November 30, 2020
This episode explores new research, which has found that molecular fossils extracted from 635-million-year-old rocks aren't the earliest evidence of complex life on Earth, but are instead nothing more than common algae.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific studies that inspired it here and here.
Read ‘Hearsay Song’ by John Yau here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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November 23, 2020
This episode explores new research, which has found that fish carcasses are transporting toxic mercury pollution from the atmosphere to the bottom of the world's oceans.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘Hall of Ocean Life’ by John Hollander here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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November 18, 2020
This episode features an alternative format in which I talk to the poet Paul Pearson about his new poetry collection ‘Lunatic Engine’, which reflects on the science of Galileo, and our place in the Universe.
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You can find out more about Lunatic Engine here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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November 16, 2020
This episode explores new research, which has found that global wind systems are responsible for mosses becoming one of our planet's most widely distributed plants.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘Moss’ by Bruce Guernsey here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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November 9, 2020
This episode explores new research, which has found that the wing length of the monarch butterfly has evolved in response to migration habits.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘of a butterfly in el barrio or a stranger in paradise’ by Jesús Papoleto Meléndez here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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