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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 - 06/21/2010 12:00PM
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This week on The Naturalist Bernie spoke to Mike Hamburg, docent at the Natural History Museum and Bernie's resident astronomy expert, about some popular misconceptions people hold about the Earth and the universe.
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The Naturalist Introduction: Misconceptions of Seasons (18:36)
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Bernie Wides, The Naturalist, Mike Hamburg, Fairway Market, Heritage Radio Network, today is the summer solstice, during the solstice the Earth is the furthest from the sun, if the Earth wasn't on an angle we wouldn't have seasons the way we do, the angle is probably because the Earth was hit by something a long time ago, the Earth is not a perfect sphere, misconceptions about seasons, balancing an egg on the vernal equinox, sunlight is made up of many colors, nature of the movement of the universe, shifting colors, predicting earthquakes by looking at clouds?,The Coriolis Effect & Other Misconceptions (17:59)
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Coriolis effect, the coriolis force is a real force, when you witness water spinning down the drain it goes down the drain counter clockwise in the northern hemisphere, the opposite is believed to be true for the southern hemisphere, it's a trick, constellations on the ceiling of Grand Central Terminal, in 1957 the United States displayed a red stone missile in that room, there was a Gibbous Moon last night, some people think the phases of the moon are caused by the Earths shadow, that is not true, lunar eclipse, solar eclipse, The Dark Side of the Moon doesn't exist, the unseen side of the moon, why do we only see one side from Earth?,Moon Myths & Tide Trends (13:00)
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moon coloring, blue moon, due to various particles in the Earths atmosphere, only the sun creates its own light, tides, anybody who lives near the shoreline is familiar with tides, caused by the moons gravity affecting the Earth, the world lunatic comes from lunar, the so called moon illusion, Natural History Museum Events, Night at the Museum, they build a new museum for that movie, great new exhibits, Race to the End of the Earth,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 08/02/2009 01:00PM
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This week on the Q Report, Patrick and Mark are joined by Academy Award nominated documentary filmmaker Mark Mori, who tells us about his new film called Bettie Page Reveals All.
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Introduction & Show Summary (8:17)
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Tim Russert, Meet The Press, Dick Cheney, Walter Cronkite, Johnny Carson, Mark Mori, Betty Page, Betty Page Reveals All, Producers Guild, iconiclast, poetry, Mark Marabella, Patrick Martins,Bettie Page Reveals All: Mark Mori Discusses His Documentary (21:32)
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Building Bombs, H Bomb, film making advice, shooting on film, editing, S&M, pinup model, bondage, lawyers, Bettie Page is still very popular, sexual attraction, the naughty girl next door, still camera model, Bettie Page moved to New York in 1949, she was discovered at Coney Island by a Brooklyn policeman, Flirt, Wink, Beauty Parade, bikinis, Bunny Yeager, Playboy, Bettie Page is from Nashville, barbie, Kim Cattrall, Madonna, Bettie Page is the most photographed model of the 20th century, Jack Johnson, religion, Dave Stephens, Mark Mori is an Academy Award Nominated Documentarian,More On Bettie Page With Mark Mori (9:46)
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Chris Parachini, Bettie Page is more recognizable by face than name, Quentin Tarrantino, Bettie Page was rediscovered on the internet, The film comes out in 2010, bottom up grassroots campaign, burlesque dancers, viral marketing, supermodels, Farrah Fawcett, www.bettiepagemovie.com, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, J.D. Salinger, Hugh Hefner, Bettie Page didn't have children, HBO, sexual revolution, contraception, women's rights, Pulp Fiction, Uma Thurman, breaking barriers,New York Waterways With Chris Parachini (22:25)
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Dead Horse Bay, Atlantic Ocean, boat, boating, sailing, sailboat, sloop, shallow water ways, pirates, Caribbean, keel, Hudson River, Hell Gate Bridge, North Fork of Long Island, East River current is very strong, White House, sailing initiatives, navigation skills, this is the best time to buy boats in the past 20 years, boat repairs, physics of nature, San Francisco Bay, North Korea, transportation, Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs & Steel, Leif Ericson, Long Island Sound, Ferdinand Magellan, Vasco De Gama, Chelsea Piers, World Yacht, tour boats, sewage, fish, JFK, oyster fisherman, wildlife refuge, bird sanctuary, East Coast, shoreline, Bermuda rigged sailboat, natural environments,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
