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Summit Podcast: Outdoor Adventures | Climbing | Hiking | Mountains | Wilderness Travel

An examination of scientific inquiry through a discussion of the history and philosophy of the scientific endeavor.

In this unscripted episode, we take a look at the announced results from the Muon g-2 experiment recently performed at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.  We examine what it means for the Standard Model of Particle Physics along with the importance of doing science with the goal of falsifying presently accepted models and theories rather than seeking confirmation.

The Scientific Odyssey Unscripted-The Muon g-2 Experiment Results

A look at pseudosciences and their characteristics through the lenses of critical thinking and inquiry.

Episode 1.10: Science, Pseudoscience, and Snake Oil

In this episode, we begin our exploration of the Chinese cartographic tradition.

Episode 5.12: Boundaries of Empire

In this special solstice episode fo the podcast, we embark on a winter journey through the writings of John Muir and David Henry Thoreau among others.

Solstice 2020

In this episode, we conclude our examination of cartography in the Roman Empire by looking at the development of itineraries and travel maps from the period of the late Antonines to the Byzantine Empire.

Episode 5.11: Itineraries

The Scientific Odyssey

Where did the Nazca Lines come from? Who built Stonehenge, and what secrets lie concealed within Egypt's pyramids? To find out, join the Naked Archaeologists as they undress the past...

Life Sciences

We're back! And this month we start by taking a tour of the terribly glamorous ditches in East Anglia. Yes, the whole landscape is one giant piece of drainage archaeology! Plus, we talk about a Roman gladiatorial school, an Iron Age road, Australopithecus sediba and Acheulian tools. And in Backyard Archaeology Tom Birch hops over to Andalucia, where he and his mic just happen to find a rather large palace... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Landscapes: Drainage, Plants and Palaces

This month we return to some of the moist enjoyable archaeological  interviews recorded this year. There's everything from alien donkeys, to  Pompeiian poo, speared boxes and not-so-recent neanderthals! Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Annual Round-Up of Archaeology

This month: how a neat piece of statistical analysis has led to the  construction of a prehistoric history; how satellites have revealed some  hidden Egyptian pyramids; how autism could have been selected for  amongst early humans; and how metals collected from the surface of the  Greek island of Kythira can yield information about the people who  forged them. Plus, in Backyard Archaeology, Tom takes us to the sea to  explore several rather artistic lumps of concrete. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Bayesian Prehistory, Surface Metals and Sea Defenses

This month: the most recent Neanderthals in the Caucasus, the science of ceramic petrology, the truth about 'The Anthropocene' and Syrian hunting traps. Plus, in Backyard Archaeology we explore the uses of the National Monument and Historical Environment Records. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Detailed Science of Dating, Data and Ceramics

Researchers re-create the experiments carried out by Barnes Wallis on the bouncing bomb; we discuss the Texan pre-Clovis finds; the Nichoria bone earns its place at multiple points in history and we explore the massacre at Fin Cop hill fort. Plus, in Backyard Archaeology: how to go about doing a bit of zooarchaeology! Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Dam Busting, Ancient Archaeologists and Iron Age Fort Raids

Naked Archaeology, from the Naked Scientists

The wackiest Paranormal podcast yet! In depth discussions on UFOs, Cryptozoology, Conspiracy Theories, Ghosts and all other things Paranormal. Ron, Christopher & Jon-Mark welcome you into the disorienting, yet strangely comforting world of the bizarre!

Our final transmission on this feed. Join us over at our new show, (essentially the same show) How Bizarre!

TFTS-Our New Show!

Our final episode of Tales From The Spacepod. We chat about why this isn't bad news, get caught up on Lyle's cancer treatment, shoot some shit and play our LIVE from WEN-CON minicast. Thanks to everyone that supported this wacky little show. How Bizarre is coming soon...

TFTS-350 The End

We get caught up on some wacky and interesting news stories including: The Apollo 13 recordings, statue nose spirits, gassing a ghost, Leaving Neverland, YouTube ads, Netflix and the future of media. Also, an update from Lyle on his health trials.

TFTS-349 Hollywood Gets Probed & News!

So, this is a bit of a strange one. The first half is essentially a typical episode minus Lyle because he was at the hospital dealing with some pretty major symptoms. The second half was recorded this week and it's Lyle sharing the details of what's ailing him. You can help with Lyle's mounting medical bills by donating to the GoFundMe we have setup. www.gofundme.com/funds-for-lyle039s-medical-bills

TFTS-348 Lyle's Medical Situation

One of our favorite interviews going back to 2016. Renown Cryptid researcher, Ken Gerhard (MonsterQuest, Missing in Alaska) joins us for a talk on all things monsters! Bigfoot, Thunderbirds, Otterman, Werewolves, Chupacabre and more! PLUS: Real animal love, bite massages, Hollywood Gets Probed, News Quiz and shooting the sh*t!

CLASSIC SHOW: Ken Gerhard!

Tales From The Spacepod

We've concentrated the history of Planet Earth into one year. Follow the geology podcasts chronologically from the origin of the Earth to the origin of Mankind.

