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Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Fight to Make Child Tax Credit Permanent Critical to Reducing Child Pover...

Bought by WKPW and KMXT


  • Added: Mar 17, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Bright Fireball Meteor, Credit: NASA
The situation that asteroid hunters both train for and dread is the discovery of a large space rock on a collision course with planet Earth. Recent...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP, WTIP and more


  • Added: Mar 12, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Vesta, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Richard Kowalski is the first person in our group and perhaps the first person in the world to discover a potential...

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  • Added: Mar 07, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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This week on the show: As Germany doubles down on the lockdown, new data suggests vaccines will keep us all safe for a long, long time. But even a...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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In 2020 the asteroid hunting community discovered 2,946 Earth approaching space rocks orbiting our Sun. My team, the Catalina Sky Survey, led the ...

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  • Added: Jan 16, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 14
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Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard was asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he spotted a movi...

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  • Added: Jan 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
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The National Science Foundation has announced that it will close and decommission the giant RADAR telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Ri...

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  • Added: Jan 01, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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For millennia humans have gazed into the night sky and have dreamed of traveling to the stars. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that one ...

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  • Added: Dec 11, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Caption: A lightning bolt strikes in the western part of the city, part of the second of two bands of monsoon storms to roll over the area, Tucson, Ariz., August 28, 2019., Credit: Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star
Every year the Monsoon summer rains come to the American southwest in July and August. After the threat of wild fires has been rained out, monsoo...

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  • Added: Aug 28, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
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This week on the show: listeners send in their theories on Gabe's viral infection. Also, what we know (or really don't) about the "Russian vaccin...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: What would you ask a Neanderthal? - We can bring Neanderthals back, a la Jurassic Park, with technologies we have today....

  • Added: Jul 30, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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Topic 1: How astronomers feel about SpaceX expansion plans. Topic 2: Why is antisemitism on the rise? Topic 3: Why do physical ailments seem more l...

  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 49:36
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This week on the show: It feels good to do the right thing Germans really are moving less now, why it feels so good to help people (safely), and...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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Assuming the first potentially hazardous asteroid of 2020 has a chemical composition similar to the stony meteorites we find on Earth, it could co...

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  • Added: Feb 23, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8

  • Added: Feb 18, 2020
  • Length: 30:17
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This week on the show: I wish I could remember your phone number - Feeling forgetful? Then join us for a memory master class from a German worl...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Teddy Pruyne, discovered a potentially dangerous and perhaps valuable asteroid with our 60 inch telescope ...

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  • Added: Jan 31, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Topic 1: Using brain scans to make pain objectively measurable. Topic 2: Augmented reality for the blind. Topic 3: The evolution of motherhood in p...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jan 30, 2020
  • Length: 50:02
  • Purchases: 1
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Topic 1: How can a megastar like Taylor Swift not own the recordings of her hits? Topic 2: The tweeting tree. Topic 3: The author of "A Composer’s ...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2020
  • Length: 50:04
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Topic 1: Ads for you. Topic 2: Training cats. Topic 3: Prejudice against disabled persons.

  • Added: Jan 09, 2020
  • Length: 49:54
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This week on the show: Clean up after yourself - Plug your nose, folks, because "poop streak science" goes well beyond the toilet bowl. Also, w...

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  • Added: Nov 27, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Changing Spaces - How internet access is changing rural lives in Tanzania. Egypt's new capital might not solve all the ...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Sat up - As we enter the age of satellite mega-constellations, it’s time to celebrate an unsung satellite hero that’s wa...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Nov 20, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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On Earth plants provide us with medicines, food to eat, and oxygen to breathe. In the future, in addition to providing treats like strawberries it ...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW and more


  • Added: Oct 10, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
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This week on the show: Intercourse and the art of communication - People who are good with emojis have more sex, but hold your emoji horses befo...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Aug 29, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1