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Our Perception Of Time Shapes The Way We Think About Climate Change
Episode 832
Most people are focused on the present: today, tomorrow, maybe next year. Fixing your flat tire is more pressing than figuring out if you should buy an electric car. Living by the beach is a lot more…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
Fossil CSI: Cracking The Case Of An Ancient Reptile Graveyard
Episode 831
This mystery begins in 1952, in the Nevada desert, when a self-taught geologist came across the skeleton of a massive creature that looked like a cross between a whale and a crocodile. It turned out …
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
New Tech Targets Epilepsy With Lasers, Robots
Episode 830
About three million people in the United States have epilepsy, including about a million who can't rely on medication to control their seizures. For years, those patients had very limited options. Bu…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
What Cities Should Learn From California's Flooding
Episode 829
Winter storms have flooded parts of California, broken levees and forced thousands to evacuate. Climate change is altering the historic weather patterns that infrastructure like reservoirs and waterw…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
Time Is So Much Weirder Than It Seems
Episode 828
Time is a concept so central to our daily lives. Yet, the closer scientists look at it, the more it seems to fall apart. Time ticks by differently at sea level than it does on a mountaintop. The univ…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
A Course Correction In Managing Drying Rivers
Episode 827
Historic drought in the west and water diversion for human use are causing stretches of the Colorado and Mississippi rivers to run dry. "The American West is going to have to need to learn how to do …
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
How You Can Support Scientific Research
Episode 826
We're off today in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. In the meantime, we want to share this episode from our friends at NPR's Life Kit podcast about how to become a community scientist — and…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
Things Could Be Better
Episode 825
Are humans ever satisfied? Two social psychologists, Ethan Ludwin-Peery and Adam Mastroianni, fell down a research rabbit hole accidentally answering a version of this very question. After conducting…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
Behold! The Mysterious Ice Worm
Episode 824
Inside the mountaintop glaciers of the Pacific Northwest lives a mysterious, and often, overlooked creature. They're small, black, thread-like worms that wiggle through snow and ice. That's right, ic…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
How Glaciers Move
Episode 823
There's always a moment of intense isolation when Jessica Mejía gets dropped off on the Greenland ice sheet for a multi-week research stint. "You know you're very much alone," said Jessica, a postdoc…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago