Mother Nature Will Kill You

Mother Nature Will Kill You

By Jillian Swinford and Haley BurlesonSociety & Culture
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Mother Nature Will Kill You episodes

  • Episode 80 - Committed To The Bit

    Jillian and Haley dive into the Timothy Treadwell documentary "Grizzly Man" before Jillian tells the story of chronobiologist Michel Siffre and the time isolation experiments. Haley talks monarch butterflies during conservation corner.


    Sources:

    Caveman: An interview with Micchel Siffre, Joshua Foer and Michel Siffre, Cabinet Magazine

    Siffre Cave Study Psychology, Study Smarter


    Chronobiology, McGill

    Six Months Alone in Midnight Cave, James M. Deem

    Deep Time Study: French volunteers leave cave after 40 days in isolation, BBC
    A test subject who spent 40 days in a cave for science breaks down what it was like, from weird sleep patterns to generating power with a bike. Marianne Guenot, Business Insider
    Michael Siffre, Wikipedia


    Amistad National Recreation Area

    IUCN Changes Migratory Monarch Status from Endangered to Vulnerable, Monarch Joint Venture


    Conservation in North America, USDA


    Monarch Butterfly, National Wildlife Federation

    1 hr 58 min
  • Episode 79 - If Not Friend, Why Friend Shaped?

    Corey decides he wants to come on the podcast again and Jillian, Corey, and Haley talk about all kinds of personal news, including a move and a wedding. Jillian then dives into the highly controversial life and death of Timothy Treadwell, and Haley talks grizzly bears during conservation corner.


    Sources:

    We Watched "Grizzly Man" With a Bear Biologist. It Got Weird. Emma Veidt, Backpacker

    Timothy Treadwell Devoted His Life To Grizzly Bears - Until They Ate Him, Katie Serena, All That's Interesting.

    The Man Who Loved Grizzlies, Ned Zeman, Vanity Fair

    Alaskan Peninsula brown bear, Katmai National Park and Preserve, Wikipedia

    Grizzly Bear, National Wildlife Federation

    1 hr 53 min
  • Episode 78 - Muffin Walloper

    Haley and Jillian talk about the troubling "spinning fish disease" in the Florida Keys before diving into the tragic tale of the Yarnell Hill Wildfire and the Granite Mountain Hotshots. Haley brings it back up during conservation corner with the Apache trout.


    Sources:

    19: The True Story of the Yarnell Hill Fire, Kyle Dickman, Outside Magazine
    Granite Mountain Hotshots: The firefighting team that died battling the Yarnell Hill Fire, Janelle Foskett, Fire Rescue 1
    19 Firefighters Die Battling Arizona’s Yarnell Fire, David Greene, Ted Robins, NPR
    Two Years After Deadly Wildfire, Are There Lessons in the Ashes, NPR Staff, NPR
    On This Day: Remembering the Yarnell Hill Wildfire, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
    10 years later: Remembering the Yarnell Hill Fire and the Granite Mountain Hotshots - 12 News Arizona
    What It’s Like to Fight Fires With Hands and Tools, Insider News
    How Fighting Wildfires Works, Wendover Productions
    Apache Trout, Western Native Trout Iniative.org

    1 hr 30 min
  • Episode 77 - God Bless This Meth

    Jillian and Haley talk about how history always repeats itself with a recent news story about Donner pass. Jillian dives into more prehistoric stories with the lost land of Doggerland and the hominids of Rising Star Cave. Haley rounds it out with some seal talk.


    Sources:

    Doggerland- The Europe That Was, Benjamin Kessler, National Geographic
    Doggerland: Lost ‘Atlantis” of the North Sea gives up it’s ancient secrets, Daniel Boffey, The Guardian
    Letter from Doggerland, Jason Urbanus, Archology
    Study finds indications of life on Doggerland after devastating tsunamis, Esther Addley, The Guardian
    Tiny island survived tsunami that helped separate Britain and Europe, Michael Marshall, New Scientist
    Bondevik, S., F. Lovholt, C. Harbitz, J. Mangerud, A. Dawson, J.I. Svendsen. 2005. The Storegga Slide tsunami–comparing field observations with numerical simulations. Marine and Petroleum Geology. 22(1–2): 195–208.
    Doggerland: How did the North Sea’s Atlantis Sink? Alexander Freund, DW News
    Ancient Human Relatives May Have Buried Their Dead, Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine
    Unknown: Cave of Bones, Netflix
    Ancient Human Relatives Buried Their Dead in Caves, New Theory Claims, Carl Zimmer, New York Times
    The Latest on Homo naledi, John Hawks, American Scientist
    Were small-brained early humans intelligent? Row erupts over scientist’s claim, The Guardian
    A research team’s finding of pre-human burial sites was publicly lauded. Then came the peer reviews. Maya Fazel-Zarandi and Julian Hartman-Sigall, The Daily Princetonian
    The truth about animal grief, Zoe Cormier, BBC Earth