Carbonatites are strange igneous rocks made up mostly of carbonates – common minerals like calcite, calcium carbonate. Igneous rocks that solidify from molten magma usually are high-temperature rocks containing lots of silicon which results in lots of quartz, feldspars, micas, and ferro-magnesian minerals in rocks like granite and basalt. Carbonatites crystallize from essentially molten calcite, and that’s really unusual. Most carbonatites are intrusive, meaning they solidified within the earth, and it wasn’t until 1960 that the first carbonatite volcano erupted in historic times, proving that they form from cooling magma. The eruption at Ol Doinyo Lengai in Tanzania occurred on a branch of the East African Rift System, and most carbonatites are associated with these breaks in continental crust where eventually a new ocean may form. Mt Lengai, Tanzania, photo by Clem23 (Creative Commons License - source) Eruptions at Lengai, whose name means “mountain of god” in the Maasai language, are the lowest-temperature magmas known because calcite melts at a much lower temperature than silica-rich compounds, around 510 degrees C versus 1000 degrees or more for most magmas. It isn’t even red-hot like most lava flows. A simple and early interpretation of carbonatites was that they represented melting of limestone, but geochemical data indicate that they really do come from primary igneous material that probably originated in the mantle. Exactly how they form is debated, in part because they are so rare, but one idea is that they result from special cases of differentiation within more common magmas, or maybe an example of certain chemicals – the carbonates – separating out in an unusual way. Another unusual aspect of carbonatites is the minerals associated with the dominant calcite. It’s common to get rare-earth compounds, tantalum, thorium, titanium, and many other minerals that are unusual in high concentrations in other settings. The Mountain Pass rare-earth deposit in California, once the largest producer of rare earths in the world, is in a Precambrian carbonatite. Rare earths are used in lots of modern technologies, including turbines for wind energy, batteries in electric car motors, cell phones, solar cells, and eyeglasses. Rare earths are also produced from the Mt. Weld carbonatite in Western Australia, but it’s more famous for its tantalum, an element that’s vital in capacitors for cell phones, video games, and computers. Australia has by far the greatest reserves of tantalum, but mining didn’t begin until 2011 and production is just now ramping up. The United States, which is 100% dependent on imports for tantalum, imports most of it from Brazil, Rwanda, China, and Kazakhstan. Magnetite is a common associated mineral in carbonatites, and at Magnet Cove, Arkansas, there’s enough to give the name to the place. It’s also rich in titanium, often in the form of the mineral rutile, titanium dioxide. When I was there on a geology field trip in 1969, I remember walking into the Kimzey Calcite Quarry. It was like walking into a giant calcite crystal, with gigantic cleavage faces the size of a person or bigger. We collected lots of cool rutile and pyrite crystals. More common economic minerals can be associated with carbonatites as well. At one in South Africa the main products are copper and vermiculite. While I said earlier that carbonatites are really rare, there are still a few dozen known. It’s possible that their rarity is a reflection of the fact that calcite is much more easily eroded and dissolved than the typical basaltic rocks that derive from most volcanoes, so they may simply be poorly preserved. —Richard I. Gibson

Episode 397 Carbonatites

As near as I can tell in the original daily series in 2014, I never addressed the topic of turbidity currents and their sedimentary product, turbidites. But they account for the distribution of vast quantities of sediment on continental shelves and slopes and elsewhere. You know what turbid water is: water with a lot of suspended sediment, usually fine mud particles. In natural submarine environments, unconsolidated sediment contains a lot of water, and when a slurry-like package of sediment liquifies, it can flow down slopes under gravity, sometimes for hundreds of kilometers. It isn’t correct to think of these streams of water and sediment as like rivers on the sea floor. Rivers transport sediment, whether boulders or sand or silt or mud, through the traction, the friction of the moving water. Turbidity flows are density flows, moving because the density of the water-sediment package is greater than the surrounding water. That means they can carry larger particles than usual. Turbidite formation. Image by Oggmus, used under Creative Commons license - source Sometimes a turbidity flow is triggered by something like an earthquake, but they can also start simply because the material reaches a threshold above which gravity takes over and the material flows down slope. The amount and size of sediment the flow can carry depends on its speed, so as the flow diminishes and wanes, first the coarse, heavier particles settle out, followed by finer and finer sediments. This results in a sediment package characterized by graded bedding – the grain size grades from coarse, with grains measuring several centimeters or more, to sand, 2 millimeters and smaller, to silt and finally to mud in the upper part of the package. Repeated turbidity flows create repeated sequences of graded bedding, and they can add up to many thousands of meters of total sedimentary rock, called turbidites. Other sedimentary structures in turbidites can include ripple marks, the result of the flow over an earlier sediment surface, as well as sole marks, which are essentially gouges in the older finer-grained top of a turbidite package by the newest, coarser grains and pebbles moving across it. There are variations, of course, but the standard package of sediment sizes and structures, dominated by the graded bedding, is called a Bauma Sequence for Arnold Bouma, the sedimentologist who described them in the 1960s. Turbidity currents are pretty common on the edges of continental shelves where the sea floor begins to steepen into the continental slope, and repeated turbidity flows can carve steep canyons in the shelf and slope. Where the flow bursts out onto the flatter abyssal sea floor, huge volumes of sediment can accumulate, especially beyond the mouths of the great rivers of the world which carry lots of sediment. When the flow is no longer constrained by a canyon or even a more gentle flow surface, the slurry tends to fan out – and the deposits are called deep abyssal ocean fans. They are often even shaped like a wide fan, with various branching channels distributing the sediment around the arms of the fan. The largest on earth today is the Bengal Fan, offshore from the mouths of the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers in India and Bangladesh. It’s about 3,000 km long, 1400 km wide, and more than 16 km, more than 10 miles, thick at its thickest. It’s the consequence of the collision between India and Eurasia and the uplift and erosion of the Himalaya. The scientific value of turbidites includes a record of tectonic uplift, and even seismicity given that often turbidity currents are triggered by earthquakes. They also have economic value. Within the sequence of fining-upward sediments, some portions are typically very well-sorted, clean sandstones. That means they have grains of uniform size and shape and not much other stuff to gum up the pores between the sand grains – so that makes them potentially very good reservoirs for oil and natural gas. You need the proper arrangements of source rocks, trapping mechanisms, and burial history too, but deep-water turbidites are explored for specifically, and with success, in the Gulf of Mexico, North Sea, offshore Brazil and West Africa, and elsewhere. The Marlim fields offshore Brazil contained more than 4 billion barrels of producible oil reserves when they were discovered in the 1980s. Ancient turbidites sometimes serve as the host rocks for major gold deposits, such as those at Bendigo and Ballarat Australia, which are among the top ten gold producers on earth. —Richard I. Gibson

