William Beebe Beyond the Bathysphere: Pheasants, Jungle Plots, Pooh Test
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!William Beebe (1877 to 1962) grew up in New Jersey shooting and stuffing birds, taught himself t...
28 Sep 24min
Ambergris: The $1.5 Million Sperm Whale Waste Behind Luxury Perfume
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 2021 fishermen off Yemen hauled in a crusty 280 pound lump worth $1.5 million: ambergris. It ...
28 Sep 24min
Coracles: Welsh Basket Boats, Vietnamese Tax Dodgers, and a Round Ark
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!A 2014 translation of a 4,000 year old Babylonian cuneiform tablet revealed the oldest known ark...
28 Sep 22min
Roaring Forties: Brouwer's Spice Route and a Wind Belt Shifting South
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Below 40 degrees south there is no law, and below 50 degrees there is no God, went the sailors' ...
28 Sep 20min
Greenwich Prime Meridian: Why True Zero Longitude Sits 102 Meters East
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The equator is set by the planet's shape, but zero longitude has to be chosen. In the second cen...
28 Sep 21min
Milky Seas: Vibrio Harveyi Glow Fields Seen From Space, and Really Blue
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Sailors in the northwestern Indian Ocean have long reported nights when the sea turned into a gl...
28 Sep 20min
Megalodon's Extinction: Lost Nurseries, Fleeing Whales, and Great Whites
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the first century AD Pliny the Elder recorded that Romans thought the huge triangular stones ...
28 Sep 23min
Key Bridge Collapse: The Dali Blackout, a Flushing Pump, and 90 Seconds
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On March 26, 2024 the 980 foot, Singapore flagged container ship Dali left the Port of Baltimore...
28 Sep 21min
