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August 15, 2018
E8 – Bonus Clip: Scientists of the Corn
Check out this clip that didn’t make it into our recent episode, The Dark Sound of the Moon, with Trae Winter about balloons, astronauts. and aliens! Transcript Shane Hanlon: Nanci? Nanci Bompey: Hello? Shane Hanlon: I’m back. Nanci Bompey: Yay! We missed you. Shane Hanlon: Did you? Nanci Bompey: Not. No, I’m kidding. Not. Shane Hanlon: It’s always nice to get away for a …
March 1, 2018
E3 – Chasing Narwhals, Unicorns of the Sea
University of Washington biologist Kristin Laidre travels to the Arctic to study animals many of us have only seen in pictures.
February 13, 2018
E1 – Parking Lot Lava
In a parking lot behind the Comstock Art Facility at Syracuse University, geologist Jeff Karson and sculptor Bob Wysocki cook up something almost unimaginable – homemade lava. Using a gas furnace the size of a small truck, the two professors melt gravel typically used for roadbeds into hot molten rock that they pour onto sand to recreate natural lava flows seen in places like Hawaii, Iceland and Italy. In this …
Third Pod from the Sun is the American Geophysical Union’s podcast about the scientists and methods behind the science. These are stories that you won’t read in a manuscript or hear in a lecture.
