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.
1651
Mangroves - Shrimp Farms
A shrimp farm only lasts for five years. What happens after that? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1652
Treating Brain Tumors - Without Surgery
A new procedure may well change the way that cancerous tumors are treated. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1653
Treating Brain Tumors - New Procedure
A new form of cancer treatment involves no drugs and practically no surgery. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1654
Soil - Planet Skin
Some soils have taken hundreds of thousands of years to form. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1655
Privacy - Managing Anonymity
An app can help you navigate the info highway incognito. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1656
Ecotoxicology
By studying how contaminants influence wildlife, we may be able to learn how they effect human reproductive processes. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1657
Soil - Organic Filter
Every drop of water we drink has gone through a piece of soil. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1658
Smartphones - Losing Your Way
Can you get there from here if you're not here? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1659
Smartphones - Side Effects
Welcome to the Cellphone Sabbath. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1660
Privacy - Big Brother is a Corporation
It's convenience versus the loss of privacy, while someone - or something, is watching. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1661
Smartphones - Two Places at Once
The paradox of being physically present but psychologically absent. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1662
Smartphones - At What Price
Does the mere presence of a smartphone effect the quality of face-to-face conversations? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1663
Drones - Software Package
Forest and watershed mapping and inventories, habitat assessments, post-processing of data; it's all in a day's work for a research drone. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1664
Drones - New Tool For Research
Drones are giving scientists unprecedented ways to gather data. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1665
Poison Ivy - Citizen Science
Here's a way that you can help track and control poison ivy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1666
Finches - Tough Life, Smart Bird
For birds, a bit of competition with their peers early on turns out to be a good thing. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1667
Finches - Learning to Sing
It all comes down to the tutor. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1668
Finches - Sounds Just Like Dad
If you're wooing a female finch, you'd better sound like her father. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1669
Algorithm of Discovery - Defining What Isn't
Is it possible to better understand what something is, by knowing what it is not? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1670
Antibiotics - Breaking Them Down
Antibiotics in cow manure? Composting can help degrade them before they end up in fertilizer. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1671
Antibiotics Underground
Farmers destroy the milk from cows treated with antibiotics. But the antibiotics could still impact the environment outside the farm. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1672
Antibiotics and Milk
What happens to the milk from cows who were given antibiotics? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1673
Algorithm of Discovery - A New Way of Seeing th...
New drugs, new kinds of materials, new insights into the dynamics of ecosystems - all from reinventing the way we categorize things. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1674
Algorithm of Discovery - New Ideas From Computers
HAL can open the pod door, but can he come come with a new concept? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1675
Privacy - Are We Giving it Away?
Every day, we're unknowingly gifting our personal information to corporations and service organizations. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min