Outside/In

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 Mar 9, 2020
great stories!

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 Feb 8, 2020
love it!!!

Raven
 Jul 25, 2019
Too much silliness.

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A show where curiosity and the natural world collide. We explore science, energy, environmentalism, and reflections on how we think about and depict nature, and always leave time for plenty of goofing off. Outside/In is a production of NHPR. Learn more at outsideinradio.org

Episode Date
Shhhh! It’s the sound and silence episode
Nov 28, 2024
The Ballad and the Flood
Nov 21, 2024
What's living under your porch
Nov 14, 2024
The Night Owls
Nov 07, 2024
Postmortem: The Stolen Bodies of Harvard
Oct 31, 2024
What Remains, Part 2: In Memoriam
Oct 24, 2024
What Remains, Part 1: No Justice, No Peace
Oct 17, 2024
What Remains: What's Past is Prologue
Oct 10, 2024
"Primitive, Unconfined Recreation"
Oct 03, 2024
Ghosts in the machine
Sep 26, 2024
The cold, hard truth about refrigeration
Sep 19, 2024
The Mississippi Cyborg
Sep 12, 2024
The $1,000 balloon
Sep 05, 2024
Why we get scared—and why we like it
Aug 29, 2024
The not-so-secret life of plants
Aug 22, 2024
This is your brain on GPS
Aug 15, 2024
The fifth sense
Aug 08, 2024
Saving the tallest trees on Earth
Aug 01, 2024
Hot Olympic Summer: Is Paris Greenwashing the Games?
Jul 25, 2024
Every bite is a story
Jul 18, 2024
Introducing “The Youth Development Center”
Jul 11, 2024
The new space race
Jul 04, 2024
The Potato Show
Jun 27, 2024
Ed Yong and The Spoonbill Club
Jun 20, 2024
The Winter Rangers
Jun 13, 2024
Wolves, water, and global weirding
Jun 06, 2024
Dead bird rabbit hole
May 30, 2024
The Department of Living Animals
May 23, 2024
The papyrus and the volcano
May 16, 2024
The Kings and Queens of "the Water Prom"
May 09, 2024
The Element of Surprise
May 02, 2024
‘Til the landslide brings it down
Apr 25, 2024
The mystery of the missing extinctions
Apr 18, 2024
Meet the meatfluencers
Apr 11, 2024
Reefer madness, the CBD bubble, and the future of hemp
Apr 04, 2024
Songbird accents, eating rats, and why we need the moon
Mar 28, 2024
In search of an ethical 401k
Mar 21, 2024
The story you won’t hear in Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer”
Mar 14, 2024
You can make kids hike, but you can’t make them hikers
Mar 07, 2024
The disappearing dunes of 'Dune'
Feb 29, 2024
Hunters do cry
Feb 22, 2024
What's the most successful species on Earth?
Feb 15, 2024
The edge of the ice
Feb 08, 2024
The plot thickens
Feb 01, 2024
Blue is the loneliest color
Jan 25, 2024
Not everyone is wild about wild horses
Jan 18, 2024
Pigeons are weird
Jan 11, 2024
The Oatly Chronicles
Jan 04, 2024
Dragons, trolls and pine trees
Dec 28, 2023
Baby it’s GREAT outside: 12 more tips for embracing winter
Dec 21, 2023
Is 'Yellowstone' ruining Montana?
Dec 14, 2023
Dear ChatGPT: Are you a climate solution? Or climate problem?
Dec 07, 2023
How does the National Weather Service work?
Nov 30, 2023
Why did the road cross the chicken?
Nov 21, 2023
The secret lives of bugs
Nov 16, 2023
As American as hard apple cider: an immigrant food story
Nov 09, 2023
Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana
Nov 01, 2023
Bat Out of Hell Ranch
Oct 26, 2023
Environmental disinformation is getting weirder
Oct 19, 2023
Do airports dream of electric planes?
Oct 12, 2023
Close Encounters with Mato Tipila
Oct 05, 2023
Where there’s smoke, there’s ire
Sep 28, 2023
The greatest disaster story of all time
Sep 21, 2023
The last great trip
Sep 14, 2023
Let's talk boundaries
Sep 07, 2023
After the avalanche: rescue gone wrong
Aug 31, 2023
Of lab mice and men
Aug 24, 2023
What the heck is El Niño, anyway?
Aug 17, 2023
Drilled: The Panic
Aug 10, 2023
If houseplants could talk: communication and the natural world
Aug 03, 2023
What's really in your wine?
Jul 27, 2023
Oppenheimer's omission
Jul 20, 2023
Shhhhhh! It’s the sound and silence episode
Jul 13, 2023
Shrimp on the line
Jul 06, 2023
Do your doo diligence
Jun 29, 2023
The Call of the Void
Jun 22, 2023
The carbon in your closet: cotton vs. polyester and other fabricated dilemmas
Jun 15, 2023
When protest is a crime, part 2: city in a forest
Jun 08, 2023
When protest is a crime, part 1: the Standing Rock effect
Jun 01, 2023
Is Biden a good climate president?
