Curiouser and Curiouser
By Dr. Jai Ranganathan
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Podcast Description
Curiouser and Curiouser is a podcast from Miller-McCune about the research that is changing our world. Host Dr. Jai Ranganathan interviews leading scientists and social scientists about their latest research. Intended for everyone interested in the world around them, the discussions are fun and lively, while still delving into the heart of the research.
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Ecosystems Secretly Protect Against Lyme Disease | Lizards, it seems, are good at keeping ticks free of Lyme disease, which suggests that a ecosystem that benefits lizards (and other creatures) ultimately benefits humankind, ecologist Cherie Briggs explains in this podcast. | 26 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Climate Change Pushing Millions to Edge of Starvation | Climatologist Chris Funk explains his findings that long-term ocean warming has created a chain reaction that is likely to permanently dry out East Africa. | 12 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Evacuation Lessons From Hurricane Irene | Safety officials may have overreacted in preparing for Hurricane Irene, but that's the best course of action, says evacuation expert Micah Brachman. | 31 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Law of the Jungle: Powerful Men Have More Children | Anthropologist Christopher von Rueden's studies of a Bolivian tribe suggest that men's instinctive drive for power is a strategy to seed their descendants thickly. | 25 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Answers to Whale of a Mystery | Biologist Graham Slater explains that the evolution of whales into behemoths of the sea occurred in evolutionary spurts and not in a slow and steady process. | 17 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Could Organic Farming Threaten Our Food Supply? | Pest ecologist Scott Merrill discusses the bizarre adaptions of insects who feast on our crops, and how some organic farming practices may make life easier for them. | 8 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Greek Economic Collapse: Pulling Europe and U.S. Down? | Economist Benjamin J. Cohen discusses the ramifications of the debt crisis in Greece, one of the four PIGS — Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain — whose debt problems threaten economic stability in Europe and the United States. | 29 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Six Months after Arab Spring, Uncertainty Rules in Egypt | While the Arab Spring spotlight has marched on to Syria and Libya, pioneering Egypt's first steps have by followed by little-noticed stumbles. | 22 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What Causes Conflict? | By studying pig-tailed macaques, physicist Simon DeDeo untangles the hidden structures underlying conflict in social animals — including humans. | 13 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hidden Patterns in Presidential Voting | In predicting presidential voting in the United States, don't sweat the small stuff, political scientist Nathan Collins explains to Curiouser & Curiouser host Jai Ranganathan. | 6 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Origin of Monogamy | Where does the idea of marriage — monogamous marriage specifically — come from? Anthropologist Laura Fortunato has some answers. | 24 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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From Siberia to the Tropics with a Thermometer | Marine biologist Steve Katz has tapped a Russian family's multigenerational measurements of the temperature of a Siberian lake to explain how climate there is part of climate everywhere. | 16 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Next Epidemic — How Society Aids Disease | Are we at greater risk now from massive disease outbreaks? It's a vital question after a wave of deadly E. coli infections in Germany has put hundreds in the hospital and killed more than 20. Disease ecologist Sadie Ryan explains how societal changes are aiding the bugs. | 7 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Can Threatened Species Evolve Their Way Out of Trouble? | Ecologist Andrew Gonzalez explains that experiments on yeast suggest that threatened species may be able to evolve fast enough — under the right conditions — to survive. | 1 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Climate Change, Agricultural Production and Africa’s Poor | With climate change set to wreck agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa, what will happen to the world's poorest people? | 23 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Doggy DNA: Few Genes Separate Chihuahua from Great Dane | Geneticist Adam Boyko walks us through the DNA maze that produces dogs of all shapes and sizes from a very few genes. | 11 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Year After BP Oil Spill: Where Are We? | Biogeochemist Molly Redmond discusses the state of the Gulf of Mexico a year after the deadly Deepwater Horizon oil spill, looking at what's still unknown and how some lucky breaks kept damage from being even worse. | 3 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nuclear Power’s History in the US: Miracle to Demon | Over its short lifetime, nuclear power has migrated from being the miracle of America's energy future to an at times unruly nuclear demon, says historian Patrick McCray. | 25 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Dilemma and Future of Nuclear Power | In this last of a three-part podcast, Dr. Theo Theofanous talks about the health impacts of radiation leaking from the crippled