Better Than Human
By Jennifer and Amber
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Better Than Human the Podcast: Your favorite science biology podcast, where each week we pick an animal or topic to illuminate how fascinating our subject is and prove, once and for all, humans are not the epitome of the evolutionary chain.
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Monarch Butterfly: The Science Behind the Wandering Milkweed Common Tiger of the Americas
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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The History and Science of the Potato; Boil 'em, Mash 'em, Stick 'em in a Stew
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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It's All About that Dopamine Release
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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Dragonflies and the Science Behind Their Unique Adaptations
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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Goblin Shark: Living Fossils to Haunt Your Nightmares
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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Penguins: The Flightless Birds of the Southern Hemisphere
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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Coral Reefs Are Going Extinct, and Humans are to Blame
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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Mosquitoes: Man's Greatest Nemesis
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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Peregrine Falcon: Evolution At Its Finest
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Rats: Studies Prove Rats Have More Empathy Than Humans
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Rats: Intelligent, Clean, Social, and Resourceful
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Algae Without it You'd Be Dead
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May 31, 2022 |
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Villisca Axe Murder House Recorded Live On Location, Rerun
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May 24, 2022 |
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Caffeine: How Coffee and Tea Changed the World
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May 18, 2022 |
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Narwhals: The Non-Mythical Unicorn of the Arctic Oceans
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May 11, 2022 |
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Red Pandas: The One, True Panda and a Plant-Eating Carnivore
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May 04, 2022 |
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The Great American Interchange: When Two Continents Meet, Weird Things Happen
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Axolotl: The Adorable Deadpool of Vertebrates
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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The Platypus: The Weirdest Animal on this Pale Blue Dot
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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The Fruit Fly: Drosophila One of The Most Important Organisms in Biology
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Wolverines: The Ferocious Predator and Trickster of the North
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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InverteButts: All About Those Weird Invertebrate Butts
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Marine Iguanas: The Sea Lizard of the Galápagos Islands
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Dandelions: A Flower By Any Other Name
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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Starfish Are Meant to Shine
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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Dung Beetles: The Sacred Species That Transforms the World for Good
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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Groundhogs: How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck on Groundhog Day?
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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Lemmings: The Tribbles of the Arctic Tundra
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Snowy Owl: The Coolest Bird of the Arctic
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Gila Monster: The Only Venomous Lizard Native to the USA
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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Gilbert’s Potoroo: Australia's Most Endangered Marsupial
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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Beluga Whales: The Great White Sea Canary of the Arctic
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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Krampus: He Knows If You've Been Bad
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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Maned Wolves: A One-of-a-Kind Canine
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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American Crow: The Trickster of the Bird World
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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Plant Mimicry in Nature: The Mimic, The Model and The Fool
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Cranberries: The Sauce of Thanksgiving ... Unless You're President Eisenhower
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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Hamsters: Pets, Wild Animals, Lab Animals and Cannibals
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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Ladybug, Ladybug Fly Away Home
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Allosaurus: The Bone Wars Almost Ruin Our Discovery
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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Why the Addams Family Are the Best Example of a Modern Family
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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Mermaids: Imprinted in Human Psyche, But Evolutionarily Impossible
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Bigfoot: If You’re Going to make up a Cryptid, at least make it Believable
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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Villisca Axe Murder House Recorded Live On Location
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Neanderthals Part 2: Our Brothers From Another Species
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Neanderthals: Our Relatives From the North
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Black Holes: The Center of Every Galaxy
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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Hummingbirds: Tiny Acrobats And The Marvel of the Bird World
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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European Eels: The Fish Whose Life Cycle Scientists Still Don't Understand
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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Do Coconuts Migrate? Coconuts: The Tree of Life, One of The Worlds Most Useful Trees
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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Animals Can Be Jerks, Too: Otters, Wasps, Bottlenose Dolphins and Orcas
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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The Very Real, and Very Elusive, Pink Fairy Armadillo
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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American Bullfrog: The Not-Toad that Will Eat Almost Anything
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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The "Mostly Harmless" Common Garter Snake and Their Odd Mating Strategy
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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Saber-Toothed Cat (Not Tiger): An Apex Predator Of the Americas
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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The Cutest Animals You've Probably Never Heard Of
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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Sloths: One of The World's Weirdest Animals
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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Fascinating Flamingos: the Birds That Turn Pink Because of Algae
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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Inchworms are Caterpillars, But They're Not Moths ... Yet: Inchworms, Parasitic Wasps, Peppered Moths, and Rosy Maple Moth.
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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Great White Sharks: Not the Scariest Predator in the Seas
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Plastics, the Creator of Microplastics: The Second Worst Invention of All Time?
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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The Spectacled Bear, Not Speckled, And Its Spectacular Ancestors
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May 26, 2021 |
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Cicadas: Year of Brood X, The Magicicada Of North America
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May 19, 2021 |
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Peccaries: The Pig That's Not a Pig From the South
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May 11, 2021 |
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Pterosaur: It's a Bird? It's a Dinosaur? It's Neither!
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May 05, 2021 |
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Honeybee or Honey Bee? What's the Difference?
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Apr 25, 2021 |
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Meerkats: The Cutest, but Most Murderous, Species on the Planet
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Apr 18, 2021 |
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Scaly-Foot Snail, AKA Sea Pangolin, AKA Iron Snail!
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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Flying Squirrels: It Doesn't Fly, It Glides ...
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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April Fool's Switcheroo: Staying Awake by Planthropology
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Goose is Geese, so why is Moose not Meese?
