Beschikbare afleveringen

• Astrobromatology (SPACE FOOD) with Maggie Coblentz

  Dehydrated eggs. Airborne tortillas. Pouches of chicken. Tang. Work up an appetite for space food with artist, designer and Astrobromatologist, Maggie Coblentz. She shares how the intersection of design and science led her skyward,...

  10 dec 2025 4265 sec.

• Pteridology (FERNS) with Fay-Wei Li

  Fronds. Forest dwellers. Spores. Houseplants. Queer icons. We’ve got ferns. The charming and hilarious professor and author of “Ferns: Lessons in Survival from Earth’s Most Adaptable Plants,” Dr. Fay-Wei Li, tells me all about fern...

  3 dec 2025 3813 sec.

• NEW 2025 Interview: Genocidology (CRIMES OF ATROCITY) Part 2 with Dirk Moses

  Note: if you haven’t already heard it, please start with our original, May 2024 episode with Dr. Moses:  Genocidology (CRIMES OF ATROCITY) Part 1 A lot has happened since then, and author, scholar and genocide expert Dr. Dirk Moses...

  27 nov 2025 4300 sec.

• Bisonology (BUFFALO) Encore with various bisonologists

  Bison bison! Not just something to holler into the sky, but also the scientific name for North America's majestic wild bovines. In this encore, we explore a beast that once roamed the plains in the tens of millions. What's up with their...

  19 nov 2025 5407 sec.

• Strigiformology (OWLS) Part 2 with R. J. Gutiérrez

  We’re back with Dr. R.J. “Rocky” Gutiérrez to answer listeners’ questions on owls. How much wisdom lies behind those big, immovable eyes? Are owls good or bad omens? What’s their proclivity for snatching hats? Is The Staircase owl...

  13 nov 2025 4272 sec.

• Strigiformology (OWLS) Part 1 with R.J. Gutiérrez

  OWLS. FINALLY. In no particular order: what’s up with their eyes, legs, hoots, feathers, silent flight, nests, folklore, necks, barfs, conservation status, and omens? Go take a walk or sit on a porch in the dusk and make friends with...

  5 nov 2025 3322 sec.

• Historical Toxicology (OLD TIMEY POISONS) with Deborah Blum

  Metal poisons. Odorless ones. Toxic plants. Iocane powder, arsenic, old lace, poisons as self-defense, black mirrors, Aqua Tofanas, movie myths, and the start of testing for that which ails or kills you: we’ve got Historical Toxicology...

  29 okt 2025 4453 sec.

• Critical Ponerology (WHAT IS “EVIL”?) with Kenneth MacKendrick

  What is evil? Who is evil? Does evil exist? Who decides? Can we scream over turkey at grandma’s house? Let’s chat Critical Ponerology with scholar, professor, author of Evil: A Critical Primer, and a gem of a person, Dr. Kenneth...

  22 okt 2025 3816 sec.

• Bonus Episode: COCKROACH MILK with Joshua Benoit and Sinead English

  Cockroach milk for Spooktober. STAY HERE. Don’t tell me you like haunted houses and slasher films but can’t listen to a lovely conversation about how cockroaches make milk to feed their young. It’s one of the most nutritious substances...

  20 okt 2025 1671 sec.

• Blattodeology (YES, COCKROACHES) with Dominic Evangelista

  Dazzling colors. Remote habitats. Gentle parenting. Fantastic genitalia. And yeah, swimming through sewers to surprise you. It’s cockroaches and I promise you will find something to love about them in this chat with cockroach evangelist...

  15 okt 2025 4090 sec.

• Haunted Hydrology (SPOOKY LAKES) with Geo Rutherford

  Mudbank bones. River wrecks. Salty seas. Pink ponds. Poison dust devils. Steamy streams.. It’s Haunted Hydrology with your favorite Spooky Lakes ambassador, the artist and author Geo Rutherford who is widely known as Geodesaurus. Geo...

  8 okt 2025 4388 sec.

• Serpopsychology (WHAT’S CREEPY?) with Frank McAndrew

  Are you creepy? How would you know? What’s “creepy” as opposed to scary or eerie? We talk to the pioneer of this research, Serpopsychologist, Dr. Frank McAndrew, a professor emeritus at Knox College. We chat: dates that give you the...

  1 okt 2025 4170 sec.