Each weekday, Pulse of the Planet provides its listeners with a two-minute sound portrait of Planet Earth, tracking the rhythms of nature, culture and science worldwide and blending interviews and extraordinary natural sounds.
Silkworm pupae, fried and served with onions, is a popular snack in some parts of China. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Insects are an important source of protein for many societies around the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Ohaloni Rumsin people proudly practice traditions of generations past. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A grandmother's story inspires a young boy to seek knowledge and share wisdom about his Indian heritage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
When the Tohono O'odham Native Americans dance to Waila, their traditional social music, the party lasts all night. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Tohono O'odham Native Americans of southern Arizona believe that everything in the desert - humans, animals and plants - must be treated with reverence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Meet the bird with the fastest wings in the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
I spent a weeks asking friends, relatives and passers-by whether or not their mother ever sang to them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It's mating season for sperm whales in the Indian Ocean. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In Japanese culture, the blossoming of the Cherry Tree represents an ancient code of honor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In the Eastern Orthodox tradition, Holy Week culminates on Easter Sunday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The tiniest bits of matter have a very large impact on our environment and our lives. Join Geoscientist Marc Michel on a deep dive into the science of nanotechnology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join filmmaker Ken Burns in an exploration of the greatest artist/scientist/seeker of all time, plus a preview of Ken's next series. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Couldn't resist another story in the sprit of Ireland. There's no intro, no host narrator. Just dive in and meet the late Packie Byrne - a friend, storyteller and musician of renown. We met in 2007 in the town of Ardara, near Donegal, where Irish music lives and thrives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Master storyteller Eddie Lenihan weaves a tale from the Other Side. You'll never think of the wee folk in quite the same way again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In the rural Cajun communities of south Louisiana, Mardi Gras is organized mayhem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Basile, Louisiana has its own unique Mardi Gras song. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In the bayous of Louisiana, costumed revelers beg for food and money from their neighbors, to support a communal gumbo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Forget about your job, your worries, your bills.." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The roots of Mardi Gras run deeper than Christianity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Headphones on! Picture being under a palm tree next to a burbling brook in the middle of California's Anza-Borrego desert. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Scientists are finding ways to help plants absorb fertilizers and nutrients more efficiently. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Keeping rare birds home on the range. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Up close with one of the rarest bird populations in North America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
When the weather's been cold and the Hudson River freezes over, that's when ice boats may be sailing on the river. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Australia is home to about one tenth of the world's living bird species. Here's a sampling of a few of them - headphones on! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Headphones on for a sound portrait of a cloud forest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It's sugaring time in the northeast woods of the US. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
For bears in hibernation, giving birth and nursing newborns is a slumberous activity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Bears have unique mechanisms for self-preservation during their months of hibernation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Grizzly bear tracking usually involves splitting a few hairs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Are Grizzly bears returning to the mountains of Montana? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Through trickery and ingenuity, ravens are surviving the winter in Alaska Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The precise role of the humpback whale's song is unknown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Harikuyo is a memorial service for the broken sewing needles of the past year, celebrated across Japan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
They might be the source of many ocean myths. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The wail of the Indri lemur signals the mating season of these primates that some tribes consider the ancestors of humans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Common Loon is anything but common, and they're on their way South. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Even the "chief of all animals" must struggle to survive the winter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Elephant seals on Ano Nuevo island. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sex, violence, and two-ton marine mammals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Up Helly Aa festival gives the people of the Shetland Islands a chance to torch a replica of a Viking galley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Poetry and Sounds of the Anza Borego Desert Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
One of nature's most destructive forces has inspired a new technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nanotechnology is making possible a new way to remove Carbon Dioxide from the atmosphere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How does a tea kettle make its whistling sound? The answer isn't as simple as it may seem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A new water-purifying technology may provide a way to remove nanoparticles from our waterways. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Hatsumode is the ritual first visit of the year to a Japanese Shinto or Buddhist temple. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The ritual of Coupez Gateau is one of the ways the celebration of Epiphany has been incorporated into Haitian Vodou. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In Haiti, the feast of the Epiphany is celebrated in both Catholic and Vodou traditions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Three Kings Day is a festival for the palate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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