A throwback to an episode from July 2023 where I talked with orca biologist and author Hanne Strager.

In this episode I talk with Dr. Stan Temple, Senior Fellow at the Aldo Leopold Foundation and Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison about the evolution of Leopold’s perspective and his lasting contribution to the modern conservation philosophy of the United States.

Right here in the United States an invasion is coming. Not of aliens, of cicadas. Brood 19 and 13 have begun emerging and they haven’t come out of the ground together in 221 years! I chat with Dr. Floyd Shockley, an entomologist that knows the ins and outs of these true bugs.

This week rounds out Earth Month and I am talking with writer and conservationist Lydia Millet. Her new book, We Loved it All, takes you on a journey through her childhood and yours at the same time.

In this episode with author Leah Rampy we invite you to reconsider how you interact with the natural world and inspire you to make that a bigger part of your life (if it isn’t already!)

I’m calling April Earth month because, well, doesn’t our planet deserve at least 1 month of appreciation? This week we are revisiting a powerful conversation I had with Nathaniel Popkin, author of To Reach the Spring.

Collective science and including non experts in science can lead to major discoveries and even policies. In this episode, participatory science leader, Dr. Caren Cooper and I chat about different ways ordinary people are making a difference.

In a timely episode, guest Dr. Ben Stanger talks about how understanding the intricacies of cellular development is not just an academic pursuit but a vital step towards conquering diseases that have plagued humanity for centuries.

Go where no podcast has gone before, exploring the intersection of evolutionary biology, genetics, and the enduring themes of Star Trek with Dr. Mohamed Noor.

In this episode, I talk with entrepreneur Peter Okwoko. He’s also the co-founder of TakaTaka Plastics a company at the forefront of taking layers of plastic and creating usable construction products.

In ”The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success” network scientist and author László Barabási decodes the patterns that underlie success, revealing a scientific approach to understanding achievement. In this episode we take you on a journey to understanding success whether you’re an artist, athlete, or mountain gorilla!

In this episode I have a not so ordinary conversation about climate with writer David Gessner and we invite you to think about how to talk through what climate change really means from a new point of view, one that connects us instead of divides us.

This week’s guest is Randi Hutter Epstein, MD. Shes a writer in residence at Yale School of Medicine and teaches both at Yale University and Columbia’s School of Journalism. Today, she is filling us in on all the weird and wonderful things that hormones control by talking about her book Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything. They even, well, make you you, mostly, kind of.

As famous as koalas are they are still a bit of a mystery. Author Danielle Clode unpacks some of this mystery while we discuss her new book, Koalas: A Natural History and an Uncertain Future

This week’s guest is scientist and author David Scheel. And We are going to talk about his new book Many Things Under a Rock: The Mystery of Octopuses.

This week I talk to marine biologist and author Hanne Strager about her new book The Killer Whale Journals: Our Love and Fear of Orcas.

Coffee, the thing that so many of us love and crave. That is the topic of today’s show. Today coffee is grown all over the world but it originates in Ethiopia and its history is recounted the mythology of a goat herder who noticed goats became energetic after eating the fruits. If you don’t know anything about goats, they are pretty energetic already so they must have really changed their behavior. We too can get the jitters from coffee and soon coffee was being cultivated. It is now a...

My guest Alex Ngabirano founder and CEO of Bwindi Development Network, an anti poaching organization, is taking the lead to create economic alternatives and education programs through community led decisions.

Many Indigenous communities are losing their ancestral lands for conservation. This week’s guest is one of the Indigenous Batwa clan leaders currently living in Buhoma in a settlement at the edge of his former home, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. We talk about who they are as a people, what life used to be like, and what they are hoping for in their future.

Born and raised in Kampala John Kasiita Semulema has had an impact well beyond Uganda’s borders.Change is inevitable and nowhere is that more evident than with the climate. He speaks from a point of view as a Ugandan that grew up there and experienced a deep connection to nature and changes in the environment and now as an accomplished climate policy advisor also speaks from a global perspective.

Voices of Uganda continues this week with Paul Muhwezi. He is on the board of the Buhoma Community Development Association and he is the general manager for lodges, the Rest Camp and Haven Lodge.

Today’s guest, Apophia Asiimwe, is a local bird guide sharing the wonders of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest and all the birds it has to offer.

My Fulbright series  Voices of Uganda continues this week with Mandela Washington Fellow, business owner and entrepreneur Gerard Iga. One thing that folks may not recognize about Uganda is its diversity of natural spaces, wildlife, and culture. Perhaps that is why it’s called the Pearl of Africa.

This week features Nelson Guma, the Chief Warden of Bwindi Mgahinga Conservation Area.