Episode 396 Turbidity currents

This episode is about some of the interesting connections that arise in science. We’ll start with me and my first professional job as a mineralogist analyzing kidney stones. My mineralogy professor at Indiana University, Carl Beck, died unexpectedly, and his wife asked me as his only grad student to carry on his business performing analysis of kidney stones. Beck had pioneered the idea of crystallographic examination to determine mineralogy of these compounds because traditional chemical analysis was misleading. For example, some common kidney stones are chemically calcium phosphates and calcium carbonates – but they are hardly ever calcium carbonate minerals. That makes a big difference in terms of treatment, because calcium carbonate minerals can be dissolved with acids, while calcium phosphate cannot. The carbonate is actually part of the phosphate mineral structure, partially substituting for some of the phosphate. Other subtleties of mineral crystallography can distinguish between different minerals and can point to specific kinds of treatments, more than just chemistry can. One of the most common minerals in kidney stones is called whewellite – calcium oxalate, CaC2O4 with a water molecule as part of its structure. In kidney stones it usually forms little rounded blobs, but sometimes the way the mineral grows, it makes pointy little things called jackstones, for their similarity to children’s’ jacks. And yes, those can be awfully painful, or so I’m told.  Whewellite is really rare in the natural world beyond the urinary system, but it does exist, especially in organic deposits like coal beds. Whewellite was named for William Whewell, spelled Whewell, a true polymath and philosopher at Cambridge University in England during the first half of the 19th century. He won the Royal Medal for his work on ocean tides and published studies on astronomy, economics, physics, and geology, and was a professor of mineralogy as well. Mary Somerville, 1834 painting by Thomas Phillips - source Whewell coined many new words, particularly the word “scientist.” Previously such workers had been called “men of science” or “natural philosophers” – but Whewell invented the new word scientist for a woman, Mary Somerville. Somerville researched in diverse disciplines, especially astronomy, and in 1835 she became one of the first two female members of the Royal Astronomical Society, together with Caroline Herschel, discoverer of many comets and nebulae. In 1834 Somerville published “On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences,” a synthesis reporting the latest scientific advances in astronomy, physics, chemistry, botany, and geology. William Whewell wrote a review in which he coined the word scientist for Somerville, not simply to invent a gender-neutral term analogous to “artist,” but specifically to recognize the interdisciplinary nature of her work. And even more, according to Somerville’s biographer Kathryn Neeley, Whewell wanted a word that actively celebrated “the peculiar illumination of the female mind: the ability to synthesize separate fields into a single discipline.” That was what he meant by a scientist. Somerville was born in Scotland in 1780 and died in 1872 at age 91. Her legacy ranges from a college, an island, and a lunar crater named for her to her appearance on Scottish bank notes beginning in 2017. Besides the mineral whewellite, William Whewell is also memorialized in a lunar crater and buildings on the Cambridge campus, as well as in the word scientist, included in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1834, the same year he coined it. He died in 1866. —Richard I. Gibson LINK: Article about Whewell and Somerville 

Episode 395 Connections

Today we’re going back about 280 million years, to what is now Uruguay in South America. 280 million years ago puts us in the early part of the Permian Period. Gondwana, the huge southern continent, was in the process of colliding with North America and Eurasia to form the supercontinent of Pangaea. South America, Africa, Antarctica, India, and Australia had all been attached to each other in Gondwana for several hundred million years, and the extensive glaciers that occupied parts of all those continents were probably still present in at least in highlands in southern South America and South Africa, as well as Antarctica. But the area that is now in Uruguay was probably in cool, temperate latitudes, something like New Zealand or Seattle today. The connection between southern South America and South Africa was a lowland, partially covered by a shallow arm of the sea or perhaps a broad, brackish lagoon at the estuary of a major river system that was likely fed in part by glacial meltwater from adjacent mountains. We know the water was shallow because the rocks preserve ripple marks produced by wave action or currents. The basin must have been near the shore because delicate fossils such as insect wings and plants are among the remnants. It looks like this shallow sea or lagoon became cut off from the ocean, allowing the waters to become both more salty, even hypersaline, and anoxic, as the separation restricted inflows of water, either fresh or marine, that could have continued to oxygenate the basin. In the absence of oxygen, excellent preservation of materials that fell to the basin floor began, and there were few or no scavenging animals to disrupt the bodies. The rocks of the Mangrullo Formation, as it’s called today, include limestones and siltstones, but the most important for fossil preservation are probably the extremely fine-grained claystones and oil shales. These rocks contain some of the best preserved fossil mesosaurs known anywhere. That’s mesosaurs, not the perhaps more well-known mosasaurs, which are large whale-like marine reptiles that lived during Cretaceous time. Here, we’re in the Permian, well before the first dinosaurs. Mesosaur by Nobu Tamura (Creative Commons license & source)  Mesosaurs were aquatic reptiles, and they are the earliest known. They evolved from land reptiles and were among the first to return to the water to adopt an aquatic or amphibious lifestyle. They were once thought to be part of a sister group to reptiles, a separate branch of amniotes, which are animals that lay their eggs on land or bear them inside the mother, like most mammals do. In that scheme, mesosaurs and reptiles would have diverged from a common, earlier ancestor. But more recent studies categorize them as reptiles that split off from the main genetic stem early in the history of the class, so they’re pretty distant cousins to dinosaurs and all modern reptiles, but they’re still reptiles. There is ongoing debate among evolutionary paleontologists as to exactly where mesosaurs fit. The fossils in Uruguay are so well preserved that we can identify the gut materials of mesosaurs, and we know they mostly ate crustaceans, aquatic invertebrates related to crabs, shrimp, and lobsters. The preservation is so exceptional that in some cases, soft body parts are preserved including major nerves and blood vessels in mesosaurs and stomachs and external appendages in the crustaceans. The earliest known amniote embryos also come from these fossil beds. Mesosaurs had a short run in terms of their geologic history, only about 30 million years. They were extinct about 270 million years ago, well before the great extinction event at the end of the Permian, 250 million years ago. But the presence of coastal-dwelling mesosaurs in both South America and Africa was a contributing idea in the early development of the theory of continental drift, since it was presumed that they could not have crossed the Atlantic Ocean as it is today. —Richard I. Gibson Links: Piñeiro et al. 2012 Environmental conditions  Paleogeography from Ron Blakey 

