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An intimate account of the beauty, mystery, and amazing science of the ocean.

Hear stories about alien moons, cold stars, and the future of space exploration. Hosted by Dr. Carrie Nugent, it's the only show that gets NASA experts to try unusual drinks.

People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or the decisions of a handful of tired Europeans had gone a different way. By telling the stories of these borders, we can learn a lot about how political identities are shaped - and about human folly.

Around 13,000 years ago, three things happened at once: (1) Global temperature suddenly stopped rising and plunged back to ice age-frigidity. (2) The Western Hemisphere’s largest mammals, including the horse, camel, woolly mammoth, saber-toothed cat, and dozens more, went extinct. And (3) the uniquely beautiful stonework of the early American Clovis people disappeared from the archeological record. For the past half-century, scientists have struggled to explain the three events. Were they independent of each other, or could they have had a common cause?

End Times is a compelling work of skilled reportage that peels back the layers of complexity around the unthinkable - and inevitable - end of humankind. From asteroids and artificial intelligence to volcanic supereruption to nuclear war, veteran science reporter and TIME editor Bryan Walsh provides a stunning panoramic view of the most catastrophic threats to the human race.

The Storm Front Freaks are a team of Meteorologists and Storm Trackers. Listen to “the most entertaining weather podcast” with exciting guests from the severe storms community.

Climate, Weather, and Crops – Our Food Future In a world facing more extreme weather and shifting climate patterns, how will we continue to feed a growing population? Climate, Weather, and Crops delivers the answers in a timely, accessible, and thought-provoking exploration of the vital connection between the atmosphere above and the soil below. This book breaks down the science behind how weather and climate influence agriculture—and why understanding this relationship has never been more critical. From frost to heatwaves, you'll discover how each element plays a role in crop success ...

Throughout Lewis and Clark for Dummies, you find out about Jefferson's western exploration from his earliest efforts to see the Corps assembled through the aftermath for the explorers, the tribes, and the United States. But the focus of Lewis & Clark for Dummies is on the period between Jefferson's confidential letter to Congress requesting dollars to mount a western exploration (January 18,1803) and the expedition's triumphant (and improbable) return to St. Louis (September 23, 1806): 42 months that changed the world.

This dynamic chronicle of the race to find the "missing links" between humans and apes transports readers into the highly competitive world of fossil hunting and into the lives of the ambitious scientists intent on pinpointing the dawn of humankind. The quest to find where and when the earliest human ancestors first appeared is one of the most exciting and challenging of all scientific pursuits.

Although it is widely understood that energy and water are the world’s two most critical resources, their vital interconnections and vulnerabilities are less often recognized. This farsighted audiobook offers a new, holistic way of thinking about energy and water - a big picture approach that reveals the interdependence of the two resources, identifies the seriousness of the challenges, and lays out an optimistic approach with an array of solutions to ensure continuing sustainability.

"Conquer the Backflow Exam: Your Guide to a Career as a Backflow Prevention Device Inspector" is an in-depth study guide designed to help aspiring professionals master the essential knowledge and skills needed to pass the backflow prevention certification exam. The book covers the fundamental principles of hydraulics, water pressure, and flow dynamics, providing a strong foundation in understanding how backflow occurs and the various methods used to prevent it. Detailed chapters explore the different types of backflow prevention devices, including Atmospheric Vacuum Breakers (AVB), Double ...

‼️GRATIS con la compra de la VERSIÓN E-BOOK la "Guía para Invertir en Plata" Te hablaré de como y porqué este metal monetario puede salvar tu vida financiera en tiempos de descomposición planetaria a todos los niveles. También te comentaré otras inversiones poderosas y activos inconfiscables en tiempos de degradación ¡GRATIS con el E-BOOK!‼️ ESTÁS AL BORDE DEL PRECIPICIO. BAILANDO AL FILO DE LA NAVAJA EN ESPERA DEL COLAPSO ¿QUIERES SOBREVIVIR A LOS TIEMPOS ECONÓMICOS QUE VIENEN? ¿QUIERES CONOCER LAS TRAMPAS FINANCIERAS, TECNOLÓGICAS Y SOCIALES QUE NOS ATACAN Y COMO ...

Packed with humour and fascinating facts, This Way Up takes a deep dive into the world’s most intriguing and baffling map blunders. From ancient miscalculations to modern mishaps, each chapter uncovers a unique tale of cartographic chaos and the people responsible for it. These aren’t just ordinary mistakes – they are spectacularly wrong maps that tell a story of adventure, error and unexpected humour, with each one offering a new piece to the puzzle of ‘What on earth happened there?’

This podcast starts at the beginning of Earth's prehistory and works forward through time. Bedrock will explore the first 90% of Earth’s past, a time known as the Precambrian Era. Before humans, before dinosaurs… there was the Precambrian. The Earth was an incredibly alien world, but not a dead one. Along the way, you will build a mental toolkit to see the world like a geologist. You will never look at a mountain, the moon, or pond scum in quite the same way again. Welcome to Bedrock. For transcripts, visuals, and references, check out https://www.bedrockpodcast.com

The Third Edition of Evolution: The Grand Experiment is more than a book about evolution. It is a multimedia experience and includes eight video clips, 797 beautiful full color photographs, links to web pages, and 339 hyperlinked bibliography references for easy viewing. This book has the most accurate information about walking whales, walking seals and bat ancestors. The Grand Experiment now is the definitive source of information about walking whales with interviews with the scientists involved in the discovery of Rodhocetus, Ambulocetus, Pakicetus, Indohyus, SInonyx. Also this book has ...

In a book that will recalibrate our view of this defining feature of our planet, physicist Helen Czerski dives deep to illuminate the murky depths of the ocean engine, examining the messengers, passengers and voyagers that live in it, travel over it, and survive because of it. From the ancient Polynesians who navigated the Pacific by reading the waves to permanent residents of the deep such as the Greenland shark that can live for hundreds of years, she explains the vast currents, invisible ocean walls and underwater waterfalls that all have their place in the ocean's complex system.

You've heard of Pangea, the single landmass that broke apart some 175 million years ago to give us our current continents, but what about its predecessors, Rodinia or Columbia? These "supercontinents" from Earth's past provide evidence that land repeatedly joins and separates. While scientists debate what that next supercontinent will look like—and what to name it—they all agree: one is coming.

From Joseph Romm, Chief Science Advisor for National Geographic's Years of Living Dangerously series and one of Rolling Stone's "100 people who are changing America," Climate Change offers user-friendly, scientifically rigorous answers to the most difficult (and commonly politicized) questions surrounding what climatologist Lonnie Thompson has deemed "a clear and present danger to civilization."

Welcome to The Mineral Rights Podcast! I'm here to help you to make the most out of your oil and gas mineral rights and royalty interests. From the latest mineral rights news to featured guests, get the knowledge and resources you need to manage your minerals and royalties.

Man-made climate change may have began in the last 200 years, but humankind has witnessed many eras of climate instability. The results have not always been pretty: once-mighty civilizations felled by pestilence and glacial melt and drought. But we have one powerful advantage as we face our current crisis: history. The study of ancient climates has advanced tremendously in the past 10 years, to the point where we can now reconstruct seasonal weather going back thousands of years and see just how civilizations and nature interacted.