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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Noruz - Customs 21Mar17
It means "new day" and it's celebrated with new clothes, gift-giving and bonfires.
2 min
1502
Tracking Cats - Remote Cameras 20Mar17
You'd think being such large animals, that we'd know more about them.
2 min
1503
Microplastics - A Double-Edged Sword 17Mar17
Can we design plastics whose structures respond to their environment?
2 min
1504
Microplastics - Beneficial Uses 16Mar17
What happens to the microplastics in your toothpaste when they get washed down the drain?
2 min
1505
Microplastics - Solutions 15Mar17
Can we develop bio-friendly polymers?
2 min
1506
Microplastics - Into Our Oceans 14Mar17
Virtually every plastic bag that finds its way into the ocean, deteriorates into microplastic particles.
2 min
1507
Phagwah - Sounds of a Spring Festival 13Mar17
Celebrating the season with drums and cymbals!
2 min
1508
Phagwah - Take a Powder! 10Mar17
An ancient festival of spring is celebrated with colored baby powder.
2 min
1509
Phagwah - Celebrating the Rebirth of Nature ...
The most joyful festival of the Indo-Caribbean culture.
2 min
1510
Police-Community Relations - What Works? 08Mar17
Ice cream or self-esteem?
2 min
1511
Healing Police-Community Relations 07Mar17
A project to bring together local police with the people they serve.
2 min
1512
Innovation - Diversity 06Mar17
Diversity doesn't just refer to race, ethnicity or gender; it means diversity of thought, intellectual approach, and diversity of tools and problems.
2 min
1513
Next Generation Search - Lemon Finder 03Mar17
Is it possible to predict product defects and recalls by monitoring online user groups?
2 min
1514
Innovation - Resistance 02Mar17
Does resistance help an idea become better?
2 min
1515
Cajun Mardi Gras - Feast Before Fast 01Mar17
The roots of Mardi Gras run deeper than Christianity.
2 min
1516
Cajun Mardi Gras - Biggest Day 28Feb17
"When you're part of this Mardi Gras, you're forgetting about your job, your worries, your bills.."
2 min
1517
Cajun Mardi Gras - In Disguise 27Feb17
This week, in the bayous of Louisiana, costumed revelers beg for food and money from their neighbors to support a communal gumbo.
2 min
1518
Predicting Disease – Tracking Probabilities 2...
A newly developed algorithm is telling scientists where disease outbreaks may occur in the future.
2 min
1519
Predicting Disease – Making the Leap 23Feb17
How are diseases passed from animals to humans?
2 min
1520
Predicting Disease – Which Animal, Which Countr...
Why is it that diseases emerge from some species and not from others?
2 min
1521
Innovation - At What Price 21Feb17
Does the search for new ideas mean abandoning the old ones?
2 min
1522
Innovation - Fostering 20Feb17
From Bell Labs to Silicon Valley - what are the best conditions to encourage innovation?
2 min
1523
Entrepreneurship - Practice 17Feb17
"There's an entrepreneur inside all of us, and the lab is the world."
2 min
1524
Entrepreneurship - Scale 16Feb17
How the Network Effect can lead to Winner Take All.
2 min
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Entrepreneurship - First Movers 15Feb17
The first company to come up with a new idea isn't always the most successful.
2 min