Notice Today’s Date
2012-01-11
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Yes, a date with all "ones" in it comes around regularly (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show) and we need to be PREPARED for whatever the future brings. The best way to do this, we think, is with one of our beautiful crop circle calendars.read more
Evolution May Not Keep Up With Climate Change
2012-01-11
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If climate change accelerates, can animals and plants evolve quickly enough to keep up with it? Climate changes profoundly influenced the rise and fall of six distinct, successive waves of mammal species diversity in North America over the last 65 million years.
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Whaling Drones
2012-01-11
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The Japanese have an insatiable appetite for whale meat, but environmentalists have a new weapon in their fight against whaling–in another nonmilitary use of the same drones we use as a weapon in Iraq.
Japanese whaling ships tried to block anti-whaling ships sent by conservationist agencies like Greenpeace to chase the whalers so the whale hunters could escape, but the activists repeatedly launched a drone to track them.
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