A monthly podcast bringing you stories, news, fun facts, and more about whales, dolphins and porpoises.
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The art and science of a goalplayer +talking up The St.Louis High School Champions League
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Join our journey through kaiju history as hosts Kevin Carpenter and Kayla Knutson watch every Godzilla film!
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Welcome to the Primary Care Pod from Red Whale – join GPs Nik Kendrew and guests as each month they discuss a roundup of four key topics for primary care clinicians, which can also be found in our popular free Pearls. We look at the evidence, the guidelines and the media coverage and make learning together as a primary care community as relaxing and enjoyable as possible. We invite you to nominate your primary care heroes and share your best intentions stories. So, grab a cuppa or put on you ...
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A Gilded Age Comedy about Birders, Murders, and Confectionery Capers
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Nonprofit News, Tech & Marketing Stories from Whole Whale, a Nationally Recognized Nonprofit Marketing Agency for over a decade. Founded in 2010, Whole Whale is a B-Corp that runs analytics, digital advertising, Google Ad Grants, and SEO for nonprofits.
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Welcome to After the Breach, a podcast for whale enthusiasts by whale enthusiasts. Join professional guides and whale watch captains Jeff Friedman and Sara Shimazu as they share their passion and love for whales.
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speaking real. real talks.
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Facts about Whales
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Taking a deep dive into the big questions about tech, media, and design. ☀️🐳 || hosted by Lauren Dagworthy (@worthyofdags)
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Learn and practise useful English language for everyday situations. Find more at https://www.bbclearningenglish.com Follow us at https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus
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Conversations with people about their current state of affairs in life from a guy who has no idea what he is doing with his.
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Explorations in the world of science.
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These are the musings and antics of a retired high school English teacher and her son, exploring everything from bugs to video games, miniature carpets to whale farts, poems to platitudes, with a dallop of cynicism and heeping cup of not taking life too seriously.
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After 7 years of being anonymous, 1.5 million words written about beer, and preaching the gospel of Barleywine is Life, Don't Drink Beer's Alex Kidd gets into the deep, dark world of podcasting. Joining him are his co-hosts, comedy writers and performers Stephen Loh and Michael Gabriel. Together they explore the absurd underbelly of the craft beer world while also discussing movies, music, video games, pop culture, and their sad, basement dwelling lives.
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Welcome to the Seacreatures Podcast, a show all about the amazing animals that live beneath the waves. On each episode we chat about a specific seacreature with a guest who has spent time and interacted with this ocean animal. Our guests range from marine biologists to divers to underwater photographers, citizen scientists, and people that have an intense passion for marine life.
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Unusual Whales covers financial topics and market news. We help navigate various topics in finance, from options, to equities, and get some of the experts in the field to help you follow the flow. 🐳
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Funny people tellin' stories about music. Hosted by Matt Price (Regular Show, Men of a Certain Age).
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Welcome to Crypto News Daily, brought to you by Brief! Our AI selects the latest stories and top headlines and then delivers them to you each day in less than ten minutes (for more details, visit www.brief.news/how-it-works). Tune in to get your daily news about Bitcoin, Ethereum, blockchain technology, DeFi, NFTs, and more. Whether you're a crypto enthusiast, investor, or simply curious about the potential of digital currencies, this podcast is your go-to source for all things crypto. Tune ...
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The White Whale is an audio zine. A podcast of mixtape journalism, fiction, and sound experimentation.
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Talking Wrestling and other cool things with Mr killer whale himself! 🐳 WWE NJPW AEW and indi wrestling all here! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/WhaleTalk/support
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We take a critter’s eye view to explore how animal behavior parallels humans. Join comedians and science-lovers as we get inside the minds of animals
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Weekly podcasts from Science Magazine, the world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary.
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A daily (5-day-a-week) podcast feed of true Oregon stories -- of heroes and rascals, of shipwrecks and lost gold. Stories of shanghaied sailors and Skid Road bordellos and pirates and robbers and unsolved mysteries. An exploding whale, a couple shockingly scary cults, a 19th-century serial killer, several very naughty ladies, a handful of solid-brass con artists and some of the dumbest bad guys in the history of the universe. From the archives of the Offbeat Oregon History syndicated newspap ...
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Nantucket's first Pod Cast. Hosted by Doug Cote, Inside the Whale features in depth conversations with some of the various personalities that make up the Island of Nantucket Massachusetts.
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We are here to Entertain You, KARUNADU - KARNATAKA. LISTEN, SHARE, SUPPORTUS AND FOLLOW.
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WHALE VOMIT is an entertaining yet cutting state of the union delivered by writers Amber A’Lee Frost and Sam Kriss, hosted by The Baffler magazine.
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In this podcast, we will check in regularly with Captain Paul Watson to speak about recent news and events regarding the oceans and their ecosystems. We will also feature interviews with other members of the Neptune's Pirates, especially once campaigns are in full swing. Periodically, we will post educational episodes highlighting the importance of marine organisms and what you can do to help the oceans. For the latest news and updates, please subscribe to this podcast (Apple Podcast, Spotif ...
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Autogenerated feed of the This American Life archive.
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Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Read by Doug Brown.
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Arlington VA Public Library is reading "Moby-Dick" this summer, and we're going to have a seriously good time while we do it. Each week on the podcast, librarians Jennie, Megan, Pete and special guests will discuss the reading, drop pop culture references, and ask or answer questions that come up during the Sunday discussion.
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New discoveries, everyday mysteries, and the science behind the headlines — in just under 15 minutes. It's science for everyone, using a lot of creativity and a little humor. Join hosts Emily Kwong and Regina Barber for science on a different wavelength. If you're hooked, try Short Wave Plus. Your subscription supports the show and unlocks a sponsor-free feed. Learn more at plus.npr.org/shortwave
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Join Ben and Mark as we explore Moby Dick! Now that we’ve completed the novel itself, in the Appendices we’re plunging like fate into the many ways people have adapted it. Whether as film, anime, musical theater, or theme park ride, whether faithful, reinterpreted, or just plain bizarre, we’re here to see Moby Dick in whatever form culture can provide it to us.
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We all have times in our lives when it feels like we are underwater and we're struggling to keep it together. Jonah and the Whale is a podcast that dives deep into such moments from some familiar faces and how that pain turned into purpose. Listen in to hear their stories and how they learned to breathe again. What's your underwater moment?
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Freakonomics co-author Stephen J. Dubner uncovers the hidden side of everything. Why is it safer to fly in an airplane than drive a car? How do we decide whom to marry? Why is the media so full of bad news? Also: things you never knew you wanted to know about wolves, bananas, pollution, search engines, and the quirks of human behavior. To get every show in the Freakonomics Radio Network without ads and a monthly bonus episode of Freakonomics Radio, start a free trial for SiriusXM Podcasts+ o ...
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Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher
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DJ-BRAD WCKS The Whale
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We're an outdoorsy couple just trying to share our love of the outdoors and this is our podcast
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Dante, a college student in NYC, becomes an RA in order to follow in the footsteps of his hero, Childish Gambino. While he hopes this will be the next step toward becoming a famous rapper, his delusions of grandeur are shattered when he realizes his dweebish co-workers are hellbent on making his life miserable.
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The Marine Conservation Happy Hour is a podcast that looks at the many different sides of Marine Science and Conservation in an informal setting - a during a pub Happy Hour, chatting casually over a few (or more) drinks. The show is co-hosted by @DrScarlettSmash and @Craken_McCraic. Everyone is a marine scientist who is passionate about the Ocean, marine mammals (whales, seals, dolphins, porpoises, polar bears and more), sharks and other fish, invertebrates (especially squid & octopuses beca ...
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CBC Radio's Quirks and Quarks covers the quirks of the expanding universe to the quarks within a single atom... and everything in between.
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Chapter 11 from the book cosmos, story reading
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The best of James Whale on talkRADIO. The godfather of speech radio has his say on all the big news and political stories. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Siggi Nagele National High School Champions League Sponsor and College Planning Director
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Send us a text [email protected] & Siggi Nagele [727]424-4071 and Nagele College Planning NCP www.nagelecollegeplanning.com with 40+ years of trusted business practices and someone I have come to trust with my loved ones . Siggi Is whales certified HOFBy Kevin Whalen
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It's the second American Godzilla and the first of the Monsterverse! Join Kevin and Kayla as they discuss Godzilla (2014). Want to support our work and gain access to bonus episodes and our private Discord? Visit our Ko-Fi at https://ko-fi.com/digitalkaijustudios Gorilla Whale is a Godzilla watch-along podcast and production of Digital Kaiju Studio…
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Tick, Tick, Tick... Time To Update On An Allergy To Red Meat
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Send us a text Grab your trainers, your dog lead, your hopes for the new year, and join us for some free CPD as we have another relaxed round up of recent Red Whale primary care Pearls of wisdom. In the first of two episodes this month, Fi and Nik discuss : Have you heard of Alpha-gal syndrome? It was new for nearly all our team here at Red Whale. …
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Scientists in the Arctic are catching the exhaled breaths of whales to better understand their health. How? Drones. Whales breathe through their blowholes, which are the equivalent of nostrils on their heads. By studying the microbes in exhaled whale breaths, scientists are piecing together how deadly diseases spread in whale populations. Host Emil…
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Episode 47 - Attempts by Wild Killer Whales to Provision People
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Returning guest Jared Towers from Bay Cetology joins us on this episode of After the Breach Podcast to discuss a paper he co-authored in the Journal of Comparative Psychology, "Testing the Waters: Attempts by Wild Killer Whales (Orcinus orca) to Provision People (Homo sapiens)." Before getting into the paper, we talk a bit about the recent release …
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Whales, sex, and rocks — it's our holiday book show!
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We talk to authors of some of this year’s most fascinating science books in our annual Holiday Book Show. INCLUDING: Questioning the purpose of whale song — for love or echolocation? Journeying through deep geological time to better tackle problems of the future Biological sex is complicated but that's what helps animals like humans thrive Mini rev…
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Batch 303: The State of Whales Today
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Call us The Malty Boyz™. Some years ago--never mind how long precisely--having little or no malty bucks in our purse, and nothing particular to interest us on the shelves at Binny's, we thought we would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. Now we've slayed many a white whale but it's been a minute since we've searched for a mod…
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2025 in Review: Navigating AI Shifts and Nonprofit Challenges (news)
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In the latest episode of the Whole Whale Podcast, hosts George and Nick reflect on the transformative themes that shaped the nonprofit sector in 2025. With a focus on AI's impact, they explore how answer engine optimization (AEO) has redefined nonprofit discovery and engagement. AI's rapid adoption has led to decreased organic traffic for nonprofit…
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Happy December! This month we are taking a break for the holidays but we would never leave you without an episode so we are releasing our December 2024 Whale Tales Watches episode on Mystic Christmas as a holiday gift for all of you! Last year we teamed up with The Charts & Hearts Podcast to […]By Whale Tales
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New dinosaur species identified in fossilized dino barf, and more
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An unassuming fossilized slab in the basement of a museum in Brazil turned out to be 110-million-year-old dinosaur vomit, and inside that vomit were the bones of two strange, seagull-sized pterosaurs. PLUS: Loss of fresh groundwater is now the leading driver of sea level rise How doubting your self-doubt makes you doubt less A huge black hole in a …
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Florida Proposes 500B Bitcoin Reserve, Coincheck Buys 3iQ for North American Push, Bitget Unifies Crypto and TradFi, DeFi Heist Drags TRU Down, and more...
