Latest Natural science Podcast Episodes
An Air Conditioner That Won’t Warm the Planet
Colloquy - August 11, 2023 11:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe global average temperature for July 2023 was the highest on record—and maybe the highest for the last 120 years according to the United Nations’ weather agency. In the United States, temperatures in Phoenix, Arizona reached a record 118 degrees Fahrenheit and hit highs of at least 110 degree...
Laboratories of War
Colloquy - July 28, 2023 11:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn the years following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, thousands enlisted in the US military, were deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, and became embroiled in conflicts that were often fought not on the battlefield but in rural villages and in cities. To prepare for that type of warfa...
Drilling Into the Mantle
Science Knights in the Morning - July 23, 2023 01:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsJoin the Science Knight as they embark into the Earth's mesmerizing depths! Dr. Thomas Shiller, Dr. Sean Graham, and Conley Rasor delve into the enigmatic ocean depths and to discuss the Challenger Deep expedition to the earth's mantle. Join the Knights as they try to unravel the mysteries of...
Episode 82 – Reliable Thanks to Silicone Resins
WACKER - The Fascination of Chemistry - July 20, 2023 12:03 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating“Silicone-based impregnation provides an electric motor with extremely high temperature resistance and a long lifetime.” Now, WACKER has launched SILRES® H60, which – by curing extremely rapidly – is suitable for mass automotive production, among other applications.
How 'Hot Vax Summer' Turned Cold
Colloquy - July 14, 2023 11:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingStarting July 4, 2021, and lasting past the holiday, members of the LGBTQ community converged on Provincetown, Massachusetts, for a holiday that was supposed to be a celebration of the end of the long COVID-19 lockdown. When the weather turned rainy, they confidently took the party indoors, pack...
Season 3 Wrap-up
South of 2 Degrees - The Science Behind Climate Change - July 08, 2023 14:00 - 27 minutesA look at where both the South of 2 Degrees podcast and the climate conversation has been over the past 3 years and where both are going. Plus a quick look at climate change related events that you will likely hear about over the next several months. **Season 4 is coming in Spring 2024 (Fall fo...
Time, Age and Climate Change with Bill McKibben
Bring Birds Back - July 05, 2023 07:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsThis season has been all about the mutual impact birds, humans and nature have on each other. To close it out, Bill McKibben joins Tenijah for an honest chat about the future, nearly 35 years after his book debut, “The End of Nature” first sounded the alarm about climate change. He also talks ab...
The Real Indiana Jones: Roy Chapman Andrews
Science Knights in the Morning - June 30, 2023 19:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsJoin host Conley Rasor, Dr. Sean Graham and Dr. Thomas Shiller on "Science Knights in the Morning" as they explore the life and adventures of the real Indiana Jones, Roy Chapman Andrews. Discover the captivating tales of Andrews' expeditions and the profound impact he made in archaeology and p...
Suspicious Minds
Colloquy - June 30, 2023 11:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingGrowing up in Ferguson, Missouri, Harvard Griffin GSAS PhD student Steven Kasparek witnessed violence. He experienced it himself. He was left with some burning questions about which children go on to thrive and which struggle in the wake of exposure to violence. In this episode of Colloquy, Kasp...
Reimagining Prison Pt. 2: Rehabilitating Butterflies and Minds
Bring Birds Back - June 28, 2023 09:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsThis is part two of our series on the Sustainability in Prisons Project. If you haven’t heard part one already, we encourage you to listen to that first. Tenijah learns all about Sustainability in Prisons Project’s most successful program to date: rehabilitating the federally endangered Taylor’...
Reimagining Prison Pt. 1: Acoustic Birding and Sustainability
Bring Birds Back - June 21, 2023 09:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsThe American prison system is complex and there are so many reasons as to why and how it could be improved. For nearly two decades, the Sustainability in Prisons Project (a collaboration between Evergreen State College and Washington state’s Department of Corrections) has been doing just that — ...
When Home Is the Barrel of a Gun
Colloquy - June 16, 2023 11:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn 2014, Boko Haram terrorists kidnapped 276 female students from their dormitory at the Government Girls Secondary School in the Nigerian town of Chibok. The act inspired international outrage and a worldwide campaign to #BringBackOurGirls. Far less attention has been paid, however, to the plig...
Finding Belonging in the Great Outdoors
Bring Birds Back - June 14, 2023 09:45 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsNature author, photographer and self-taught birder Dudley Edmondson shares how embracing the great outdoors as a child changed his life for the better. With over 30 years of experience, Dudley has dedicated much of his career encouraging Black and Brown people, especially, to venture into nature...
Bringing Birds Back: A Journey of Remembrance and Rediscovery Featuring Writer and Birder Tenijah Hamilton
Our Nature: Conversations about the relationship between nature, spirituality, and well-being - June 07, 2023 10:00 - 1 hourSince 2021, Tenijah has hosted and produced Bring Birds Back, a podcast about conservation, formal/ citizen science, and of course—birds, told through the lenses of intersectionality and environmental justice. What’s inspiring to me about Tenijah (among many things) is that she didn’t grow up w...
Let’s All Go to Gullah Geechee Sea Islands with Isaiah Scott
Bring Birds Back - June 07, 2023 09:45 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsThis episode’s guest may be too young to remember the 90’s children’s show, Gullah Gullah Island, but he’s certainly influencing the next generation the same! Isaiah Scott, a rising Gen-Z bird-influencer and ornithologist, reconnects with Tenijah to dish all about his journey into birding while ...
