Strange by Nature Podcast - Your Weekly Weird Nature
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Life is strange. Naturally you want to hear about it. Three professional naturalists get together weekly to share the strangest science-based nature stories they can find. Come join the fun.
We have poured off the final maple syrup batch of the season at work. Not a bad year, not a great year. Pretty average. Won’t know if we won another ribbon for four more months.
DID YOU HEAR THIS EPISODE? Redheads with super powers #TeamGinger Bark Lice Genital Swap #Unexpected and JUMBOs - Jupiter Mass Binary Objects #Astronomy #Podcast #Scicomm #Science #Nature #Strange
Why Redheads Have Secret Powers
Victoria is back with us this week and she kicks things off with a doozy of a story about a species of bark lice that has undergone a complete swapping of genitals between males and females. It's a very cool story but has frank discussions of reproductive parts so parents feel free to decide if you're ready for those discussions with your young ones. Kirk is up next with a story about Redheads! Sure, we all know some strange redheads but did you know they may have super powers? New studies show that being a redhead may protect you in an unusual way. Rachel rounds out this week's show with JuMBOs, Jupiter Mass binary Objects. This mysterious new class of objects in space have researchers further refining what we thought was possible. Join us weekly for more strange nature. Our supporters on Patreon get every episode ad-free! Support us: patreon.com/strangebynature Email us: contact@strangebynaturepodcast.com Visit us at: strangebynaturepodcast.com where you can sign up for our episode emails.
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NEW EPISODE! This week, Hear the Magnetic Reversal of the Earth's poles and learn about a newly discovered species of scorpion that can shoot venom! #strange #Science #Scicomm #podcast #geology #weird #nature
Flipping the Earth's Poles
Kirk kicks things off this week with a wild story about how the magnetic field of the Earth has completely flipped in the past. The European Space Agency recently used data sonification to help people...
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Current forecast is for somewhere between 4-26 inches of snow. So…maybe?
It will never not be weird that vast loads of fluffy frozen white hexagonal crystals falls RIGHT OUT OF THE SKY, blankets the landscape, then stays here until the heat from a star a gazillion miles away causes the white stuff to change state and disappear as if it never happened. Life is bananas.
a timelapsed video a very turbulent updraft base from a supercell thunderstorm on August 27th of 2022 near Cannon Falls, Minnesota
NEW EPISODE! Box #Jellyfish and Yams. Sure, seems like a #strange combination but they are weird. Box jellies carry a potent neurotoxin but what's so odd about Yams? These particular ones have learned a trick no other asexually reproducing plant has. 🧪 #Scicomm #Science #Nature #Podcast #Ocean
I Yam What I Yam
Rachel starts us off this week with the strange Box Jellyfish. This is an animal you don't want to get mixed up with. Kirk never wants to go in the ocean again. Speaking of Kirk, and speaking of stran...
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Just a heads up: It’s okay to not be okay.
reading about organisms that aren’t your specialty is like margins of the quorbus eplungulate, ploobular processes bent posteriorly towards the foobulum define term “eplungulate” - lacking plungae. synonym: thubulous
In 1859, Richard Carrington observed the 1st solar flare--an eruption so powerful it spawned brilliant auroras & knocked out telegraph lines around the world. We have Carrington's drawings but, amazingly, there was no known picture of the man himself--until now. 🧪🔭 academic.oup.com/astrogeo/art...
A community science project needs your help to document light pollution in the U.S. Midwest. Just look up! 🧪 www.kcur.org/environment-...
Help scientists document Midwest light pollution by looking at Orion
More people participating in the citizen science project Globe At Night could help fill gaps in what astronomers know about the extent of skyglow.
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If an educator made a difference in your life be sure to track them down and tell them. We're all out here blindly sending kids off into the world hoping the message sinks in. You have no idea how much it means to us when someone reaches out decades later to say they remember.
NEW EPISODE! Vampire #bats are the only #mammal that doesn't develop aversions after eating bad food. Scientists keep calling the Harlequin bug a new species over and over and over again. Common side-blotched #lizards mating strategies are Rock, Paper, Scissors. #nature #podcast #scicomm #science
Vampire Bats and Cinnamon Blood
Hello Everyone and thanks for listening this week. Kirk kicks things off with a story about Vampire bats that just won't learn their lesson. In fact, they aren't able to. New research shows vampire ba...
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A beautiful Tritonia (nudibranch) from @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 600 #CliffReefs #MarineLife
Some good news.
Chris Baraniuk@chrisbaraniuk.com · 6mo agoNEW: North Atlantic right whales - a species whose fortunes I've followed for years - are having a baby boom!! 21 mother-calf pairs have been sighted so far, the highest figure in years. And we're not even halfway through the calving season (which runs to mid-April). www.wired.com/story/a-nort...