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The next blue moon isnât until May 2026, but luckily for you, you wonât have to wait that long to hear the Outside/In team answering listenersâ questions. This time, weâre exploring why blue moons are cool (or even what the heck a blue moon even is) and other seasonably appropriate curiosities.
Whatâs all the fuss about a blue moon?Should we leave the leaves?Which is a more sustainable choice: real or fake Christmas trees?What happens to Christmas tree stumps?What does all that road salt do to the environment?Featuring Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, Tim Gaudreau, Victoria Meert, and Sujay Kaushal.
Thanks to Outside/In listeners Zoe, Janet, Gio, Alexi, Prudence, Wendy, Mo, and Devon for their questions and contributions.
SUPPORT
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LINKS
Check out this study on the long-term impacts of leaf litter removal in suburban yards.
Looking for a creative and cute way to keep leaves in your lawn or garden? Consider building a âbug snug.â
Read about the mad dash for salt that rescued the 2014 Sochi Olympicsâ ski events (NYT).
Learn more about the turn to beet juice and beer-based de-icers to reduce the harm of excess salt to the environment (AP News)
CREDITS
Host: Nate Hegyi
Reported, produced, and mixed by Felix Poon, Justine Paradis, and Marina Henke.
Edited by Taylor Quimby, Rebecca Lavoie, and Justine Paradis.
Our staff includes Kate Dario.
Executive producer: Taylor Quimby
Rebecca Lavoie is NHPRâs Director of On-Demand Audio
Music by Blue Dot Sessions, Jules Gaia, and Jharee.
Our theme music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.
Outside/In is a production of New Hampshire Public Radio
Submit a question to the âOutside/Inbox.â We answer queries about the natural world, climate change, sustainability, and human evolution. You can send a voice memo to [email protected] or leave a message on our hotline, 1-844-GO-OTTER (844-466-8837).
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Appalachia is Bigfoot territory. In a big way. This week, we look at the mythical beast's legend, lore and sizable economic impact in the region. And we follow one reporterâs journey through the mountains and foothills of western North Carolina in search of Sasquatch.
This episode comes to us from the wonderful folks at The Broadside from North Carolina Public Radio, a weekly podcast exploring stories happening in their home at the crossroads of the American South. Other topics include how the world âyâallâ is taking over the world, the impact of dangerous heat on workers, and why cola became the king of beverages.
Featuring Emily Cataneo and Jerry Millwood.
SUPPORT
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LINKS
Check out Emily Cataneoâs story on Appalachian Bigfoot culture at The Assembly here.
CREDITS
Outside/In host: Nate Hegyi
Outside/In team: Justine Paradis, Felix Poon, Marina Henke, and Kate Dario.
Executive Producer: Taylor Quimby
Intro music by bomull.
NHPRâs Director of Podcasts is Rebecca Lavoie
Outside/In is a production of New Hampshire Public Radio.
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Coyotes are a sort of goldilocks animal. They can be active during the day, and at night. They can hunt in groups, or survive solo. Theyâre wolfish enough to survive in the wild, dog-like enough to blossom in the big city.
That adaptability has arguably made coyotes one of the most successful mammalian predators on the planet. Itâs also given them a reputation as opportunistic villains that prey on neighborhood garbage, livestock, and (occasionally) household pets.
So what makes these animals so special? And if coyotes are so good at living amongst us, how do we get better at living amongst them?
Featuring: Daniel Proux, Dan Flores, Christine Wilkinson, Stan Gehrt, and Kieon Halona
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LINKS
If you enjoyed learning about coyote vocalizations, check out Janet Kesslerâs blog about San Francisco coyotes, or her YouTube page, where you can find dozens of videos showing the diversity of coyote yips, yowls, barks, grows, and more .
Read about coyotes in the Massachusetts town of Nahant, where municipal officials asked the federal government to help kill them in 2022. (New York Times)
CREDITS
Host: Nate Hegyi
Reported and produced by Kate Dario
Mixed by Kate Dario and Taylor Quimby
Editing by Taylor Quimby
Our staff includes Justine Paradis, Felix Poon, and Marina Henke
Executive producer: Taylor Quimby
Rebecca Lavoie is NHPRâs Director of On-Demand Audio
Music by Blue Dot Sessions
Outside/In is a production of New Hampshire Public Radio
Submit a question to the âOutside/Inbox.â We answer queries about the natural world, climate change, sustainability, and human evolution. You can send a voice memo to [email protected] or leave a message on our hotline, 1-844-GO-OTTER (844-466-8837).