May 25, 2023
Just try not to breathe
May 18, 2023
A tale of two deserts: Are Saudi cows to blame for Arizona's water crisis?
May 11, 2023
It's not easy being evergreen
May 04, 2023
The city inside a glacier
Apr 27, 2023
The Race to Net Zero: building a car-free future
Apr 20, 2023
The Race to Net Zero: will EVs get us there fast enough?
Apr 13, 2023
The Underdogs Ep3: You sell your soul
Mar 30, 2023
The Underdogs Ep 2: 'It has to be earned'
Mar 23, 2023
The Underdogs Ep1: Honey and vinegar
Mar 16, 2023
Outside/In presents The Underdogs
Mar 09, 2023
Scents & sensibility
Mar 02, 2023
Who owns the sky?
Feb 23, 2023
Worm Wars! Invasive species and the stories we tell about them
Feb 16, 2023
Groundhogs: incidental archaeologists, mystical meteorologists
Jan 31, 2023
The “extreme” beat: whale hearts, mudslides, and more
Jan 26, 2023
The ocean is a place of queer possibility
Jan 19, 2023
Dinner reservations: how to eat sustainably (and does it even matter?)
Jan 12, 2023
Cold t*ts, warm hearts: the cold water dippers of Maine
Dec 29, 2022
Hot dam! Climate news that isn’t terrible
Dec 22, 2022
How a chicken saved my life
Dec 15, 2022
13 tips on how to "surthrive" this winter
Dec 01, 2022
O Possum! My Possum!
Nov 24, 2022
The reality of History’s “Alone”
Nov 17, 2022
Legends of the fall: fallout shelters, dreams of falling, and autumnal vibes
Nov 03, 2022
Why we get scared (and why we like it)
Oct 27, 2022
The curious case of the missing extinctions
Oct 13, 2022
The last veterinarians in town
Oct 06, 2022
The olive & the pine
Sep 22, 2022
Why do we stare at fire and other existential questions
Sep 15, 2022
Your Wildest Wildlife Encounters
Sep 08, 2022
Yardwork: A bitter melon grows in Boston
Aug 25, 2022
Yardwork: Gardening is heavy metal
Aug 18, 2022
Yardwork: Lawn and Order
Aug 11, 2022
The most successful species on Earth?!
Jul 28, 2022
The National Park Service
Jul 21, 2022
The first national park
Jul 14, 2022
Is climate journalism experiencing a Great Resignation?
Jun 30, 2022
Life and Death at a Human Decomposition Facility
Jun 23, 2022
Update: Happy the Elephant is Not a Person
Jun 17, 2022
Six Foot Turkey: What Jurassic Park Got Wrong (And Right) About Dinosaurs
Jun 09, 2022
Et Tu, Brute? The Case for Human Rights for Animals
Jun 02, 2022
Frog Sex, Tree Soap, and Other Signs of Spring
May 26, 2022
After the Avalanche
May 12, 2022
Call of the Void
Apr 28, 2022
The So-Called Mystery of Rapa Nui (AKA Easter Island)
Apr 14, 2022
How to Build a Solar-Powered Website
Apr 07, 2022
Frankenfish
Mar 31, 2022
Outside/Inbox: You Can't Get Further Outdoors than Space
Mar 24, 2022
Holy Scat! Why Antlers Are Freaking Amazing
Mar 10, 2022
The Immigrant Apple and The Hard Cider Comeback
Feb 24, 2022
What the Tofurkey is Going On with Fake Meat?
Feb 17, 2022
Even Hikers Get The Blues
Feb 10, 2022
Dispatches from the New American Shore
Jan 27, 2022
The “Do-Nothing” Farmer: Part II, The Mountain
Jan 13, 2022
The “Do-Nothing” Farmer: Part I, The Revolution
Jan 13, 2022
It Was the Ladies Who Hugged the Trees
Jan 06, 2022
Sheep + Solar, A Love Story
Dec 30, 2021
How to Embrace Winter (like Norwegians do)!
Dec 16, 2021
Outside/Inbox: Do Bears Hoot?
Dec 02, 2021
A Vegetarian Turned Deer Hunter in Deutschland
Nov 18, 2021
Can an Animal be a Criminal?
