#613 Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains
We all know what a "pest" is. We can all point to creatures that are pests in our neighborhoods, those invasive hard-to-get-rid-of, disruptive animals that civilization seems to be in constant battle ...
10 Marras 20221h
#612 The Poopisode
Number 2. Poop. Crap. Doodoo. It's something that a lot of people just want to flush and forget, but others want to talk about it. Do they poop too much? Not enough? Easily enough? Not only can poop t...
25 Loka 20221h
#611 Spark: The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life
Usually when we talk about electricity we're talking about the technology that runs the modern world, but electricity is a lot more integral to our existance than making our tech work. Without electri...
17 Loka 20221h
#610 Thieving Trees
The word "poaching" conjures images of elephants, tigers and pangolins. But there's a multi-billion dollar industry in poaching...trees. It might seem ok at first, trees grow back right? But it's so m...
26 Syys 20221h
#609 A world of universal vaccines
It seems like no one vaccine is ever enough. COVID mutates and the vaccines fall short. A new flu vaccine every year, and each one different from the last. Wouldn't it be nice if we just could get one...
12 Syys 20221h
#608 Bone Proteins and Body Farms
Television dramas make it seem like easy work for forensic investigators to determine when a person has died. But figuring out the time since death can be tricky for bodies that have weathered away to...
31 Elo 20221h
#607 Shark Matters
Sharks are fascinating, often misunderstood creatures, and many of them are threatened or endangered, and they definitely deserve our conservation effort. But conservation effort takes time, money, an...
22 Elo 20221h
