Biology
The Birds, the bees and gardening
Guests: Edwin Rajotte, Douglas Tallamy The White House recently announced a national strategy to help bolster bee ...
Air Date: May 29, 2015
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Service Dogs and Wounded Warriors
Guests: Ashley O’Hara, David Burry, and Kevin Brackney [From the Radio Times archive] In t ...
Air Date: May 25, 2015
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All about taste and flavors with writer John McQuaid
Guest: John McQuaid [From the Radio Times archive] Of all the senses, taste is the most complex. ...
Air Date: May 8, 2015
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Radio Times in Review: Dog Edition
Guests: Alexandra Horowitz, Jon Katz, Susan Orlean On today’s Radio Times in Review, we’ll feature three stor ...
Air Date: May 8, 2015
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How to make compost WITHOUT fall leaves
Mike McGrath shares tips for gardening in the Northwest, using sheep for weed control, how to care for a row of blue sp ...
Air Date: May 2, 2015
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Rings, Centaurs, and Known Science
Four planets of our solar system have rings – Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune. Astronomers can now identify at least two non-pl ...
Air Date: April 13, 2015
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Radio Times in Review: The history of birding, insect sex, primatologist Frans de Waal
Guests: Scott Weidensaul, Marlene Zuk, Frans de Waal It’s finally springtime and people all over the region are ...
Air Date: April 10, 2015
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Ocean conservancy: how to protect marine species
Guests: Malin Pinksy, Boris Worm The ocean is at risk for losing many of its species if we don’t do something q ...
Air Date: April 6, 2015
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Service Dogs and Wounded Warriors
Guests: Ashley O’Hara, David Burry, and Kevin Brackney In this hour of Radio Times, we’re having a discus ...
Air Date: April 2, 2015
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A fond farewell to circus elephants; then what the circus looks like now
Susan Nance and Duncan Wall Since the Ringling Brothers circus “came to town” in 1882, with their first eleph ...
Air Date: March 11, 2015
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All about dog shows and show dogs
Guests: James Serpell and Katherine Grier The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show starts this weekend. Handlers will lead their dogs ...
Air Date: February 11, 2015
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David Grimm’s “Citizen Canine: Our Evolving Relationship with Cats and Dogs”
Guest: David Grimm [From the Radio Times archive] Last year Americans spent a whopping 55 billio ...
Air Date: January 1, 2015
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Guests: Josh Plotnik and George Wittemyer [From the Radio Times archive] African elephants are b ...
Air Date: December 31, 2014
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Can eating insects save the world?
Guests: Bryan Walsh, Paul Rozin, and Daniella Martin [From the Radio Ti ...
Air Date: December 26, 2014
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Why did the chicken cross the world?
Guest: Andrew Lawler, Dan Charles The average American eats close to 100 pounds of chicken a year. There are thre ...
Air Date: December 12, 2014
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