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Just a few weeks after we released the What Remains series, news broke that the Penn Museum discovered additional remains of 1985 MOVE bombing victims in the museum.
How did this happen? And what's next for the thousands of other human remains still in their possession?
Producer Felix Poon knew just the person to talk to for answers.
Featuring Rachel Watkins.
MORE ABOUT âWHAT REMAINSâ
Across the country, the remains of tens of thousands of human beings are held by museums and institutions. Scientists say theyâve helped lay the foundations of forensic science and unlocked the secrets of humanityâs shared past.
But these bones were also collected before informed consent was the gold standard for ethical study. 19th and 20th-century physicians and anthropologists took unclaimed bodies from poorhouses and hospitals, robbed graves, and looted Indigenous bones from sacred sites.
Now, under pressure from activists and an evolving scientific community, these institutions are rethinking what to do with their unethically collected human remains.
In this series from Outside/In, producer Felix Poon takes us to Philadelphia, where the prestigious Penn Museum has promised to ârespectfully repatriateâ hundreds of skulls collected by 19th century physician Samuel George Morton, who used them to pursue pseudo-scientific theories of white supremacy. Those efforts have been met with support by some, and anger and distrust by others.
Along the way, Felix explores the long legacy of scientific racism, lingering questions over the 1985 MOVE bombing, and evolving ethics in the field of biological anthropology.
Can the institutions that have long benefited from these remains be trusted to give them up? And if so, who decides what happens next?
LINKS
Read the Penn Museumâs statement about the latest discovery of additional MOVE remains at the museum.
Listen to WHYYâs news report, Penn Museum discovers another set of human remains from the MOVE bombing.
You can find our full episode credits, listen to our back catalog, and support Outside/In at our website: outsideinradio.org.
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Hear ye, hear ye! Winter is fast approaching, and it is time for our fifth annual âsurthrivalâ special, in which the Outside/In team reframes the endurance sport that is winter. Weâve got suggestions for thriving during the cold-season, which we hope will help you positively look forward to dirty snow banks and single-digit temperatures.
This year, though, thereâs a twist. A listener asked us for advice on what to do before the snow starts to fall, when itâs gray and bleak. This is that dingy in-between period, known in New England as âstick season.â
Host Nate Hegyi is joined by Kate Dario, Taylor Quimby, and special guest Zoey Knox, offering suggestions for indoors and out, on-screen and off, and both serious and silly.
Featuring Eric Diven and special guest Zoey Knox. You can find our Outside/In 'Stick Season' Spotify playlist here. For a full list of this yearâs recommendations visit our website.
CREDITS
Host: Nate Hegyi
Produced and mixed by Taylor Quimby.
Additional panelists: Kate Dario and Zoey Knox.
Edited by Rebecca Lavoie
Our staff includes Justine Paradis, Felix Poon, and Marina Henke.
Executive producer: Taylor Quimby
Rebecca Lavoie is NHPRâs Director of On-Demand Audio
Music by Blue Dot Sessions.
Outside/In is a production of New Hampshire Public Radio
Submit a question to the âOutside/Inbox.â We answer queries about the natural world, climate change, sustainability, and human evolution. You can send a voice memo to [email protected] or leave a message on our hotline, 1-844-GO-OTTER (844-466-8837). -
Humans are noisy. The National Park Service estimates that all of our whirring, grinding, and revving machines are doubling or even tripling global noise pollution every 30 years.
A lot of that noise is negatively affecting wildlife and human health. Maybe thatâs why weâre so consumed with managing our sonic environments, with noise-cancelling headphones and white noise machines â and sometimes, we get into spats with our neighbors, as one of our guests didâŠ
So for this episode, producer Jeongyoon Han takes us on an exploration of three sonic landscapes: noise, silence, and something in between.
Featuring Rachel Buxton, Jim Connell, Stan Ellis, Mercede Erfanian, Nora Ma, and Rob Steadman.
This episode originally aired in July, 2023.
CREDITS
Host: Nate Hegyi
Reported and produced by Jeongyoon Han
Mixed by Jeongyoon Han and Taylor Quimby
Edited by Taylor Quimby, with help from Nate Hegyi, Jessica Hunt, and Felix Poon
Executive producer: Rebecca Lavoie
Special thanks to
Music by Blue Dot Sessions, Edvard Grieg, and Mike Franklyn.
Our theme music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.
Outside/In is a production of New Hampshire Public Radio.
If youâve got a question for the Outside/Inbox hotline, give us a call! Weâre always looking for rabbit holes to dive down into. Leave us a voicemail at: 1-844-GO-OTTER (844-466-8837). Donât forget to leave a number so we can call you back.