Japanese nuclear power plant and about the future of nuclear power. | 13 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Japanese Nuclear Crisis: How Does This End? | In the second of three parts, engineering professor and nuclear risk expert Theo Theofanous discusses the options Japan has to avert even greater catastrophe at the badly damaged Fukushima 1 Nuclear Power Plant. | 7 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Behind the Japanese Nuclear Reactor Crisis | Engineering professor Theo Theofanous, long recognized for his work on risk and accident analysis specifically focused on nuclear reactors, begins the first of three podcasts on the Fukushima incident with Curiouser & Curiouser host Jai Ranganathan. | 31 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Japan’s Earthquake: Deciphering the Fury | With the help of seismologist Chen Ji, Curiouser & Curiouser host Jai Ranganathan examines the tectonic roots of the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami in Japan. | 25 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fishing for Answers in Marine Sanctuaries | Marine biologist Tim McClanahan asks if poor Kenyan fishermen can improve themselves without destroying local coral reefs? (Hint: yes) | 14 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Can We Avoid Devouring the Planet? | Stanford geographer Holly Gibbs discusses the challenge of preserving natural areas while still feeding an increasingly hungry world. | 4 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nuclear Weapons and Conservation: Connecting the Dots | Ecologist Nick Haddad discusses his massive experiment in creating habitat corridors on lands protected because they surround guarded nuclear sites. | 28 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hanging Around in the Rainforest | Insect biologist Elsa Youngsteadt explains to Curiouser & Curiouser host Jai Ranganathan why tropical ants create gardens up in trees. | 17 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Life Under Constant Pressure | Deep-sea researcher Craig McClain tells Curiouser & Curiouser about the bounty of life he's found in one of the least inviting places on earth -- the bottom of the ocean. | 4 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Spiderman on Broadway? ‘Been There, Done That,’ Say Ants | Insect biologist Rob Dunn has uncovered a hot spot of insect biodiversity -- Manhattan. | 24 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Recovery of the Island Fox | Dr. Lotus Vermeer discusses the unique recovery program that has restored the health of the Island fox in California's Channel Islands. | 10 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Your Brain, Behind the Scenes | Dr. Pierre-Michel Bernier discusses the incredible calculations your brain performs to plan even the simplest movements. | 3 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What Can Owls Tell Us About Our Health? | Evolutionary biologist Nicolas Salamin explains how studying barn owls suggests that color tells us something about our health. | 23 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Dust Bowl: Lessons from the Greatest U.S. Environmental Disaster | NASA research scientist Benjamin Cook explains how the Dust Bowl years of the American Midwest were not entirely a "natural disaster" and how lessons learned then prevented a sequel. | 17 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why Are There So Many Species in Tropical Rainforests? | Tropical ecologist Simon Queenborough addresses the mystery behind the fabulous array of plants and animals found in tropical rainforests. | 10 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Out of Control Wildfires: a California-size Disaster | Fire ecologist Max Moritz discusses the reason that Southern California and other Mediterranean landscapes are wracked by wildfires over and over. | 2 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Our Minds Are Like Computers (Ditto for Worms) | Physicist Dani Bassett discusses the structural similarities between the human brain and that of worms -- or of nearly any system that processes information. | 24 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why Are Chili Peppers So Spicy? | Ecologist Josh Tewksbury explains the strategy behind chili peppers producing such spicy products. | 18 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Are Conservation Biologists Wasting Their Time? | Ecologist Hugh Possingham argues that conservationists have made a fetish of monitoring ailing species, and what they should be doing isn't counting but acting. | 10 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hidden Cost of Frog Legs | Tropical biologist Navjot Sodhi explains that man is eating some frog species to extinction, and how a certification system could keep them from croaking. | 3 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Coral Reefs Just Might Survive | Marine biologist John Pandolfi discusses historical reconstructions that suggest there yet be hope for saving Earth's ailing coral reefs. | 28 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What Columbus Can Teach Space Program | Historian Stephen Pyne of Arizona State University talks about the future of manned space exploration and what it can learn from the past. | 20 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fishing, Overs and Unders | In this debut podcast of Curiouser and Curiouser, host Jai Ranganathan interviews Duke University marine biologist Larry Crowder about how fishing, historically and currently, has changed the oceans. | 18 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 41 Episodes |
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