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Science for the People is a weekly syndicated radio show and podcast. We are a long-format interview show that explores the connections between science, popular culture, history, and public...
Listen to Science for the People, a Religion & Spirituality podcast by Rachelle Saunders, Bethany Brookshire, Anika Hazra, & Marion Kilgour. Stream 300 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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Join the team of Science for the People for one last episode, where we interview... ourselves. We talk about our time as Skeptically Speakin...
For the last time, Bethany and Rachelle skip gleefully across the world wide web, plucking nerdy objects out of obscurity to shine a spotlig...
For the last time, Joanne Manaster and John Dupuis talk us through their favourite science reads from the last year, and add a little "time...
Period. Menstruation. For something that roughly half the human population does, we sure don't talk about it much. But it's a fascinating bi...
If you're plugged in to science news (and you, our listeners, definitely are) then you know that psychedelics like ketamine and LSD are havi...
In the beginning, way, way back in 2008, this podcast was just a bunch of Canadians wanting to talk about science and skepticism. Nearly 15...
We might say climate change is coming for us. But really, it's here. Fires are worse in hotter, drier conditions. Hurricanes are powered up...
In the book Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet, journalist Ben Goldfarb details how roads have transformed our...
We all know that climate change is coming for us. It's already here. But it's really, really hard to change people's actions, especially whe...
Ice is one of those invisible little gears of the modern, westernized world. We don't notice it when we have it, and as soon as we can't get...
You are what you eat, right? Well then, who were the ancient Romans, and who were the people they colonized? And who are we? And why do we e...
In his book Tenacious Beasts, philosopher and writer Christopher Preston explores creature comebacks. Some of these stories highlight the ev...
A lot of us learned basic ecology in primary school. Maybe we took a biology class in high school or secondary school and dug in a little mo...
Birds carry out some of the most amazing feats of athleticism in the world. Hummingbirds cross the entire Gulf of Mexico, their tiny wings b...
In 1938, two botanists, Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter, made an ambitious voyage down the Colorado River driven by the desire to chronicle th...
Humans are a roaming species. We've been traveling from continent to continent since our very earliest evolution. In fact, we've been doing...
Is there an insect more universally despised than the wasp? What have they done to incur so much of our ire? No one likes them. Well... almo...
Do you believe there's something Out There? What do our ideas of aliens say about what life is, how life could look and act? And what does i...
With fertilizers that supply phosphorus–what Asimov called "life's bottleneck"– people broke the circle of life. Dan Egan's new...
Thousands of years ago, people crossed a land bridge from Siberia to Western Alaska and dispersed southward into what we now call the Americ...
Give a cluck about chickens. The most popular meat actually has a 3,500 year history of cockfighting, backyard keeping, incubation invention...
Sea creatures do so many things that astound us. They regrow and regenerate, they incubate eggs for years without ever eating a morsel. They...
In the past 120 years, physicists have revamped our understanding of matter — of everything that makes up the world. This week on the...
In January 2020 a race began to identify, control, and understand a novel coronavirus that quickly spread around the world creating a global...
Humans are musical. Really, really musical. But why? What is it for, how did it come about, and what do we get from it? Let's get between th...
On this week's show, we're getting emotional. Our guest, neuroscientist Dean Burnett, talks about his new book Emotional Ignorance. He share...
Let's talk about sex, baby. Let's talk about birds and bees. Let's talk about all the slime molds and the algae that can be, let's talk abou...
John Dupuis and Joanne Manaster join host Rachelle Saunders in what might be our most favourite and longest-running December tradition: scie...
It's that time of year when Rachelle spends far too much time finding strange and wonderful new clocks, Bethany adds more mugs to her collec...
We all know what a "pest" is. We can all point to creatures that are pests in our neighborhoods, those invasive hard-to-get-rid-of, disrupti...
Number 2. Poop. Crap. Doodoo. It's something that a lot of people just want to flush and forget, but others want to talk about it. Do they p...
Usually when we talk about electricity we're talking about the technology that runs the modern world, but electricity is a lot more integral...
The word "poaching" conjures images of elephants, tigers and pangolins. But there's a multi-billion dollar industry in poaching...trees. It...
It seems like no one vaccine is ever enough. COVID mutates and the vaccines fall short. A new flu vaccine every year, and each one different...
Television dramas make it seem like easy work for forensic investigators to determine when a person has died. But figuring out the time sinc...
Sharks are fascinating, often misunderstood creatures, and many of them are threatened or endangered, and they definitely deserve our conser...
Even the luckiest and healthiest of us will interact with the medical systems we live in eventually, and navigating these systems can be fru...
There's no doubt that we humans have done some pretty awful things to our landscapes. Draining swamps, cutting down forests, shooting almost...
This week we're zooming in on surfaces, where lots of action happens as things slip, grip, slide, and more. Our guest Laurie Winkless, autho...
In 2022 it seems surgery can perform miracles. Plastic surgery in particular can reshape noses, jaws, and even transplant entire faces. But...
The thing about humans is that, as a social species, we work with other people. And this means we often, consciously or unconsciously, end u...
Most people know how the age of dinosaurs ended. An asteroid hit and all the dinosaurs died out. But it's never quite that simple. In her ne...
Vagina. Clitoris. Uterus. Ovary. These are body parts that about half the population is born with. And yet, there are so many questions abou...
Mental illness is being discussed openly and publicly more than it ever has been, but our understanding of what it is and its impacts are st...
I'm sure we've all heard the phrase 'supply chain disruption' by now. It might bring to mind ships floating outside LA or trucks jackknifed...
Choosing a career path is a big decision. In the modern western world a career is practically synonymous with identity: whether we like it o...
Intent on improving your creativity or focus? Want to raise your IQ? What does that even mean? This week, we've got Emily Willingham back on...
In Handmade: A Scientist's Search for Meaning Through Making, author Anna Ploszajski takes her experience of materials science out of the la...
2021 has vanished, sucked into the black hole created by 2020. But while the pandemic continues, we are steadily climbing our way out. And w...
We often think the practices of science and academics as a western-European invention, and while both science and the academy have created a...
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