Nov 04, 2021
The So-called Mystery of Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
Oct 21, 2021
Tourism Spoils
Oct 14, 2021
The Himalayan Land Grab
Oct 07, 2021
Outside/Inbox: The Ramen Wasp Murders & Other Mysteries
Sep 23, 2021
Scents and Sensibility
Sep 09, 2021
Book Club: Four Lost Cities
Aug 26, 2021
The Problem with America’s National Parks
Aug 12, 2021
Bonus: Ciao for Now, Sam Evans-Brown
Jul 30, 2021
Windfall, Part 5: The Just Transition
Jul 22, 2021
Windfall, Part 4: Port of Departure
Jul 15, 2021
Windfall, Part 3: Squid Pro Quo
Jul 08, 2021
Windfall, Part 2: Please Let Me Finish, Mr. Kennedy.
Jul 01, 2021
Windfall, Part 1: Sea Change
Jun 24, 2021
Introducing: Windfall
Jun 17, 2021
In Pittsburgh
Jun 03, 2021
Book Club: Trace
May 20, 2021
The Sand Protocol
May 06, 2021
The Trouble With Music About Wilderness
Apr 22, 2021
10x10: Sand Beach
Apr 08, 2021
A Climate Activist Goes to Business School
Mar 25, 2021
10X10: City Gutter
Mar 11, 2021
The Acorn: An Ohlone Love Story
Feb 25, 2021
Ask Sam: Do Hummingbirds Sleep and Other Questions
Feb 11, 2021
I Would Prefer Not To
Jan 28, 2021
Thin Green Line
Jan 14, 2021
If You Wanna Get Kosileg, You Gotta Get a Little Friluftsliv
Dec 31, 2020
Coal and Solar in the Navajo Nation
Dec 17, 2020
Climate Migration
Dec 03, 2020
Cat of the Clouds
Nov 25, 2020
The Forest for the Carbon
Nov 19, 2020
Fortress Conservation
Nov 05, 2020
10x10: Pine Barren
Oct 22, 2020
The Olive and the Pine
Oct 08, 2020
Rice is Food and Other Stories
Sep 24, 2020
The Lithium Gold Rush
Sep 10, 2020
Sidedoor: The Riverkeeper
Aug 27, 2020
The Darién Gap
Aug 13, 2020
Ask Sam: Spice Must Flow
Jul 30, 2020
Open Worlds
Jul 16, 2020
UPDATE: The GFOAT, or Greatest Fruit of All Time
Jul 09, 2020
Ginkgo Love
Jul 02, 2020
Fruit Fight!!!
Jun 18, 2020
Birding While Black
Jun 11, 2020
Massachusetts v. EPA
Jun 04, 2020
Inside/In: Moss & Mold
May 21, 2020
On Fires and Feelings
May 14, 2020
The Carrington Event
Apr 30, 2020
Inside/In: How To Be A Backyard Birber
Apr 16, 2020
Cat People
Apr 09, 2020
Inside/In
Apr 02, 2020
10X10: Kettle Bog
Mar 19, 2020
Tempest in a Teacup
Mar 05, 2020
Nudge-Off Results! Plus, The Forest for the Treesap [Replay]
Feb 20, 2020
Nature Has Done Her Part
Feb 06, 2020
A Battle of Tiny Proportions
Jan 23, 2020
Leo Rising
Jan 10, 2020
Chasing The Light
Dec 20, 2019
A Year of Wonders
Dec 05, 2019
Jesabel Y Eddie
Nov 21, 2019
The Particular Sadness of Trout Fishing in America
Nov 12, 2019
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bug
Oct 24, 2019
Ask Sam: Grandpa's Rhubarb
Oct 10, 2019
Cold, Dark, and Sharky
Sep 25, 2019
Patient Zero: The Laser
Sep 12, 2019
Patient Zero: The Vector
Aug 29, 2019
Patient Zero: The Triangle
Aug 15, 2019
Introducing Patient Zero
Jul 23, 2019
Can You Feel the Lies Tonight
Jul 04, 2019
Plan B
Jun 20, 2019
Swimming Lessons
Jun 06, 2019
I'm a Penguin Counter for God's Sake!
