Latest History Natural Sciences Podcast Episodes
Skeptoid #926: The Chicago O'Hare Airport UFO
Skeptoid - March 05, 2024 10:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsIn 2006, a flying saucer spent minutes literally hovering right above Chicago's O'Hare International Airport... so the story goes.
Climate Interpretation with Diane Sine
Headwaters - March 05, 2024 05:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 367 ratingsA conversation with longtime interpretive ranger Diane Sine about a lifetime of watching change in Glacier. This episode was recorded in May of 2023. Glacier Conservancy: https://glacier.org/headwaters Frank Waln music: https://www.instagram.com/frankwaln/ Stella Nall art: https://www.i...
Custodian of the Ancestors
Origin Stories - February 27, 2024 14:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 412 ratingsWhat is it like to be responsible for the safekeeping of the ancestors of everyone in the world? In this episode, we travel to the National Museum of Ethiopia to see our most famous fossil relative – Lucy – and meet Yared Assefa, the person who takes care of her and all of our Ethiopian fossil a...
Skeptoid #925: The Conspirituality of Enneagrams
Skeptoid - February 27, 2024 10:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsCan everything important about you and those you interact with be boiled down to a single digit?
American Chestnut
Extinction Event - February 23, 2024 13:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThere’s a good chance you’ve never seen an American Chestnut Tree. That’s because they’re functionally extinct. 4 million of these giants were wiped out in a span of just 40 years! We haven’t seen numbers like that since the Passenger Pigeon episode. Or maybe the Rocky Mountain Locust episode. O...
Skeptoid #924: Foo Fighters
Skeptoid - February 20, 2024 10:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsWhat were these early UFOs that chased and harried World War II fighter pilots?
Glacier’s Bats: A Story of Grief and Hope
Headwaters - February 20, 2024 05:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 367 ratingsThe twin stories of bats facing white-nose syndrome in Glacier, and a volunteer who dedicated so much of his life to studying them. With disease and decline on the horizon for bats, what does the future look like? This episode is in memory of Lewis Young. Headwaters is created by Dan...
Skeptoid #923: The Voodoo Ax Murders
Skeptoid - February 13, 2024 10:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsWere two waves of ax murders in the American south in the early 20th century truly associated with Louisiana Voodoo?
Something Other than Bigfoot is in the Swamps of South Carolina!
Plastic Plesiosaur Podcast - February 07, 2024 02:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsMiles reads a very relatable letter written by an upset Babylonian teen. Trey was tracked by a security guard at an art museum! The Monster Quest this episode is - S03E08 - "Monster Close Encounters" Monster Quest looks at physical evidence of encounters with large humanoid creatures in rur...
Skeptoid #922: Testing Alcubierre's Warp Drive
Skeptoid - February 06, 2024 10:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsProponents of alien visitation often claim the Alcubierre drive makes faster than light possible. Here's why it can't exist.
Does Hiking Impact Wildlife? Check the Camera
Headwaters - February 06, 2024 05:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 367 ratingsWhat do animals do when we’re not around? One way to answer that is by using remote cameras. By focusing on two camera studies in Glacier, we learn more about two animals in the park, and those of us who visit it. Headwaters is created by Daniel Lombardi, Michael Faist, Gaby Eseverri, an...
Institutional Partners for Our New Show
Skeptoid - February 02, 2024 10:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsSkeptoid is looking for institutional partners and/or title sponsors for a proposed video series.
A Brief History of Bling
Origin Stories - January 31, 2024 00:54 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 412 ratingsTravel through 50,000 years of human history following clues hidden inside beads made from ostrich eggshells. In this episode, researchers Jennifer Miller and Yiming Wang share how these tiny artifacts reveal a sweeping story of ancient social networks, cultural connections, and human adaptabili...
Skeptoid #921: Reconsidering the Seveso Dioxin Disaster
Skeptoid - January 30, 2024 10:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsWas this infamous 1976 dioxin disaster as bad as reported, or might it have been much worse than we thought?
Christmas Island Bat
Extinction Event - January 26, 2024 12:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThe Christmas Island Pipistrelle was a small bat that would see its life on the cozy tropical island it called home get utterly wrecked and overrun by a nightmarish group of vacationers…that never leave. Check out the Christmas Island archives. They’re cool! https://christmasislandarchives.com...
