Culture Science Podcasts

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

501 episodes - Latest episode: about 8 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 18.8K ratings
Join Jonathan Van Ness (Queer Eye) each week as they explore everything under (and sometimes beyond!) the sun with scientists, historians, activists, entertainers, and other brilliant guest experts...

Very Bad Wizards

287 episodes - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2.5K ratings
Very Bad Wizards is a podcast featuring a philosopher (Tamler Sommers) and a psychologist (David Pizarro), who share a love for ethics, pop culture, and cognitive science, and who have a marked ina...

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe

599 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
A fun-filled discussion of the big, mind-blowing, unanswered questions about the Universe. In each episode, Daniel Whiteson (a Physicist who works at CERN) and Jorge Cham (a popular online cartooni...

Discovery

758 episodes - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★ - 894 ratings
Explorations in the world of science.

Background Briefing with Ian Masters

1,514 episodes - Latest episode: about 24 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 551 ratings
Background Briefing goes far beyond the headlines and deep under the radar to bring forward truths unheard elsewhere in American media. Background Briefing features international and national news,...

Me & Paranormal You with Ryan Singer

768 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 325 ratings
Stand up comedian Ryan Singer has in-depth interviews with people possessing paranormal abilities or experiences outside the ordinary. People from all walks of life discuss their experience as empa...

Sustainable World Radio- Ecology and Permaculture Podcast

171 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 308 ratings
Learning From and Working With Nature- Interviews, news, and commentary about ecology, permaculture, organic gardening, sustainability, green living, and ethnobotany. Since 2004, Sustainable World...

Farm Small Farm Smart

575 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 245 ratings
Insights for vegetable farmers and market gardeners who earn, or want to earn, a living growing vegetables profitably. In each episode, I talk with a beginning or experienced farmer, diving deep...

SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human

67 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 193 ratings
What makes you … you? And who tells what stories and why? In the fifth season of the SAPIENS podcast, listeners will hear a range of human stories: from the origins of the chili pepper to h...

Flower Power Garden Hour

201 episodes - Latest episode: 26 days ago - ★★★★★ - 165 ratings
Musings with people in the world of gardening, botany, horticulture and nature. Marlene takes her years of gardening experience, success and failures and turns it into an unpretentious, humorous li...

Homesteading and Permaculture by Paul Wheaton

309 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 157 ratings

Mother Earth News and Friends

368 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 114 ratings
Mother Earth News and Friends shares the stories of the leaders in sustainable and rural living. We’re passionate about helping people learn more about natural health, homesteading, sustainability,...

Down to Earth: The Planet to Plate Podcast

165 episodes - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
Down to Earth is a podcast about regenerative agriculture, and it’s for everyone who eats. We invite you to meet the people shaping a healthier food system—farmers, ranchers, scientists, land manag...

Mini Ice Age Conversations Podcast

352 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 76 ratings
David DuByne's Mini Ice Age Conversations Podcast discusses timelines for what you can expect from now through 2024 as society resets so you can keep your families and communities safe. Civilizat...

Planthropology

181 episodes - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★★ - 70 ratings
If you're on this planet, plants have a HUGE impact on your life. Whether you're a vegan, a carnivore, or somewhere in between, plants are the basis of the food you eat, the clothes your wear, and ...

Fish of the Week!

312 episodes - Latest episode: about 13 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 62 ratings
Fish enthusiasts Katrina Liebich and Guy Eroh journey across America on a quest to discover ALL THE FISH: big and small, common and rare, beautiful and downright strange. Diverse guests help dig in...

Real Organic Podcast

208 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 60 ratings
Farmers interview scientists, activists, politicians, and authors engaged in protecting USDA organic food against an active corporate takeover. As the Real Organic Project releases its add-on food ...

Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation podcast

67 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 60 ratings
“Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation” is a new and unique podcast focusing on the hallucinogenic plants and fungi whose impact on world culture and religion – and ...

Circle of Willis

108 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
Circle of Willis is a podcast for and about the scientists, authors, journalists, and even a few mystics, who make and communicate science for all of us. Circle of Willis is brought to you by the V...

Mathematically Uncensored

65 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
Talk that is real and complex, but never discrete.

Climate Change with Scott Amyx

313 episodes - Latest episode: 15 days ago - ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Get the latest insights on climate change and breakthrough technologies and innovations that are fighting climate change! According to a United Nations climate change report, the evidence of human...

Food Bullying Podcast

138 episodes - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Firsthand perspective from farmers about how food is grown. Author Michele Payn & RDN Nicole Rodriguez arm the dietitian community and those who love nutrition with the REAL stories of farming. Lis...

Hothouse

54 episodes - Latest episode: 12 months ago - ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Hothouse is a podcast about design, ecology, and the way we garden now. Host Leah Churner sits down with experts and enthusiasts to talk about permaculture, the urban landscape, and how plants some...

AnthroDish

139 episodes - Latest episode: 20 days ago - ★★★★★ - 26 ratings
AnthroDish is a weekly show about the intersections between our foods, cultures, and identities. Host Dr. Sarah Duignan sits down one-on-one with people in academia, hospitality, farming and agricu...

Agbioscience

629 episodes - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 23 ratings
This weekly podcast dives into the agbioscience sector, where agriculture, life sciences innovation and cutting-edge technology converge. Agbioscience is an in-depth conversation with leaders, inno...

Talking Heads - a Gardening Podcast

285 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
Follow head gardeners Saul Walker and Lucy Chamberlain as they reveal exactly what it’s like to be professional horticulturists leading busy teams on large, private estates. Lucy and Saul have a de...

Don't Look Now

279 episodes - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
What could an Engineer and an Archaeologist have to talk about? Listen to us discuss history, mysteries, science, culture and art. The world is vast and episode by episode we learn about the way t...

War Against Weeds

234 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Sarah, Joe, and Alyssa are three Extension weed scientists on a mission to help their audience understand what it takes for farmers to fight the war against weeds.

3:12 - The HRP Podcast

46 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 16 ratings
A monthly podcast that embodies the work hard, play hard spirit of HRP Associates, Inc., an environmental, engineering and EH&S consulting firm. Each episode will give you insight into the latest i...

Reptile Fight Club

110 episodes - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
Justin and Chuck tackle the most controversial topics in herpetoculture. The co-hosts or guests take one side of the issue and try to hold their own in a no-holds-barred contest of intellect. Who w...