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1400: Underwater archeology reveals clues about Ice Age humans
Episode 1400
During the last ice age, America’s coastlines and waterways looked much different than they do today. When glaciers melted, coasts and shorelines wer…
2 weeks ago
1399: Climate change is increasing hurricane risk for Hawaiʻi
Episode 1399
The Hawaiian Islands tend to be insulated from the worst effects of hurricanes, but this summer has been different. In mid-August, Hurricane Lala pum…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
1398: Bringing hard electronics into soft and squishy bodies
Episode 1398
A lot of things in life are squishy, including your skin, your organs, and all the goo inside you. But technology tends to be rigid and hard. Figurin…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
1397: What is lymphatic drainage, anyway?
Episode 1397
There’s a new wellness trend focused on an obscure capillary system that moves fluid around the body. Things like lymphatic walking, vibration plates…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
1396: Hot flashes and hormone therapy: the science of perimenopause
Episode 1396
Perimenopause affects more than 4 billion people, but has historically been neglected by medicine. It’s the time before menopause when hormones start…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
1395: Telling the tale of human origins, one fossil tooth at a time
Episode 1395
Where did we come from? How did humanity, with our complicated civilizations and all our human quirks and foibles, come to be? Much of what we know a…
3 weeks ago
1394: Did the fire at the Library of Alexandria set humanity back?
Episode 1394
In 48 B.C.E., a massive fire ripped through the Library of Alexandria in Egypt, one of the largest and most significant ancient libraries. An estimat…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
1392: Black bears are moving into the neighborhood. How do we coexist?
Episode 1392
Living with black bears is complicated. They’re huge, hungry, and they really don’t care about your hostas. After a long period of being overhunted, …
3 weeks, 2 days ago
1392: Is a shorter course of antibiotics OK? + Genetic risk of fibromyalgia
Episode 1392
You’ve probably been warned that if you don’t finish that course of antibiotics, you could wind up battling antibiotic-resistant bacteria. But a grow…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
1391: Where are we with understanding the health effects of cannabis?
Episode 1391
When states began legalizing recreational cannabis a couple decades ago, 25 million Americans said they used the drug. That number nearly tripled to …
3 weeks, 5 days ago