Inside the Bat Cave (BONUS) | Tumble Episode
EDUCATION RESOURCES: NGSS Standards: LS What’s it like to go inside the world’s largest bat colony? In this special bonus episode, we’re sharing part of our interview with Jessica Dreyer, modern day Bat Woman and biologist. (Remember her from “The Journey to the Bat Cave”?!) Find out why a cave just outside San Antonio, Texas is home to 15 million bats - the largest gathering of mammals anywhere on the planet! Want to get MORE behind-the-scenes of our stories of science disc
The Mask of the Crow Scientist | Tumble Episode
EDUCATION RESOURCES: NGSS Standards: LS 3-LS3-2 Crosscutting Concepts: Cause and Effect Not a true crime story, but a true science story! Starring a murder of crows, a person in a creepy mask, and one very curious scientist named Kaeli Swift. We unravel the mystery of what appears like scene from a Halloween fright night, but is actually an experiment designed to reveal the reasons for some very weird crow behavior. Turns out, you can get a lot of strange looks on the road to
Pluto and the Planetary Pandemonium | Tumble Episode
EDUCATION RESOURCES: NGSS Standards: ESS It’s a scientific controversy of planetary proportions! Is Pluto a planet, or not? In this episode, you decide, after we present two sides of an epic astronomy argument. Back in 2006, the International Astronomer’s Union voted on a definition of the word “planet” that excluded Pluto and other newly dubbed “dwarf planets” from planethood status. Astronomers - and everybody else - quickly chose sides. We dive deep into the debate and lea
What Would Earth Be Like If Volcanoes Didn't Exist? | Tumble Episode
EDUCATION RESOURCES: NGSS Standards: ESS 2-ESS1-1 Crosscutting Concept: Stability and Change A volcanologist imagines a world without volcanoes, and tells us how her recipe for homemade lava bombs might lead to discoveries about ancient volcanoes in outer space! It turns out that volcanoes do more for planets than create natural pyrotechnic displays. You’re guarenteed to be blown away by volcanologist Erika Rader ’s EXTREME VOLCANO SCIENCE PROJECT. Spoiler alert: It involves
The Journey to the Bat Cave | Tumble Episode
EDUCATION RESOURCES: NGSS Standards: LS Join us on a field trip to the biggest bat colony in the world! Bracken Cave is home to 15 million Mexican free-tailed bats. It’s the largest concentration of mammals on the planet, and it’s made up of only mothers and their babies. On our visit, we’ll meet a real-life Batwoman. Jessica Dreyer is a bat biologist who is studying how bats learn to be bats. Now… TO THE BAT CAVE! In the episode, Jessica describes how she and Harry, her res