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Today I'm at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville speaking with Kimberly Sheldon all about dung beetles!
Kim studies the patterns and processes that determine the distribution of species and use this information to predict impacts of anthropogenic change on species and ecological communities.
Learn more about Kim's work: http://www.biogeographyresearch.org/
https://eeb.utk.edu/people/kimberly-sheldon/
To find out how you can learn more, be involved, and maybe even help, head to http://www.nimbios.org/
This episode comes from a conversation with the Director of Life Sciences here at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
His research focuses on hibernation! Why do animals do it? What's the difference between say... torpor and taking a nap? Could humans ever hibernate?
Plus, we get to dive...
Published 07/31/23
Today, I sit down with Andrew Kerr, head of the Dale Etheridge Planetarium in Las Vegas!
Andrew is an astronomer and physicist who received his PhD for his work on the Gravito-Electromagnetic Effect and the Cosmological Constant.
In this episode, we talk about the state of planetariums,...
Published 07/17/23