Episode 30: Privilege & Inequality in Animals

Guest Jenn Smith says that human concepts of intergenerational wealth and inequality occur also in the behaviors of animals.

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Episode 29: Disruption & Resilience

When Jane Watson encountered a ruined meadow of seagrass in the ocean, instead of getting furious, she grew curious.

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Season Five Coming Soon

Season Five Will Launch July 2022 New episodes, new guests, new insights about nature and our built environments are coming soon. And more on how we can live together--with nature,...

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Episode 28: The Wild Card

Sarah Cowles encourages radically rethinking the synthetic landscapes found in cities. When welcoming nature to our human cities, do we aim for an...

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Episode 27: The World Is Not Static

Dr. Caitlin Rankin’s research shows that a long-held theory about why an ancient civilization passed out of existence was wrong. Cahokia Mounds in...

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Episode 26: Bees Understand the Concept of Zero

Dr. Scarlett Howard’s research on cognition of honeybees got a lot of media attention when in 2018, she published a paper that showed bees can...

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