Scienceline

Scientists and other talented guests show off and explain their talents.

This is talent show, where you show off your talent and I reveal your secret! This pilot will showcase relative and absolute pitch, and how people develop or acquire those talents.

Image: Public domain

Scientists and other talented guests show off and explain their talents.

This is talent show, where you show off your talent and I reveal your secret! This pilot will showcase relative and absolute pitch, and how people develop or acquire those talents.

Image: Public domain

Your microbiome functions without you even knowing it’s there. Science writer Carl Zimmer and pathologist Zhiheng Pei help explain how we rely on bacteria and viruses to keep us healthy, and what can go wrong when that relationship breaks down.

Produced by Peter Hess

Image credit: CDC/ Lois S. Wiggs (PHIL #6260), 2004

Your microbiome functions without you even knowing it’s there. Science writer Carl Zimmer and pathologist Zhiheng Pei help explain how we rely on bacteria and viruses to keep us healthy, and what can go wrong when that relationship breaks down.

Produced by Peter Hess

Image credit: CDC/ Lois S. Wiggs (PHIL #6260), 2004

If you get angry while walking in crowds, you’re not alone

Whether on the sidewalk, at the mall or in the grocery store, we’ve all been there. Someone in front of you is walking slower than you want to be walking, and the rage bubbles up as you’re thwarted in your attempts to pass them. Maybe you keep a lid on your frustration, but it’s there. Decrypting You takes a look at sidewalk rage and its close cousin road rage to find out where that anger comes from.

Produced by Ellie Kincaid

[Image Credit: Gary McCabe | CC BY-SA 2.0]

If you get angry while walking in crowds, you’re not alone

Whether on the sidewalk, at the mall or in the grocery store, we’ve all been there. Someone in front of you is walking slower than you want to be walking, and the rage bubbles up as you’re thwarted in your attempts to pass them. Maybe you keep a lid on your frustration, but it’s there. Decrypting You takes a look at sidewalk rage and its close cousin road rage to find out where that anger comes from.

Produced by Ellie Kincaid

[Image Credit: Gary McCabe | CC BY-SA 2.0]

How water and forest combined to build a city

We all have places we love, but we don't often stop to think about what makes these places special. A Sense of Place is all about exploring how a place's surroundings shape its history and culture. In this episode, we visit Venice--the sinking city of canals.

[Image credit: NASA/GSFC/MITI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons]

How water and forest combined to build a city

We all have places we love, but we don't often stop to think about what makes these places special. A Sense of Place is all about exploring how a place's surroundings shape its history and culture. In this episode, we visit Venice--the sinking city of canals.

[Image credit: NASA/GSFC/MITI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons]

This is Potato Potato. Each episode we'll invite a mystery guest to tell us a story. Then we’ll have a linguist try to guess where our storyteller comes from. And maybe along the way we’ll learn something about the English language.

In this episode: Nisse Greenberg shares a memorable accident and linguist Dan Duncan guesses.

This is Potato Potato. Each episode we'll invite a mystery guest to tell us a story. Then we’ll have a linguist try to guess where our storyteller comes from. And maybe along the way we’ll learn something about the English language.

In this episode: Nisse Greenberg shares a memorable accident and linguist Dan Duncan guesses.