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Creation Flashes -- Groks Science Show 2021-08-11
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Paul Halpern discussed his book, Flashes of Creation.

  • Added: Aug 11, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
How Perseverance Drives Itself Around Mars
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Perseverance rover looks back over the tracks is has laid across Jezero Crater on Mars., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The Perseverance rover’s chief robotics engineer takes us for a spin across Mars.

Bought by WFHB, KIYU-FM, WJCU, KWMR, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
The Arbonaut -- Groks Science Show 2021-08-04
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Meg Lowman discussed her work as an arbonaut.

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 05, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Alan Stern Says It’s Time for Suborbital Science
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo in its payload configuration, carrying science experiments into a microgravity environment., Credit: Virgin Galactic
Planetary scientist and New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern says great science will ride on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo and Blue Orig...

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  • Added: Aug 03, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Open Skies -- Groks Science Show 2021-07-28
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Niloofar Rahmani discussed her life as the first female fixed-wing aviator in Afghanistan.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 28, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Remembering Apollo 15 with author Andy Chaikin
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Jim Irwin with Apollo 15's Lunar Roving Vehicle. Developed in a breakneck 17 months, the LRV greatly extended the exploration range of final three Apollo missions., Credit: NASA/The Planetary Society
Space historian and author of A Man on the Moon Andy Chaikin returns as we celebrate Apollo 15’s 50th anniversary.

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  • Added: Jul 27, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Sweaty Science -- Groks Science Show 2021-07-21
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Sarah Everts discussed her new book, The Joy of Sweat.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Amy Mainzer and a New Asteroid-Hunting Space Telescope
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This artist's concept of NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor Mission shows the space telescope in front of a star field captured by the WISE telescope., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/The Planetary Society
NASA has approved development of the NEO Surveyor space telescope. Project lead Amy Mainzer will share her hopes for this vital planetary defense t...

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  • Added: Jul 20, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Top of Mind - Music of Spheres, Go FlyEase, Prison Pell Grant
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Music of Spheres; Topic 2: Go FlyEase; Topic 3: Prison Pell Grant

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  • Added: Jul 20, 2021
  • Length: 51:30
  • Purchases: 5
Deconsumerism -- Groks Science Show 2021-07-14
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
J.B. MacKinnon discussed his book, The Day the World Stopped Shopping.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 15, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
We’re Going Back to Venus
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's concept of active volcanos on Venus, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Peter Rubin
Leaders of the DAVINCI and VERITAS missions tell us what their spacecraft will reveal about the planet that is so much like Earth and yet so terrib...

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  • Added: Jul 14, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Lunar Rover -- Groks Science Show 2021-07-07
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Earl Swift discussed his book, Across the Airless Wilds.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 07, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Visiting the James Webb Space Telescope
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope sits with its five-layer sunshield fully deployed during testing at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, California., Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn
Host Mat Kaplan visits the James Webb Space Telescope in California to see the observatory before it launches and speak with project leaders.

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  • Added: Jul 07, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Exhale -- Groks Science Show 2021-06-30
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. David Weill discussed his book, Exhale.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 30, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Finding Life by Looking for Complexity
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Chemical Space, Credit: Naomi Johnson and Lee Cronin
University of Glasgow chemist Lee Cronin believes he and his collaborators have found a way to recognize life as we know it and as we don’t know it.

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


  • Added: Jun 30, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Information Ascent -- Groks Science Show 2021-06-23
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Caleb Scharf discussed his new book, The Ascent of Information.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 23, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Pearly Clouds of Mars
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NASA's Curiosity Mars rover spotted these iridescent, or "mother of pearl," clouds on March 5, 2021, the 3,048th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. , Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Atmospheric scientist Mark Lemmon discusses the beautiful clouds on Mars imaged by NASA's Curiosity rover.

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  • Added: Jun 23, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Plagued -- Groks Science Show 2021-06-16
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. John Froude discussed the history of pandemics in his new book, Plagued.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WYAP, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 16, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Amateur Astronomers Saving the World
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist concept of a large asteroid crashing toward Earth., Credit: Getty Images
Planetary Society grants have enabled amateur astronomers to discover and track asteroids that cross Earth’s path. We’ll meet two of them.

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
Recycling -- Groks Science Show 2021-06-09
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Jennie Romer discussed her book, Can I Recycle This?

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Experimental Cosmologist Brian Keating
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Simons Array will be located in Chile’s High Atacama Desert, at an elevation of about 17,000 feet. The site currently hosts the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (bowl-shaped structure at upper right) and the Simons Array (the three telescopes at bottom lef, Credit: University of Pennsylvania
A fascinating, wide-ranging conversation with Brian Keating, director of the Simons Observatory that will search for our cosmic origins from a moun...

Bought by KIYU-FM, WFHB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KWMR and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Black Holes -- Groks Science Show 2021-06-02
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Heino Falcke discussed the story of capturing the image of a black hole.

Bought by WYAP and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 02, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Mighty Jupiter and the Juno Mission
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this stunning compilation image of Jupiter’s stormy northern hemisphere as it performed a close pass of the gas giant planet. Some bright-white clouds can be seen at high altitudes on the right side of Jupiter’s disk. Image, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS
The Juno mission will continue its exploration of Jupiter till 2025, thanks to a four-year extension granted by NASA. Principal investigator Scott ...

Bought by KIYU-FM, WFHB, WJCU, WMUU-LP, KRZA and more


  • Added: Jun 02, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
Mandela Effect: Reality shift, alternative timelines or New Earth alien artificial simulation?
From: Ray Samuels
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Mandela Effect: Reality shift, alternative timelines or New Earth alien artificial simulation?

  • Added: Jun 01, 2021
  • Length: 01:12:41
Framers -- Groks Science Show 2021-05-26
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Kenneth Cukier discussed his new book, Framers.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1