Episode – 0584 : How Tides Work Podcast Transcript Every single day, the oceans of the world go through a cycle with two high tides and two low tides. For […]
Episode – 0572 : The Nile River
Episode – 0572 : The Nile River Podcast Transcript There is an old saying that da Nile isn’t just a river in Egypt. That is true. It is also a […]
Episode – 0565 : The 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai Eruption
Episode – 0565 : The 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai Eruption Podcast Transcript On January 15, 2022, one of the biggest geologic events in the last 30 years occurred. The Hunga […]
Episode – 0509 : The Sahara Desert Wasn’t Always
Episode – 0509 : The Sahara Desert Wasn’t Always Podcast Transcript The Sahara desert is by far the largest desert in the world. It evokes images of sand dunes, camels […]
Episode – 0418 : The Year Without A Summer
Episode – 0418 : The Year Without A Summer Podcast Transcript In 1816, the world experienced something that it had never seen before. All over the Northern Hemisphere in Europe, […]
Episode – 0370 : Global Temperature Extremes
Episode – 0370 : Global Temperature Extremes Podcast Transcript Every so often you might hear something on the news about a record high or low temperature being set. Usually, these […]
Episode – 0368 : Concorde: The World’s Fastest Passenger Airplane
Episode – 0368 : Concorde: The World’s Fastest Passenger Airplane Podcast Transcript Almost as soon as Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947, people began thinking of ways to […]
Episode – 0362 : 10 Ways You Can Know That the Earth is a Sphere
Episode – 0362 : 10 Ways You Can Know That the Earth is a Sphere Podcast Transcript One of the saddest things in the modern world is that with all […]
Episode – 0358 : Tuvalu: The Least Visited Country in the World
Episode – 0358 : Tuvalu: The Least Visited Country in the World Podcast Transcript Located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is one of the smallest countries in the […]
Episode – 0284 : The Dodo Bird
Episode – 0284 : The Dodo Bird Transcript In 1598 the Dutch Empire acquired the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean.There, they found a short, fat, flightless bird that […]
Episode – 0251 : Daylight Savings Time
Episode – 0251 : Daylight Savings Time Transcript Every year, around this time, people who live in northern latitude countries turn their clocks ahead one hour. Then, months later, we […]
Episode – 0204 : Milankovitch Cycles
Episode – 0204 : Milankovitch Cycles Transcript The Earth takes a year to go around the sun, and a day to turn on its axis. It is tilted 23.5 degrees […]
Episode – 0080 : Potpourri Vol II: The Frozen Four
Episode – 0080 : Potpourri Vol II: The Frozen Four Transcript Once again it is time to investigate the stories which are interesting, but not big enough to justify their […]