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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Planes, Trains and Trucks
If you want to design effective packaging, you'd better know how it'll stand up to being transported.
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Promotoras
Lessons learned from the people of Tijuana.
2 min
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Volunteer Tourism
It's an important economic and cultural resource in many countries.
2 min
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The Alarm Heard Round the World
Is there a universal language of alarm calls?
2 min
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Early Warning System
Birds "mobbing calls" make it easy for all the animals in a locale to know when a predator is nearby.
2 min
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Kids Science Destinations
Turning a museum into a Scavenger Hunt.
3 min
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Taiwan
Home of the largest pendulum on the planet.
2 min
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MIT
OK, who put that bus on top of the library building?
2 min
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Chernoybyl
Comrade, we get a whole lot of Levis this way!
2 min
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Alarm Calls
What's a bird to do when predators lurk nearby?
2 min
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Thanksgiving Parade Balloons
What does it take to handle a four-story high balloon?
2 min
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Inflation Day
The sounds of a New York holiday tradition.
2 min
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Sinterklaas - Origins
In Holland, it's the top celebration of the season.
2 min
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Sinterklaas - the Community Calls
Reinventing a Dutch ritual in upstate New York.
2 min
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Arsenic on Tap
Around the world, people are being poisoned by naturally occurring toxins in drinking water.
2 min
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Coal Ash and Water
You don't want coal ash to end up in a water supply.
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Best Tasting Water?
You're in for a surprise.
2 min
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Poison Ivy - An Unexpected Discovery
A new way of controlling Poison Ivy?
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A Life-Saving Charade
To avoid predators, piping plovers have adopted a theatrical strategy.
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Scorpion Venom
Exciting new medical treatments are being developed from the venom of this feisty arachnid.
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Ecuador's Cloud Forest
In times of drought, cloudforests, which support the same incredible diversity as rainforests, thrive almost entirely on thick blankets of fog.
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A New Home for Sea Bass
Black sea bass are now thriving in the waters of Delaware Bay thanks to the collaboration of marine biologists and the New York Transit System.
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The Subway Car Reef
Subway cars are being recycled as artificial reefs!
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Taking the A Train Underwater
A seventeen ton metal box seems an unlikely place for for a marine habitat.
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Okefenokee - Sandhill Crane Migration
Each year flocks of migrating Sandhill Cranes descend on Georgia's Okefenokee refuge and join their southern cousins.
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