Episode 394 The Mangrullo Formation of Uruguay

Today we’re going to the Mountains of the Moon – but not those on the moon itself. We’re going to central Africa. There isn’t really a mountain range specifically named the Mountains of the Moon. The ancients, from Egyptians to Greeks, imagined or heard rumor of a mountain range in east-central Africa that was the source of the river Nile. In the 18th and 19th centuries, explorations of the upper Nile found the sources of the Blue Nile, White Nile, and Victoria Nile and identified the Mountains of the Moon with peaks in Ethiopia as well as 1500 kilometers away in what is now Uganda. Today, the range most closely identified with the Mountains of the Moon is the Rwenzori Mountains at the common corner of Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Rwanda. This location is within the western branch of the East African Rift system, an 8,000-kilometer-long break in the earth’s crust that’s in the slow process of tearing a long strip of eastern Africa away from the main continent. We talked about it in the episode for December 16, 2014. The long linear rifts in east Africa are grabens, narrow down-faulted troughs that result from the pulling apart and breaking of the continental crust. The rifts are famously filled in places by long, linear rift lakes including Tanganyika, Malawi, Turkana, and many smaller lakes. Virunga Mountains (2007 false-color Landsat image, annotated by Per Andersson : Source) When rifting breaks the continental crust, pressure can be released at depth so that the hot material there can melt and rise to the surface as volcanoes. In the Rwenzori, that’s exactly what has happened. The Virunga volcanoes, a bit redundant since the name Virunga comes from a word meaning volcanoes, dominate the Rwenzori, with at least eight peaks over 10,000 feet high, and two that approach or exceed 4,500 meters, 15,000 feet above sea level. They rise dramatically above the floors of the adjacent valleys and lakes which lie about 1400 meters above sea level. These are active volcanoes, although several would be classified as dormant, since their last dated eruptions were on the order of 100,000 to a half-million years ago. But two, Nyiragongo and Nyamuragira, have erupted as recently as 2002, when lava from Nyiragongo covered part of the airport runway at the town of Goma, and in 2011 with continuing lava lake activity. Nyiragongo has erupted at least 34 times since 1882. The volcanic rocks of these and the older volcanoes fill the rift enough that the flow of rivers and positions of lakes have changed over geologic time. Lake Kivu, the rift lake just south of the volcanoes, once drained north to Lake Edward and ultimately to the Nile River, but the volcanism blocked the outlet and now Lake Kivu drains southward into Lake Tanganyika. Local legends, recounted by Dorothy Vitaliano in her book on Geomythology, Legends of the Earth (Indiana University Press, 1973), tell the story of demigods who lived in the various Virunga volcanoes. As demigods do, these guys had frequent arguments and battles, which are probably the folklore equivalent of actual volcanic eruptions. The stories accurately reflect – whether through observation or happenstance – the east to west migration of volcanic activity in the range. The gases associated with the volcanic activity seep into the waters of Lake Kivu, which has high concentrations of dissolved carbon dioxide and methane. Generally the gases are contained in the deeper water under pressure – Lake Kivu is the world’s 18th deepest lake, at 475 meters, more than 1,500 feet. But sometimes lakes experience overturns, with the deeper waters flipping to the surface. When gases are dissolved in the water and the pressure reduces, they can abruptly come out of solution like opening a carbonated beverage bottle. This happened catastrophically at Lake Nyos in Cameroon in 1986, asphyxiating 1700 people and thousands of cattle and other livestock. The possibility that Lake Kivu could do the same thing is a real threat to about two million people. The critically endangered mountain gorilla lives in the Virunga Mountains, which also holds the research institute founded by Dian Fossey. —Richard I. Gibson

Episode 393 The Mountains of the Moon

History of the Earth

The Good Life Revival Podcast explores the ways that we can align our core values and our daily habits towards a more sustainable, ecologically conscious way of life. Join host Sam Sycamore in discussion about living intentionally, finding purpose in the modern era, and taking meaningful action to h...

Listen to Microphones in 2020 by The Microphones (Phil Elverum).

Finale. "The true state of all things is a waterfall"

What are you doing with your life?

What are you trying to accomplish? Where is this all going? 

Do you even have a goal? 

Do you have a retirement plan? Do you have a savings account? What happens when you get sick? What are you going to do when your truck breaks down on the side of the road? 

When are you going to become a productive member of society?

72. What are you doing with your life? Or; Angels and Demons at Play

Luke McLaughlin doesn’t want to teach you wilderness survival skills. He wants to guide you through the process of remembering your ancestral human nature.

