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Before they even hatch, Yellow Legged Gull chicks seem to be communication to their nest mates. Amy dives into the how and why.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Nov 24, 2019
- Length: 04:58
- Purchases: 1
Turn up the Skrillex to ward off some pesky bloodsucking insects. And possibly your neighbors.
- Added: Nov 24, 2019
- Length: 10:50
I’m telling you, late summer and fall are great times to get out into the hills, especially if you want to find interesting plants. While you’re ou...
- Added: Sep 24, 2019
- Length: 05:02
Like a scaly cheetah, galloping crocs were a terror both on land and in the water. Good thing they lived 100 million years ago.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSFR
- Added: Aug 06, 2019
- Length: 04:15
- Purchases: 2
I wrote this song about Lycium fremontii when I was managing the native plant nursery of Desert Survivors on West Starr Pass in Tucson. The nursery...
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 05:12
Big word for a genetic mutation where an animal is split with one side being entirely female and the other male. This can happen in some species of...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jul 04, 2019
- Length: 05:14
- Purchases: 1
Medical science on the fly. Turns out you only need to pull a few G's to loosen that stubborn kidney stone.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jun 26, 2019
- Length: 03:24
- Purchases: 1
I do love wandering around little towns and Willcox is a fun one to poke around in. And it is true that the town of Willcox is an excellent base c...
- Added: Jun 19, 2019
- Length: 05:06
In 1804 Dr. Troxler discovered he could make pastel dots on paper disappear if he stared at them for long enough. Blink, and they would reappear. T...
- Added: Jun 05, 2019
- Length: 03:24
Need to string some wire through your house or clean a particle accelerator? You might need a science ferret.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: May 28, 2019
- Length: 03:09
- Purchases: 1
It's our one year podcast-aversary! We thank you for listening with an episode on accidental swallowings and some...not so accidental. Trace also ...
- Added: May 21, 2019
- Length: 05:50
Why do we want to crush-hug cute things like babies and young animals? It may have something to do with adorableness overload and how our brains co...
- Added: May 09, 2019
- Length: 03:50
Meet C. explodens; worker ants who rupture their own abdomens--filled with toxic goo--to protect the colony from predators.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Apr 09, 2019
- Length: 03:59
- Purchases: 1
I like my definitions to be CRISPR and clearer. This is Episode 76 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or fu...
- Added: Apr 02, 2019
- Length: 04:26
The internet claims lobsters are immortal. Amy pulls a Dana Scully and debunks the heck out of that idea.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Mar 26, 2019
- Length: 04:35
- Purchases: 1
Jumping out of an airplane without a parachute?! We explore a study that explains how sometimes, if you look at the data in just the right way, bac...
- Added: Mar 19, 2019
- Length: 02:40
Messing with this gas of a word isn't ideal. This is Episode 75 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny...
- Added: Mar 15, 2019
- Length: 04:55
This chemical is no joke. Amy talks about how 1930's scientists discovered the explosive and insanely dangerous compound while trying to find a mor...
- Added: Feb 19, 2019
- Length: 04:25
- Added: Feb 05, 2019
- Length: 02:54
- Purchases: 1
It's there and it's square. And now we know why.
- Added: Jan 14, 2019
- Length: 02:47
Amy Barton has an eye for dangerous and innovative doctors and Dr. Robert Liston is no exception. FYI This episode has some up-close discussions of...
- Added: Jan 10, 2019
- Length: 03:09
Cougars are beautiful and stealthy solitary hunters. Until they want to mate. Then they sound like a person being run through a garbage compactor. ...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 10, 2019
- Length: 02:06
- Purchases: 2
Where we talk about Dr. Nathalie Stroeymeyt and her foraging, black garden ants. Infected ants seem to stay away from other ants. Find out why.
- Added: Jan 09, 2019
- Length: 02:49
Science writer Mary Roach talks with author and actor Benjamin Busch.
Bought by WKAR, WCMU Michigan, WKAR, and WDET Detroit Public Radio
- Added: Sep 21, 2018
- Length: 54:31
- Purchases: 4
If you’ve been following the news on the Cape and islands, you know that this Ground Zero for ticks and the diseases that come with them. In fact, ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 12, 2018
- Length: 07:22
- Purchases: 1
