Biology
Republican Candidate for AG John Rafferty; then the Dakota Access Pipeline
Guests: John Rafferty, Jeff Brady In this hour, Marty continues her series of one-on-one interviews with candida ...
Air Date: November 4, 2016
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This rebroadcast show is all about the human body – more specifically, what happens to us after weR ...
Air Date: October 27, 2016
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Gas drillers need to work with our communities, not against them
I was disappointed to hear that the Marcellus Shale Coalition is already ...
9 years ago
Radio Times in Review: monkey business!
Guests: Frans de Waal, Daniel Smith, Francine Prose On today’s show, monkey business! First, we’ll hear from ...
Air Date: October 21, 2016
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Radio Times in Review: an American history edition
Hour 2 Guests: Dan Flores, Richard Beeman, Heather Ann Thompson On this week’s edition ...
Air Date: September 16, 2016
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Come with us as we step inside a time capsule of life on earth — the natural history museum. On this specia ...
Air Date: September 15, 2016
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The Brain Scoop and the sloppy business of learning
The story of how one YouTube educator is reshaping natural history. This piece is a part of our s ...
9 years ago
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Finders keepers doesn’t apply to fossils and bones
Paleontologists preparing for excursions have to think about appropriate gear, and clothing, but they also have to make sure all of their ...
9 years ago
Fighting for preservation in a wooded natural history museum
Eli Dickerson and I start at the edge of the unusual museum collection he manages. This piece is ...
9 years ago
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Could old skulls help us understand why we have crooked teeth?
Something changed over the course of human evolution that left a lot of us with weak chins and buck-teeth. ...
9 years ago
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A natural history museum questions what ‘natural’ means
In a business district east of Pittsburgh’s downtown, between a pizza shop and a Vietnamese restaurant, is an easy-to-miss storefront m ...
9 years ago
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It’s ‘game on’ for the man in charge of 145 million specimens
It seems that Kirk Johnson was training from a very early age to one day head the country’s largest and most comprehensive natural ...
9 years ago
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“I Contain Multitudes” – on microbes and our microbiome; Hiring undocumented immigrants
Guests: Ed Yong, Javier Garcia Hernandez For centuries humankind has been waging a war against microbes – the bacteria, viruses, ...
Air Date: August 25, 2016
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100th anniversary of America’s National Park Service
Guests: David Quammen, Beth Pratt-Bergstrom, Jeremy Cronon We’ll discuss the 100th anniversary of Am ...
Air Date: August 24, 2016
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