nature

Quiet, please! Let’s talk about quiet…with a bonus section where I will actually be quiet

The world is so noisy! Even if we live in relatively quiet places, we are bombarded by noise thanks to […]

I wrote my fourth-grade animal report about sea otters — so you know I love them! I hope you’ll love

A horror show in August! Not all awe-inspiring phenomena are uplifting — this one surely isn’t, but it does inspire

What better way to pass time while waiting for the dentist than spinning the Google Earth globe and seeing where

The 17-year cicadas emerged once again this year in northern Illinois (while a 13-year brood emerged to the south), and

Wow, pink and purple skies! I hope you’ve had a chance to see the northern lights. Let’s talk about this

Did you see the recent total solar eclipse? Eclipses are really incredible! Find out why in this episode. Listen on

We take seeds for granted, yet they’re all around us and are obviously essential to life. We’ll discuss seeds and

In today’s episode I talk about the northern islands Jan Mayen and Svalbard. These islands are so far removed from

Do you ever get the creeps thinking about how deep the ocean is — or even at the deep end