Pulse of the Planet Podcast with Jim Metzner | Science | Nature | Environment | Technology
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Science Frontiers - Higgs Boson Particle
Take "The Force" from Stars Wars and add a little molasses. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Brain Research - MRI Therapy
MRI's not only to give us a view of the insides of our bodies, they can also be used as a form of therapy. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Manatees - Gentle Giants
They have no enemies - except for people in boats. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Manatees - Potato Sirens
What's got the face of a walrus, the tail of a beaver, and a body that resembles an enormous potato? Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Brain Research - Ultrasound and Parkinsons
A new use for ultrasound could change the way we treat brain disorders like Parkinsons Disease. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Treating Brain Tumors - Translatable Process
If you can develop a technology to help a canine patient, it's readily translatable to humans. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Brain Research - Plasticity
The brain's ability to learn and adapt is a key to understanding how to treat addiction, depression, traumatic injuries and other disorders. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Elephant Seismic Detection - Via Toenails
An elephant listens with its feet! Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Elephant Seismic Detection - Underground Vibes
If you feel the ground shake, consider doing as the elephants do: listen DOWN. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Brain Research - Language of the Brain
In order to most effectively treat disorders like Parkinsons Disease, we first have to learn the language of the brain. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Brain Research - New Tools
Recent discoveries have revolutionized our understanding of the brain and how it works. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Soil - Nano Attraction
Can iron nanoparticles be used to clean up toxic waste? Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Animal Smarts - Doggie IQ
"Will Fetch For Food!" How do dogs go about solving their everyday problems? Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mangroves - Shrimp Farms
A shrimp farm only lasts for five years. What happens after that? Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Treating Brain Tumors - Without Surgery
A new procedure may well change the way that cancerous tumors are treated. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Treating Brain Tumors - New Procedure
A new form of cancer treatment involves no drugs and practically no surgery. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Soil - Planet Skin
Some soils have taken hundreds of thousands of years to form. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Privacy - Managing Anonymity
An app can help you navigate the info highway incognito. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ecotoxicology
By studying how contaminants influence wildlife, we may be able to learn how they effect human reproductive processes. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Soil - Organic Filter
Every drop of water we drink has gone through a piece of soil. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Smartphones - Losing Your Way
Can you get there from here if you're not here? Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Smartphones - Side Effects
Welcome to the Cellphone Sabbath. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Privacy - Big Brother is a Corporation
It's convenience versus the loss of privacy, while someone - or something, is watching. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Smartphones - Two Places at Once
The paradox of being physically present but psychologically absent. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Smartphones - At What Price
Does the mere presence of a smartphone effect the quality of face-to-face conversations? Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Drones - Software Package
Forest and watershed mapping and inventories, habitat assessments, post-processing of data; it's all in a day's work for a research drone. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Drones - New Tool For Research
Drones are giving scientists unprecedented ways to gather data. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Poison Ivy - Citizen Science
Here's a way that you can help track and control poison ivy. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Finches - Tough Life, Smart Bird
For birds, a bit of competition with their peers early on turns out to be a good thing. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Finches - Learning to Sing
It all comes down to the tutor. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Finches - Sounds Just Like Dad
If you're wooing a female finch, you'd better sound like her father. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Algorithm of Discovery - Defining What Isn't
Is it possible to better understand what something is, by knowing what it is not? Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Antibiotics - Breaking Them Down
Antibiotics in cow manure? Composting can help degrade them before they end up in fertilizer. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Antibiotics Underground
Farmers destroy the milk from cows treated with antibiotics. But the antibiotics could still impact the environment outside the farm. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Antibiotics and Milk
What happens to the milk from cows who were given antibiotics? Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Algorithm of Discovery - A New Way of Seeing the World
New drugs, new kinds of materials, new insights into the dynamics of ecosystems - all from reinventing the way we categorize things. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Algorithm of Discovery - New Ideas From Computers
HAL can open the pod door, but can he come come with a new concept? Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Privacy - Are We Giving it Away?
Every day, we're unknowingly gifting our personal information to corporations and service organizations. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Hellbender - Bad Name, Good Sign
Though saddled with a dicey moniker, they're indicators of a healthy water ecosystem. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Hellbender - King Salamander
North America's largest salamander can reach a length of two feet and weigh up to five pounds. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Biological Invaders - Salvinia
Moving a species to a foreign environment may ultimately require importing another species to control the first. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Biological Invaders - Ecology
Humans are largely responsible for the demise of the biological immunity of ecosystems. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Biological Invaders - Adaptation
Disparate species are being unnaturally relocated without the benefit of time for adaptation. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Water - Downstream From Mines
When you're downstream from a coal mine, you want to know what's happening upstream. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Water - Security
In America we use four or five hundred liters of water per day per person, an amount far in excess of what's needed to actually survive. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Water - Grey Water
Just because water isn't drinkable, doesn't mean it's not usable. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Water - Using it Up
In many agricultural areas, we're draining water faster than it's being replenished. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Water - Essential Resource
It's the one resource that's irreplaceable. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Quats - Multiple Uses
Approximately 4000 new substances are registered each day and not all of these can be thoroughly tested before they are used in consumer products. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Quats - Effects on Humans
A widely used category of chemical substances is coming under scrutiny for possibly having harmful side-effects. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices