Published posthumously in 2010, Pearl Harbor: The Seeds and Fruits of Infamy blows the top off a 70-year cover-up, reporting for the first time on long-suppressed interviews, documents, and corroborated evidence. Greaves provides comprehensive coverage on the history of U.S. and Japanese relations, the actions of the Roosevelt administration, the attack and the response on the ground, the investigations and cover-ups that began almost immediately and continue to this day. This audio book is ...
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This is the podcast of the Wildlife Disease Association (WDA, https://www.wildlifedisease.org). Our host Dr Catharina Vendl chats with wildlife health professionals including researchers, vets, pathologists and more, about the joys and challenges of their job and the emerging issues of wildlife health locally and worldwide. All of our guests have a longstanding affinity with the WDA and a true passion for wildlife in common. So brush up your knowledge of current wildlife issues and One Healt ...
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A conversation about Fighting Irish football and basketball. An audio supplement to the Rakes Report newsletter, available at https://rakesreport.substack.com/. Hosted by Chris Wilson.
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Christmas Giving 2025 Extended: The Notre Dame Football Week That Was
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1:01:20We were going to do this Friday afternoon as a recap of Everything but decided to let things settle a bit first, so: Jessica Smetana joins to talk Jeremiyah Love awards circuit, All-American tracking, Remembering Some Guys via trivia, the USC series, strength of schedule debates, which reports from last week matter and which don't, basketball injur…
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#73 Niraj and The Carcass Café: How Carrion Shapes Wildlife Disease Risk (Australia)
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26:38What if the biggest threat to Australia's wildlife during a disease outbreak might be lying dead in the bush? Join host Dr. Cat Vendl with Niraj Meisuria, a PhD student investigating one of disease ecology's most overlooked frontiers: scavenging and carcasses. From wedge-tailed eagles brawling over kangaroo kills to brushtail possums turning carniv…
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Christmas Giving 2025: The Airing of Grievances
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55:43Closing the week with a few complaints to cleanse the soul, starting with an SEC TikToker's foray into Notre Dame country. Also: Merch availability, bowl discourse and much, much more. Donate here to the Center for the Homeless: https://www.gofundme.com/f/rakes-report-christmas-giving-2025 Holiday shirts (with all proceeds going to the CFH) availab…
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Christmas Giving 2025: What's Next for Notre Dame and Marcus Freeman
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41:02Blue and Gold's Eric Hansen joins to talk about what steps Pete Bevacqua and Marcus Freeman should take next, the ACC and SEC relationships, how the decision to skip a bowl came about, key players the Irish will try to sway to return and much more. Donate here to the Center for the Homeless: https://www.gofundme.com/f/rakes-report-christmas-giving-…
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Christmas Giving 2025: Coal for the Committee
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47:54NBC Sports' Nicole Auerbach joins to talk about the committee being very bad at their job, being tasked with too many things by the sport as a whole, what changes might come, the Elphaba Chris Ash graphic, improving Heisman discourse and much more. Donate here to the Center for the Homeless: https://www.gofundme.com/f/rakes-report-christmas-giving-…
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Christmas Giving 2025: Celebrating A Great Notre Dame Team
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46:22Jamie Uyeyama of Irish Sports Daily joins to talk some more about Notre Dame being left out of the playoff before pivoting to discussing how good this 2025 team was and how the program is set to get even better in the aftermath of the snub. Donate here to the Center for the Homeless: https://www.gofundme.com/f/rakes-report-christmas-giving-2025 Hol…
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Christmas Giving 2025 Kickoff: Bah, Humbug (But It Is My Favorite Holiday)
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55:31Jessica Smetana joins to kick off our annual fundraising for the Center for the Homeless in South Bend. Donate here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/rakes-report-christmas-giving-2025 An extended therapy session where we respect conspiracy theories being true and discuss Notre Dame's decision to eschew a bowl. Holiday shirts (with all proceeds going to …
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A Cursed Primer on Notre Dame's Potential Playoff Paths
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33:00Feel free to skip this and keep living your life but there are a lot of questions and confusion out there so the Spreadsheets & Tailgates newsletter's Michael Bryan stopped in for a concise look at the process, metrics, odds and conspiracy theories that could or could not affect the Fighting Irish's playoff fate on Sunday. Guns up. Sign up for the …
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Instant Reaction: Notre Dame 49 Stanford 20
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52:26Jessica Smetana joins to discuss the Fighting Irish romping to a late-night win in their regular season finale. A dominant first 33 minutes, an incredible fake punt, the cursed vibes of Palo Alto, a bummer rivalry weekend, playoff discourse and much more. Sign up for the newsletter and/or browse the merch here: https://linktr.ee/rakesreport…
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#72 Ana Maria and the sloths (Costa Rica)
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22:52Dr Ana Maria Villada has spent years unraveling the mysteries of sloths—creatures so physiologically unique that they're closer to chimpanzees than they are to each other. But her work treating electrocution injuries, creating rope highways through fragmented forests, and tracking hand-raised orphans released into the wild reveals something surpris…
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Week 14 Thanksgiving Weekend College Football Games To Watch Mega Draft Edition
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1:14:22Jessica Smetana joins as the third chair for a draft of our favorite 18 games of the weekend, starting with Thursday night's American clash through a pivotal Saturday primetime slate. Sign up for the newsletter and/or browse the merch here: https://linktr.ee/rakesreport
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Instant Reaction: Notre Dame 70 Syracuse 7
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38:57Jessica Smetana joins to recap a very lopsided Steve Angeli Bowl. Love for Heisman, elite safety play, NBC Universal synergy, much more. (Congrats to Utah on reverse jinxing them into an awesome comeback during the recording.) Sign up for the newsletter and/or browse the merch here: https://linktr.ee/rakesreport…
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A late-night clash for the Islands Showdown trophy, a battle for both Silver Spade Trophy Mayor's Cup and plenty of danger for teams in the hunt for conference titles. Sign up for the newsletter and/or browse the merch here: https://linktr.ee/rakesreport
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Instant Reaction: Notre Dame 37 Pittsburgh 15
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54:33Jessica Smetana joins to discuss the Fighting Irish's domination of the Panthers. Jeremiyah Love and Malachi Fields' excellence, Chris Ash's unit excelling, Pat Narduzzi being Pat Narduzzi, some annoying narratives and much more. Sign up for the newsletter and/or browse the merch here: https://linktr.ee/rakesreport…
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#71 Alex and the Bandicoots: Redefining the Wildlife Veterinarian (Australia)
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24:38By day, Dr. Alexandria Bullen treats cattle and cats at a veterinary clinic on Tasmania's rugged northwest coast. By night, she's out tracking platypuses and bandicoots in the wilderness. In this episode, host Dr. Cat Vendl meets Alex at the Australasian WDA conference to explore how she bridges clinical practice with wildlife research. Discover wh…
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A primetime C-USA clash, a check-in on our old friend Gerad Parker and a couple of Florida teams try to stay on the playoff path. Sign up for the newsletter and/or browse the merch here: https://linktr.ee/rakesreport
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2025-26 Notre Dame Basketball Roster Crash Course
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1:10:46The focus is still on football (please defeat Pitt) but both basketball teams also have big games this weekend so we're taking some time to project what that might look like on the hardwood. First, Paul Coletti of The Irish Alert newsletter joins to break down the new and old faces who'll be surrounding Hannah Hidalgo for the women's team. Then (35…
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Jessica Smetana and the Spreadsheets & Tailgates newsletter's Michael Bryan gather after the Fighting Irish's comfortable win over the Midshipmen to discuss highlights of the seventh straight victory, including more Jeremiyah Love absurdity, C.J. Carr bombing away and a great effort from Chris Ash's defense. Also: How the rest of the day affected N…
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The races to clinch everything from bowl eligibility to conference title game berths heat up in the season's final month. Sign up for the newsletter and/or browse the merch here: https://linktr.ee/rakesreport
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Boston College Delayed Reaction + Coaching Carousel + Playoff Prognosticating
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1:00:29Jessica Smetana joins to talk Notre Dame's sixth straight win, where Navy slots in among the remaining opponents, Brian Kelly's firing, the first set of playoff rankings and much more. Sign up for the newsletter and/or browse the merch here: https://linktr.ee/rakesreport
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#70 Leanne and the Swift Parrot's Future: Reimagining Wildlife Health Before Crisis (Australia & Vietnam)
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27:51What if we could prevent wildlife health crises instead of always racing to respond to them? Dr. Leanne Wicker has spent decades asking this question – from anesthetizing seals in Tasmanian car parks during lunch breaks to tracking ocean temperatures through Antarctic seal movements, from nearly a decade managing confiscated wildlife during Vietnam…
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Week Nine College Football Games To Watch
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28:51The battle for the Old Oil Can, a key American clash and the Big 12 race stays hot. Sign up for the newsletter and/or browse the merch here: https://linktr.ee/rakesreport
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Forecasting the Future of the USC Rivalry and Notre Dame's Playoff Chances
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44:44Sam Werner of the Three-Point Jesus podcast joins to spend some more time discussing Notre Dame's 34-24 victory over USC and where the team stands after seven games. Then the discussion turns to the future of the Fighting Irish-Trojans rivalry, some conventional wisdom about the series that isn't so wise, stress-testing our playoff beliefs and a lo…
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Instant Reaction: Notre Dame 34 Southern Cal 24
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55:03Jessica Smetana joins to discuss the Fighting Irish's soggy and satisfying victory over the Trojans to retain the Jeweled Shillelagh. Sign up for the newsletter and/or browse the merch here: https://linktr.ee/rakesreport
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From Peru's copper mines to penguin colonies, PhD candidate Mya Daniels-Abdulahad tracks a toxic trail that threatens an entire species. Winner of the 2025 BioOne Ambassador Award, Mya reveals how mining waste travels through ocean food chains – with iron accumulating at four times normal levels in Humboldt penguin eggs and cadmium weakening their …
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Week Eight College Football Games To Watch
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31:51A big Saturday in the Sun Belt, a monster Friday night and SEC title elimination games. Sign up for the newsletter and/or browse the merch here: https://linktr.ee/rakesreport
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Our USC Insider Nick Tresnowski joins to break down Saturday night's monster clash as we reach Round Four of Lincoln Riley vs. Marcus Freeman with playoff and contractual drama swirling. Sign up for the newsletter and/or browse the merch here: https://linktr.ee/rakesreport
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Instant Reaction: Notre Dame 36 NC State 7 + 🚨James Franklin Fired🚨
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54:47Jessica Smetana joins to discuss the Fighting Irish notching their fourth straight win via another great performance from the defense. Then we had to discuss James Franklin being let go by Penn State following the Nittany Lions' third straight loss. Sign up for the newsletter and/or browse the merch here: https://linktr.ee/rakesreport…
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Week Seven College Football Games To Watch
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33:05Big games on Thursday and Friday night, the Big 12 race stays tight and a rare but needed Rutgers appreciation. Sign up for the newsletter and/or browse the merch here: https://linktr.ee/rakesreport
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Boise State-Notre Dame Field Report + What Makes a Great College Football Game-Day Atmosphere?
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1:01:32Jessica Smetana and Lucy Rohden join to discuss Lucy's first visit to Notre Dame, what the campus and game day experience were like around Boise State's visit and how that compares to other schools. Also discussed: The Big Ten, James Franklin and when preseason projections go wrong. Off Rohding report from Notre Dame Sign up for the newsletter and/…
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#68 Ralph and HPAI in the Southern hemisphere (Argentina)
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26:49Join host Dr. Cat Vendl as she follows Dr. Ralph Vanstreels tracking high pathogenicity avian influenza from South America to Antarctica. Ralph shares insights from surveying remote coastlines and documenting the virus's impact – over 600,000 wild birds and 55,000 marine mammals affected, with elephant seal populations experiencing 95% pup mortalit…
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Instant Reaction: Notre Dame 28 Boise State 7
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42:53Michael Bryan (Spreadsheets & Tailgates newsletter) and Andrew Smith (Notre Dame, Our Blogger) join to break down the Irish taking care of business in a flag-filled game against the Broncos. Sign up for the newsletter and/or browse the merch here: https://linktr.ee/rakesreport
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Some sad #goacc, some promising young quarterbacks and a whole lot more highlight the weekend. The SI story on the 1982 Aloha Bowl. Sign up for the newsletter and/or browse the merch here: https://linktr.ee/rakesreport
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Instant Reaction: Notre Dame 56 Arkansas 13
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53:22Jessica Smetana joins to discuss the Fighting Irish rolling into Fayetteville for the blowout win, including another nearly perfect day from the offense. We also hit on a fun weekend of college football and then just as we were wrapping up 🚨Sam Pittman got fired🚨. Sign up for the newsletter and/or browse the merch here: https://linktr.ee/rakesrepor…
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Week Five College Football Games To Watch
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28:02A monster weekend awaits, with ranked teams in danger, American teams trying to keep rolling and a whole lot more. Sign up for the newsletter and/or browse the merch here: https://linktr.ee/rakesreport
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Nearly one-third of all parrot species are threatened with extinction, yet most people picture these charismatic birds as noisy pets in cages rather than the complex, emotionally intelligent wild creatures they truly are. In this captivating episode, host Dr. Cat Vendl speaks with Dr. Pat Latas, a founding member of the newly founded IUCN Wild Parr…
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Instant Reaction: Notre Dame 56 Purdue 30
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1:10:08Jessica Smetana joins to break down the Fighting Irish getting their first win of the season against the Boilermakers, including an incredible offense and still so many questions about the defense. Then (50:50) a look at the Paige Bueckers-Sonia Citron WNBA Rookie of the Year and some light schadenfreude. Sign up for the newsletter and/or browse th…
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Week Four College Football Games To Watch
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28:46A stacked noon slate kicks off what looks to be another fun Saturday that ends in Boulder and with some more potential Golden Bear magic. Sign up for the newsletter and/or browse the merch here: https://linktr.ee/rakesreport
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Instant Reaction: Texas A&M 41 Notre Dame 40
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40:38Sam Werner of the Three-Point Jesus podcast joins to file a report from the Irish's second loss of the 2025 season. Chris Ash, C.J. Carr, what the next ten games might look like and much more. Sign up for the newsletter and/or browse the merch here: https://linktr.ee/rakesreport
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Week Three College Football Games To Watch
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29:17Start your Saturday in the City of Brotherly Love and end it at the Golden Bowl in Berkeley. Sign up for the newsletter and/or browse the merch here: https://linktr.ee/rakesreport
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Evaluating The Validity of Various Notre Dame Football Concerns Post-Bye Week
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54:27The Spreadsheet and Tailgate newsletter's Michael Bryan joins to judge the severity of concerns about the Fighting Irish after their opening loss with another big game ahead of them on Saturday night. We also take a look at lessons learned from the first two weeks of the college football season. Sign up for the newsletter and/or browse the merch he…
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A snowstorm that closed highways led English literature student Kate Huyvaert to an unexpected path—becoming one of North America's leading experts on wild sheep disease. From discovering that 25% of albatross chicks aren't raised by their biological fathers to unraveling the devastating cycle of respiratory disease threatening bighorn sheep across…
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Looking Ahead to Notre Dame's Monster Game vs Texas A&M
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47:11GigEm247's Carter Karels returns to preview the Aggies' upcoming trip to South Bend. Topics include the improvement of Texas A&M's passing attack, optimism about a run game that started slowly and a whole lot of questions about Mike Elko's defense. Sign up for the newsletter and/or browse the merch here: https://linktr.ee/rakesreport…
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There isn't a lot of sizzle this weekend but if you dig there's plenty of steak. Dave Campbell's Texas Football on Scott Abell Lawrence Journal-World on Bert Coan Sign up for the newsletter and/or browse the merch here: https://linktr.ee/rakesreport
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Jessica Smetana joins to discuss the Fighting Irish losing their season opener to the Hurricanes. A real loopy one trying to work through this so apologies for that. Sign up for the newsletter and/or browse the merch here: https://linktr.ee/rakesreport
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2025 Notre Dame Football Season Preview: Excitement Draft
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1:00:13Jessica Smetana joins to close out the offseason with our annual discussion of things to be excited about for the upcoming Fighting Irish campaign. Sign up for the newsletter and/or browse the merch here: https://linktr.ee/rakesreport
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Recommending some of the most interesting games of the opening weekend, from an important G6 clash to Top Ten tilts. Sign up for the newsletter and/or browse the merch here: https://linktr.ee/rakesreport
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2025 Notre Dame Football Season Preview: The Schedule
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1:25:47Alex Herrmann and Andrew Smith of Notre Dame, Our Blogger join to preview all 12 opponents on this fall's Fighting Irish schedule. A spicy start, the murky middle and some sad scenes. Sign up for the newsletter and/or browse the merch here: https://linktr.ee/rakesreport
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#65 Nick and the Lord Howe Island stick insects (Australia)
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28:16Join host Dr. Cat Vendl as she meets Dr. Nick Doidge, zoo veterinarian and researcher, working to save the world's rarest insect – the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect, nicknamed the "tree lobster." Thought extinct for 80 years, these living fossils were dramatically rediscovered on a volcanic rock stack in the Pacific Ocean. But after bringing them b…
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2025 Notre Dame Football Season Preview: Freshman Orientation - Offense
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51:24Irish Sports Daily's Jamie Uyeyama joins to run through every scholarship freshman on the Fighting Irish offense. A tight end and running back who could make an instant impact, a crop of promising linemen, three receivers trying to work their way into the mix and a quarterback who needs to be ready for action as soon as next season. Sign up for the…
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