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First Aired - 11/29/2010 03:30PM
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This week on Hot Grease Nicole talks green, healthy living with Liz Neves of Healthy Home Consultant, a service that assesses potential allergy or asthma triggers within your home and helps phase them out naturally. Liz talks about eating healthy and how you can achieve a healthy home, plus how living healthy and environmentally responsibly can be simple and stress-free. This episode was sponsored by Cain Vineyard & Winery: supporters of the growing movement to change how we think about our planet.
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Hot Grease Introduction: Green Living, Green Giving & Great Food (8:10)
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Nicole Taylor, Hot Grease, Heritage Radio Network, Jolly Holiday Series, Green Living, Green Giving & Great Food, HousingWorks, Eat Slow Jams, support HRN!, think about family and friends that need a boost, cook them a great meal,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 11/22/2010 11:00AM
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This week on The Naturalist Bernie and Carol return to topic of bedbugs with a non-reproduction related episode regarding the bloodthirsty critters. Learn how to detect, prevent, and eradicate bed bugs with tips from exterminators, scientists, and all around MacGuyvers, including a brilliant DIY tape bedbug trap. Learn how to stop them while traveling, and the one place in your hotel room where your luggage will be safe! This episode was sponsored by Cabot Cheese of Vermont, Dairy Farm Family owned since 1919
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Bedbugs: Getting Rid of Them (16:00)
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no reproduction today, bedbug sperm, Carol's bedbug book, bedbug literature, the structure of the bedbug book, bedbugs and travel, Turkey, what to do when you find bedbugs in a hotel, the signs of bedbugs, put your luggage in the tub!, you won't necessarily see bedbugs, an adult that has fed on blood is 300% bigger than an empty bedbug, using K9s to find dogs, dogs can smell the bedbugs, there aren't enough dogs to go around, dogs trained on termites, how careful should you really be?, bedbugs can survive in very low moisture, bedbugs can live as long as a year, putting clothes in the freezer and drier, the eggs dry out more easily than the bugs, put your stuff in storage for six months so the bugs die,Diatomaceous Earth and Curing Infestation (27:10)
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Diatomaceous earth, Diatomaceous earth is made from the shells of diomes, Diatomaceous earth can be like tiny shards of glass, its also not great to breathe in Diatomaceous earth, stand the legs of your bed in a jar full of water, surround your bed with painters tape and add double sided tape on top, if bedbugs come to the bed they'll get caught, illustrations of bites can be very misleading, allergic reactions vary widely, bedbugs are like mosquitos in that the females need blood for reproduction, sometimes you don't feel anything when a bedbug bites you and sometimes you do, so far we don't think bedbugs transmit things like HIV, Carol may be the Queen of the Bedbugs, they now have electronic bedbug monitors, you don't have to remove all your stuff if you have a private domain to get the bedbugs out, putting bedbugs to sleep, NY is the number one bedbug state,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 09/18/2009 02:15PM
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On the premiere episode of The Naturalist, Bernie Wides teaches us about the glacier that would have eaten New York City and the sex life of barnacles.
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The Naturalist Introduction & Show Summary (7:00)
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The Naturalist, Bernie Wides, science, industrial arts, teaching, environmental organizations, The Phoenix, coastal ecology, Long Island Sound, Everglades National Park, interpretive park ranger, canoe trips, The Ten Thousands Islands, mangroves, docent, Bernie's areas of expertise are ocean life, butterflies, and earth & space, Central Park, greensward guide, future show topics, The Museum of Natural History, greensward means an open green space in a forest, biography, mosquitoes,Giant Glacier Eats New York! (10:14)
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glacier, New York Times, 12,000 years ago the climate was much colder and we were in an ice age, if New York City existed, it would have been devoured by glaciers, laurentide glacier, glaciers slowly advance and retreat, the leading edge was 1,000 feet thick, Empire State Building, George Washington Bridge, interglacial epic, the earth is still warming up from the last ice age, this is what we mean by global warming, fossil fuels, co2, without humans the next ice age would be 100,000 years from now, there's nothing we can do to prevent ice ages, we don't know why earth goes through these cycles, theories, orbit, the earth's axis is tilted 23 1/2 degrees, the earth's axis wobbles like a top, heat energy, the sun, why was there an ice age?, Milutin Milankovitch, building dimensions in New York City, Chrysler Building, the earth is naturally warming up, but humans are speeding up the process, changes in the tilt of the earth's axis,Glacier Add-On (6:36)
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the glacier stopped advancing at New York City, Bushwick, Brooklyn, everything north of Brooklyn to the North Pole was ice covered, the ice front advanced along the Northern hemisphere, ice sheet, glacial evidence, Eastern Parkway, Grand Army Plaza, Flatbush, Staten Island, Queens, Highland Park, terminal moraine, glacial hills, hills, Long Island, north shore is hilly, south shore is not hilly, sands from the glacier were carried south and formed Flatbush down to Jamaica Bay, beach formations, fresh water, New York City shoreline used to be 100 miles further south, Ronkankama moraine, Inwood park, Marcus Garvey Park,The Sex Life of the Barnacle: Size Does Matter! (10:34)
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barnacle, sex life in the animal kingdom, barnacles look like little white dots, they are volcano shaped, inside the cone is a tiny animal like a crab, they are related to shrimps and blue craw crabs, the shell of a barnacle is made by the animal, calcium carbonate, young barnacles are free swimming critters, plankton are at the mercy of the waters, young barnacle is a millimeter in size, eventually, it let's itself sink to the bottom of the water and finds a hard surface, most settle on rocks, they produce an amazing glue that sets underwater, dentists, the barnacle legs point upward out of the cone, operculum, air would dry them out and kill them, they capture plankton with their legs, dinoflagellates, barnacles have the capability of gender changing, the male has a penis that is long enough to reach over into the next barnacle, the penis is longer than its body, females give off pheromones, reproduction, the male extends its penis all around until it finds a female, the barnacle has the biggest penis per body size in the entire animal kingdom, penis envy, sometimes they attach to whales, barnacles cannot move around, diatoms,The Bulletin Board: Events In New York City (4:44)
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estuaries, 2009 New York State Beach Cleanup, Littoral Society, 1-800-449-0790, http://www.alsnyc.org/, Jamaica Bay Sunset Cruise, September 26th, 3 hour narrated tour, shore birds, shoreline, Don Reape, 718-318-9344, tell him Bernie sent you!, has been going on for 24 years,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
