Gary talks about a winter visitor the Snowy Owl. Gordon found some liverworts. Joann reviews the Kepler Mission to find planets. This leads to a discussion of the Drake equation about the potential for extraterrestrial civilizations.

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Medicine

Gary and Joann talk with Mandie Zopp of Riveredge Nature Center about their work to raise and release Lake Sturgeon into Lake Michigan.

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Joann is looking forward to the 2017 solar eclipse; get your reservations in soon! Gary is in another wetland, but you won't believe where…under the Antarctic ice sheet!

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Part 2 of our look at a topic important to the U.S. and all other countries—science education. Joann hosts Herb Broda, Laura Grimm, and Jeff Corney.

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It's Patriot's Day in the U.S., so we take a look at a topic important to the U.S. and all other countries—science education. Joann hosts an outstanding panel of folks you've heard on Wild Ideas: Herb Broda, Laura Grimm, and Jeff Corney. Each has expertise and experience in a different aspect of science education.

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Joann wonders why so many plants (and a few animals) are "Officinale." Gary delights in the seed bank uncovered and growing around Wilderness Lake.

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