Flower power (Ep 153)
How have flowers shaped the modern world?
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Meet the Scientist: David George Haskell (Bonus)
In this week’s Meet the Scientist we hear from upcoming guest David George Haskell about the most beautiful flowers he saw when working on his most recent book “How Flowers Made our World”.
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A coevolutionary conundrum (Ep 152)
When a bee visits a flower, what decides the match?
How hormones can help conservation, with Dr. John Wingfield
By Clayton Glasgow
The cost of correctness (Ep 151)
What have so many influential scientists been at some time been ridiculed and disbelieved by their peers or institutions?
John Wingfield behind the scenes (bonus)
We’re bringing you an extra special behind the scenes audio about John Wingfield as told by his former graduate student Sara O’Brien.
Meet the Scientist: John Wingfield (Bonus)
In this Meet the Scientist clip, the hosts talk with John Wingfield about what he’s been getting up to in retirement and what birds he has been most excited to see in the wild.
Are invasive species always bad? Understanding and managing invasive species, with Dr. Daniel Simberloff
A blog about invasive species, based on our conversation with Daniel Simberloff
Hormones gone wild (Ep 150)
How do hormones help animals cope with stress, seasons, and climate change?
Invasion of the ecosystem snatchers (Ep 149)
How do you experimentally test theories of island biogeography?
Warming oceans and the physics of movement, with Dr. Brad Gemmell
By Clayton Glasgow
The Voracious Ctenophore and the Silent Sea (Ep 148)
How is climate change affecting the movements of small predators in the sea?
Behind the scenes with Paige Harden (Bonus audio)
We’re bringing you this extra special audio that didn’t make it into our episode with Paige Harden.
The Genetics of Vice (Ep 147)
What role do genes play in complex human behaviors?
Tiny Sensors, Big Questions: How new technology is bringing neuroscience out of the lab, with Dr. Nachum Ulanovsky
By Clayton Glasgow
Meet the Scientist: Kathryn Paige Harden (Bonus audio)
Our upcoming episode will feature guest Kathryn Paige Harden. She is Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin and also the author of Original Sin: On The Genetics of Vice, The Problem of Blame, and The Future of Forgiveness.
Neuroscience, naturally (Ep 146)
Listen now | How can neuroscience be more naturalistic? Will lessons from behavioral ecology and evolution have value?
Cognitive plasticity
After all of those episodes on agency and plasticity, Marty wanted to get onto paper how he thinks these things work together. This post summarizes those ideas.
Cover art behind the scenes: "Evolution at the speed of life"
Watch how our amazing artist Brianna Longo created the cover art for our last episode “Evolution at the speed of life”.