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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Inuit words for snow, American Tree Sparrows or Canadian Ground Sparrows? and Charles Darwin and the quest of the unifying principle of the life sciences.
Inuit words for snow, American Tree Sparrows or Canadian Ground Sparrows? and Charles Darwin and the quest of the unifying principle of the life sciences.
Echolocation genetics in bats and dolphins, genetically-engineered trees, bird song. Discussion of courtship and reproductive strategies.
Echolocation genetics in bats and dolphins, genetically-engineered trees, bird song. Discussion of courtship and reproductive strategies.
Winter rosettes, polar high pressure oscillations, and White-breasted Nuthatches. We finally get to the long-promised discussion of niches!
Winter rosettes, polar high pressure oscillations, and White-breasted Nuthatches. We finally get to the long-promised discussion of niches!
Flock of Bluebirds, Host of Sparrows, Dray of Squirrels—collective nouns in James Lipton’s book, An Exultation of Larks or The Venereal Game. Special guests: The Canal Fulton Players reading from Sir Arthur Conon Doyle’s historical novel Sir Nigel.
Flock of Bluebirds, Host of Sparrows, Dray of Squirrels—collective nouns in James Lipton’s book, An Exultation of Larks or The Venereal Game. Special guests: The Canal Fulton Players reading from Sir Arthur Conon Doyle’s historical novel Sir Nigel.
Catkins, Short-Tailed Shrew, and Beaver and How Keystone Species Modify Their Environment
Catkins, Short-Tailed Shrew, and Beaver and How Keystone Species Modify Their Environment
Hawks! Cooper's, Sharp-shinned, Red-tail, Rough-legged and others, with an interview with Dr. Keith Bildstein, Director of Conservation Science at Hawk Mountain.
Hawks! Cooper's, Sharp-shinned, Red-tail, Rough-legged and others, with an interview with Dr. Keith Bildstein, Director of Conservation Science at Hawk Mountain.
The astronomical basis for the calendar, “The Vole Truth,” water boatmen and stories in the snow.
The astronomical basis for the calendar, “The Vole Truth,” water boatmen and stories in the snow.
What Causes the Wind, Black-Capped Chickadee, Nibiru and 2012 myths, and the Scientific Method