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In Appalachia, Hurricane Helene was a thousand-year-flood. It flattened towns and forests, washed roads away, and killed hundreds.
But this story is not about the flood. Itâs about what happened after.
A month after Hurricane Helene, our producer Justine Paradis visited Marshall, a tiny town in the Black Mountains of western North Carolina, a region renowned for its biodiversity, music, and art.
She went to see what it really looks like on the ground in the wake of a disaster, and how people create systems to help each other. But what she found there wasnât just a model of mutual aid: it was a glimpse of another way to live with one another.
Featuring Josh Copus, Becca Nicholson, Rachel Bennett, Steve Matlack, Keith Majeroni, and Ian Montgomery.
Appearances by Meredith Silver, Anna Thompson, Kenneth Satterfield, Reid Creswell, Jim Purkerson, Jazz Maltz, Melanie Risch, and Alexandra Barao.
Songs performed by Sheila Kay Adams, Analo Phillips, Leah Song and Chloe Smith of Rising Appalachia, and William Ritter.
LINKS
An excerpt of âA Paradise Built in Hellâ by Rebecca Solnit (quoted in this episode) is available on Lithub.
âYou know our systems are broke when 5 gay DJs can bring 10k of supplies back before the national guard does.â (Them)
The folks behind the Instagram account @photosfromhelene find, clean, and share lost hurricane photos, aiming to reunite the hurricane survivors with their photo memories.
A great essay on mutual aid by Jia Tolentino (The New Yorker)
CREDITS
Outside/In host: Nate Hegyi
Reported, written, produced, and mixed by Justine Paradis
Edited by Taylor Quimby
Our team also includes Felix Poon, Marina Henke, and Kate Dario.
NHPRâs Director of Podcasts is Rebecca Lavoie
Special thanks to Poder Emma and Collaborativa La Milpa in Asheville. Thanks also to Rural Organizing and Resilience (ROAR).
Music by Doctor Turtle, Guustavv, Blue Dot Sessions, Cody High, and Silver Maple.
Outside/In is a production of New Hampshire Public Radio.
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A few months ago, producer Marina Henke saw two skunks sprint under her porch. Since then, she canât stop wondering whatâs really going on beneath her feet.
And as it turns out, sheâs not the only one. Every day across the country, homeowners are waging wars with the animals who stake out our porches, decks and crawl spaces. Have we as humans inadvertently designed luxury apartments for âunwelcomeâ wildlife? And is that necessarily a bad thing?
In a new edition of our (long-retired!) 10x10 series weâre going under the porch. So, grab your headlamps, put on a different pair of pants and watch out for skunks.
Featuring Christopher Schell, Kieran Lindsey, Josh Sparks and Maynard Stanley.
LINKS
Want more 10x10s? Weâve got âem! Listen here for traffic circles, gutters, sand beaches, kettle bogs and vernal pools.
You can read more about the âbiological deserts fallacyâ here.
The Schell Lab at UC Berkeley is up to all kinds of urban ecology research.
CREDITS
Host: Nate Hegyi
Reported, produced and mixed by Marina Henke
Editing by Taylor Quimby
Our staff includes Justine Paradis, Felix Poon and Kate Dario
Executive producer: Taylor Quimby
Rebecca Lavoie is NHPRâs Director of On-Demand Audio
Music by Blue Dot Sessions, El Flaco Collective and Spring Gang
Our theme music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.
Outside/In is a production of New Hampshire Public Radio
We want to hear from you! Hate whatâs under your porch? Love whatâs under your porch? You can send a voice memo to [email protected] or leave a message on our hotline, 1-844-GO-OTTER (844-466-8837).
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For over ten years, biologist Mark Higley has been stalking the forests of the Hoopa Valley Reservation with a shotgun. His mission? To save the northern spotted owl. The threat? The more aggressive barred owl, which has spread from eastern forests into the Pacific Northwest.
The federal government plans to scale up these efforts and kill hundreds of thousands of barred owls across multiple states. But can the plan really save the northern spotted owl? And is the barred owl really âinvasiveâ⊠or just expanding its range?
In this episode, Nate Hegyi dons a headlamp and heads into the forest with Mark Higley to catch a glimpse of these two rivals, and find out what it takes to kill these charismatic raptors, night after night, in the name of conservation.
Featuring Mark Higley, Tom Wheeler, and Wayne Pacelle.
SUPPORT
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LINKS
The federal governmentâs barred owl management plan is very long but they have a helpful list of frequently asked questions.
