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What on earth is earth? A soil scientist tell us…and why we shouldn’t treat it like dirt.

What on earth is earth? A soil scientist tell us…and why we shouldn’t treat it like dirt.

by radiocafe | Jan 2, 2018 | Down to Earth, Science & health

Christine Jones explains what’s wrong with industrial paradigm of agriculture and how understanding soil can help us grow food that’s healthier — for people, rivers, oceans, climate, local economies, and pretty much everything else.

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Catastrophic fires and natural fires: the science and policy behind wildfire management

Catastrophic fires and natural fires: the science and policy behind wildfire management

by radiocafe | Nov 17, 2017 | Santa Fe New Mexican, Science & health

Fire scientist Rod Linn and firefighter and journalist Kyle Dickman, the human and ecological costs and benefits of fighting fires, and of letting them burn.

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Lightning and thunder… explained

Lightning and thunder… explained

by radiocafe | Jul 5, 2017 | Science & health

What is lightning? What do we know–and not know–about how it works? What is the relationship between lightning and space-based nuclear weapons treaty compliance monitoring? Physicist Tess Light will tell you all this and more…

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Misunderstanding Terrorism

Misunderstanding Terrorism

by radiocafe | Jun 28, 2017 | Science & health

… is the new book by forensic psychiatrist and former CIA officer Marc Sageman, who analyzes the backgrounds and motivations of neojihadist terrorists, and maps a path forward based on social science rather than political posturing.

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We are the cause of our own…plagues.

We are the cause of our own…plagues.

by radiocafe | Jun 21, 2017 | Science & health

That’s right, seven of them–from HIV/AIDS to resistant strains of bacteria, viruses, flus, and lyme disease. Dr. Mark Jerome Walters talks about the human role in causing and aggravating those diseases by our poor handling of ecosystems.

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Hunting, farming, and surviving between worlds…

Hunting, farming, and surviving between worlds…

by radiocafe | Jun 14, 2017 | Science & health

Anthropologist Paul Hooper has lived with the Tsimane people of Bolivia and reports on their extraordinary health and athleticism, and their way of life which includes entirely home-grown beer and barbecue.

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The lives of animals before they’re food

The lives of animals before they’re food

by radiocafe | Jun 7, 2017 | Science & health

Anthropologist Barbara King writes about food animals–insects, octopuses, chickens, and various mammals–not to get you to stop eating them, but to open a discussion about about the lives of animals and cruelty in the industrial food system.

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My language, my soul…

My language, my soul…

by radiocafe | May 31, 2017 | Science & health

Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky makes the case that the language–or languages–we speak deeply affect who we are and how we engage with the world.

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Take me to the limit…

Take me to the limit…

by radiocafe | May 24, 2017 | Science & health

… of science, of understanding, of language, of mathematics… a philosophical conversation about science with David Krakauer, President of the Santa Fe Institute.

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Not just tired but sick…

Not just tired but sick…

by radiocafe | May 17, 2017 | Science & health

Science writer Julie Rehmeyer found out she had chronic fatigue syndrome, and went on a journey to find a cure that took her from doctors to Death Valley.

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