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Thyroidology (THYROID GLAND) with Kepal Patel
Jan 29, 2025Sad? Cold? Hot? Wired? Blame the thyroid. Maybe. In your throat there is a butterfly-shaped gland under a shield-shaped Adam’s Apple and it controls your whole life, kind of. We asked Thyroidologist a...
Eco-Odorology (SCIENCE-SNIFFING DOGS) with Kayla Fratt
Jan 22, 2025Dogs doing science. With their faces. As a follow-up to last week’s Ethnocynology episode about humans domesticating wolves, we chat with conservation biologist and Eco-odorologist Kayla Fratt (and he...
Ethnocynology (HUMANS & DOGS THROUGH TIME) with David Ian Howe
Jan 15, 2025Ancient dogs! Domestic wolves! Anthropology! Archaeology! It’s all Ethnocynology: when humans and dogs started living and working together. The wonderful and iconic David Ian Howe is an educator and p...
Fire Ecology (WILDFIRES & INDIGENOUS FIRE MANAGEMENT) Mega Encore with Gavin Jones & Amy Christianson (LA Fires Re-Release)
Jan 10, 2025As wildfires burn across L.A. — and my neighborhood evacuates — we thought it would be a good time to encore these Fire Ecology episodes so I can literally catch my breath. First Dr. Gavin Jones bring...
Eudemonology (HAPPINESS) Encore with Laurie Santos
Dec 31, 2024HAPPINESS RESEARCH, straight up. What is happiness? How do our circumstances affect happiness? Why is the word “gratitude” kinda cringey? What can we do to feel better? Should we feel guilty for feeli...
Cabinology (CABINS) Encore with Dale Mulfinger
Dec 24, 2024The time is right to revisit cabins: Log cabins, woodsy getaways, A-frame cuties, cottages, tiny homes, lake houses. WE GET INTO IT, including 2024 updates. World famous Minnesota architect, author, p...
Castorology (BEAVERS) with Rob Rich
Dec 18, 2024Orange teeth! Vanilla butts! Architecture with twigs! Olde-timey joke books? Field naturalist, conservationist, wildlife tracker and “beaver believer” Rob Rich works with the National Wildlife Federat...
Mnemonology (MEMORY) Part 2 with Michael Yassa
Dec 11, 2024Remembering names! Preventing dementia! Photographic memories! Weed! Goldfish! It’s the thrilling conclusion of Mnemonology with Dr. Michael Yassa, the Director of UC Irvine’s Center for the Neurobiol...
Mnemonology (MEMORY) Part 1 with Michael Yassa
Dec 04, 2024How are memories made? Where are they stored? Where do they go? What was I just talking about? Neurobiologist, professor, researcher, and Director of UC Irvine’s Center for the Neurobiology of Learnin...
Surgical Angiology (VEINS & ARTERIES) with Sheila Blumberg
Nov 27, 2024Vaping and vein health! Covid and clots! Easy bruising! Movie blood! Spider veins! Free socks! The heroic vascular surgeon Dr. Sheila Blumberg of NYU Langone Health let me ask her one million question...