Podcast Episodes

10X10: Kettle Bog

In our series 10X10, we examine ordinary places that are more interesting than they might initially appear; and few places hold more unexpected myste…

6 years, 7 months ago

Tempest in a Teacup

The passenger pigeon is one of the world’s most symbolic extinction stories. It’s a cautionary tale of how in just a few short generations, one of th…

6 years, 7 months ago

Nudge-Off Results! Plus, The Forest for the Treesap [Replay]

The winner of our “Battle of Tiny Proportions” is revealed! Plus, one of our favorite episodes about the pace of technology: The Forest for the Trees…

6 years, 8 months ago

Nature Has Done Her Part

In New England, the Waterman name is like mountain royalty. But beyond a tight circle of outdoors-people, they're not a household name. Today, we tel…

6 years, 8 months ago

A Battle of Tiny Proportions

A government bureaucrat builds a website that saves a billion gallons in gas. The minuscule Irish invention that enables the industrial revolution. A…

6 years, 9 months ago

Leo Rising

Depending on who you ask, astrology is a science, an art, a form of therapy… or, a pseudo-science, fortune-telling, a scam.  But astrology is way mor…

6 years, 9 months ago

Chasing The Light

From the ancient charcoal animals of France's Chauvet Cave, to 17th century Dutch windmill paintings, art history can tell us a lot about our evolvin…

6 years, 10 months ago

A Year of Wonders

As extreme weather wreaks havoc around the globe NPR's Throughline looks at a natural disaster more than 200 hundred years ago that had far-reaching …

6 years, 10 months ago

Jesabel Y Eddie

Before Hurricane Maria hit in September of 2017, Puerto Rico's rickety electric grid was a notorious headache. After the storm, it was a crisis.

This…

6 years, 11 months ago

The Particular Sadness of Trout Fishing in America

People love fishing for trout. They love it so much that we are willing to go to insane lengths to catch them. But what should we make of the fact th…

6 years, 11 months ago