A Red Panda Named Biru Joins Central Park Zoo
Biru, a 1-year-old male red panda, has joined his female companion Amaya at the Central Park Zoo.Red pandas were discovered in 1825, according to the Zoo, 50 years before the giant panda, and there are...
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Name Your Ancestor Now: Vote!
See those 32 names in the bracket below? One of them will be the name of your ancestor. But first, you must vote.Scroll down to the survey, pick your favorite from the pairs of randomized head-to-head...
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Name that Shrew! Round Two.
Round Three voting is now LIVE... vote here! (And thanks to the almost 4,000 fans who voted in Round Two!)You've eliminated sixteen names, now it's time to knock out eight more.Round Two of March...
View ArticleBudget Battles; Leaving Catholicism; Obama's Israel Trip; Franken-Critters
Hear the latest on the budget battles in Washington. Plus: Guardian columnist Emma Gilbey Keller on leaving Catholicism; why the SEIU supports the new New York gun laws; Columbia University professor...
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And then there were two: final round voting to Name Your Ancestor
This is the moment all you placental ancestor lovers have been waiting for: we're down to the final two pop culture monikers for the little hairy beast. Who'll it be? Schrëwdinger (is she our oldest...
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The Common Ancestor Campaign Trail
Desperate for a name, our common ancestor is hitting the streets to get out the vote. Mancestor or Shrëwdinger, who will you choose? Do your ancestral duty, and cast your ballot today!If you can't see...
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Ancestor Hams for Halle
Schrëwdinger was seen playing for the cameras, to the delight of Halle Berry, at the creature's final red-carpet appearance before voting closes today in the Name Your Ancestor contest. Will the common...
View ArticleCulture Gabfest: Curb Appeal Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss the revelation that the reality show "House Hunters" is sometimes completely staged, Kathryn Bowers' new book about how humans and...
View ArticleThe Culture Gabfest: Bengal Tiger Giving Birth Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, Julia Turner, and June Thomas discuss early previews of the fall TV lineup, including The New Normal, The Mindy Kaling Project, and Animal Practice, plus...
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What's That Clinging To The Towering Wall And Why Doesn't It Fall Off?
Maybe you've seen this, (it's gotten around), but I'm still gobsmacked. Totally amazed. We're in northern Italy looking at the face of the Cingino Dam, and here and there on the vertical stone wall,...
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One Man. One Cat. Multiplied
We start with a man called Mike and a cat called Ella. Two creatures.Nothing odd about them, except that Mike has a beard and Ella is a touch chunky. Otherwise, they could be any cat & guy. Except...
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Animal Loses Head But Remembers Everything
When I first saw this," says cell biologist Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado, "it was with total amazement."Robert Krulwich/NPRThis is a worm. It's called a planarian. It's about an inch long, and you'll...
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Thomas Jefferson Needs A Dead Moose Right Now To Defend America
They were so young, the folks who invented America. James Madison, on July 4, 1776, was 25. James Monroe was 18, Alexander Hamilton, 21, Marquis de Lafayette, 18, Aaron Burr, 20, Betsy Ross, 24,...
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What's The Biggest Animal Gathering Ever? (Was Rod Stewart There?)
It's a small moment in a sprawling Shakespeare play. Most people miss it. A nobleman named Mortimer has been locked up by the king, who decrees: Don't anyone say "Mortimer" in my royal presence. That...
View ArticleWrong! Deconstructing 5 Famous History Stories
Here are five stories we tell ourselves — five famous history stories that you have heard all your life — that aren't true. Not only are they not true, but historians have known they aren't true, said...
View ArticleBears in NJ Walk Like Humans (And We Have Video Proof)
The internet is obsessed with cute animals. It's even more obsessed with cute animals pretending to be humans - because a sassy, talking bodega cat or a dog in a necktie running a radio station is just...
View ArticleThe Gorilla Shooting Heard Around the World
Many people are outraged that zookeepers at the Cincinnati Zoo shot a gorilla after a toddler fell into its enclosure.Ed Hansen, CEO of the American Association of Zoo Keepers, talks about what...
View ArticleHumpback Whale Spotted in Hudson River
A humpback whale has been seen swimming up and down New York's Hudson River in recent days.The U.S. Coast Guard says it has gotten dozens of calls reporting sightings from the Statue of Liberty to...
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When whimsical wildlife photography isn’t what it seems
On the surface, this photo looks fun, but it is staged. And its origins highlight the cloudy intersection of wildlife photography, animal welfare issues and photojournalism integrity. Photo by Riau...
View ArticleSaving Animals
One place you absolutely, positively do not want to be if you're a healthy, middle-aged American lobster: trapped in a suburban grocery store in western Pennsylvania. But that's where this week's...
