58: Alex Hofeldt, Beautiful Dust Specks Podcast: Your Rescue Story & Whale Poop

Alex Hofeldt is host of the inspirational science podcast, Beautiful Dust Specks. Alex is a science teacher, tennis coach, yoga and crossfit instructor, and today we discuss his podcast, his own journey, and his two rescue dogs, Cosmo and Hubble. We also touch upon topics he’s discussed, such as whale poop and carbon!

If you want to learn more about Alex Hofeldt and Beautiful Dust Specks, go to our show notes at http://www.thisispawprint.com/58.

Resources

Website http://beautifuldustspecks.com Alex’s Facebook https://www.facebook.com/alex.hofeldt.3?ref=br_rs Beautiful Dust Specks https://www.facebook.com/beautifuldustspecks/ Yobility https://www.facebook.com/yobility/ Alex’s episode 11, when he discusses whale poop http://beautifuldustspecks.com/podcast/e11

Cool article on the “Power of Whale Poop” from Robert Krulwich, co-host of the Radiolab podcast

http://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2014/04/03/298778615/the-power-of-poop-a-whale-story

Calvin and Hobbes is the beloved cartoon series by Bill Watterson

Website http://www.calvinandhobbes.com

The “Screamed the Dust Speck” cartoon that Alex mentioned

http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/10/14

The four podcasts I mentioned at the beginning of the show

Pawcast: Friends of the Animals Baton Rouge http://friendsoftheanimalsbr.org Sleep with Me http://www.sleepwithmepodcast.com The God Zone Show http://godzoneshow.com Alter Ego http://bealterego.com

If you want the two free bonus dog-training resources from Irith Bloom, positive reinforcement dog trainer, go to http://thisispawprint.com/ask. Irith can be found at http://www.thesophisticateddog.com/

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