A Cosmic Game of Battleship
Colloquy - June 02, 2023 11:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIt’s important to understand how massive stars live and die because of their role in the formation of some of the fundamental elements of the universe. That kind of science requires the development of computer simulations that model the universe from the Big Bang to today—an unimaginably complex...
No Birds Were Harmed in the Making of this Podcast
Bring Birds Back - May 31, 2023 09:45 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsChildhood nostalgia, anyone? Tenijah reminisces about her favorite bird moment in a film and learns all about how it came to be! Our guest this episode is Tony Suffredini, a bird trainer and master falconer, but the real stars are all Hollywood trained professionals – his birds! Tony shares how ...
Glaciers, Expeditions, & the Amazing Dr. HeÏdi Sevestre Part 2
South of 2 Degrees - The Science Behind Climate Change - May 26, 2023 19:00 - 31 minutesA fun loving yet serious conversation with the inaugural Shackleton Award winner and research scientist, Dr. Heïdi Sevestre - covering glaciers, Climate Change, science communication, and her newly released book.
A.I. for Birds: A Lesson on Wind Farms
Bring Birds Back - May 24, 2023 09:45 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsArtificial intelligence is all the rage these days – for better or for worse. Luckily, in the case of our feathered friends, it’s good news! In this episode, Tenijah speaks with three experts (starting with Garry George and Katie Umekubo) about the great environmental gains of wind energy – and ...
Mimics in Nature and the Science of Deception
Science Knights in the Morning - May 23, 2023 00:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsJoin biologist Dr. Sean Graham and host Conley Rasor on "Science Knights in the Morning" as they delve into the captivating world of mimicry in nature. Sean and Conley explore the science behind this evolutionary phenomenon and discuss intriguing examples such as plants mimicking rocks, snak...
Glaciers, Expeditions, & the Amazing Dr. HeÏdi Sevestre Part 1
South of 2 Degrees - The Science Behind Climate Change - May 20, 2023 00:00 - 26 minutesAn incredible conversation with the inaugural Shackleton Award winner and research scientist, Dr. Heïdi Sevestre - covering glaciology, modern day expeditions, and her emphatic love of ice - all against the backdrop of fighting anthropogenic Climate Change.
Each One, Teach One: Inclusive Communities for the Modern Nature Enthusiast with Michael Washington of Usal Project
Our Nature: Conversations about the relationship between nature, spirituality, and well-being - May 17, 2023 11:00 - 1 hourFor this week's episode, I’m speaking with Michael Washington. Michael is the founder of Usal Project, an LA-based community offering experiences and goods for the modern nature enthusiast. Usal hosts over 20 monthly experiences that (in addition to forest therapy) include: foraging and herb wal...
The Zero Sum of it All with Corina Newsome
Bring Birds Back - May 17, 2023 09:45 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsIn the season 4 premiere, we’re joined by wildlife advocate, ornithologist and (social media star) birder, Corina Newsome! Tenijah speaks with Corina about the latest findings in the State of the Birds report, the impact of environmental racism on urban communities and birds, and the uber import...
Bring Birds Back Season 4
Bring Birds Back - May 08, 2023 19:06 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsSeason 4 of Bring Birds Back is here and it’s all about the relationship between humans and birds-- for better, for worse and the in-between! With conservationists like Bill McKibben and Corina Newsome, you’ll discover the effects of zero sum mentalities on climate change and how Millennials to ...
Vets, Trauma, and the Search for Meaning
Colloquy - May 05, 2023 11:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBen Bellet, is a Harvard Griffin GSAS PhD student in clinical psychology who studies PTSD. A graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point, Bellet served as an officer in the army for five years. During his deployments in Afghanistan and Kuwait, he found himself less and less interested in l...
The Relationship Series Part 2: How to Grow Together in a Conscious Partnership with Alyssa Benjamin and David Sleininger
Our Nature: Conversations about the relationship between nature, spirituality, and well-being - May 03, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour“I think one of the best thing’s we’ve done to ensure the likelihood of our long term success is to really see this relationship as something that’s unfolding in the present moment, and being very open and flexible about what that will look like in a month, a year, in a decade.” - David Sleining...
The Best Poetry Critic in America
Colloquy - April 21, 2023 11:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFor this special Poetry Month bonus episode of Colloquy, a conversation with Harvard Professor Helen Vendler, PhD ’60—once called “the best poetry critic in America” by The New Republic’s Alfred Kazin—about the art of verse and why both the poetic form and its great works have enduring value in ...
The Relationship Series Part 1: Planting the Seeds of a Conscious Partnership Featuring Alyssa Benjamin and David Sleininger
Our Nature: Conversations about the relationship between nature, spirituality, and well-being - April 19, 2023 11:00 - 1 hourThis week, my partner David and I are chatting about….drumroll, relationships! Specifically romantic relationships. This episode is very different from the type of content I usually have on this podcast, but when I started this show in 2019, my intention was to uncover how each of us could live ...
Artemis Missions
Science Knights in the Morning - April 08, 2023 22:33 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn the latest episode of "Science Knights in the Morning," esteemed scientists Dr. Anirban Bhattacharjee and Dr. Sean Graham join host Conley Rasor to discuss the highly anticipated Artemis 2 mission. This mission marks a significant milestone in space exploration, as it will be the first mann...
The Secret Teachings of Jesus
Colloquy - April 07, 2023 11:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.” Is this saying from a Zen Buddhist Text? The Hindu Bhagavad Gita? Actually, these are the words of Jesus . . . according to th...
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