Tag Archive
GM Foods in Europe, Organic Food Industry, Ancient Brown Shoe
Podcast 71: Germany's schizophrenia about genetically modified foods? The need to regulate the organic food market. An old Armenian shoe from the Copper age. A paleo-climatologist's favorite music for work. »
Haiti’s Seismic History, Rome’s Metro System, Excess Flu Vaccines
Podcast 49: Geologists had warned Haiti about an impending earthquake. Engineers and archaeologists collaborate on Rome's new Metro line. Europe is trying to dispose of extra doses of H1N1 vaccine. »
Saving Apples, Ancient Animal Footprints, Green Chemistry
Podcast 48: Saving the ancestor of apples. Ancient animal tracks rewrite tetrapod evolution. Chemists are trying to make new, green chemicals. »
Music on Your Brain
Forum 7: Are humans hard-wired to appreciate music? How did music come to play such an important role in our lives. Talk with neuroscientist Daniel Levitin to find out. »
A Special Podcast on Music and its Origins
Podcast 46: How does music affect our brains, and how did it come to have such a hold on our lives and celebrations? »
The World Science Forum
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
