum) 02/15/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: As support drops for COVID-19 measures, the people who are violently opposed to them are gaining strength.

  • Added: Feb 18, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
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
2022 Spring Fundraiser: How To Be A Better Listener / Changing Our Minds For The Better
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To The Best of Our Knowledge Fundraisers
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In this special fundraising edition of "To the Best of Our Knowledge," host Anne Strainchamps samples some of our best interviews about better list...

Bought by Wisconsin Public Radio (ops) and Kansas Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 15, 2022
  • Length: 01:23:01
  • Purchases: 2
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.

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  • Added: Feb 08, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14
Dana Ellis Hunnes Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that what we eat can not only affect our own personal health, but that of our planet as well? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Register...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 03, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Nobel laureate John Mather: The promise of the James Webb Space Telescope
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's concept of the James Webb Space Telescope in space., Credit: NASA/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez
JWST senior project scientist John Mather has been looking forward to the new space telescope’s first light for more than 30 years. He joins us wit...

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  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
659: Our Time Of Mourning / 660: Hope: Where Does It Come From?, 1/29/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Our Time Of Mourning" - Year three of the pandemic. Where should we go to mourn our losses? We'll look for answers from generations past...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:01
A world of space geysers and what lies beneath
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: A true-color view of Enceladus' southern plumes. , Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI / Kevin M. Gill
New research shows that the giant plumes of Saturn’s moon Enceladus may not be coming from the warm ocean deep below the icy surface.

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  • Added: Jan 26, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
S4 EP4: Sharing the Air
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
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Internal medicine physician Natasha Spottiswoode reflects on her flying days from Oxford while teaching a green intern how to recognize whether pat...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2022
  • Length: 35:42
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 01/18/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Mass viral infections have consequences. What will omicron's be?

  • Added: Jan 21, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
657: Searching For Order In The Universe / 658: Outside The Mental Illness Box, 1/22/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Searching For Order In The Universe" - The universe is full of mystery. This hour, what do fish and eels have to do with the maddening s...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:01
Curiosity rolls on: Mars Science Laboratory project scientist Ashwin Vasavada
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: A Picture Postcard From Curiosity's Navcams: NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture panoramas of this scene at two times of day; blue, orange, and green color was added to a combination of both panoramas for an , Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The Curiosity rover’s lead researcher reviews the latest findings and images from Mars’ Gale Crater.

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  • Added: Jan 19, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
It Began with LEGO®
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Today on The Rough Draft Diaries, we're talking to the executive director of ​Sylvania STEM Center, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit and Northwest Ohio's r...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jan 18, 2022
  • Length: 06:19
  • Purchases: 1
S4 EP1: Burn the Map
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
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An improv workshop transforms the way psychiatrist David Elkin approaches a patient on the psych consult service, and catalyzes a philosophical shi...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2022
  • Length: 46:00
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 01/11/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Take a look around — because this is the wildest part of the pandemic anyone's ever seen. And we've started to normalize a ...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Jan 14, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
We have touched the Sun: The Parker Solar Probe’s triumph
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist’s impression of Parker Solar Probe approaching the Alfvén critical surface, which marks the end of the solar atmosphere and the beginning of the solar wind. Parker Solar Probe’s crossing into this zone in April 2021 means the spacecraft has “touche, Credit: NASA/Johns Hop
A spacecraft has penetrated the Sun’s corona for the first time, revealing unprecedented data and capturing a mind-blowing video.

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  • Added: Jan 11, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
12-16: Growing Collective Intelligence: Democratizing Technology and Citizen Science, 1/19/2022
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Ben Knight
A new wave of technologies designed to regenerate people, planet and democracy is emerging in ingenious ways. Designers are creating online softwar...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 01/04/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
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This week on the show: Hospitals, animals and miniature human organoids are showing us how omicron causes disease. And the news is mostly good.

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Jan 07, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Eva Greenthal Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that food labels can mislead us into thinking processed and packaged foods and beverages are healthier than they might appear? Join Fo...

Bought by KMXT and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jan 06, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Return to the Moon: Preparing for splashdown in the Pacific
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Host Mat Kaplan talks with USS John P. Murtha captain Gervy Alota next to the Orion capsule test article aboard the ship., Credit: Mat Kaplan
A shipboard update on how the Artemis 1 Orion capsule will be recovered from the Pacific Ocean.

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  • Added: Jan 05, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14
Daniel Oberhaus: Our Super-Charged Future (re-broadcast)
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Daniel Oberhaus
New iterations of the smartphone often focus on bells, whistles and other fancy features, when what we all really want for our devices are batterie...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jan 04, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Laura Vandenberg Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that industries use a variety of tactics to manipulate public opinion about products that can harm our health and environment? Join Fo...

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  • Added: Dec 30, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Last Straw: Mark Marinozzi + Romain Troublé (re-broadcast)
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Romain Trouble
The next time you sip on a drink from a straw, you may want to think twice because humans are producing an inordinate amount of plastic waste on st...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Science unscripted (Spectrum) 12/21/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Omicron won't be a wave, it'll be a wall, says Germany's top virologist. And the best response is to lock things down — aga...

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  • Added: Dec 25, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Discovering Mars with Jim Bell and William Sheehan
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: A mosaic of 102 Viking orbiter images of Mars, showing a hemisphere of the planet centered on the immense Valles Marineris canyon system. Prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey., Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS
“Discovering Mars” is the new chronicle of humanity’s long relationship with the Red Planet, assembled by space historian William Sheehan and Mars ...

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  • Added: Dec 22, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11

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