Pulse of the Planet Podcast with Jim ...
Each weekday, Pulse of the Planet provides its listeners with a two-minute sound portrait of Planet Earth, tracking the rhythms of nature, culture and science worldwide and blending interviews and extraordinary natural sound.
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Natural Mix
Music of the Birds and the Bees - headphones on!
5 min
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Untold Stories
Celebrating significant unheralded lives.
2 min
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Hidden History
The stories of everyday people form an important and overlooked part of our history.
2 min
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Smoking Gun
Tracking the sources of acid rain involved some low-tech highly creative methods.
2 min
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Talking Animals
Meet Rex the Starling and Hoover the Harbor seal.
7 min
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World Con
It's Sci-Fi heaven - a trip back in time to the 1980 World Con, with a few words from Isaac Asimov and George R.R. Martin.
4 min
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Kaqchikel - Philosophy
In a Guatemalan school, teachers strive to educate children of their Kaqchikel heritage.
2 min
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Ants and Caterpillars
Sound and sweet excretions are ingredients for harmonious behavior between ants and caterpillars.
2 min
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Great Gull Island
A sound portrait of a nesting site for terns, surrounded - and sometimes attached by - thousands of breeding birds.
5 min
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Scandinavian Summer Solstice - History
The summer solstice lightens the hearts of Swedish Americans.
2 min
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Natchez Pow-Wow
Drum circles and chant are part of the great tradition of Native American pow-wows.
7 min
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Hindukush Beekeeping - Honey Hunters
In the high cliffs of the Himalayas, colonies of bees produce prized honey - helping to sustain local ecosystems.
2 min
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Hindukush Beekeeping - Indigenous Knowledge
Indigenous people of the Himalayan Hindukush region offer valuable knowledge to scientists studying bees.
2 min
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Kara-usu
364 days of the year, the pottery village of Onta, Japan is filled with a remarkable sound.
6 min
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Pantanal Night
Nighttime in the world's largest wetland; earphone listening recommended.
6 min
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Acid From the Skies
How acid rain was discovered.
2 min
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Pulse of the Particle
What happens when nanoparticles find their way into the environment?
2 min
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Grampian Dawn
Headphones on for an amazing dawn chorus in Australia.
2 min
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Viruses - Mistakes R Us
In the process of copying their genome, viruses often make bad copies, which turns out to be a good thing for the virus.
2 min
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Viruses - Polio vs Flu
Why do we need to get a new flu vaccine every year when we only need one vaccination for polio?
2 min
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Viruses - the Uncommon Cold
No cure for the Rhinovirus?
2 min
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Virus Sex
It once wiped out about a third of the world's population.
2 min
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Viruses - A Sense of Scale
How many viruses could fit onto the surface of a soccer ball?
2 min
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Viruses - Agents of Disease
They've been around for millennia, but it's only very recently that humans have actually discovered their existence.
2 min
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Viruses - On the Edge of Life
They're not technically alive or dead, so just what is a virus, anyway?
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