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First Aired - 03/08/2010 12:00PM
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Author Carol A. Butler joins The Naturalist again, this time to talk about bees.
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The Naturalist Introduction: Bees! (11:08)
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Bernie Wides, The Naturalist, Carol A. Butler, Why Do Bees Buzz, spring is coming!, beehives, honey, Central Park, 60 species of bees have been identified in Central Park, they are hard to identify, the move quickly and look a lot alike, American Museum of Natural History, bees are the only insects for which artificial insemination techniques are successful, most honeybees only live for a few weeks, refined sugar, sweeteners, pollination, monoculture crops, nectar,The Life of a Worker Bee (10:40)
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Mayans, Incas, Tulum, Mexico, bees are symbolic in Salt Lake City, state house has a bee hive on top of it, The Bee House, Mormons, polygamist, workers, drones, Queen, different bee types in the hive, the workers change their job as they develop, the females do all the work in the hive, reproductive organs don't develop, reproductive self restraint, the Queen lays thousands of eggs a day, the Queen gives off pheromones, suppresses ovaries from developing, genetic mapping, Madeleine Beekman, the drone has no function other than to mate with a virgin Queen, the drone is not equipped to collect pollen, the drone has compound eyes larger than the female, sensitive antenna, foragers bring the nectar in, they regurgitate it into the mouth of the worker bees, their phallus breaks off after mating,Beehives, Swarms & Metamorphasis (12:01)
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bee swarms, compound eyes, with the extra eyes they can follow the scout bee to the new locaation, police force, it used to be illegal to have beehives in New York City, that law has now been changed, if you are allergic to bee stings you shouldn't raise bees, Bushwick, Erica Wides is about to set up a hive at Roberta's, pheramone, honey bee larva, silk, cocoon, honeycomb is sealed up, pupa, similar to a moth, 12% of insects don't go through this kind of metamorphasis, exoskeleton, we have an internal skeleton and are vertabrates,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 01/11/2010 01:00PM
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Sports Dudes - Episode 1
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Sports Dudes: Show Debut! (12:13)
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Sports Dudes, Brandon Hoy, Greg Goldman, Charles Barkley quote on Brett Favre, quote of the year, BCS, Michael Vick MVP run, trend towards more athletic quarterbacks?, who's running the option?, mobile quarterbacks are a joke, National Title, who cares about the Heisman trophy?, Greg is an Eagles fan, Eagles secondary is not that great, youngest team in the NFL, who can beat Tom Brady, Ravens Cheifs game was borring, Jets Colts game, who cares?,NFL Playoff Picks & Fantasy Camps (19:47)
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do football players take steroids?, Tony Romo sucks, football is a warriors sport, the speed of the game has accelerated, there is an appropriate way to hit somebody in football, head to head contact is on both sides, Divisional Round pickems, Ravens/Steelers, both pick Steelers, Jets/Patriots, both pick Patriots, Falcons/Packers, both pick Falcons, Bears/Seahawks, who cares?, fantasy camps, you pay a lot of money and go hang out with some old time players, for $6,000 you get to feel like you are a Yankee, for $17,000 you get to play with Michael Jordan,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 12/07/2009 12:00PM
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This week on The Naturalist, Bernie Wides talks astronomy with fellow Natural History Museum docent Mike Hamburg.
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The Naturalist Introduction: Mike Hamburg (10:33)
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Roberta's, Bushwick, The Naturalist, Mike Hamburg, The Museum Of Natural History, astronomy, planets, aliens, rocket ships, heavenly bodies, The Big Bang Theory, the birth of the universe, nickname from a competitor, Edwin Hubble, matter seemed to be moving further apart, things probably used to be closer together, at one point everything must have been in one place, singularity, 13.7 billion years, The Hubble Constant, how fast is the universe expanding, The Hubble Telescope, Hubble was an astronomer, 100 inch telescope, The Hooker Telescope, there is a speed limit to light, 3000 kilometers per second, the speed of light, light years, light minute, light second,Light & The Secrets Of The Universe (11:23)
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by the end of the 19th century astronomy was a dead science, light contained the secret to the universe, all the ingredients that make up our universe have a chemical signature, spectroscopy, the story of the universe opened up, the light of stars and galaxies, gamma rays, x rays, microwaves, light energy, wavelengths of light, different energy level, the moon reflects light, the sun, never look at the sun with you bare eyes, temperature is a good indication of an energy level, heat, atoms, light in its various components, helium, compounds and elements, the sun is a star, a star is the only object in the universe that creates its own energy, thermonuclear fusion, planets are much smaller bodies, we see planets by reflected sunlight, this month in New York we can see Jupiter, Jupiter is shining, Mars, www.astronomy.com, www.skyandtelescope.com, Astronomy Made Simple, written by Michael Hamburg, published by Doubleday, Tekserve,Technology & Space Exploration (11:41)
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we are no longer bound by Earth based observatories, there are telescopes in space above the Earths atmosphere, the atmosphere absorbs a lot of frequencies, The Spitzer Infrared Telescope, The Chandra X Ray Telescope, black holes, Mars is most like Earth, the two rovers on Mars were designed for three months and are going into their sixth year, one has gotten stuck in the sand, rovers confirmed that there is water on Mars, extra solar planets, extra solar means that planets go around stars others than the sun, we have cataloged 400 planets going around other stars, there planets resemble a hot Jupiter, The Kepler Mission, this instrument is capable of finding worlds as small as the Earth, the hope is to find a planet with life, it is very expensive to launch objects into space, dark matter, dark energy,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