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(0:10): Florida Proposes $500B Bitcoin Reserve, Sparking Debate Over Crypto Risks and Benefits (2:09): Coincheck to Acquire 3iQ for $111.8M, Expanding Institutional Crypto Reach in North America by 2026 (4:27): Bitget Unveils Unified Trading Platform Blending Crypto with Traditional Assets (7:05): Truebit Protocol Breach: $26M Stolen in DeFi Attack…
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Looking at the coaching carousel, how to bet the Panthers if you're gonna, weekly leaders, wine of the week and more. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.comfor information about our collection and use of personal data foradvertising.By Whale Capper
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Oregon Vortex: 95 years of keeping experts guessing
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ABOUT 20 YEARS ago, Alex Hirsch, a student at the California Institute of the Arts in Santa Clarita, set out to make a low-budget short animated film that he hoped would become a demo reel one day. It was called “Gravity Falls” … you have perhaps heard of it, yes?Hirsch used the 11-minute reel to pitch Disney on his show, and they snapped it up. To…
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We all want to stay sharp, and forestall the cognitive effects of aging. But do brain supplements actually work? Are they safe? And why doesn’t the F.D.A. even know what’s in them? (Part one of “The Freakonomics Radio Guide to Getting Better.”) SOURCES: Marty Makary, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. Peter Attia, physician, author, …
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Most astronomers agree that young galaxy clusters should be relatively cool compared to older ones. But researchers recently found a very young cluster that’s hotter than the surface of the sun. More on why the finding is so shocking, plus elephant’s remarkable sniffing abilities and a new discovery about butterfly migration in this episode of Shor…
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The 2026 Varsity Girls Soccer Head Coach from Fort Zumwalt South High School LeAnn Sanders
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Send us a text a Soccer Coach of Significance at FZS is a cutting edge culture of Soccer so pay attention of The FZS Bulldogs ....... caring & sharing the website of The Women's GameBy Kevin Whalen
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0:00 Intro - Playoff Talk 5:32 LAR @ CAR 16:00 GB @ CHI 25:21 BUF @ JAX 33:00 SF @ PHI 44:54 LAC @ NE 57:00 HOU @ PIT Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.By Whale Capper
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The real da Vinci code, and the world’s oldest poison arrows
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First up on the podcast, scholars are on a quest to find Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA. With no direct descendants, the hunt involves sampling the famous polymath’s papers, paintings, and distant cousins. Contributing Correspondent Richard Stone talks with host Sarah Crespi about what researchers hope to learn from Leonardo’s genes and the new field of “…
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Rumble Launches Creator Wallet, JPM Coin Goes On Chain, Wyoming Debuts State Stablecoin FRNT, Crypto Payments Unite, and more...
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(0:10): Rumble Launches Crypto Wallet for Direct Creator Tipping, Pioneering Decentralized Monetization (1:55): JPMorgan to Launch JPM Coin on Canton Network by 2026, Boosting On-Chain Settlements (4:24): Wyoming Launches First State-Issued Stablecoin, FRNT, for Cheaper Transactions and Global Reach (6:29): Crypto.com and Stripe Unite to Revolution…
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The crazy story of U.S.’s first woman governor (Part 2 of 2)
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HALFWAY THROUGH HIS second term in office, Governor Chamberlain ran for a seat in the U.S. Senate, and won the election. So he resigned his office as governor in favor of his Secretary of State, Frank W. Benson, and prepared to board an eastbound train to take his new seat.There was a problem, though.... (For text and pictures, see https://offbeato…
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What is your favourite social media platform? Do you still use it as much as you did three or four years ago? With the rise of generative AI, many social media users are finding their feeds cluttered with content that they feel no real connection with. Is social media on a downward spiral? Neil and Pippa discuss this and teach you some new vocabula…
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Barclays Bets on Tokenized Money, Bybit PWM Bets 20.3 APR, Bitcoin Faces Quantum Threat, MEXC Unveils AI Crypto Advisor, and more...
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(0:10): Barclays Ventures into Tokenized Money with Ubyx Investment, Bridging Traditional Finance and Digital Assets (2:00): Bybit PWM Sees Stellar 2025 with 20.30% APR from USDT Strategy Amid Crypto Volatility (3:48): Bitcoin Faces Quantum Threat: 7 Million BTC at Risk, Industry Urges Post-Quantum Prep (6:07): MEXC Unveils AI Consultant for Person…
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Creature Classic: Evolution's Best Mistakes!
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Note from Katie: As I question nature's wisdom with regards to the third trimester of pregnancy, I thought I'd offer you one of my favorite past episodes about how doofy and convoluted evolution can get. Today on the show: They're not dinosaurs, they're from BEFORE the dinosaurs, and they're very, very, very strange. Giant apex predator shrimp thin…
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Wednesday Walk-Thru: NFL Wildcard Weekend
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Injuries, line moves, coaching carousel, news, and notes. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.comfor information about our collection and use of personal data foradvertising.By Whale Capper
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The crazy story of U.S.’s first woman governor (Part 1 of 2)
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IF YOU ASK most Oregonians who the first woman governor in state history was, they’ll have an immediate answer … but they’ll be wrong.Conventional wisdom holds that the first woman to take the gubernatorial purple in the Beaver State was Barbara Roberts, who was elected to the job in 1990. In fact, that’s almost true … but, of course, “almost” does…
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Healthy forests help combat climate change, provide humans with drinking water and even improve mental and physical health. But it’s hard to imagine an entire forest in the middle of a big city. That’s where micro-forests come into play — public forests on a smaller scale, filled with native plants. They exist around the world, and producer Rachel …
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2025 was a depressing year for marine conservation
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2025 was a depressing year for marine conservation. Dr Smash and Dr Craken are recorded on New Year's Eve, and discussed some of the big issues impacting marine conservation in 2025. However, there is a silver lining, as they talk about some positive scientific and conservation advances that were made in 2025. Contact [email protected]…
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Land-fraud swindlers plundered Oregon badly (Part 2 of 2)
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Happily ensconced in their little bubble of like-minded businessmen and politicians, the land thieves had gotten to be a bit out of touch with how their activities were playing with the public. As the new century dawned, the old “greed is good” ethos of the Gilded Age was wearing very thin. Members of the public, watching fat cats from out of state…
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Behold a T-Rex holotype, paleontology's "gold standard"
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What happens behind the scenes of a dinosaur exhibit? Short Wave host Regina Barber got to find out … by taking a trip to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. In the museum’s basement, she talked to a paleobiologist, checked out a farmland fossil find and even touched a 67 million-year-old bone. Because, as it turns out, there’s a …
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Ledger Breach Heightens Crypto Risks, Ethereum Drives Record Stablecoin Flows, Gate Bets Big on Web3 Growth, Crypto Phishing Falls 83, and more...
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(0:10): Ledger Data Breach Exposes Customer Info, Heightens Phishing Risks for Crypto Users (2:25): Ethereum Dominates with Record $8 Trillion Stablecoin Transfers in Q4 2025 (4:42): Gate's 2025 Surge: Web3 Strategy Fuels Market Growth and Global Expansion (7:20): Crypto Phishing Losses Plunge 83% in 2025 Amid Improved Security Measures (10:15): Pi…
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The January 2026 National High School Champions League Meeting .....
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Send us a text beg Pardon about being able to only the first 20minutes and stay tune for Great St.Louis High School Girls Champions League games in your area many potential Virtuosos will be highlighted & teams all the opportunity to show that they are The Best of St.Louis during The High School Champion League playing with The National Sponsor SEL…
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Whale Certified Podcast....Preview for January of 2026
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Send us a text stay tune & engaged ......like share and subscribe to all the platforms . We have Soccer Folks and people of good will .By Kevin Whalen
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Quantum theory – our best understanding of the world at the smallest level – is famously weird and notoriously confusing. It’s a theory that seems to say particles can be in two places at once, or somehow “know” if you’re looking at them. Or at least, that’s what you might have heard. But is that really what quantum theory tells us about reality? T…
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Looking at the openers for the first round of the playoffs. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.comfor information about our collection and use of personal data foradvertising.By Whale Capper
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Land-fraud swindlers plundered Oregon badly (Part 1 of 2)
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ON THE MORNING of Dec. 7, 1904, Stephen A.D. Puter had just arrived at the office of U.S. Marshal Jack Matthews. He was expecting some friends to come by … and bail him out of jail.Puter had just been convicted of masterminding a plan to swindle the U.S. government out of thousands of acres of prime timberlands. He had not yet been sentenced. Like …
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Choose your fighter for the origin of water on Earth! Was it always here or did it come to this planet from somewhere else in space? And, either way, what does this mean for other water worlds in our galaxy? To find out, we talk with Michael Wong, an astrobiologist and planetary scientist at Carnegie Science. He gets into scientists’ strongest cand…
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Turkmenistan Lets Crypto Thrive, Ethereum Reimagines Decentralized Infrastructure, Coinbase Expands Global Strategy, UK Crypto Faces HMRC Crackdown, and more...
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(0:10): Turkmenistan Legalizes Crypto Mining and Exchange in Major Policy Shift (2:00): Ethereum's 2026 Vision: Revolutionizing Decentralized Infrastructure with zkEVM and PeerDAS Innovations (4:09): Coinbase Unveils Bold 2026 Strategy: Global Expansion, Stablecoin Focus, and On-Chain Innovation (6:22): UK Crypto Users Must Disclose Accounts to HMR…
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Going over the awards markets heading into the final week of the 2025 NFL season, even made a few bets. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.comfor information about our collection and use of personal data foradvertising.By Whale Capper
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Dust? Tongues? Uranus? It’s our Holiday Question Show!
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On this week’s episode of Quirks & Quarks, it's our ever-popular and always satisfying Holiday Listener Question Show that includes: Why did a Canadian astronaut's eyesight change when she went to space? How is the dust inside our homes changing? Why do some professional athletes stick out their tongues when they play? Why are most fruits round, bu…
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'Most Wanted' desperadoes found a home and respect in Oregon(Part 2 of 2)
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LATE IN THE MONTH of March, 1948, in the small coastal town of Gearhart, Pauline Virgin, 12, and her cousin Navarre Smith, 14, were listening to the famous “Gang Busters” radio program on radio station KEX (A.M. 1190). The radio host was telling the story of a wanted criminal named John Harvey Bugg, who back in 1945 had kidnapped a county sheriff, …
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Are Personal Finance Gurus Giving You Bad Advice? (Update)
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One Yale economist certainly thinks so. But even if he’s right, are economists any better? We find out, in this update of a 2022 episode. SOURCES: James Choi, professor of finance at the Yale School of Management. Morgan Housel, personal finance author and partner at the Collaborative Fund. RESOURCES: The Art of Spending Money: Simple Choices for a…
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What better time to contemplate the conundrum that is zero than the start of a new year? Zero is a fairly new concept in human history and even more recent as a number. It wasn't until around the 7th century that zero was used as a number. That's when it showed up in the records of Indian mathematicians. Since then, zero has, at times, been met wit…
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Looking for continents on exoplanets, and math is hard for mathematicians, too
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First up on the podcast, the best images of exoplanets right now are basically bright dots. We can’t see possible continents, potential oceans, or even varying colors. To improve our view, scientists are proposing a faraway fleet of telescopes that would use light bent by the Sun’s gravity to magnify a distant exoplanet. Staff Writer Daniel Clery j…
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Batch 304: Good For The Goose, Good For The Gander
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After braving the Black Friday crowds outside Binny's and pissing in bottles in now temperate weather, Alex and Stephen have sourced a horizontal of all six of Goose Island's Bourbon Country Brand Stout releases from this year. They'll be goosin' it, they'll be loosin', and they'll be Power Rankin' it to see how this year's Chicago Juice stacks up.…
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Running from FBI? Hide in a friendly Oregon town!
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HAPPY NEW YEAR! In the spirit of the American tradition of the season, today we’re going to explore the stories of two Missouri men whose New Year’s Resolutions probably once included “Give up crime” and “Hide from the F.B.I.”This is the sort of thing that used to be very easy to do in Oregon, which is actually the only state (so far as I have been…
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Are we becoming a divided society? Neil and Beth discuss this and teach you some new vocabulary. Find a full transcript, worksheet and interactive quiz for this episode at:https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english_2026/ep-260101 The Listening Room - improve your listening skills here:✔️https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningeng…
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Every damn game, no matter how bad the teams will be tanking. Happy New Year and good luck! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.comfor information about our collection and use of personal data foradvertising.By Whale Capper
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