Check out some beautiful photos of Mark Higleyâs work in this Audubon magazine story from a few years ago.
Curious about the timber wars? Oregon Public Broadcasting has an excellent podcast miniseries you should listen to.
CREDITS
Host: Nate Hegyi
Reported and produced by Nate Hegyi
Mixed by Nate Hegyi
Editing by Taylor Quimby
Our staff includes Justine Paradis, Felix Poon, Marina Henke, and Kate Dario
Executive producer: Taylor Quimby
Rebecca Lavoie is NHPRâs Director of On-Demand Audio
Music by Blue Dot Sessions
Outside/In is a production of New Hampshire Public Radio
Submit a question to the âOutside/Inbox.â We answer queries about the natural world, climate change, sustainability, and human evolution. You can send a voice memo to [email protected] or leave a message on our hotline, 1-844-GO-OTTER (844-466-8837).
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For the past few weeks, weâve been exploring the issue of human remains collections for our miniseries, âWhat Remains.â Today, we want to share another excellent series that has covered some similar, but also, very different ground.
Introducing âPostmortem: The Stolen Bodies of Harvard,â the latest season of Last Seen from WBUR.
In this first episode, the police find buckets of body parts in a basement in Pennsylvania. Throughout the series, WBUR reporter Ally Jarmanning tells us what happened at Harvard, and how an elite university became a stop on a nationwide network of human remains trading.
Itâs an excellent series, and a perfect follow-up to What Remains. If you want to hear the rest of the episodes afterwards, listen and follow Last Seen wherever you get your podcasts.
This episode of Last Seen: Postmortem was hosted and reported by Ally Jarmanning. It was edited by Dave Shaw and Beth Healy, with additional editing from Katelyn Harrop and Frannie Monahan Mixing and sound design. Paul Vaitkus. Last Seenâs Managing Producer is Samati Joshi. Executive Producer is Ben Brock Johnson.
Also, we have something new from NHPRâs award-winning Document team. Listen to âEmiliaâs Thing,â a story of survival and resilience in the wake of January 6th. To listen, click here.
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A scholar and an activist make an uncompromising ultimatum. A forgotten burial ground is discovered under the streets of New York City. In Philadelphia, two groups fight over the definition of âdescendant community.â
Featuring Michael Blakey, Lyra Monteiro, Chris Woods, aAliy Muhammad, Wendell Mapson, Sacharja Cunningham, Jazmin Benton, Amrah Salomon, and Aja Lans.
MORE ABOUT âWHAT REMAINSâ
Across the country, the remains of tens of thousands of human beings are held by museums and institutions. Scientists say theyâve helped lay the foundations of forensic science and unlocked the secrets of humanityâs shared past.
But these bones were also collected before informed consent was the gold standard for ethical study. 19th and 20th-century physicians and anthropologists took unclaimed bodies from poorhouses and hospitals, robbed graves, and looted Indigenous bones from sacred sites.
Now, under pressure from activists and an evolving scientific community, these institutions are rethinking what to do with their unethically collected human remains.
Outside/In producer Felix Poon has informally gained a reputation as the podcastâs âdeath beatâ correspondent. Heâs visited a human decomposition facility (aka, âbody farmâ), reported on the growing trend of âgreen burial,â and explored the use of psychedelic mushrooms to help terminal cancer patients confront death.
In this three-episode series from Outside/In, Felix takes us to Philadelphia, where the prestigious Penn Museum has promised to ârespectfully repatriateâ hundreds of skulls collected by 19th century physician Samuel George Morton, who used them to pursue pseudo-scientific theories of white supremacy. Those efforts have been met with support by some, and anger and distrust by others.
Along the way, Felix explores the long legacy of scientific racism, lingering questions over the 1985 MOVE bombing, and evolving ethics in the field of biological anthropology.
Can the institutions that have long benefited from these remains be trusted to give them up? And if so, who decides what happens next?
LINKS
Archival tape of protests for the African Burial Ground came from the documentary The African Burial Ground: An American Discovery (1994).Learn more about the African Burial Ground National Monument.A recently published report, co-authored by bioarchaeologist Michael Blakey for the American Anthropological Association, recommends that research involving the handling of ancestral remains must include collaboration with descendant communities.Learn more about Finding Ceremony, the repatriation organization started by aAliy Muhammad and Lyra Monteiro.Read the Penn Museumâs statement about the Morton Cranial Collection and the 19 Black Philadelphians they interred at Eden Cemetery in early 2024.You can find our full episode credits, listen to our back catalog, and support Outside/In at our website: outsideinradio.org.