Make no mistake — though he’ll tell you that the technology typically amounts to little more than “playing with bones and stones,” these rhythms and motions that our ancestors honed across countless millennia can show us what it really means to be a human animal — an integral participant in the ecological unfolding of a place.

The beauty of this practice lies in its immediacy, and its universal applicability: whether your local jungle is composed primarily of plants or concrete, these primal living skills are accessible to all of us.

For episode 71 of the Good Life Revival Podcast, I caught up with Luke to discuss his recent transition from rural woodland living to the mean city streets of Asheville, North Carolina.

What does it mean to be a primitive skills instructor in the heart of the city? Though Luke’s work these days is primarily focused on the hard skills, he also brings to the table many years of experience in wilderness therapy, so he knows how potent wildcrafting can be as a tool for emotional and spiritual self-improvement.

The main thread running through our conversation is the art of “inner tracking” — the mental and emotional skillset required to navigate through our own conscious experiences in a world that’s fundamentally misaligned with our animal nature.

It’s always a pleasure to hear from Luke, and I really enjoyed our “cross-pollination” here, to borrow from his vocabulary.

Stream and download episode 71 at the top of the page, or listen through iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, or Google Play! Don’t forget to subscribe!

NEW! To hear my final thoughts on our conversation, check out this bonus podcast episode exclusively for Patreon subscribers:

71.5 - A Self That Touches All Edges

To learn more about Holistic Survival School and Luke’s immersive Deep Remembering program, click here.

Check out my photo tutorial on eating acorns right here.

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71. The Art of Inner Tracking with Luke McLaughlin of Holistic Survival School

The acorn is one of the most common and ubiquitous nuts you’re likely to encounter almost anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere in autumn.

Somehow, tragically, the vast majority of people on Earth today think of acorns as little more than “squirrel food,” despite the fact that they are easily rendered edible for humans after some basic processing.

In fact, if we lived in anything approaching a sane, rational culture, acorns would be a staple in our daily diets around the world, as ordinary as white bread.

Thankfully, there’s no massive cultural paradigm shift required in order to reclaim this delicious and highly nutritious ancestral food in your own life.

All you need is time, patience, and some basic guidance through the process.

That’s where this podcast comes in: for episode 70 of the #GoodLifeRevival Podcast, we’re going to review everything you need to know to begin gathering and eating acorns this season!

Along the way I will answer questions like:

Why would anyone want to eat acorns?

What’s the difference between white oaks and red/black oaks?

What is the best method for gathering, and how can you tell if an acorn is no good?

How do you remove the tannins in order to make acorns edible?

What’s the best way to prepare acorns to eat?

And much more!

Nothing brings me greater joy than teaching others how to make use of the common wild foods found all around us throughout the seasons. 

I truly believe that sharing the knowledge of how to eat acorns is one of the most valuable things that I can do with my time, and I hope that this audio tutorial will turn you into an evangelist for the cause, too.

This episode serves as a great example of the kind of tutoring I offer on a one-on-one basis through my Wild Food Mentorship — there’s still time to apply before the October 31 deadline, but spots are filling up quickly! Be sure to submit an application here if you are interested.

Stream and download episode 70 at the top of the page, or listen through iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, or Google Play! Don’t forget to subscribe!
Score a free audiobook today when you sign up for Libro.fm using my referral link!

All music was created by Sam Sycamore, and can be downloaded by subscribers at any level over on Patreon. If you’d prefer to offer a one-time financial contribution, you can do so through PayPal. This show is made possible by listeners like you.

70. How and Why to Eat Acorns - A Step-by-Step Foraging Tutorial

By popular demand, my Wild Food Mentorship is returning for its second year, beginning this November!

The deadline to apply is October 31, 2019. Don’t delay!

Head this way to fill out an application:

http://www.thegoodliferevival.com/mentor

For this session I will be taking on no more than 20 students for 12 weeks of in-depth, one-on-one tutoring to teach you everything you need to know to get started gathering some of the most abundant wild foods found all across your local landscape throughout the year.

This takes the form of three monthly one-hour consultations along with weekly email check-ins, in which we will:

Discuss positive plant ID and all aspects of gathering, processing, cooking, and preserving wild foods

Review best practices for ethical, sustainable, and regenerative foraging

Explore the taxonomical, evolutionary, and ecological relationships between plants

Custom-tailor a seasonal foraging plan for you

Connect you with resources specific to your region

And more!

This program is offered on a sliding scale in order to make it available to the greatest number of people.

Space is limited and I expect all 20 spots to fill up this year, so be sure to apply today!

Wild Food Mentorship - Apply Now for the Winter 2019/20 Session!

Good Life Revival: Permaculture, Rewilding, Homesteading

Farm to Taber is a show about the inner guts of the food system, and what it takes to make work sustainably. Wherever that takes us—science, history, tech, culture, policy, marketing, psychology, design, and more— Farm to Taber goes there.