Skeptoid #920: The Headless Goats of the Chattahoochee
Skeptoid - January 23, 2024 10:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsThe carcasses of headless goats are floating in the Chattahoochee River; too many for a prosaic explanation.
Chasing Waterfalls: The Search for Glacier’s Hidden Wildlife
Headwaters - January 23, 2024 05:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 367 ratingsChasing one of Glacier’s most elusive species, and getting comfortable in the dark. This is the story of Black Swifts in Glacier. Headwaters is created by Daniel Lombardi, Michael Faist, Gaby Eseverri, and Peri Sasnett. Glacier Conservancy: https://glacier.org/headwaters Frank Waln m...
Extraterrstrial Life
Sapphire Planet - January 20, 2024 17:59 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsExtraterrstrial Life
Arctic Ecology
Marine Mammal Science - January 20, 2024 05:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsDr Scarlett Smash celebrates the final episode of the MMS podcast with Dr. Chris Parsons. They chat about Arctic life and ecology. If you would like to keep in touch with Dr Scarlett Smash (LinkedIn) and would like to keep hearing about marine science research tune into the Marine Conservation...
Skeptoid #919: Looking Back on the Chronovisor
Skeptoid - January 16, 2024 10:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsA Benedictine monk is said to have built a device allowing him to see and hear historical events.
Antarctic ecology
Marine Mammal Science - January 13, 2024 05:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsDr Scarlett Smash celebrates the last two episodes of the MMS podcast with Dr. Chris Parsons. They talk about Antarctic life and ecology. If you would like to keep in touch with Dr Scarlett Smash (LinkedIn), tune into the Marine Conservation Happy Hour podcast https://marineconservationhappyho...
Skeptoid #918: Martin Luther King Jr. Myths
Skeptoid - January 09, 2024 10:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsWe break down four popular myths about Martin Luther King Jr. that just won't go away.
Art, Science, and Alpine Potatoes
Headwaters - January 09, 2024 05:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 367 ratingsThe cutest animal in Glacier may be at risk of disappearing, but it's hard to study an animal that lives under rocks, high in the mountains. How can we understand the hidden parts of the world around us? Headwaters is created by Daniel Lombardi, Michael Faist, Gaby Eseverri, and Peri Sas...
Alejandro Fernandez Ajó
Marine Mammal Science - January 06, 2024 05:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsOn this episode Dr Scarlett Smash has chats with Dr. Alejandro Fernandez Ajó about his work on hormone analysis of gray whale feces to assess correlations and response to a variety of internal and external stressors.
Black-footed ferret
Extinction Event - January 05, 2024 11:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsIt’s the black-footed ferret episode. Finally! This week we uncover how North America’s only native ferret species skittered right up to the very brink of extinction, until an unlikely hero walked them right back from that terrible ledge. You can find the “wanted” posters we talk about here: bl...
Skeptoid #917: DDT, 13 Years Later
Skeptoid - January 02, 2024 10:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsA failure mode analysis of my most-hated episode ever: #230 on the use of DDT to fight malaria.
Phthalate Exposure
Marine Mammal Science - December 30, 2023 05:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsOn this week's episode, Dr Scarlett Smash chat with Dr. Leslie Hart about her work investigating potential health impacts from exposure chemicals like phthalate and looking at plastic pollution/plastic-contaminated prey as a potential source of exposure. H.O.P.E. Research lab (Hypothesizin...
Top Human Origins Discoveries of 2023
Origin Stories - December 27, 2023 01:58 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 412 ratings2023 was another exciting year in human origins research! Fossil discoveries and long-term primate studies expanded our understanding of what makes us human. In this episode, four Leakey Foundation scientists shared their favorite human evolution discoveries from the past year. Help us make mo...
Skeptoid #916: Ask Me Anything, 2023 Edition, Part 2
Skeptoid - December 26, 2023 10:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsSkeptoid rapid fires a bunch of mini-episodes in answer to your questions.
PCFG - Feed behavior
Marine Mammal Science - December 23, 2023 05:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsOn this episode Dr Scarlett Smash talks to Clara Bird, a phd candidate about her research on the Pacific coast feeding group (PCFG) gray whales' feeding behaviors.
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