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Episode 278-Intellectual Inoculation
To combat disease, we have the opportunity to go to the doctor and get a vaccine, which helps us create antibodies to resist disease. But how do we inoculate ourselves against a very different and in…
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
Episode 279–Mystery Sounds
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) operates underwater microphone arrays throughout the world's oceans, going them th ability to listen to goings-on below the surface. Many so…
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
Episode 277-BCBDXing
Anyone who has listened to more than two episodes of this program knows that I’m about as weird and geeky as they come. I’m a sucker for science and nature, and in spite of the fact that as a kid I w…
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
Episode 276-Biodiversity and Sound
One of the most effective yet most overlooked and under appreciated techniques for assessing the biodiversity of an environment is sound--the voice of the place. In this episode, I describe why sound…
Published on 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 275-Jared Blake-The Life of a Field Recordist
Jared Blake is one of the most important human voices in the natural world today. His unceasing commitment to exhort us all to slow down and listen to the voices of the natural world, to work hard to…
Published on 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 274-Who Authors Really Are
Here’s a childhood question for you. And I should qualify that—for the most part I’m talking to people who were kids during the 60s, and who shared the books they read with their own children. Here’…
Published on 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 272-I'm Your Huckleberry
Remember the movie, “Tombstone”? There’s a scene where Val Kilmer, who plays Doc Holliday, confronts the outlaw, Johnny Ringo. Doc says, “I’m your huckleberry,” which causes Johnny Ringo to go pale a…
Published on 11 months ago
Episode 273-The Strange Story of Fordlandia
Were you aware that deep in the Amazon Jungle of Brazil there lies an abandoned American town, built in the 1920s by none other than Henry Ford? Check it out.
Published on 11 months ago
Episode 271-Sound Safaris for the Blind
A few months ago, I did an interview on the program with Sarah and Derek Solomon, who are safari guides in southern Africa. If you listened to that episode, you may recall that their work is pretty u…
Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 270-Curiosity, Space Travel, and How to Write a Book
As most of you know, I released a new novel reently called Russet. It’s my fourth book of fiction; all my prior titles have been about technology, history, photography, writing, sound recording, biog…
Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago