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Wild Thing

Wild Thing

47 Episodes • By Foxtopus Ink • www.wildthingpodcast.com
Wild Thing is a long-form, narrative podcast about the obsessions that capture our imaginations. This sound-rich and deeply reported show examines the relationship between science and society—that point where scientific inquiry collides with our very human desire to find answers, even when there are ...more
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S1 Bonus Interview with Peter Byrne
Peter Byrne was the last remaining member of the Fou... more
Mar 15 2024 24m
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Introducing the new Wild Thing book
Announcing "The Search For Sasquatch", a middle-grad... more
Sep 13 2022 11m
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S3 Bonus Preview - Mutants
*Become a premium subscriber to Wild Thing! Premium ... more
Jul 20 2022 4m
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S3 E9: An Atomic Future
What were the long-term effects of the SL-1 explosio... more
Jul 12 2022 34m
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S3 E8: Risky Business
Incidents like Chernobyl and Fukushima are often wha... more
Jul 5 2022 29m
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S3 E7: Half-Life
The aftermath of SL-1 highlighted a problem that we ... more
Jun 28 2022 27m
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S3 E6: You Look Radiant
As firefighters and medical personnel staged operati... more
Jun 21 2022 33m
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S3 E5: Trust Issues
The only three people who really knew what had trans... more
Jun 14 2022 25m
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S3 E4: Chain Reaction
Two of the men working the reactor that night had pe... more
Jun 7 2022 22m
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S3 E3: A New(clear) Hope
The horrifying devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki... more
May 31 2022 26m
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S3 E2: Out Of Little Things
How did we figure out that such a tiny particle—an a... more
May 24 2022 29m
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S3 E1: Close To Home
In Wild Thing: Going Nuclear, we’ll use science, his... more
May 17 2022 24m
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S3: Wild Thing: Going Nuclear Trailer
Back for its third season, Wild Thing uses science, ... more
Apr 19 2022 2m
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S2 Bonus Episode #12: Aliens and Zoology—An Interview With Arik Kershenbaum
If we find them, aliens would be, well, alien, right... more
Nov 4 2021 38m
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Seth Shostak and SETI
Seth Shostak, chief astronomer with the SETI Institu... more
Oct 7 2021 35m
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MUFON 101 with Rob Siwatek
Rob Swiatek introduces us to MUFON—the Mutual UFO Ne... more
Sep 2 2021 25m
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Science and UFOs with Silvano Colombano
Silvano Colombano, a long-time NASA scientist, argue... more
Aug 5 2021 29m
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UFO Art with Frank Buffalo Hyde
UFOs, aliens, other-worldly beings—all have appeared... more
Jul 1 2021 22m
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Sara Seager
While we hypothesized about exoplanets for years, it... more
Jun 3 2021 30m
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The Arecibo Telescope with Abel Méndez
2020—already not a great year—was made worse for ast... more
May 6 2021 33m
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Ancient Aliens? An interview with David Anderson
David Anderson likes the idea of aliens, but he’s no... more
Apr 1 2021 33m
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Mars! An interview with Sarah Stewart Johnson
Sarah Stewart Johnson is a planetary scientist who h... more
Mar 4 2021 35m
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Interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson gives hi... more
Feb 4 2021 40m
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Interview with Joe Scott
In a wide-ranging interview, Joe Scott, the host of ... more
Jan 7 2021 32m
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Venusian Life? An interview with Clara Sousa-Silva
In September 2020, just days before this podcast lau... more
Dec 10 2020 39m
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