What If There Were No Animals? | Tumble Episode
What if there were no animals? 🦅 This week, ecologist Rae Wynn-Grant tells us what the world would be like without animal life, along with how we can prevent animals from disappearing from around the world 🐻 Tune in to hear the powers of conservation! Learn more about Rae and conservation efforts in our bonus interview extra on Patreon ! 🎧 Listen to the Episode 🔎About The Featured Expert Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant is a large carnivore ecologist and host of the PBS Nature podcast
The Mind-Control Cat Parasite | Tumble Episode
It’s a cinematically horrifying Halloween 🎃 and there’s a movie-like monster lurking in your kitty litter! 🎬 This week you’ll hear the scary science behind toxoplasma gondii, a mind-controlling cat parasite! 🦠 Biologist Sebastian Lourido helps us tell the true tale of toxoplasma’s quest for cat domination, and what scientists are doing to stop the parasite in its banana-shaped tracks. 🐱 Learn more about Sebastian and his research in our bonus interview extra on Patreon !
Tumble's Cave Road Trip! | Road Trip Collection
How about one more Road Trip before the summer ends? 🚗 How about a Cave Road Trip? We’ll share some of our favorite Tumble caving stories as we venture forth into the darkness! Get ready for sights, stalagmites, and plenty of bats! 🦇 If you'd like to learn more about these caving stories, check out their blog posts below! You'll find transcripts, videos, articles, and more science fun on each page! The Journey to the Bat Cave Inside the Bat Cave [BONUS] The Cave of the Un
What Do Dogs Think? | Tumble Episode
How do we find out what dogs are thinking? With a play, of course! 🎭 For our Season Eight finale, researcher Dr. Zachary Silver will reveal the secrets of dog science! 🐶 Be sure to tune in… it might get a little dramatic! Learn more about Zachary's interest in dogs in our bonus interview episode, available on Patreon ! 🎧 Listen to the Episode 🔎About The Featured Expert Zachary Silver is a researcher at the Yale Cognition Center - and soon to be at Occidental College. Z
What's That Bird Song? | Tumble Episode
Join us to explore the splendid sounds of our feathered friends! 🐦Birder Trevor Attenberg tells us of his journeys in the bird world so you can discover the secrets of their songs! Learn more about how Trevor recognizes birds by their songs in our bonus interview episode, available on Patreon ! This episode is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number # 2148711 - Engaging Blind, Visually Impaired, and Sighted Students in STEM with Story
Why Are Sloths Slow? | Tumble Episode
Why are sloths so slow?? 🦥 Listen to our latest episode where we ask this question to Rebecca Cliffe, sloth scientist and founder of The Sloth Conservation! Put on your sloth backpack and try not to fall out of a tree, because we’re going to discover why being slow might be a good thing after all! Learn more about sloth conservation in our bonus interview episode, available on Patreon ! 🎧 Listen to the Episode 🔎About The Featured Expert Dr. Rebecca Cliffe is the founder a
The Polar Bear Adventure | Tumble Episode
Polar bears! Join us as we learn more about these white, fuzzy, and adorable-yet-dangerous bears of the Arctic! Biologist Andrew Derocher will take us on a polar bear adventure with helicopters, an angry cub, and super cool science. Tune in to learn more about these majestic creatures! 🎧 Listen to the Episode 🔎About The Featured Expert Dr. Andrew Derocher is a biologist and professor at the University of Alberta. He studies ecology, conservation, and of course, polar bears
Do Aliens Exist? | Tumble Episode
Are we the only ones out there? How likely is it that we’ll find intelligent alien life on other planets? And if we do, what will it be like? With help from astrobiologist Dr. Kaitlin Rasmussen and zoologist Dr. Arik Kershenbaum, we’ll uncover the secrets of the universe! 🎧 Listen to the Episode 🔎About The Featured Experts Dr. Kaitlin Rasmussen is an astrobiologist at the University of Washington/Virtual Planet Laboratory , and author of forthcoming book, Life in Seven Nu
The Tomb of The Animal Mummies | Tumble Episode
Halloween science podcast! Ever wonder what a mummy smells like? Or why millions of animals were mummified - including baboons?
Fashion's New Spider Sense - Life Lab, Part 4 | Tumble Episode
Shirts made from spider silk? Leather made from fungi? In this episode, we're exploring how synthetic biology is pushing the future of fashion! Welcome to Life Lab! This is the fourth part of our five part series about how tiny life can change our world. In Life Lab, we explore the incredible power of synthetic biology to solve some of our biggest challenges - and asking how it could change our future. Life Lab is supported by the Engineering Biology Research Consortium, a