216: Parachuting Beavers216: Parachuting Beavers
In 1948, Idaho Fish and Game got the bright idea to transport beavers into the back country with PARACHUTES. It was a wild and wacky
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A wacky science and history podcast
In 1948, Idaho Fish and Game got the bright idea to transport beavers into the back country with PARACHUTES. It was a wild and wacky
It’s 1789 and the beginning of bureaucracy in the United States. James Madison is writing letters to smooth the path of George Washington’s disorganized congress.
While baby Egyptian fruit bats start life getting carried around, once they get too heavy, their mothers leave them in a cave while they forage.
The first roller skates were patented by John Joseph Merlin in 1760. He showed off his new fangled wheeled shoes with an epic entrance to
With enough pressure and heat, just about anything with enough carbon in it could become a diamond. And thankfully for us, when a scientist was
How do whales open their mouths to grab a mouthful of food without drowning?! Because it’s not just krill that goes in, but hundreds of
In 2007, a woman’s 5,000 year old skeleton was found in Burnt City, Iran. She was at least six feet tall and had what researchers
In cases of emergency, lizards pop off their tails to get away. Evolution made it possible for that tail to stay on when tugged but
It wasn’t just fame and glory that inspired Lewis and Clark’s expedition across this great land. It took a “medication” so powerful that people would
Anything that scatters when you turn on the light…does it have a personality? Is the cockroach urge to run an indicator of a bold or