Travis Higginbotham has an extremely niche job: he's a trainer for cannabis growers. It's a pretty straightforward plant to grow in a backyard or closet. But as the crop legalizes and greenhouses and indoor grows get larger, normal crop issues like IPM (integrated pest management), worker safety, and sustainability come to the fore. So in the interest of making larger-scale crop knowledge accessible, Travis & I got together & nerded out about running cannabis grows.This interview was super long, so it's divided into 5 parts. The first two are here on Soundcloud, and the next three will post once a month. If you Must Have The Whole Thing immediately, the full 5-part series is available on Patreon at the $5 level as well: www.patreon.com/user?u=5610560iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/farm-to-taber/id1418015843?mt=2
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Sound design & edits: Nat Weiner
Transcript: Tanja Drayton
Intro music: Fight ‘Em Down, Flash Fluharty  

2.10 Interview with Travis Higginbotham


          
        
        

        
          
            
          
            
          
        
          
        

        
      
        
      

    
  


  


Caitlin Rosenthal is a former McKinsey consultant turned historian of business practices, teaching at UC-Berkeley. Her recent book Accounting for Slavery traces how US business culture and practices were not born in the Industrial Revolution and northern factories as commonly believed, but on Southern and Caribbean plantations. She can be found on Twitter at @CC_Rosenthal .  iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/farm-to-taber/id1418015843?mt=2
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 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarmToTaber/   Books, people, websites, & more mentioned in this interview: The Social History of Agriculture: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442209671/The-Social- History-of-Agriculture-From-the-Origins-to-the-Current-Crisis Investing in Life: Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia: https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/investing-life Creating Abundance by Alan L. Olmstead & Paul W. Rhode: https://www.amazon.com/Creating- Abundance-Biological-Agricultural-Development/dp/0521673879 Environmental Defense Fund https://www.edf.org/sites/default/files/documents/farm-finance- report.pdf Good Jobs Strategy by Zeynep Ton: https://www.zeynepton.com/book/

2.9 Factories Didn’t Ruin Farms, Farms Ruined Factories: interview with Caitlin Rosenthal


          
        
        

        
          
            
          
            
          
        
          
        

        
      
        
      

    
  


  


Patrick Wyman is a historian and host of the Tides of History podcast. He grew up in eastern Washington doing a lot of construction & farm jobs. Hope you have as much fun listening as we did comparing notes on rural bosses throughout the ages.  iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/farm-to-taber/id1418015843?mt=2
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 Twitter: https://twitter.com/farmtotaberpod?lang=en
 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarmToTaber/   Books, people, websites, & other things mentioned in this interview Roman grain barges: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cura_Annonae Chinese dynasty headed by a peasant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Gaozu_of_Han Accounting for Slavery: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674972094 Environmental historian of early America: Keith Pluymers at Illinois State University http://ilstu.academia.edu/KeithPluymers Tides of History: https://wondery.com/shows/tides-of-history/

2.8 2,000 Years of Rural Landlords feat. Patrick Wyman


          
        
        

        
          
            
          
            
          
        
          
        

        
      
        
      

    
  


  


Joe Swartz is a 4th generation farmer who started using hydroponics back in its early days—the 1980s—to help keep his family’s small farm open. Some thirty years later, it’s the longest-running hydroponic operation in the US northeast. Joe’s main job now is training new growers. In a hydro industry that’s full of hot new tools, Joe’s a great witness to how they’re still just tools. Running a good operation is still about making sure those tools serve the plants, and the humans on deck have all the training & support they need to use the tools properly. 
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Sound design & edits: Nat Weiner
Transcript: Tanja Drayton
Intro music: Fight ‘Em Down, Flash Fluharty

2.7 Greenhouses & Guts feat. Joe Swartz

Mike McGolden is an engineer who builds equipment for making biochar. We talk about the drama of getting new green technologies ready to use, and the additional drama of convincing people to use it once it’s ready.

2.6 Biochar & Why Green Tech Adoption is a Mess Sometimes feat. Mike McGolden

Farm To Taber

Public lectures by noted astronomers on new developments in our exploration of the universe. These lectures are recorded at Foothill College near San Francisco.

In 2004, Craig Venter and Daniel Cohen suggested that if the 20th Century was the century of physics, the 21st Century will be the century of biology on our planet. Jill Tarter believes that their idea will be extended beyond the surface of our world and that we may soon have the first opportunity to study biology that developed on other worlds. She talks about her vision of the future of understanding life on Earth and beyond our planet. And she discusses projects that are underway and are planned to learn more about the possibility of intelligent life among the stars. Recorded October 11, 2017.

Will the 21st Century be the Time We Discover Life Beyond Earth?

On August 21, 2017, there will be a rare eclipse of the Sun visible throughout the U.S. and North America. Andrew Fraknoi, Foothill College, describes how eclipses work and when and where the eclipse of 2017 will be best visible. Recorded May 24, 2017.

The ‘All-American’ Eclipse of the Sun this August

By measuring the rapid orbits of the stars near the center of our galaxy, Dr. Andrea Ghez and her colleagues have moved the case for a supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way from a possibility to a certainty. Recorded January 25, 2017.

The Monster Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way Galaxy

Prof. Cominsky presents an introduction to LIGO, to gravitational waves and how they were detected, and to the kinds of black holes that “make waves.” Recorded November 2, 2016.

Space-time Symphony: Gravitational Waves from Merging Black Holes

Seth Shostak takes a look at Star Wars and other science fiction films from the point of view of a skeptical scientist, tells stories about the movies he has been asked to advise, and muses about aliens from space. Recorded October 12, 2017.

The Science and Non-science of Star Wars

The Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures Podcasts

Welcome to Conservation Matters® with Shane Mahoney. Listen to Shane's speeches given around the world on scientific issues and challenges impacting global conservation in the 21st Century. Conservation, after all, is everyone's business. One Natural World. One Humanity. One Chance. Conservation Mat...

Decisions by United States Fish and Wildlife Service to all importation of hunting trophies are not frivolous. Scientific evidence shows that hunting can help conserve wildlife. Has "trophy" become a lethal adjective for hunting, despite conservation science?

Cecil, Trophy Hunting, & Other Words that Matter

Please join Shane as he addresses the crowd gathered to celebrate the historical grand opening of Johnny Morris' Wonders of Wildlife National Museum and Aquarium.

