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Wild Thing

Foxtopus Ink

Wild Thing is a podcast about the strange and unusual things that capture our imaginations. It’s about the relationship between science and society. It’s about wild places, wild people, and...

Wild Thing Podcast Guide

Listen to Wild Thing, a Science & Medicine podcast by Foxtopus Ink. Stream 46 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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Life on Venus?—S2 Bonus Interview

Wild Thing is re-releasing its bonus interviews! In September 2020, just days before this podcast launched, scientists announced that they m...

37:00Jan 6, 2026

Letters From Listeners—S1 Bonus

Wild Thing is rereleasing its bonus episodes! In Ep. 2 of Wild Thing , I mentioned that people went crazy about the gorilla. They even wrote...

8:57Nov 11, 2025

S3 E9: An Atomic Future

What were the long-term effects of the SL-1 explosion? Nuclear power is a shrinking part of America’s energy picture; accidents and fear hav...

33:21Jul 12, 2022

S3 E8: Risky Business

Incidents like Chernobyl and Fukushima are often what comes to mind when we think about nuclear energy. Thankfully, events like these actual...

28:14Jul 5, 2022

S3 E7: Half-Life

The aftermath of SL-1 highlighted a problem that we still haven’t solved, despite decades of searching for a solution: what to do with the w...

26:50Jun 28, 2022

S3 E6: You Look Radiant

As firefighters and medical personnel staged operations at SL-1, a plume of radioactive gas silently made its way over the Idaho desert, cre...

32:18Jun 21, 2022

S3 E5: Trust Issues

The only three people who really knew what had transpired at SL-1 were dead, and it would take months to determine what likely happened—plen...

24:57Jun 14, 2022