Natural Selections

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Natural Selections episodes

June 03, 2021 Natural Selections: The curious history of Malaria in the U.S.
(Jun 3, 2021)
6 min
May 27, 2021 Natural Selections: Where do coral reefs get their food supply?
(May 27, 2021) A coral reef is kind of like Manhattan, a huge number of mouths to feed in a packed parcel of real estate. A reef doesn't have upstate farms to keep them all fed. So how do they get by?
6 min
May 20, 2021 Natural Selections: The many virtues of the silk-making insect
(May 20, 2021)
6 min
May 13, 2021 Natural Selections: The tip-toe ballet of the walking deer
(May 13, 2021) Few creatures move with more grace than deer. Martha Foley compares them to ballerinas. Curt Stager says there's a reason for that. As ballerinas often do, deer walk on their tip-toes.
5 min
May 06, 2021 Natural Selections: Smells like turf spirit
(May 6, 2021)
7 min
April 29, 2021 Natural Selections: How rocks recycle
(Apr 29, 2021)
5 min
April 22, 2021 Natural Selections - Your body is smart, it knows when you need water. But how?
(Apr 22, 2021)
7 min
April 15, 2021 Every rock tells a story
(Apr 15, 2021) Curt Stager has his students start the semester by picking out a "pet rock." At the end of term, they have to tell the story of that rock - what it is, what it's made of, and what happened to shape it it over the ages.
6 min
April 08, 2021 Natural Selections: All the buzz about plants and sweet nectar
(Apr 8, 2021)
6 min
April 01, 2021 Natural Selections: Deer up close and personal
(Apr 1, 2021)
6 min

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Conversations about the natural world with Dr. Curt Stager and Martha Foley, from member-supported North Country Public Radio.