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A classroom display of human skulls sparks a reckoning at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia. A movement grows to âabolish the collection.â The Penn Museum relents to pressure. More skeletons in the closet.
This episode contains swears.
MORE ABOUT "WHAT REMAINS"
Across the country, the remains of tens of thousands of human beings are held by museums and institutions. Scientists say theyâve helped lay the foundations of forensic science and unlocked the secrets of humanityâs shared past.
But these bones were also collected before informed consent was the gold standard for ethical study. Now, under pressure from activists and an evolving scientific community, these institutions are rethinking what to do with their unethically collected human remains.
In this three-episode series from Outside/In, producer Felix Poon takes us to Philadelphia, where the prestigious Penn Museum has promised to ârespectfully repatriateâ hundreds of skulls collected by 19th century physician Samuel George Morton, who used them to pursue pseudo-scientific theories of white supremacy. Those efforts have been met with support by some, and anger and distrust by others.
Along the way, Felix explores the long legacy of scientific racism, lingering questions over the 1985 MOVE bombing, and evolving ethics in the field of biological anthropology.
Can the institutions that have long benefited from these remains be trusted to give them up? And if so, who decides what happens next?
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL
The Morton Cranial Collection
The Penn & Slavery Project Symposium in 2019 included a presentation on the Morton Cranial Collection.aAliy Muhammadâs 2019 opinion piece: âAs reparations debate continues, the University of Pennsylvania has a role to playâ (The Philadelphia Inquirer)Mar Portillo Alvaradoâs 2020 opinion piece: âThe Penn Museum must end abuse of the Morton collectionâ (The Daily Pennsylvanian)Paul Wolff Mitchellâs 2021 report: âBlack Philadelphians in the Samuel George Morton Cranial CollectionâThe Penn Museumâs 2021 press release: âMuseum Announces the Repatriation of the Morton Cranial CollectionâThe MOVE bombing and MOVE remains controversy
Archival tape of the MOVE bombing came from the documentary Let the Fire Burn, and Democracy Now!She Was Killed by the Police. Why Were Her Bones in a Museum? (NY Times)In 2021-2022 three independent investigations reported on the MOVE remains controversy: one commissioned by the Penn Museum, one by the City of Philadelphia, and one by Princeton University.Lyra Monteiro's piece on Medium, "What the photos from 2014 reveal about Penn Museum's possession of the remains of multiple victims of the 1985 MOVE bombing."You can find our full episode credits, listen to our back catalog, and support Outside/In at our website: outsideinradio.org.
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A 1,500 year old skeleton is diagnosed with tuberculosis. A visit to a modern-day bone library. A fight over the future of ethical science.
MORE ABOUT "WHAT REMAINS"Across the country, the remains of tens of thousands of human beings are held by museums and institutions. Scientists say theyâve helped lay the foundations of forensic science and unlocked the secrets of humanityâs shared past.
But these bones were also collected before informed consent was the gold standard for ethical study. 19th and 20th-century physicians and anthropologists took unclaimed bodies from poorhouses and hospitals, robbed graves, and looted Indigenous bones from sacred sites.
Now, under pressure from activists and an evolving scientific community, these institutions are rethinking what to do with their unethically collected human remains.
Outside/In producer Felix Poon has informally gained a reputation as the podcastâs âdeath beatâ correspondent. Heâs visited a human decomposition facility (aka, âbody farmâ), reported on the growing trend of âgreen burial,â and explored the use of psychedelic mushrooms to help terminal cancer patients confront death.
In this three-episode series from Outside/In, Felix takes us to Philadelphia, where the prestigious Penn Museum has promised to ârespectfully repatriateâ hundreds of skulls collected by 19th century physician Samuel George Morton, who used them to pursue pseudo-scientific theories of white supremacy. Those efforts have been met with support by some, and anger and distrust by others.
Along the way, Felix explores the long legacy of scientific racism, lingering questions over the 1985 MOVE bombing, and evolving ethics in the field of biological anthropology.
Can the institutions that have long benefited from these remains be trusted to give them up? And if so, who decides what happens next?
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL
The Smithsonianâs âBone Doctorâ scavenged thousands of body parts (Washington Post)
Medical, scientific racism revealed in century-old plaque from Black manâs teeth (Science)
Americaâs Biggest Museums Fail to Return Native American Human Remains (ProPublica)
Read about Maria Pearson, the âRosa Parks of NAGPRAâ and how she sparked a movement. (Library of Congress Blogs)
Read Olga Spekkerâs paper on SPF15, âThe first probable case with tuberculous meningitis from the Hun period of the Carpathian Basin.â
Listen to our episode about so-called body farms, âLife and Death at a Human Decomposition Facility.â
You can find our full episode credits, listen to our back catalogue, and support Outside/In at our website: outsideinradio.org.
