#630 The Jewel Box
#630 The Jewel Box
A lot of us learned basic ecology in primary school. Maybe we took a biology class in high school or secondary school an... Read more
31 Jul 2023
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#629 How birds go the distance
#629 How birds go the distance
Birds carry out some of the most amazing feats of athleticism in the world. Hummingbirds cross the entire Gulf of Mexico... Read more
5 Jul 2023
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#628 Brave the Wild River
#628 Brave the Wild River
In 1938, two botanists, Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter, made an ambitious voyage down the Colorado River driven by the de... Read more
19 Jun 2023
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#627 Ancient Migrations
#627 Ancient Migrations
Humans are a roaming species. We've been traveling from continent to continent since our very earliest evolution. In fac... Read more
5 Jun 2023
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#626 Our Friend, the Wasp
#626 Our Friend, the Wasp
Is there an insect more universally despised than the wasp? What have they done to incur so much of our ire? No one like... Read more
25 May 2023
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#625 This one really is about aliens
#625 This one really is about aliens
Do you believe there's something Out There? What do our ideas of aliens say about what life is, how life could look and ... Read more
9 May 2023
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#624 The Devil’s Element
#624 The Devil’s Element
With fertilizers that supply phosphorus–what Asimov called “life’s bottleneck”– people broke the circle of life. Dan Ega... Read more
24 Apr 2023
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#623 Peopling the Americas
#623 Peopling the Americas
Thousands of years ago, people crossed a land bridge from Siberia to Western Alaska and dispersed southward into what we... Read more
11 Apr 2023
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#622 What's wrong Colonel Sanders? Feeling chicken?
#622 What's wrong Colonel Sanders? Feeling chicken?
Give a cluck about chickens. The most popular meat actually has a 3,500 year history of cockfighting, backyard keeping, ... Read more
27 Mar 2023
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#621 Of memoir and sea creatures
#621 Of memoir and sea creatures
Sea creatures do so many things that astound us. They regrow and regenerate, they incubate eggs for years without ever e... Read more
13 Mar 2023
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