Month: March 2016
Pulse of the Planet Daily Audio
Smartphones – Side Effects
Welcome to the Cellphone Sabbath.
March 30, 2016Privacy – Big Brother is a Corporation
It’s convenience versus the loss of privacy, while someone – or something, is watching.
March 29, 2016Smartphones – Two Places at Once
The paradox of being physically present but psychologically absent.
March 28, 2016Smartphones – At What Price
Does the mere presence of a smartphone effect the quality of face-to-face conversations?
March 25, 2016Drones – Software Package
Forest and watershed mapping and inventories, habitat assessments, post-processing of data; it’s all in a day’s work for a research drone.
March 24, 2016Drones – New Tool For Research
Drones are giving scientists unprecedented ways to gather data.
March 23, 2016Poison Ivy – Citizen Science
Here’s a way that you can help track and control poison ivy.
March 22, 2016Finches – Tough Life, Smart Bird
For birds, a bit of competition with their peers early on turns out to be a good thing.
March 21, 2016Finches – Learning to Sing
It all comes down to the tutor.
March 18, 2016Finches – Sounds Just Like Dad
If you’re wooing a female finch, you’d better sound like her father.
March 17, 2016Algorithm of Discovery – Defining What Isn’t
Is it possible to better understand what something is, by knowing what it is not?
March 16, 2016Antibiotics – Breaking Them Down
Antibiotics in cow manure? Composting can help degrade them before they end up in fertilizer.
March 15, 2016Antibiotics Underground
Farmers destroy the milk from cows treated with antibiotics. But the antibiotics could still impact the environment outside the farm.
March 14, 2016Antibiotics and Milk
What happens to the milk from cows who were given antibiotics?
March 11, 2016Algorithm of Discovery – A New Way of Seeing the World
New drugs, new kinds of materials, new insights into the dynamics of ecosystems – all from reinventing the way we categorize things.
March 10, 2016Algorithm of Discovery – New Ideas From Computers
HAL can open the pod door, but can he come come with a new concept?
March 9, 2016Privacy – Are We Giving it Away?
Every day, we’re unknowingly gifting our personal information to corporations and service organizations.
March 8, 2016Hellbender – Bad Name, Good Sign
Though saddled with a dicey moniker, they’re indicators of a healthy water ecosystem.
March 7, 2016Hellbender – King Salamander
North America’s largest salamander can reach a length of two feet and weigh up to five pounds.
March 4, 2016Biological Invaders – Salvinia
Moving a species to a foreign environment may ultimately require importing another species to control the first.
March 3, 2016Biological Invaders – Ecology
Humans are largely responsible for the demise of the biological immunity of ecosystems.
March 2, 2016Biological Invaders – Adaptation
Disparate species are being unnaturally relocated without the benefit of time for adaptation.
March 1, 2016Water – Downstream From Mines
When you’re downstream from a coal mine, you want to know what’s happening upstream.