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First Aired - 02/28/2011 12:00PM
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The Naturalist returns to the airwaves after a short break, and Carol A. Butler recaps her wonderful Winter NY Cruise. Tune in and learn more about the hidden natural world of New York City including some fun facts about seals and cormorants. Later in the show, Carol & Bernie preview some new projects and talk about the various eye functions of different birds and insects. This episode was sponsored by Route 11 Potato Chips / Tabard Inn. For more information visit www.TabardInn.com
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The Naturalist Introduction: New York Winter Cruise (19:50)
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The Naturalist, Bernie Wides, Carol A Butler, Winter Cruise, sponsored by the New York Auduhn Society, seals, Red Hook, gulls, winter birds, shore birds, cormorants, water birds, in Asia they use cormorants are pets, used for fishing, Trinidad, Tobago,Eye Functionality in Insects & Birds (21:36)
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hummingbirds, Costa Rica, butterfly farms, cloud forest, Texas is a great place for migrating birds, bird photography, function of the eye, insects and birds, how different animals see differently, birds eye view, what does it look like to a be when they see a flower?, blind cave fish, DarwIn, bees have five eyes, three more light sensitive undeveloped eyes on their head, bee swarms, sperm whales, physically the largest eye in the animal kingdom, birds have the largest proportional eyes,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 11/01/2010 12:00PM
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This week on The Naturalist Carol talks about those bane of the New Yorker's existence: the bedbug. Learn what researchers spending years watching bed bugs mate have learned about their fascinating reproductive habits. This episode was sponsored by Fairway: like no other market.
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The Naturalist Introduction: Bed Bugs (14:39)
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Heritage Radio Network, Carol A. Butler, The Naturalist, Fairway Market, traumatic extragenital insemination, pinworms, fruit flies, mating is linked to the bed bugs feeding cycle, starved bed bugs don't mate, anatomy of bed bugs, males typically detach from other males after a few seconds, males remained coupled with the female for a few minute, the male leaves after insemination, spermalege, mesospermalege, ectospermalege,Bed Bug Reproduction Experiments (9:58)
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research design, experiments, males and females rarely desire to mate at the same rate, what is the evolutionary advantage for the female bed bug?, traumatic reproduction shortens her life, paramere, spermalege functions as a defense against foreign pathogens, protects the body, system has developed to confine wounding,Properties of Bed Bug Ejaculate (8:09)
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maximizing chances of reproduction, investment in non sperm components of the ejaculate, ejaculatory strategies of flower beetles, sperm competition in humans, shape of human penis may have evolved to compete with sperm from other males, bed bug reproduction, sperm mass volume, Cimicidae, cimex lectularius, hemolymph, sexual selection by sperm competition,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 03/28/2011 12:00PM
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On a very important episode of The Naturalist, Carol A. Butler leads a discussion on nuclear energy - a topic on everybody's mind right now after the disaster in Fukushima, Japan. . Tune in as Carol & Bernie teach us more about nuclear energy plants and how radiation fallout affects food as well as people. Find out more about how meltdowns happen, the preventative measures taken to avoid problems and the state of nuclear energy across the world. This episode was sponsored by www.FairwayMarket.com
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The Naturalist: Nuclear Energy (23:11)
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The Naturalist, Bernie Wides, Carol A. Butler, Fairway Market, Heritage Radio Network, nuclear disaster in Japan, nuclear energy, danger with milk and spinach, an albatross survived a tsunami, Wisdom, 60 years old, still producing chicks, pressurized water reactors, Fukushima, uranium fuel, formed into ceramic pellets, fuel rods, reactor core, generated electricity, spent rods, cooling pool, melting rods, partial meltdown, cracks in the containment vessel, used fuel rods, waste disposal, food contamination, thyroid cancer, Iodine-131, Indian Point power plant, Hudson Valley, 11 crops have been declared contaminated in Fukushima, half life, Chernobyl,Nuclear Fallout & The Dangers of Radioactive Waste (27:16)
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nuclear fallout, Tom Lehrer, We Will All Go Together When We Go, nuclear plants in the world, how do you get off Long Island in an emergency?, modifications to nuclear plants, stopping construction on new nuclear plants, France gets a lot of its energy from nuclear, the US has 104 reactors at 64 plants, produces about 20% of our elecricity, 23 of our reactors are boiling water reactors, Oyster Creek plant, coal mining is also a terrible business, our nuclear plants are designed to withstand a 6.0 earthquake, evacuation plans in the US cover a 10 mile radius, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, reactors on fault lines, fracking, using small amounts of lethal radiation to destroy pathogens,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