Philanthropy and America's Conservation Legacy

Join Shane as he speaks to the Outdoors Tomorrow Foundation's Youth Group and conservation leaders of tomorrow about the incredible and historical achievement that is the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation. This is a call to action, relevant not just for our youth, but for all citizens.

The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation & The Path Ahead

Listen to Shane Mahoney, CEO of Conservation Visions, speak of how the events of the past (Cecil, the Lion and others) have been the spark - not the fuel - of making change - and how the time is NOW to act in the field of conservation. Shane is speaking at the 2017 Dallas Safari Club annual convention,  and asks attendees to walk in the footsteps of Theodore Roosevelt. Be bold. Be decisive. Be generous.  Learn more about Conservation Visions at . Follow us at  and  and watch more keynote speeches at

Walk in the Footsteps of Theodore Roosevelt - From DSC National Convention

Do you ever think about where your food comes from? How it was procured? Hunters and anglers know EXACTLY where their food comes from - while not everyone personally chooses to hunt or fish, we can agree that these activities do procure a significant amount of healthy, organic rich food by humans. And not just the people who got the food to begin with - neighbors, friends and even shelters benefit from this protein source. What would it cost to replace that protein source? What it is worth economically, nutritionally, socially? The Wild Harvest Initiative® will provide empirical answers to these questions. This is also a YouTube video found here:  Learn more about Conservation Visions at  Follow us on Facebook at  and on instagram at

The Wild Harvest Initiative® Explained by Shane Mahoney

Conservation Matters® Podcast

Delic Radio is for the psychedelically curious. Host Jackee Stang talks to leading experts in psychedelic news, science, and culture. Real conversations. Real psychedelic. The views expressed on this show are just that, viewpoints.

MEET DELIC is almost upon us! For our appreciation of listening to this podcast, use code RADIONAUT for 20% off General Admission. Head over to www.meetdelic.com to get your tickets! In this episode, you’ll hear two amazing and wise women share their experience with healing through ancestral and ancient methods, as well as modern approaches to psychedelic and new medicine.  You’ll hear about:  Plant medicine and the feminine approach to serving it The Ifa divination (practiced by the Yoruba people) and named masterpiece of humankind by UNESCO  The search for our purpose and service in the world The entrepreneurial journey while healing ourselves Barbaras Autoimmune disease journey and organ transplant surgery The organs and their connection to our mental health Chinese Medicine & Chi-gong Building a healthy lifestyle Much more  Named "The Corporate Shaman" by Forbes Magazine, Flor has over a decade of experience as one of the pioneering practitioners of the plant medicine world. Her empathetic, feminine approach to serving and integrating psychoactive medicines has made Flor one of the most sought-after psycho-spiritual entrepreneurs in the world.  Today’s guest is Barbara Branaman, also known as my friend Barb. Barb is a powerhouse corporate executive, a master of yoga and medical Qigong, poster girl for organ transplant - she’s had two - & an important female mentor of mine. Barb has a keen way of staying grounded in the face of extreme stress. Reference: IFA Divination System:   https://www.unesco.org/archives/multimedia/document-3742

A Feminine Perspective on Healing: Utilizing Ancestral Practices and Modern Psychedelic Medicine with Flor Bollini & Barbara Brenaman

MEET DELIC is almost upon us! For our appreciation of listening to this podcast, use code RADIONAUT for 20% off General Admission. Head over to www.meetdelic.com to get your tickets! Carl Hart, PhD is a professor of neuroscience and psychology at Columbia University. He is known for his research in drug abuse and drug addiction and he has a new book out, Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear. You’re going to hear Dr. Hart talk live at Meet Delic 2021, but before that, we sat down with him to get a first-hand account of his ongoing thesis. That the greatest damage from drugs flows from their being illegal, and a hopeful reckoning with the possibility of their use as part of a responsible and happy life.   Ben Westhoff is an award-winning investigative journalist who writes about culture, drugs, and poverty. His books are taught around the country and have been translated into languages all over the world. His new book Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic is the highly-acclaimed, bombshell first book about fentanyl, which is causing the worst drug crisis in American history.

Psychedelic life, liberty, and the pursuit of drug legalization with Ben Westhoff and Dr. Carl Hart

MEET DELIC is almost upon us! For our appreciation of listening to this podcast, use code RADIONAUT for 20% off General Admission. Head over to www.meetdelic.com to get your tickets!  This episode dives into the science of pain relief through ketamine treatments, anesthetics, nerve blocks, and other techniques with regenerative medicine specialist Dr. Matt Cook, and we get real and personal with Dr. David Rabin MD, PhD,  a board-certified psychiatrist and Co-Founder, and Co-Inventor at Apollo Neuroscience about the power of touch for stress relief.  We discuss:  - Ketamine - Dosage Safety Windows - The dangers of fentanyl - Endometriosis - Regenerative medicine - Human touch for stress relief in times of crisis - Much more  

Pain relief breakthroughs with Ketamine + the power of touch for stress relief with Dr. Matt Cook and Dr. Dave Rabin

MEET DELIC is almost upon us! For our appreciation of listening to this podcast, use code RADIONAUT for 20% off General Admission. Head over to www.meetdelic.com to get your tickets! If you are curious about Ketamine treatment for depression and pain and how it could impact you and your loved ones, this episode is for you. We talk about all things Ketamine with two leading experts. You’ll hear:   How it was discovered The benefits of Ketamine for depression, pain, and suicide reduction What the experience is like in a clinical setting The protocols that are being widely used Breakthrough results  The neuroscience behind dissociatives  Much more  About our experts: Mike Zappy Zaplin is an entrepreneur, a psychedelic advocate, and a filmmaker.  Zappy has been featured in Playboy, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and more.  Dr. David Feifel is one of the foremost experts in ketamine therapy in the world. References:   App that can diagnose COVID-9  

What you need to know about Ketamine treatments for depression & pain with Zappy Zapolin & David Feifel

This is the first Clubhouse for DELIC. Thanks to our friend's Dave Rabin and Molly Maloof who invited DELIC into their Psychedelic Clubhouse on the Clubhouse app. We talk to Dave, Molly and "sex-pert" Nicolle Hodges. Enjoy the show!  Come to our Bicycle Day Celebration. A tribute to LSD! This Monday, April 19, 4:20 pm PST. COME ON!  Brought to you by Meet DELIC: The Psychedelic Wellness Summit, this November. Visit MeetDelic.com for more! 

