Podcast Episodes

Ancient Hummingbirds Were Quite Modern

Today, hummingbirds are found only in North, Central and South America. Of course, since Noah's Ark landed in the mountains of Ararat, they had to cr…

2 years, 4 months ago

Dancing Infrared Ground Squirrels

 The last creature a rattlesnake wants to see is the California ground squirrel.

 Ref: Science News, 6/26/04, p. 403, S. Milius, "Hot Bother." Photo:…

2 years, 4 months ago

Busy Mushrooms

If it weren't for mushrooms, there would be so many un-decayed dead trees that there would be no room on Earth for anything else to grow. But mushroo…

2 years, 4 months ago

The Importance of Being Father

How important is father to a child's religious growth? Due to the way in which census information is gathered in Switzerland, researchers were able t…

2 years, 4 months ago

Fresh Dust?

The last few years have seen a good deal of excitement among astronomers over the possibility of discovering planets orbiting distant stars. Astronom…

2 years, 4 months ago

Oxygen Optional Carp

The long, cold winters of Scandinavia not only freeze the lakes, but pile so much snow on the lake ice that no light can penetrate to the cold, unfro…

2 years, 4 months ago

The Monster with 24 Arms

A real monster prowls the ocean floor from the Aleutian Islands to Southern California. It is a terror to even relatively large bottom dwellers. It e…

2 years, 4 months ago

Man: The Missing Years

According to the evolutionary timetable, mankind has been on Earth for about 100,000 years. Archeologists and Paleo-archeologists claim that 100,000 …

2 years, 4 months ago

Man Is More than Matter

Evolutionary scientists studying the workings of the human brain are trying to find out what the human "mind" is. The problem is that everyone, inclu…

2 years, 4 months ago

Catastrophe!

The year of 1816 was called the "year without a summer." Weather records and newspaper clippings offer us a record of the unusual weather that struck…

2 years, 4 months ago