Pulse of the Planet Podcast with Jim Metzner | Science | Nature | Environment | Technology

By Jim MetznerSociety & Culture Science Technology Natural Sciences

Pulse of the Planet Podcast with Jim Metzner | Science | Nature | Environment | Technology episodes

March 18, 2025 Packie Manus Byrne - A Life of Irish Music
Couldn't resist another story in the sprit of Ireland. There's no intro, no host narrator. Just dive in and meet the late Packie Byrne - a friend, storyteller and musician of renown. We met in 2007 in the town of Ardara, near Donegal, where Irish music lives and thrives.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
9 min
March 17, 2025 Celebrating Saint Patrick's Day With A Story
Master storyteller Eddie Lenihan weaves a tale from the Other Side. You'll never think of the wee folk in quite the same way again.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
21 min
March 04, 2025 Tickling Society
In the rural Cajun communities of south Louisiana, Mardi Gras is organized mayhem.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
3 min
March 03, 2025 As Long as There's Been an Earth
Basile, Louisiana has its own unique Mardi Gras song.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
3 min
March 02, 2025 Donnez-moi Un Petit Sou
In the bayous of Louisiana, costumed revelers beg for food and money from their neighbors, to support a communal gumbo.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
3 min
March 01, 2025 The Biggest Day
"Forget about your job, your worries, your bills.."

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
3 min
February 28, 2025 Feast Before Fast
The roots of Mardi Gras run deeper than Christianity.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
3 min
February 27, 2025 Oasis
Headphones on! Picture being under a palm tree next to a burbling brook in the middle of California's Anza-Borrego desert.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
3 min
February 26, 2025 Immunizing Plants
Scientists are finding ways to help plants absorb fertilizers and nutrients more efficiently.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
3 min
February 25, 2025 Sandhill Cranes - Captive Breeding
Keeping rare birds home on the range.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
3 min

About Pulse of the Planet Podcast with Jim Metzner | Science | Nature | Environment | Technology

From the publisher's feed

Each weekday, Pulse of the Planet provides its listeners with a two-minute sound portrait of Planet Earth, tracking the rhythms of nature, culture and science worldwide and blending interviews and…