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When KALWâs Marissa Ortega-Welch hit the Pacific Crest Trail, she used her preferred method of navigation: an old-fashioned trail map. But along the way, she met a couple who only used phones to guide them, a Search and Rescue team that welcomes the power of GPS, and a woman who has been told her adaptive wheelchair isn't allowed in official wilderness areas (not actually true).
So⊠does technology help people access wilderness? Or does it get in the way?
This weekâs episode comes to us from âHow Wildâ produced by our friends at KALW Public Media. In this seven-part series, host Marissa Ortega-Welch charts the complex meaning of âwildernessâ in the United States and how itâs changing. Marissa criss-crosses the country to speak with hikers, land managers, scientists and Indigenous leaders â people who spend every day grappling with how ideas about wilderness play out in the hundreds of designated wilderness areas across the U.S.
LINKS
Check out more episodes of âHow Wildâ here.
SUPPORT
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HOW WILD CREDITS
How Wild is created and executive produced by Marissa Ortega-Welch.
Edited by Lisa Morehouse. Additional editing and sound design by Gabe Grabin.
Life coaching by Shereen Adel. Fact-checking by Mark Armao.
How Wild is produced in partnership with KALW Public Media, distributed by NPR and made possible with support from California Humanities, a partner of the NEH. This podcast is produced in Oakland, CaliforniaâŠon the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ohlone. Learn more about the Indigenous communities where you live at native-land.ca
OUTSIDE/IN CREDITS
Outside/In Host: Nate Hegyi
Executive producer: Taylor Quimby
NHPRâs Director of On-Demand Audio is Rebecca Lavoie
Our staff includes Justine Paradis, Felix Poon, Kate Dario and Marina Henke.
Outside/In is a production of New Hampshire Public Radio
Submit a question to the âOutside/Inbox.â We answer queries about the natural world, climate change, sustainability, and human evolution. You can send a voice memo to [email protected] or leave a message on our hotline, 1-844-GO-OTTER (844-466-8837).
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Perhaps youâre familiar with our Outside/Inbox hotline, 1-844-GO-OTTER. Anyone can leave us a voicemail sharing questions about the natural world, and we periodically answer them on the show.
A few weeks ago, it came to our attention that we hadn't gotten a new voicemail in some time. Turns out our hotline has been bugging out for at least six months, and we have a lot of catching up to do.
So, we present: Outside/Inbox, the lost voicemails edition.
Featuring Stephanie Spera, with contributions from Ariel, Joe, Carolyn, Maverick, Jarrett, Eben, a rooster, and a closet (?) full of snakes.
SUPPORT
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Subscribe to our newsletter for occasional emails about new show swag, call-outs for listener submissions, and other announcements.
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LINKS
This is the study Marina mentioned with a comparative life cycle assessment of hand dryers vs. paper towel dispensers.
If you want to learn more about chronic wasting disease, Nate recommends listening to Bent Out of Shape, a three-part series from KUNC. For a quick read, hereâs a fact sheet from the CDC.
Listen to Outside/Inâs behind-the-scenes journey into a human decomposition facility, aka âbody farm,â reported by Felix Poon.
If youâve been to Acadia National Park in Maine and taken photos of the fall foliage anytime since 1950, you can participate in research about how climate change is shifting the timing of peak foliage. Contribute your pictures of the autumn leaves to the Acadia National Park Fall Foliage Project here.
Many are predicting that fall 2024 will be a banner season for spectacular foliage, including our colleagues at NHPRâs Something Wild. Plus, hereâs more on the dynamics of fall foliage, precipitation, and anthocyanin.
CREDITS
Outside/In host: Nate Hegyi
Reported by Justine Paradis, Nate Hegyi, and Marina Henke.
Produced and mixed by Justine Paradis.
Edited by Taylor Quimby
NHPRâs Director of Podcasts is Rebecca Lavoie
Our staff also includes Kate Dario.
Music by Blue Dot Sessions, Brigham Orchestra, Guustavv, Katori Walker, John B. Lund, and Bonkers Beat Club.
Outside/In is a production of New Hampshire Public Radio.
Editor's note: A previous version of this episode incorrectly stated that Forest Park is the biggest public park in the United States. It is the biggest in St. Louis, Missouri and arguably bigger than Central Park. The audio and transcript have been updated.
