Episodes
Monday Mar 11, 2024
Episode 243: Deforesting Disease
Monday Mar 11, 2024
Monday Mar 11, 2024
This episode explores new research, which has found that deforestation exacerbates the risk of malaria for the most vulnerable children.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘Mosquito Music’ by Philip Gross here
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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Monday Mar 04, 2024
Episode 242: When the Sky Gathers Tears
Monday Mar 04, 2024
Monday Mar 04, 2024
This episode explores new research, which has found that cloud clustering causes more extreme rain.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read 'Clouds' by Caroline Forché here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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Monday Feb 26, 2024
Episode 241: Nuclear Transmutations
Monday Feb 26, 2024
Monday Feb 26, 2024
This episode explores new research, which has looked to neutron stars to reduce nuclear waste.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘Near the Desert Test Sites (Palm Desert, California)’ by Sherod Santos here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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Monday Feb 19, 2024
Episode 240: Consumed Stars
Monday Feb 19, 2024
Monday Feb 19, 2024
This episode explores new research, which has detected the faint light of stellar corpses beside predator stars.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘Stars’ by Marjorie Pickthall here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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Monday Feb 12, 2024
Episode 239: The Fevered Climate
Monday Feb 12, 2024
Monday Feb 12, 2024
This episode explores new research, which has found that climate change likely triggered pandemics in antiquity.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read 'Return to Rome' by Stanley Moss here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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