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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
First Aired - 06/13/2011 12:00PM
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This week on the Naturalist Bernie Wides recounts his recent trip to Norway. From the fjords of Bergen to the great museums Oslo, Bernie enlightens us to a multitude of topics in Scandinavian history and culture. Tune in to learn more about fossils, glaciers, Grieg, and yes, even trolls and dragons. This episode is sponsored by Heritage Foods USA.
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First Aired - 03/31/2013 12:00PM
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Kansas City and its surrounding towns are at the center of animal genetic diversity in the food movement. On this week's installment of The Main Course, Patrick Martins talks with Jonathan Justus, the chef at Justus Drugstore. Tune in to hear Patrick talk about the food landscape hundred of years in the future. How will the restaurant scene change, and how will farmers and chefs interact? Later, hear Patrick and Jonathan talk about the terroir of Little Dixie, and the uniqueness of the area's flora and fauna. Listen in to hear Jonathan talk about how the events of World War II changed the role of pigs in our society. Find out what other chefs in the Kansas City area are cooking innovative and delicious food, and why Jonathan hopes to stay true to Midwestern food. This program has been brought to you by White Oak Pastures.
"The area where we live was formed by the edge of the last great glacier, and it was like a giant bulldozer... As the glacier receded, it dropped all sorts of stone and seed that were not from this area. There are flora that exist here that don't in any other places." [20:10]
"If you take out the squash, peppers, and corn, most of what we eat is not from here." [23:30]
-- Jonathan Justus on The Main Course
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The Year 2222 (13:33)
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Jonathan Justus, foodie, citrus, agriculture, year 2222, pills, nutrients, oranges, tomatoes, farms, intensive crops, diversity, Ben Flanner, prairie tall grass, foraging, American Indians, steaks, lamb, goat, meatballs, ground meat, tulip, Botany of Desire, poultry, restaurant culture, Manhattan, beer, business franchises, Saxelby Cheesemongers,Justus Drugstore and Kansas City (31:09)
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Paradise, Missouri, Paradise Locker Meats, Justus Drugstore, botanist, wheat, corn, terroir, swine, Little Dixie, Mississippi, glacier, agrarian society, seeds, Christian food, potatoes, squash, peppers, rooftop farming, Brooklyn, lambsquarters, quinoa, bergamot, cultivar, Nick Fantasma, Berkeley, California, Kansas City, genetic diversity, Frank Reese, World War II, pork fat, petroleum, homogenization, Smithville, Factor e Farm, open source, The Land Institute, perennials, the Midwest, fine dining, James Beard Foundation, country food, pickle, caper, chicken fried steaks, hunting, fishing, seafood, Slow Food, Joe Baum, Julia Child, Jennifer Maloney, Cafe Sebastian, Lydia Bastianich, Michael Beard,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