May 23, 2019
Operation Confirmation Bias
May 10, 2019
Ask Sam: Bidets the Day
Apr 25, 2019
Pants on Fire
Apr 18, 2019
Must Love Logs
Apr 12, 2019
Killing Cats, Saving Numbats
Apr 04, 2019
The Family Business
Mar 28, 2019
Hunting The Night Parrot
Mar 14, 2019
10X10: Under The Ice
Feb 28, 2019
Leave No Stone
Feb 14, 2019
32 Is the New 40
Jan 31, 2019
Falling Doesn't Count
Jan 17, 2019
Rake and Ride
Jan 03, 2019
Just Decide
Dec 20, 2018
Now I am an Axolotl
Dec 06, 2018
Ask Sam: Trichomes, Bug hair, Bug Tumors, & Mollusk Shells
Nov 21, 2018
The Meat Matrix
Nov 08, 2018
So Over Population [Part 2]
Oct 25, 2018
So Over Population [Part 1]
Oct 11, 2018
O/I Presents: Bear Brook
Oct 04, 2018
Look Toward the Dawn
Sep 27, 2018
This Isn't Science, It's a Love Story
Sep 13, 2018
Shrunk and Punk'd
Aug 30, 2018
The Sky is Burning
Aug 16, 2018
10x10 - Pine Barren
Aug 02, 2018
Loser Wolves: A Cat Fancy
Jul 19, 2018
Molto Moleche
Jul 05, 2018
The Most Dangerous Game
Jun 21, 2018
The Forest for the Treesap
Jun 07, 2018
Ride or Die
May 24, 2018
Ask Sam: Hair of the Dog, Walking Fish and the Truth About Palm Trees
May 10, 2018
Stay In Your Lane
Apr 26, 2018
Shine Service
Apr 12, 2018
One Bin to Rule Them All
Apr 02, 2018
Life on the Edge of the Olympics
Mar 15, 2018
Magical Drinking
Mar 01, 2018
Updates For Your Brain
Feb 15, 2018
An American Lobster in Stockholm
Feb 01, 2018
Ask Sam: Caterpillar Legs, Living Fossils, & Sam Ruins Edison Bulbs
Jan 18, 2018
Stoner Panels
Jan 04, 2018
What's the Deal with Coydogs?
Dec 21, 2017
Fantastic Mr. Phillips
Dec 08, 2017
Powerline, Part IV: Down the Line
Nov 30, 2017
Powerline, Part III: The Peace of the Braves
Nov 23, 2017
Powerline, Part II: The Project of the Century
Nov 16, 2017
Powerline, Part I: Masters In Our Own Home
Nov 09, 2017
Introducing: Powerline
Oct 27, 2017
Vultures Inherit the Earth
Oct 26, 2017
Ask Sam | Eating Grass, Killing Trees, Bottling and Logging
Oct 12, 2017
In Too Deep
Sep 28, 2017
Pick Your Poison
Sep 14, 2017
Lime and Tabasco
Aug 31, 2017
The Hitchhiker's Guide to WWOOFing
Aug 17, 2017
Bright Lights, Big Salad
Aug 03, 2017
Healing Hands of Nature
Jul 20, 2017
After The Flood
Jul 06, 2017
Eat the Invaders & Ask Sam
Jun 22, 2017
S.O.S.
Jun 08, 2017
10x10 - Midden
May 25, 2017
Champagne on the Rocks
May 18, 2017
Daisy Supply Chain
May 11, 2017
Ask Sam Round-up
Apr 27, 2017
Leave it to Beavers
Apr 13, 2017
Full Disclosure
Mar 30, 2017
The Company Man
Mar 16, 2017
Bonus Episode: 3 1/2 Feet Under
Mar 09, 2017
Gnar Pow
Mar 02, 2017
Fantastic Mr. Phillips
Feb 16, 2017
Ask Sam | Snow Fleas, Wind, Mount Mitchell
Feb 02, 2017
The Death Machine
Jan 19, 2017
A House Built on Sand
Jan 12, 2017
The Accidental History of Solar Power
Jan 05, 2017
Millionaires' Hunt Club
Dec 29, 2016
HumaNature - Hoofprints on the Heart
Dec 22, 2016
The 2nd Greatest Show on Earth
Dec 15, 2016
Don't Cheer For Me Argentina
Dec 08, 2016
10x10 - Traffic Circle
Nov 22, 2016
Always. Wear. Earth. Tones.
Nov 10, 2016
Nature is a Haunted House
Oct 27, 2016
Eat the Invaders - Lionfish
Oct 20, 2016
Look Toward the Dawn
Oct 06, 2016
Dr. Percy & the Magic Soybean
Sep 22, 2016
The Early Birder Gets the Bird
Sep 08, 2016
When the Cat's Away, The Mice Will Play
Sep 01, 2016
WTF is TFC?
Aug 18, 2016
Never Bring a Sledgehammer to a Scalpel Fight
Aug 04, 2016
These Shoes Were Made For Mocking
Jul 21, 2016
The Pokémon Question
Jul 14, 2016
Up Against the Ropes
Jul 07, 2016
Ask Sam | Syrup-titious
Jun 23, 2016
Anothah Boston Cheat
Jun 09, 2016
Tiny Terror
Mar 25, 2016
Gridlocked
Mar 18, 2016
Parenting At 24,000 Feet
Mar 04, 2016
The Young Man of the Mountain
Feb 26, 2016
Smashing Pumpkins-The Gourd That Changed A Town
Feb 03, 2016
Champagne on the Rocks
Jan 19, 2016
Pier Pressure
Dec 22, 2015
The Moose Whisperer
Dec 15, 2015
10x10 - Vernal Pools
Dec 08, 2015
The Kiwi Apocalypse
Dec 01, 2015
Welcome to Outside/In!
Nov 20, 2015