    Gray Seal, NOAA Fisheries

    1 hr 42 min
  • Episode 76 - Dyslexia Strikes Again

    Haley and Jillian are back with a super uncomfy story about what happens when a dive boat leaves you behind, the true story of the disappearance of Tom and Eileen Lonergan. Haley takes us to the Great Barrier Reef during conservation corner with the dugong.


    Sources:

    Tom and Eileen Lonergan: The American Couple Who Disappeared in the Great Barrier Reef, Kara Goldfarb, All That’s Interesting

    Mystery of couple left behind in shark-infested waters still missing 23 years on, Nilufer Atik and Adam Solomons, Mirror
    From the Archives, 1998: Two scuba divers lost, left behind in open water, Paul McGeough, Brisbane Times

    The Dive to Nowhere: An Account of the Missing Lonergans, Brown Lotus, Medium
    The True Story Behind ‘Open Water’ Is A Dark Mystery That Goes Way Beyond The Horror of The Film, Erin McCann, Ranker
    Great Barrier Reef, Wikipedia
    Central Great Barrier Reef, Great Barrier Reef.org
    The Dugong & Seagrass Conservation Project

    1 hr 38 min
  • MNWKY Rewind Ep. 6 - Death is Fine Before 11 PM

    It's the last MNWKY Rewind before the break is over and we are back! This time we bring in Corey for a space focused episode talking about the experiment that is HI-SEAS Mars.


    Sources:

    HI-SEAS, Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation

    When A Mars Simulation Goes Wrong, Marina Koren, The Atlantic
    The Habitat Podcast, Gimlet Media

    1 hr 23 min
  • MNWKY Rewind Ep. 5 - She Wants A Spa Day

    On this episode of MNWKY Rewind we go back to one our favorite topics...caves! This week we revisit the absolutely terrifying story of the Plura Cave Tragedy.


    Sources:

    The cavers who went back for their friends, William Kremer, BBC News

    Diving Into the Unknown, Amazon Prime

    1 hr 14 min
  • MNWKY Rewind Ep. 4 - Don't Trust A Goose

    On this episode of MNWKY Rewind, we go back to our famous deadly mountain, Everest, with the mysterious disappearance of George Mallory and Sandy Irving.


    Sources:

    George
    Mallory, British Explorer and Mountaineer, Encyclopedia Britannica
    What Really Happened to George Mallory and Andrew Irvine?, Killer Climbs
    Mount Everest – Archaeology in the Death Zone, Lars Pilo, Secrets of the Ice
    Ghosts of Everest, Eric Simonson, Jochen Hemmleb, Larry Johnson, Outside Magazine

    Lost on Everest, National Geographic, Renan Ozturk

    1 hr 23 min
  • MNWKY Rewind Ep. 3 - Anemonometer

    Time to switch gears on this next episode of Mother Nature Will Kill You Rewind. This time we go back to the Great Storm of 1900, otherwise known as the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history.


    Return for new content and regular episodes on March 4th, 2024. See you then:)


    Sources:

    Isaac’s Storm, Eric Larson

    Tropical cyclone, Storm Surge , Wikipedia

    Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, National Hurricane Center

    The Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900, NOAA, Ron Trumbla

    1 hr 27 min
  • MNWKY Rewind Ep. 2 - Dirty Ernie

    Time to finish our first trip down memory lane with the second chapter of the story of Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance.


    Mother Nature Will Kill You Rewind is our way to say thank you while we are on break. Visit some episodes from the podcast's past, and some stories you may have forgotten about. Come back for regular and new episodes on March 4th :)


    Sources:

    Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage, Alfred Lansing

    The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, Wikipedia

    Chasing Ernest: A Journey to South Georgia to Find the Ghost of Shackleton, Kraig Becker, Popular Mechanics

    1 hr 19 min

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Two marine scientists share true stories of tragedy and triumph in the great outdoors, from the comfort of their home.