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A Flock of Two
Episode 640
Animals rescue people all the time, but not like this. In this episode, first aired more than a decade ago, Jim Eggers is a 44-year-old man who suffe…
10 months ago
The Echo in the Machine
Episode 639
Today you can convert speech to text with the click of a button. Youtube does it for all our videos. Our phones will do it in real time. It’s frictio…
10 months, 1 week ago
How to Cure What Ails You
Episode 638
Now that we have the ability to see inside the brain without opening anyone's skull, we'll be able to map and define brain activity and peg it to beh…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
The First Known Earthly Voice
Episode 637
What happens when a voice emerges? What happens when one is lost? Is something gained? A couple months ago, Lulu guest edited an issue of the nature …
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Terrestrials: The Snow Beast
Episode 636
Today we bring you a story stranger than fiction. In 2006, paleobiologist Natalia Rybczynski took a helicopter to a remote Arctic island near the Nor…
11 months ago
The Age of Aquaticus
Episode 635
For years, scientists thought nothing could live above 73℃/163℉. At that temperature, everything boiled to death. But scientists Tom Brock and Hudso…
11 months, 1 week ago
Ghosts in the Green Machine
Episode 634
In honor of our Earth, on her day, we have two stories about the overlooked, ignored, and neglected parts of nature. In the first half, we learn abou…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Signal Hill: Caterpillar Roadshow
Episode 633
A couple years ago, an entomologist named Martha Weiss got a letter from a little boy in Japan saying he wanted to replicate a famous study of hers. …
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Killer Empathy
Episode 633
In an episode first aired in 2012, Lulu Miller introduces us to Jeff Lockwood, a professor at the University of Wyoming, who spent a part of his care…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
Malthusian Swerve
Episode 632
Earth can sustain life for another 100 million years, but can we?
In this episode, we partnered with the team at Planet Money to take stock of the ess…
1 year ago