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Solar Flares & Northern Lights, Life in Space, Malaria Misdiagnoses
Podcast 78: Solar flares are sending hot plasma towards the Earth. Life in space is boring and full of interpersonal-squabbles. Cases of ordinary fever are sometimes misdiagnosed as malaria. »
Naming Planets in Hebrew, Toward Copenhagen, Mayan Daily Life
Podcast 40: Danish Climate Minister on new climate treaty. The Israelis are trying to give Hebrew names to Uranus and Neptune. And environmentalists are trying to get wildlife of the Vietnamese menu. »
Preventing Blindness, Clues to Bilingualism, Science in Singapore
Podcast 29: Fighting blindness in Ethiopia. Creating a science workforce for Singapore. Walking in circles in the woods. Plus: malaria, bilingualism, and a strange giant planet. »
A Linguist’s Dream, Declining Wildlife, a Narcissistic World Leader
Podcast 15: A linguist’s dream study (deferred), a famed wildlife reserve suffers a decline, and psychoanalyzing a narcissistic world leader. »
The World Science Forum
Saving Wild Tigers
The future for tigers looks dismal. Poaching and habitat-loss threaten the last remaining tigers in the wild.
"If there isn’t an incentive to make live tigers worth more than dead tigers, we’ll lose tigers,” says John Seidensticker. He is a conservation biologist at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington D.C. and is an adviser for the Global Tiger Initiative.
Seindesticker is also the guest in our latest World Science Forum.
Learn how we can protect wild tigers. Join the online conversation. The discussion is live now!
The future for tigers looks dismal. Poaching and habitat-loss threaten the last remaining tigers in the wild.
"If there isn’t an incentive to make live tigers worth more than dead tigers, we’ll lose tigers,” says John Seidensticker. He is a conservation biologist at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington D.C. and is an adviser for the Global Tiger Initiative.
Seindesticker is also the guest in our latest World Science Forum.
Learn how we can protect wild tigers. Join the online conversation. The discussion is live now!
The World Science Podcast