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In the early 1900s, people didnât trust refrigerated food. Fruits and vegetables, cuts of meat⊠these things are supposed to decay, right? As Nicola Twilley writes, âWhat kind of unnatural technology could deliver a two-year old chicken carcass that still looked as though it was slaughtered yesterday?â
But just a few decades later, Americans have done a full one-eighty. Livestock can be slaughtered thousands of miles away, and taste just as good (or better) by the time it hits your plate. Apples can be stored for over a year without any noticeable change. A network called the âcold-chainâ criss-crosses the country, and at home our refrigerators are fooling us into thinking we waste less food than we actually do.
Today, refrigeration has reshaped what we eat, how we cook it, and even warped our very definition of what is and isnât âfresh.â
Featuring Nicola Twilley.
SUPPORT
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LINKS
You can find Nicolaâs new book âFrostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet and Ourselves,â at your local bookstore or online.
CREDITS
Our host is Nate Hegyi.
Reported and produced by Nate Hegyi and Taylor Quimby.
Mixed by Nate Hegyi
Editing by Taylor Quimby
Our staff includes Justine Paradis, Felix Poon, Kate Dario and Marina Henke.
Executive producer: Taylor Quimby
Rebecca Lavoie is NHPRâs Director of On-Demand Audio
Music by Blue Dot Sessions. Our theme music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.
Outside/In is a production of New Hampshire Public Radio
Submit a question to the âOutside/Inbox.â We answer queries about the natural world, climate change, sustainability, and human evolution. You can send a voice memo to [email protected] or leave a message on our hotline, 1-844-GO-OTTER (844-466-8837).
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For more than two hundred years Americans have tried to tame the Mississippi River. And, for that entire time, the river has fought back.
Journalist and author Boyce Upholt has spent dozens of nights camping along the Lower Mississippi and knows the river for what it is: both a water-moving machine and a supremely wild place. His recent book, âThe Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi Riverâ tells the story of how engineers have made the Mississippi into one of the most engineered waterways in the world, and in turn have transformed it into a bit of a cyborg â half mechanical, half natural.
In this episode, host Nate Hegyi and Upholt take us from the flood ravaged town of Greenville, Mississippi, to the small office of a group of army engineers, in a tale of faulty science, big egos and a river that will ultimately do what it wants.
Featuring Boyce Upholt.
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You can find Boyceâs new book The Great River, at your local bookstore or online.
The 2018 study which attributed increased engineering of the Mississippi as a greater influence to worsening floods on the river than climate change.
Check out Harold Fisk's 1944 now famous maps of a meandering and ever-changing Mississippi watershed.
The Mississippi Department of Archives & History has a remarkable collection of digitized photos from the 1927 flood.
To get a sense of the type of work being done on the Mississippi in modern day, a US Army Corps of Engineers video detailing concrete revetment on the Lower Mississippi.
Curious about recent controversy on the Mississippi? Read up on the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion â a $3 billion coastal restoration project that will divert portions of the Mississippiâs flow in hopes of rebuilding lost land via sediment deposition.
CREDITS
Our host is Nate Hegyi.
Written and mixed by Marina Henke.
Editing by Taylor Quimby and Nate Hegyi.
Our staff also includes Felix Poon and Justine Paradis. Our executive producer is Taylor Quimby. Rebecca Lavoie is NHPRâs Director of On-Demand Audio.
Music in this episode from Blue Dot Sessions, Martin Landstrom, and Chris Zabriskie. Our theme music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.
Outside/In is a production of New Hampshire Public Radio
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Helium is full of contradictions. Itâs the second most abundant element in the universe, but is relatively rare on Earth. Itâs non-reactive, totally inertâyet the most valuable helium isotope is sourced from thermonuclear warheads.
And even though we treat it as a disposable gas, often for making funny voices and single-use party balloons, our global supply of helium will eventually run out. Thatâs because, at a rate of about 50 grams per second, this non-renewable resource is escaping the atmosphere for good.
In this edition of The Element of Surprise, our occasional series about the hidden histories behind the periodic tableâs most unassuming atoms, we examine the incredible properties and baffling economics of our most notable noble gas.
Featuring Anjali Tripathi and William Halperin.
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Read John Paul Merkleâs petition arguing to change the name of helium to âhelion.â
Despite being about a quarter century old, this passage from âThe Impact of Selling the Federal Helium Reserveâ has a pretty comprehensive list of the uses and properties of helium.
More on the recent sale of the Federal Helium Reserve (NBC News)
Physicist William Halperin said the idea of mining helium-3 on the moon was⊠unlikely⊠but that hasnât stopped this startup company from trying it. (Wired)
Want to learn more about the weird history of American airships? Check out this film produced by the U.S. government in 1937, when they were still hoping to keep our airship program afloat.
