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Microplastics in Lake Tahoe: What are They Doing There? What are they Doing? With Madison “Madio” Wallner
Lake Tahoe is one of California’s natural jewels but it is under siege and increasingly awash in plastic wastes, as visitors carelessly dispose of...
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The Norris Center for Natural History at UCSC: What is it? Why is it there? With Professor Ingrid Parker and Center Director Chris Lay
The Kenneth S. Norris Center at UC Santa Cruz is one of the little-known jewels of the campus as well as the Monterey Bay...
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The ABCs of California Native Bees with Krystle Hickman, Conservation Photographer and National Geographic Explorer
If you venture out into parks, farms and gardens with various flowering species, you are almost sure to see European honeybees flying about. When...
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The Omnivore’s Deception--What We get wrong about meat, animals and ourselves, with Professor John Sabonmatsu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Millions of Americans see themselves as "conflicted omnivores," worrying about the ethical and environmental implications of their choice to eat animals. Yet their attempts...
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The Enduring Fantasy of ‘Feeding the World’ with Professors Adam Calo and Maywa Montenego
Even before the publication of Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb in 1968, we heard warnings that humanity would be doomed to a future of...
An Hour Wasted with Tom Lehrer A Tribute to the Man and His Music
Tom Lehrer, the musical satirist par excellence of the 1950s and 1960s, died this past July at age 97. Many listeners and their progeny...