Sex, Drugs, & Drs Clubhouse w/ Dr. Dave Rabin, Dr. Molly Maloof, & Nicolle Hodges

Delic Radio

When fences don’t exist to hamper the telling of stories or hinder the wanderlust our public lands promote, the result is an inherent Right To Roam. This is an outdoors oriented podcast that focuses on the conservation of our public lands and the myriad of resources that abound within those wild spa...

Howdy Roamers! Thanks for checking out this episode of the Right To Roam Podcast. We have a great episode teaming with information, exploration and collaboration. Chris is joined by guest host Samantha Dwinell to speak with 3rd generation sheep rancher, John Helle, and Wild Sheep Foundation Conservation Director and retired Montana Fish and Wildlife biologist […]

EP 079: Wild Sheep and Wool Growers

Thanks for checking out this episode of the Right To Roam Podcast. This episode, for a myriad of reasons, has been a long time coming. Chris, while attending BHA Rendezvous 2019, was joined by past guest of the podcast, Jessi Johnson to speak with Katelyn Sheehan. Katelyn has a life resume and ecurrent profession that […]

EP 078: Katelyn Sheehan

Guess who’s back Roamers? Thanks for hanging our while we enjoyed our September hunting season and totally abandoned the podcast! We enjoyed our hiatus and are excited to be bringing you some great conservation content once again. Today’s episode finds Chris engaged in a great conversation with Jared Frasier of 2% for Conservation. If you’re […]

EP 077: Choose Your Org Wisely with Jared Frasier

Happy September Roamers! We hope you are out and about enjoying our wild places and resources and in doing so we thank you for taking the time to check out this quick episode of the Right To Roam Podcast. Adam takes a moment to pull the curtain back so you can see and anticipate what […]

R2R LD EP 031: Coming At ‘Cha!

Howdy Roamers and thank you for checking out this episode of the Right To Roam Podcast! This episode starts us down a woolly trail. Chris and Adam are joined by Ralph and Debby DiMeo of Weather Wool. Based in the northeastern part of the United States Ralph and Debby strive to source a high-end and […]

EP 076: Weather Wool

Right To Roam

PolliNation is a podcast from Oregon State University Extension Service that tells the stories of researchers, land managers and concerned citizens who are making bold strides to improve the health of pollinators.

Self-Improvement

This episode we catch up with Katie Buckley the Pollinator Health Coordinator for Washington State Department of Agriculture. She tells us about two new pollinator bills that passed in the Washington Legislature, as well as the growing Washington Bee Atlas. 

259 - Washington State Update (so much news)

This week we hear about a remarkable initiative in Tillamook, Oregon. Known for its world famous dairy, its home to an industrious beekeeping club that is providing top-notch education to the region (and the thousands of people who come through it each summer). 

258 - Tillamook Apiary and Garden Learning Center (aka there is more to Tillamook than cheese)

Adult honey bees have a variety of organisms that live in their guts. Some are benign but some, like Nosema ceranae, can be pathogentic. In this episode we hear of  Courtney MacInnis' relentless pursuit of understanding the status of an organism you have never heard of - Lotmaria passim - both on its own, and in combination with Nosema ceranae. Her findings are most unexpected. 

257 - Lotmaria... the bee gut organism you have never heard of

In this episode we hear from Susie Peterson who is the co-manager of the very popular Backyard Habitat Certification Program in Oregon. The program is managed in partnership with Portland Audubon and can help you better design your backyard for biodiversity. 

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Summit Podcast: Outdoor Adventures | Climbing | Hiking | Mountains | Wilderness ...

The Scientific Odyssey

Naked Archaeology, from the Naked Scientists

Tales From The Spacepod

History of the Earth

Good Life Revival: Permaculture, Rewilding, Homesteading

Farm To Taber

The Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures Podcasts

Conservation Matters® Podcast

Delic Radio

Right To Roam

PolliNation Podcast

The Dirt Podcast

Behind the Rind: The Story & Science of Cheese

CoreBrain Journal

MCAT Biology Review

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Still Growing...A Weekly Gardening Podcast

Garden How-To

Podcast – The League of Nerds

omega tau science & engineering podcast

The Stem Cell Podcast

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Chemistry in its element

ECO CHIC

Hypnosis – Everywhere: Ines Simpson and the Simpson Protocol

Space Nuts

StarDate

Naked Neuroscience, from the Naked Scientists

Data Crunch

Western Bird Biologist

Physics Fundamentalized

WeMartians Podcast

Ask the Naked Scientists

Visionary Aquaponics with Maribou Latour

Astronomy 161 - Introduction to Solar System Astronomy - Autumn 2007

Beekeeping Today Podcast

Past Time

Curious Minds Podcast

Whatever the Weather

Strange Animals Podcast

Synapsen – ein Wissenschaftspodcast

The Ruminant: Audio Candy for Farmers, Gardeners and Food Lovers

The Kate Valentine UFO Show

Environment China

AmericanReef - ReefTutor How to Setup a Saltwater and Coral Reef Aquarium

The Back Story

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