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.
1401
The Flying Toolmaker 18Jul17
Humans aren't the only animals using tools.
2 min
1402
Raven Language 17Jul17
Gurgles, knocks, the sound of bells... a car on the fritz?
2 min
1403
Raven or Crow? 14Jul17
Crows and ravens may both be large, black birds, but they have very distinct voices.
2 min
1404
A Sticky Business 13Jul17
A woodpecker has devised a clever strategy to protect its nests from snakes.
2 min
1405
Master of Excavation 12Jul17
It's the only woodpecker that excavates cavities in a living pine tree.
2 min
1406
The Woodpecker Who Stays Home 11Jul17
Young Red Cockaded Woodpeckers help raise their brothers and sisters until their father dies.
2 min
1407
Musical Empathy, Wired 10Jul17
Science and art intertwine to explore the relationship between emotion and music.
2 min
1408
Digital Luthier 07Jul17
Tapping into the emotional states of performers and their audience.
2 min
1409
Emotions Become Music 06Jul17
Can we translate emotions directly to musical sound, with a little help from computers?
2 min
1410
Decision-Making - Art or Science? 05Jul17
Do we base our understanding on evidence or opinion?
2 min
1411
What is Science? 04Jul17
Let the evidence lead the answer to your hunch, not the other way around.
2 min
1412
Cancer, Mutations and Evolution 03Jul17
Could there be positive outcomes from cancer as a result of mutation?
2 min
1413
Bringing in a Dinosaur 30Jun17
Getting a dinosaur skeleton from the field to the lab is a tricky process.
2 min
1414
Cancer - the Ultimate Endgame 29Jun17
Finding a strategy to combat cancer is like playing chess against a Grandmaster.
2 min
1415
A Fine Feathered Dinosaur 28Jun17
Close relatives of Tyrannosaurs Rex actually had some kind of feathering coating!
2 min
1416
Cancer - the Immune System 27Jun17
Shutting down an overzealous immune response.
2 min
1417
Cancer - Treating Tumors Without Surgery 26Jun17
Veterinarians are using gold nanoparticles to control the growth of cancerous tumors.
2 min
1418
If Buildings Could Help 23Jun17
Instead of looking for Child Finder stickers, first responders to an emergency might one day be checking their iPads.
2 min
1419
Chimpanzees - a Deadly Trait 22Jun17
Chimps, like humans, commit acts of deadly violence against their own kind.
2 min
1420
Chimpanzees - Getting the Message Across 21Jun17
Chimps communicate with each other with both voices and gestures.
2 min
1421
Chimps - Toolmakers, too 20Jun17
Chimpanzees make their own tools for all sorts of different needs and behaviors.
2 min
1422
Dino Lab - 200 Million Year Old Glimpse 19Jun17
On being the first person to uncover an animal that lived 210 million years ago.
2 min
1423
If Buildings Could Harvest Electricity 16Jun17
Can a building transform the motion that takes place inside it into electricity?
2 min
1424
Disaster Preparation Meets Social Media 15Jun17
"it's much harder to establish the truthfulness of what somebody is saying."
2 min
1425
Dino Lab - One Scrape at a Time 14Jun17
Find a fossil dinosaur in the field, bring it to the lab, and the work of extracting it begins.
2 min