Wild Ideas...The Podcast - The Wilderness Center
Summary: Your own nature talk! Observations of everyday nature leads to bigger ideas about the natural world and how it all fits together. Join a naturalist, a science educator, and a conservation biologist for friendly, science-based nature chats and down-to-earth interviews with selected scientists. Wild Ideas…the Podcast won’t keep you indoors! Take the wild ideas outside to enrich your personal observations and play—it’s good for you, good for your kids, and good for nature. Wild Ideas…the Podcast is produced by The Wilderness Center, a nonprofit nature center, land conservancy, and ecopreneurial organization.
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Duckweed is Gary's topic. Joann explains heat waves caused by Hadley cells. Gordon talks about Hooded Warblers. The interview is about nature journaling with Mark Baldwin at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute.
Gary saw a Swamp White Oak, Gordon got a spider bite (Could it be a Brown Recluse?), and Joann got another moth—the Hummingbird Moth. The interview is with Bernd Henrich about Bunblebee Economics.
Gary saw a Swamp White Oak, Gordon got a spider bite (Could it be a Brown Recluse?), and Joann got another moth—the Hummingbird Moth. The interview is with Bernd Heinrich about Bumblebee Economics.
Gary saw a Swamp White Oak, Gordon got a spider bite (Could it be a Brown Recluse?), and Joann got another moth—the Hummingbird Moth. The interview is with Bernd Henrich about Bunblebee Economics.
Joann tries to love Poke, Gordon’s thoughts jump from Kingbirds to Scissor-tailed Flycatchers, and Gary talks about the geology of the Great Lakes. Interview with Brad Lepper of the Ohio Historical Society about Ice Age Megafauna.
Joann tries to love Poke, Gordon’s thoughts jump from Kingbirds to Scissor-tailed Flycatchers, and Gary talks about the geology of the Great Lakes. Interview with Brad Lepper of the Ohio Historical Society about Ice Age Megafauna.
Flat worms with symbiotic bacteria excite Gary. The balance of the episode is about ants including an interview with James Trager. Learn about one of the most important groups of insects on the planet.
Flat worms with symbiotic bacteria excite Gary. The balance of the episode is about ants including an interview with James Trager. Learn about one of the most important groups of insects on the planet.
Joann's summer of the moth continues, Gordon is enjoying roadside legumes, and Gary's looking at habitat restoration. The interview is with Vern Laux of the Linda Loring Nature Foundation on shorebirds—Least Terns, American Oystercatchers, and Piping Plovers.
Joann's summer of the moth continues, Gordon is enjoying roadside legumes, and Gary's looking at habitat restoration. The interview is with Vern Laux of the Linda Loring Nature Foundation on shorebirds—Least Terns, American Oystercatchers, and Piping Plovers.
Stationary weather fronts, Long-tailed Weasel, Common Ravens. Interview with Bernd Heinrich, author of Mind of the Raven and many other natural history books.
Stationary weather fronts, Long-tailed Weasel, Common Ravens. Interview with Bernd Heinrich, author of Mind of the Raven and many other natural history books.
Alvar communities on thin glaciated limestone, Mulberry trees, Black Vultures are the weekly topics followed by an interview with Wayne Clark about Black Widow spiders.
Alvar communities on thin glaciated limestone, Mulberry trees, Black Vultures are the weekly topics followed by an interview with Wayne Clark about Black Widow spiders.
Gary's thinking about impervious surfaces and runoff. Joann finds an embarrassingly common new plant! And Gordon's observations about Mourning Doves lead to a discussion of game/nongame species.
