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Caption: A soldier sits next to a fake inflatable tank used by the U.S. Army during World War II. The inflatables and other decoys were deployed in Europe to fool enemy troops about the positions and movements of real Army units., Credit: Ghost Army Legacy Project
The U.S. will bestow Congressional Gold Medals on members of a secret Army unit that carried out what came to be known as psychological operations.

  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
  • Length: 03:59
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This episode looks at the difficulty of realizing that a loved one is experiencing cognitive decline.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
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Audio documentaries from the front lines

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  • Added: Mar 15, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Self-help books promise a secret formula to individual success and Jay Shetty is just the latest Dale Carnegie to do so. But, even after the Guardi...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Comet ISON, Credit: HST
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Josh Hogan was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Taurus with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona wh...

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  • Added: Mar 10, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
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Plus, a surprising story about reality TV in Kenya

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  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Caption: U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks with troops at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana on Feb 23, 2024. Since Johnson became Speaker in October, Congress has dealt with multiple government shutdown threats as the House has struggled to pass long-term, Credit: Seth Watson / U.S. Air Force
Each threatened shutdown can lead to stress in the military community about missing paychecks and losing access to federal programs.

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  • Added: Mar 05, 2024
  • Length: 03:21
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Caption:  City activists are painting sidewalks hoping to encourage more street life in Kolkata., Credit: Sandip Roy
Kolkata is often regarded as a city that has slipped behind other metropolises in India when it comes to money and industry. But the country's crim...

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  • Added: Mar 04, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
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Caption: Milky Way Rising Cosmic Campground, Credit: David Thornburg
In 1924 the Aldo Leopold Wilderness in southwestern New Mexico became the first designated wilderness and is an island from which to view the natur...

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  • Added: Mar 03, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
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With high health bills drowning patients in debt, some lawmakers want nonprofit hospitals to give away more free care. But experts warn that could ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2024
  • Length: 15:44
Caption: Steven Petrow (R) and Jay Petrow (L) kiss their sister Julie Petrow-Cohen. Julie used New Jersey’s medical aid in dying law after a six-year battle with ovarian cancer., Credit: Courtesy of the Petrow family
A handful of states allow terminally ill people to take life-ending medications prescribed by a doctor instead of waiting for death. This week, we ...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2024
  • Length: 21:12
Caption: A billboard in Kolkata uses his own catchphrase to bid farewell to India's first radio superstar Ameen Sayani., Credit: Sandip Roy
Sandip Roy remembers his childhood radio guru. Amen Sayani died last week at the age of 91.

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  • Added: Feb 26, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
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Caption: Milky Way Rising Over the Gila Wilderness, Credit: David Thornburg
In 2024, Voyager I is 163 times further from the Sun than we are and is the most distant, human made, traveler in the night.

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  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
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Today, we’re talking about textiles. What can you do with a ripped sweatshirt or pillowcase you accidentally bleached? We’re wondering – is it poss...

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  • Added: Feb 21, 2024
  • Length: 03:47
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Last summer, our reporter Charlie Adams spent ten weeks working in the Bob Marshall Wilderness. It’s a slice of northwest Montana that’s over one m...

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  • Added: Feb 21, 2024
  • Length: 04:02
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Caption: Photo courtesy the Chitresh Das Institute
Pandit Chitresh Das is credited with bringing the Indian classical dance of kathak to America. Now the Chitresh Das Institute takes it back on tour...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Commander Robert Molinaro, Executive Officer of the USS Ramage, inspects the ship's sleeping quarters March 22, 2023.  Though the Ramage is back in port in Norfolk, Virginia, some sailors have to live on the ship because of a shortage of barracks space on, Credit: Adriones Johnson / U.S. Navy
A lack of barracks space - as well as poor living conditions in some barracks buildings - are contributing to complaints about sailors' quality of ...

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  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 03:51
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Over the past 40 years, Dr. Ken Dychtwald has emerged as a foremost visionary and original thinker regarding the lifestyle, marketing, health care,...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 28:02
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Companies claim they can catch cancer sooner with new blood tests and full-body MRI scans. What are the risks and benefits?

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  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 18:02
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Caption: Comet Enke, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Alex Gibbs discovered his 31st comet while asteroid hunting in Leo with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Ariz...

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
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Caption: It is so hard to write you this sonnet/because I long for you in another way/ I want to make it like ''Shall I compare thee to a summer day?:"But then there was that summer day..., Credit: Susan Cook "Prologue to "Breathing: American Sonnets"
We know too much of the sequence of the aftermath of a Mass Shooting Sequence.

  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 02:46
Caption: Sgt. Corey Briest (left) poses with his son Connor and wife Jenny, as Connor joins the South Dakota Army National Guard in Sioux Falls, March 11, 2022., Credit: South Dakota Army National Guard
Congress is considering whether to override a VA policy that says veterans who need financial fiduciaries may be reported to the FBI’s background c...

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  • Added: Feb 13, 2024
  • Length: 03:56
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Caption: Scenes from Year of the Dragon celebrations in Kolkata
Kolkata has India's only Chinatown. The Chinese community is dwindling but they still put up a good show for the Chinese New Year. Sandip got  a ta...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Psyche and Spacecraft, Credit: NASA
Unlike other space missions which are conducted out in the open the asteroid mining company AstroForge’s first mission to a potentially valuable ne...

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  • Added: Feb 11, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
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In this episode, we talk with New York Times columnist David Brooks, about his new book - How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 29:30