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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Cantometrics - Culture and Music
Developed by sound recordist Alan Lomax in the 1950s, Cantometrics is a measure of music in relation to the culture from which it stems.
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Controlling Mosquitos in Cities
The simplest way to protect yourself from mosquitos at home?
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Urban Mosquitos
Guess who is their prime target?
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Chinese Fishing Nets
Net fisherman's chant in Kerala, India.
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Aboyo
Headphones on for the songs of Brazilian Cowboys.
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Glowing in the Dark
Glowing spirits visit the Bayaka's nighttime ceremonies.
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Spirits of the Forest
Before embarking on a hunt, the Bayaka must first convene with the Boyobi
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Net Hunt
The Bayaka, hunter-gatherers living in the rainforest of Central Africa, prepare for a community hunt.
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Synchretismo
African spiritism blends with Catholic ritual on a saint's day in Salvador, Bahia, in Brazil.Stay tuned at the end of the program for a preview of "Sacred Mounds", Jim Metzner's novel of historical fiction and magical realism.
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Natural Mix
Music of the Birds and the Bees - headphones on!
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Untold Stories
Celebrating significant unheralded lives.
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Hidden History
The stories of everyday people form an important and overlooked part of our history.
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Smoking Gun
Tracking the sources of acid rain involved some low-tech highly creative methods.
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Talking Animals
Meet Rex the Starling and Hoover the Harbor seal.
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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.
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Ants and Caterpillars
Sound and sweet excretions are ingredients for harmonious behavior between ants and caterpillars.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Hindukush Beekeeping - Indigenous Knowledge
Indigenous people of the Himalayan Hindukush region offer valuable knowledge to scientists studying bees.
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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.
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Acid From the Skies
How acid rain was discovered.
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