Podcast Episodes

Carl Safina – Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel (part 2)

Wolf Gaze courtesy Carl Safina

Beyond Words (starts 5:00) Last week, we brought you excerpts from an interview with MacArthur Genius Grant Award winn…

10 years, 6 months ago

Joel Parker & Space // Carl Safina – Beyond Words

HANDOUT IMAGE: “Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel” by Carl Safina (credit: Henry Holt) ***ONE TIME USE ONLY. NOT FOR RESALE

Up Close and Pers…

10 years, 6 months ago

Are GMOs Environmentally-friendly?

Genetically-modified crops

GMOs (start time 5:35) An interview with Dr Sharon Collenge, an ecologist at the University of Colorado. Dr Collenge is an…

10 years, 7 months ago

Rock Arch Stability // Neonicotinoids and Silent Spring

Rock Arch Stability (Starts 5:24) How on Earth’s Daniel Strain  talks to Jeffrey Moore, a geologist who studies the West’s iconic rock arches — and w…

10 years, 7 months ago

Neurobiology of Alcohol Abuse

Raising drinking glasses to celebrate – drinking?
Image courtesy of Huffington Post

This week on How on Earth, we speak with Dr Paula Hoffman, a neuro…

10 years, 7 months ago

Quantum Biology: Life on The Edge // Science and Art with Monica Aiello

Quantum Biology: Life on the Edge

What do Enzymes and photosynthesis have in common?  Both are biological process that happen to rely on quantum mec…

10 years, 7 months ago

Habitat Exchanges // More Frequent Wildfires

photo credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Habitat Exchanges (starts at 3:00):  The greater sage grouse is ruffling feathers all the way to Washing…

10 years, 8 months ago

Fingerprint Hand Gun // High Altitude Observatory

Kai Kloepfer – Designer of Fingerprint Smart Firearm Technology

Fingerprint Hand Gun.  (starts at 5:45) How on Earth’s Shelley Schlender talks with B…

10 years, 8 months ago

Gold King Spill, Mining Prospects

Contaminated Animus River following Gold King Mine spill.
Photo credit: RiverHugger/Creative Commons

Science and Politics of Mining (start time: 6:49)…

10 years, 8 months ago

Global Climate Models & Climate Change

Events like heat waves are more likely with climate change.
Image courtesy of Heartlander Magazine

Beth Bennett speaks with Claudia Tebaldi, a climate…

10 years, 9 months ago