Earth can theoretically support life for millions of years, but will earth survive humans? With the current fight of megalomaniacs for resources I am not optimistic https://www.npr.org/podcasts/452538884/radiolab
Earth can theoretically support life for millions of years, but will earth survive humans? With the current fight of megalomaniacs for resources I am not optimistic https://www.npr.org/podcasts/452538884/radiolab
Wonderful podcast to accompany an evening walk in the snowy park under clear starry skies.
#Radiolab on the wonders of birds. And #QuantumEntanglement
Radiolab: Quantum Birds
Episode webpage: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/projects/podcasts
It’s a long time since an episode of #RadioLab made me so wondering about the world (in the positive sense of the word) - QuantumBirds.
I can't be the only one who spends weekend mornings doing #housework and listening to podcasts. This was a wonderful episode on black in nature from #Radiolab
The Darkest Dark
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/projects/podcasts
on the as ever brilliant @AntennaPod
#AntennaPodRecs
Worth a listen – a newly discovered "organ" throughout the human body and other mammals whose structure bears a striking resemblance to #acupuncture meridians
Radiolab’s Latif Nasser got a quasi-moon officially named ‘Zoozve’ following a typo mistake on his child’s solar system poster. An epic story. #Zoozve #2002Ve #Venus #SolarSystem #Space #Radiolab #LatifNasser #Mastodaoine
https://radiolab.org/podcast/breaking-newsve-about-zoozve
This story about four new species of #octopus recently discovered in #CostaRica has spectacular pictures of
Who said cephalopods are not cute!?
It also makes me think of the #Radiolab episode Octomom, which you should listen to if you haven't already. Link below.
"Female-to-female cunnilingus in hedgehogs. Like, just another day at the office."
#Radiolab host Lulu Miller interviews illustrator John Megahan about the #queer lives of the animal world: https://orionmagazine.org/article/homosexuality-nature-animals-mating-biological-exhuberance/
Absolutely fascinating episode about a Ragtime pianist who perceives, memorise and visualises music in a unique way.
The Library of Alexandra
https://radiolab.org/podcast/library-alexandra
The story of #SciHub and its founder Alexandra Elbakyan in her fight against the global network of academic journals that underlie published scientific research.
Another one of those must-listen #radiolab productions. This time discussing geo-engineering with the always-on @hankgreen.bsky.social.
Learned from this #Radiolab episode that Wubi is a huge technological and linguistic achievement, extremely efficient. I wondered why I never learned it and only know pinyin. Turns out if you force people to type in pinyin it makes them rely on Mandarin.
I find pinyin inefficient and as someone who speaks southern Chinese languages before Mandarin, it can be hard to spell correctly all the time. Also it makes me forget how to write characters
NPR is rebroadcasting this episode of #RadioLab this week… and it’s both alarming an especially salient given the heatwaves ongoing around the planet. #fungus #evolution #ClimateChange
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110?i=1000490071967