About this episode
The episode explores various intriguing topics including geological mysteries, animal behaviors, and space exploration.
Inge Lehmann forever. Spaceward tungstan shotgun! Worst Salt Lake? Poisonous confidence! We celebrate the horse girls. Breathing bees! The deepening mystery of the prototaxites. The sperm whale miracle! Negative ions: the real and the influenced. To the moon again, despite it all. Inge Lehmann: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/inge-lehmann-and-earths-deepest-secret/ Pulverize it!: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/inside-a-bold-plan-to-pulverize-an-earth-bound-asteroid/ Great Arsenic Lake: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/utahs-great-salt-lake-may-be-hiding-a-massive-reservoir-of-fresh-water/ The occasionally confidant snake: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/these-snakes-steal-poison-from-their-prey-heres-how-they-know-they-have/ Prototaxites?: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-mysterious-407-million-year-old-fossil-may-represent-a-previously-unknown-branch-of-life-180988052/ Sprem Whale Birth: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/climate/sperm-whale-birth-assistance.html?searchResultPosition=2 The moon again: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasas-artemis-era-may-finally-solve-three-major-moon-mysteries/ Produced by Joe…
Topics covered
- science
- nature
- mysteries
- environment
- space
- animals
- geology
Keywords
- Inge Lehmann
- sperm whale
- prototaxites
- Salt Lake
- negative ions
- moon mysteries
- breathing bees
- horse girls
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Scientific American, Smithsonian, New York Times
Books & works: My Own Kind of Tango
Places: Salt Lake, Earth, Moon
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