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Understanding Masaya Volcano – The Science Behind Its Basaltic Plinian Eruptions
Season 2 Episode 1
How can a "well-behaved" volcano produce explosions that dwarf Mount St. Helens? In the Season Two premiere, host Dr. Jeffrey Zurek explores the dead…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Encore: The whimsical sounds of the Birds, Ornithology and why birds sing, territory and more with Miranda Zammarelli
Season 1
Today the pod shows its fitness with im-peck-able wordplay. That's right, today's episode is for the birds. At least those which have a raven-ous app…
9 months, 1 week ago
Encore: Paleontology & Theropods PT2! Dinosaur behaviour from fossils - With Dr François Therrien
Season 1
Part2 jumps in where part 1 left off so more about Theropods! specifically about one of Dr François Therrien's recent studies about a Gorgosaurus and…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Encore: Dinosaurs and the mammal longevity gap, Evolutionary Biology - with Associate Professor Molly Burke
Season 1
This time we take a deep dive into an hypothesis The longevity bottleneck hypothesis: Could dinosaurs have shaped ageing in present-day mammals?” by …
10 months ago
The Age of the Earth & The Fall of Leaded Gasoline: Clair Patterson
Season 1 Episode 23
How do we know the Earth is 4.55 billion years old? It turns out the man who found the answer also had to save us from an invisible poison. In the Se…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Scientific and Historical look at The rise Leaded Gasoline - When industry poisoned the world
Season 1 Episode 22
With a major feature film titled Midge currently in development, the world is looking back at the complicated legacy of Thomas Midgley Jr. In this ep…
11 months ago
Sierra Negra volcano's internal dynamics through gravity and deformation with Dr Antonina Calahorrano-Di Patre
Season 1 Episode 21
How do we measure the mass of magma moving inside a volcano before it reaches the surface? In this episode, geophysicist Dr. Antonina Calrano de Petr…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Insects breathe?! An inside look at insect evolution through respiration with Dr Hollister Herhold
Season 1 Episode 20
How do creatures with no lungs or red blood cells become the most successful biomass on Earth? In this episode, Dr. Hollister Horvold from the Americ…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
Modeling dwarf galaxies to probe the early universe with Dr. Eric Andersson
Season 1 Episode 19
How do we study processes that take billions of years to unfold? Here, we venture back into the cosmos with Dr. Eric Anderson, a postdoctoral researc…
1 year ago
A tale of disappearing Seas, The Mediterranean sea basically drys up! - The Messinian Salinity Crisis
Season 1 Episode 18
What happens when an entire sea vanishes? In this solo deep-dive, geophysicist Dr. Jeffrey Zurek explores the Messinian Salinity Crisis, a period nea…
1 year ago