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Mar 28, 2021 |
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The World's Most Venomous Creatures are Still Better Than Human
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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The Most Likely Extinct Ivory-Billed Woodpecker: The Bigfoot of the Birding World
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Mar 14, 2021 |
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Leafy Seadragons: Looks like Seaweed, But Named After Mythical Dragons
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Mar 07, 2021 |
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Sundews: The Carnivorous Plant You Should Not Trust
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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Pangolin: The Most Trafficked Animal in the World
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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Glass Frogs: Why You Can See Their Insides on the Outside
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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The Tiniest Turtle In Town: The Bog Turtle of North America
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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The Mysteries of the Elusive Beaked Whale
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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What Does the Island Fox Say?
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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Stupid Human Behaviors and The Science on Why We Do Them
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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Radiodonta: The Largest and Earliest Known Predator of the Cambrian Era
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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Potoo? What's a Potoo, Precious?
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Jan 06, 2021 |
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The Most Epic Cats vs Dogs Debate Ever: Part Two
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Dec 23, 2020 |
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The Most Epic Cats vs Dogs Debate: Part One
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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It's the Most Horrible Time of the Year Says the Grinch
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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Let It Snow: Pseudomonas Syringae, The Bacteria that Helps You Build a Snowman
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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Aye-Aye, The Little-Known (Not Evil) Lemur of Madagascar
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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Hellbender: The Sentinel Snot Otter, the largest salamanders of North America
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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A Phew Skunk Facts and Why You Shouldn't Consider Skunks Pests
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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Hooded Seals and Their Super Macho, Inflatable Bladder Septum
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Nov 04, 2020 |
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Halloween Part 4: Wendigos of Algonquin Folklore
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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Halloween Part 3: The Origins of Vampires and How Modern Media Changed the Folklore
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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Bonus Halloween Part 2: The Amityville House and the Famous Tantallon Castle Photograph
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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Halloween Part 2: Inaccuracies of Ghost Hunting and Can Quantum Mechanics Prove Ghosts Exist
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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Halloween Part 1: Zombies in Nature Are Scarier Than Those in Film and Television
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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The Ancient Horseshoe Crab and Its Importance to Fighting Covid-19
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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The Ultimate (And Cutest) Survivor: The Water Bear, Moss Piglet, Tardigrade
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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Heroes of the Animal Kingdom: Dogs, Giant Tortoises, Pigeons, and More
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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The African Black-Footed Cat, the Worlds Most Endearing and Ferocious Hunter
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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The 'Rediscovery' of the Somali Elephant Shrew
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Sep 02, 2020 |
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Intelligent Design? I Don't Think So. Just ask Marine Mammals, the Spotted Hyenas, and Pandas.
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Aug 26, 2020 |
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Queen Alexandra's Birdwing, The Largest Butterfly (Not Bird) in the World
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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I Want A Hippo ... Wait, Never Mind, Hippopotamus Are Terrifyingly Deadly
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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Z. Tholussum (The Beautiful Translucent Snail) and The Creatures of the Lukina Jama Cave
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Aug 05, 2020 |
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Lucy in the Sky with Magic (Psilocybin) Mushrooms, From Prehistory into Modern Times.
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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GMOs Continued: Genetically Modified Humans?
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Jul 22, 2020 |
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Everything You Eat is a GMO
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Jul 15, 2020 |
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The Ultimate Mimicker
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Jul 08, 2020 |
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Parrots parroting people?
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Jul 01, 2020 |
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Episode 25: Unicorns, The Myths, The Legends
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Jun 23, 2020 |
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Glorification of Stupidity Part Two: The Vilification of Knowledge
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Jun 17, 2020 |
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Glorification of Stupidity Part One: What is Stupid?
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Jun 10, 2020 |
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End Racism. Stay Angry For Change. And the Immortal Jellyfish And Its Implications for Humans
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Jun 03, 2020 |
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Hemp: The Most Useful Plant in all of History
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May 27, 2020 |
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Caspian, The Ancient Mother of All Horses
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May 19, 2020 |
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The Sensationalized Murder Hornet Is Not Trying to Murder *You*
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May 12, 2020 |
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Tyrannosaurus Rex, the Tyrant King of all Kings
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May 06, 2020 |
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Don't Blame the Horseshoe Bat
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Apr 29, 2020 |
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Tigers are Awesome, But Not Pets, and Joe Exotic is NOT the King of Tigers
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Apr 22, 2020 |
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Year of the Rat-a-tat-tat
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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Episode 14: Lord Howe Island Stick Bug: The Not-So-Extinct Tree Lobster
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Apr 05, 2020 |
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Episode Thirteen The Superstition Around The Number 13
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Apr 01, 2020 |
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Covid-19 Update: Why You Should and Shouldn't Be Worried
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Mar 25, 2020 |
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World's Dumbest Weapons: Literal Bat Bombs and the Davy Crockett, aka a Nuclear Launcher
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Mar 16, 2020 |
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New Mexico Whiptails aka Lesbian Lizards
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Mar 10, 2020 |
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The Backends of Wombats and Current Event Nonsense
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Feb 23, 2020 |
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The Evolution of Meteorites
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Feb 12, 2020 |
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Episode 6: Algae. Without It, You'd Be Dead
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Feb 05, 2020 |
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Episode 5: Human Stupidity: How Fools Foiled Dr. Semmelweis From Saving Lives and the US Government Nearly Obliterated North Carolina
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Jan 29, 2020 |
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Episode 4: How Emus Won the War and Other Emu-tastic Adventures
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Jan 22, 2020 |
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Episode 3: Gender is a Social Construct
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Jan 15, 2020 |
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Episode Two: Dragons
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Jan 08, 2020 |
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Episode One: The Mighty Opossum
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Jan 01, 2020 |