CREDITS
Host: Nate Hegyi
Reported, produced, and mixed by Taylor Quimby
Editing by Rebecca Lavoie, with help from Marina Henke and Justine Paradis
Our staff includes Felix Poon
Executive producer: Taylor Quimby
Rebecca Lavoie is NHPRâs Director of On-Demand Audio.
Music by Blue Dot Sessions and Ryan James Carr.
Outside/In is a production of New Hampshire Public Radio
Submit a question to the âOutside/Inbox.â We answer queries about the natural world, climate change, sustainability, and human evolution. You can send a voice memo to [email protected] or leave a message on our hotline, 1-844-GO-OTTER (844-466-8837).
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Jack Rodolico knows exactly what scares him. Sharks.
But hereâs what he doesnât get: if heâs so freaked out, why canât he stop incessantly watching online videos of bloody shark attacks?
Why would he deliberately seek out the very thing that spooks him?
To figure it out, Jack enlists the help of other scaredy-cats: our listeners, who shared their fears about nature with us. Together, Jack and the gang consider the spectrum of fear, from phobia to terror, and what it might mean when we donât look away.
Featuring Lauren Passell, Arash Javanbakht, Nile Carrethers, and Sushmitha Madaboosi.
This episode originally aired in October 2022.
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Lauren Passellâs Podcast the Newsletter.
Related: why people love horror movies.
The ubiquity of smartphones means plenty of hair-raising amateur videos of shark attacks to get you started on your doomscrolling (warning: a couple of these are bloody).
If this image of an octopus freaks you out, you might share Laurenâs âfear of holes,â or trypophobia.
Learn more about augmented reality technology and other projects at Arash Javanbakhtâs clinic.
CREDITS
Host: Nate Hegyi
Reported and produced by Jack Rodolico
Mixed by Taylor Quimby
Edited by Taylor Quimby, with help from Justine Paradis, Felix Poon, Nate Hegy, and Jessica Hunt.
Executive producer: Rebecca Lavoie
Music for this episode by Silver Maple, Matt Large, Luella Gren, John Abbot and Blue Dot Sessions.
Thanks to everyone who sent in voicemails and memos, even the ones we didnât play: Erin Partridge, Lauren Passell, Nile Carrethers, Michelle MacKay, Alec from Nashville, and Hillary from Washington.
Our theme music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.
Outside/In is a production of New Hampshire Public Radio.
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From the perspective of Western science, plants have long been considered unaware, passive life forms; essentially, rocks that happen to grow.
But thereâs something in the air in the world of plant science. New research suggests that plants are aware of the world around them to a far greater extent than previously understood. Plants may be able to sense acoustics, communicate with each other, and make choices⊠all this without a brain.
These findings are fueling a debate, perhaps even a scientific revolution, which challenges our fundamental definitions of life, intelligence, and consciousness.
Featuring Zoë Schlanger.
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ZoĂ« Schlangerâs book is called The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth.
âEverything Will Be Vineâ is a great podcast episode from Future Ecologies featuring ZoĂ«âs journey into the Chilean rainforest, where researchers are mystified by a once-overlooked vine.
Jagadish Chandra Bose was an Indian scientist who challenged the Western view of plants in the early 20th century. He studied electrical signaling in plants and argued that plants use language. Read about his life and work in Orion.
This is the now famous study by David Rhoades. Rhoades was derided for his âtalking treesâ theory, and only was proved correct after his death. Hereâs an audio story which goes deeper on Rhoades.
Lilach Hadany, the scientist who likened a field of flowers to a âfield of ears,â also recently found that plants produce sounds when stressed.
The study which found that plants respond to the sound of caterpillars chewing, a collaboration between Rex Cocroft and Heidi Appel.
The organization of the octopus nervous system is fascinating.
CREDITS
Outside/In host: Nate Hegyi
Reported, produced, and mixed by Justine Paradis.
Edited by Taylor Quimby
Our team also includes Felix Poon and Marina Henke.
NHPRâs Director of Podcasts is Rebecca Lavoie
Special thanks to Rex Cocroft for sharing the recordings of leafhopper mating calls and chewing caterpillars.
Music by Mochas, Hanna Lindgren, Alec Slayne, Sarah the Illstrumentalist, Brendan Moeller, Nul Tiel Records, Blue Dot Sessions, and Chris Zabriskie.
Outside/In is a production of New Hampshire Public Radio.
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