View ArticleA Best in Show Bichon and Plenty of #WestminsterRejects
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segmentThe 142nd annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog show crowned a winner last night in New York City. Flynn, a bichon frisé, was named Best in...
View ArticleFish Girl
A girl finds an unlikely friend in a porcupine puffer fish. Written by Becca Schall, produced by Jonathan Mitchell. Performed by Bee Herbstman, Alison Cimmet, Scott Richardson, and Ed Herbstman.
View ArticleThe Moth Radio Hour: Inner Compass
In this hour, three stories about questioning power dynamics…in the USSR, on the streets of NYC and on death row. Hosted by The Moth's Senior Producer, Jenifer Hixson. The Moth Radio Hour is produced...
View Article9 - Ice and Snow
From sugary snow cones to WWII plans for an aircraft carrier made of ice and wood pulp, humans have had big dreams for frozen water. So this week, we’re exploring the science of snow and ice across the...
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31 - Digestion
Everybody eats, and everybody poops, but in between… that’s where the magic happens! This week we’re talking about everyone’s favorite organic method of removing nutrients from food: digestion! Follow...
View Article39 - Deserts
You might think you know everything there is to know about deserts: big, sandy, hot, etc. But between the alien mummies and the ice blades, we're guessing there's a lot you don't know. All that and you...
View Article51 - Greatest Fears: Spiders!
SciShow Tangents' Month of Fear concludes with what is undeniably the scariest, most valid fear of any of those discussed... spiders! I'm not saying spiders will pour out of your headphones and into...
View ArticleThe 2019 Gratitude Special
A headless chicken proves sometimes urban legends are true, playground bullies expose dark secrets during a “pantsing” epidemic, and a young man comes out to his parents. Snap Judgment presents, “The...
View ArticleGeoengineering Climate Change, Tasmanian Tiger, New Water Plan. Jan 3, 2020,...
In the context of climate change, geoengineering refers to deliberate, large-scale manipulations of the planet to slow the effects of human-induced global warming—whether by removing carbon from the...
View ArticleZoo Nebraska
The story of a chimpanzee and a man whose dream brought disaster to a small American town.This story details violence against animals. Sensitive listeners, please be advised. Thank you, Carson Vaughan,...
View ArticleFish Girl
A girl finds an unlikely friend in a porcupine puffer fish. Written by Becca Schall, produced by Jonathan Mitchell. Performed by Bee Herbstman, Alison Cimmet, Scott Richardson, and Ed Herbstman.
View ArticleThe 2019 Gratitude Special
A headless chicken proves sometimes urban legends are true, playground bullies expose dark secrets during a “pantsing” epidemic, and a young man comes out to his parents. We are grateful to tell...
View ArticleZoo Nebraska
The story of a chimpanzee and a man whose dream brought disaster to a small American town. This story details violence against animals. Sensitive listeners, please be advised. Season 11 - Episode 6
View ArticleWho's a Human?
If there's one member of the human family tree that's always picked last for dodgeball, it's the Neanderthal. Unintelligent and uncivil is the reputation that has followed our predecessor for...
View ArticleAll About Cats with 'Catsultant' Lana Rich
Last week, to many a cat lover's delight, the Bidens welcomed a cat, Willow Biden, to the White House, the first presidential cat since George W. Bush’s administration. Today we will talk all things...
View ArticleWho's a Human?
If there's one member of the human family tree that's always picked last for dodgeball, it's the Neanderthal. Unintelligent and uncivil is the reputation that has followed our predecessor for...
View ArticleSusan Orlean Remembers Collarwali, the Queen of Tigers
Not too long ago, The New Yorker started publishing a new column called Afterword, written by the longtime staff contributor Susan Orlean. It’s an obituary, of sorts, but, instead of focussing on the...
View ArticleAn upstate NY program lets you camp out with wolves, so I tried it
As soon as I heard about the Wolf Conservation Center’s program “Sleeping with Wolves,” I couldn’t NOT do it. My kids have been asking to go camping and my oldest is obsessed with wolves. A friend had...
View ArticleThe Gorilla in the Room
Radiolab for Kids is back! Is there such a thing as a good cage? Happy gorillas, deft landscape architects and neurologists show us that there just might be. We go back to the late 1970s to relive the...
View ArticleWild Talk
Think about the sounds you hear on a daily basis. Air conditioners whirring, keyboards clicking, cars honking, mosquitos buzzing, dishes clanking. Now picture yourself in a jungle. What do you hear?...
View ArticleWhale of a Rescue
We start off in a cathedral full of animals – hermit crabs, parrots, hamsters, dogs, cats and bunnies – being blessed. We then wonder, do the animals feel grace? What do we really know about what goes...
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