Podcasts about La Brea Tar Pits

BETTER VIDEO QUALITY THIS WEEK GUYS!!! BE SURE TO CHECK OUT OUR YOUTUBE!! Today, Savannah tells us the legends behind Hummel Park located in Nebraska. This place is home to countless different stories and tales, all of which involve.....THE DEVIL!!!! Taylor tells us the wild story behind the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, CA. Email us your stories!!! or if you want to sponsor us ;) Email - ⁠⁠⁠mysteriesmythslegends@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠ SAVANNAH'S ESTY: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.etsy.com/shop/SavannahAngelene⁠⁠⁠We post pictures of our stories every week on instagram!!!!FOLLOW US ON SOCIALS: Tiktok: @myths_podcast Instagram: @myths_podcast Facebook: Mysteries, Myths, and LegendsTaylor's Instagram: @teeelive Savannah's Instagram: @kavannahaha 

In this interview with children's author Joyce Uglow, we celebrate her brand new debut picture book Stuck! The Story of La Brea Tar Pits (Bushel & Peck Books, 2025), illustrated by Valerya Milovanova. Her beautiful book was published only two weeks ago and has already gone into its second printing! We talk about Joyce's life and career in teaching and education, and how her love of writing eventually developed into a career in writing for children, as well as poetry. Joyce's advice to aspiring authors is to read both in your genre, as well as outside. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In this interview with children's author Joyce Uglow, we celebrate her brand new debut picture book Stuck! The Story of La Brea Tar Pits (Bushel & Peck Books, 2025), illustrated by Valerya Milovanova. Her beautiful book was published only two weeks ago and has already gone into its second printing! We talk about Joyce's life and career in teaching and education, and how her love of writing eventually developed into a career in writing for children, as well as poetry. Joyce's advice to aspiring authors is to read both in your genre, as well as outside. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In this interview with children's author Joyce Uglow, we celebrate her brand new debut picture book Stuck! The Story of La Brea Tar Pits (Bushel & Peck Books, 2025), illustrated by Valerya Milovanova. Her beautiful book was published only two weeks ago and has already gone into its second printing! We talk about Joyce's life and career in teaching and education, and how her love of writing eventually developed into a career in writing for children, as well as poetry. Joyce's advice to aspiring authors is to read both in your genre, as well as outside. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

IT'S TIME TO WATCH THE MUPPETS! This week we watched Dinosaurs - Power Erupts. Distracted rants include but are not limited to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, snow days, The B-52s, The Monkey, La Brea Tar Pits, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Barbie, O'Grimacey, and much more!"Robbie designs a science project that if executed in real life, could naturally power dinosaurs' houses and lower their heating bills. This proves to be bad business and Richfield is out to ruin Robbie's image to the public.”Follow us:tiktok.com/@ittwtmInstagram.com/ittwtm

Check out this page from the Mono Lake Committee to see images discussed in this episode.   This episode Kelly and Amanda discuss a strange family of flies that live in liquids that would kill other animals. There are around 130 genera described in Ephydridae, but we mostly focus on two species endemic to California which live in the La Brea Tar Pits and Mono Lake. Tangents include the musical Wicked, bears, Christmas, Robin Hood, and deaths at National Parks.   Kelly's Field Notes for this episode: https://www.bugsneedheroes.com/episodes/sodanaut   Send us questions and suggestions! BugsNeedHeroes@gmail.com Join us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bugsneedheroes/ Join us on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/bugsneedheroes.bsky.social Join us on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BugsNeedHeroes Hosted by Amanda Niday and Kelly Zimmerman with editing by Derek Conrad with assistance from Chelsey Bawden Created by Derek Conrad and Kelly Zimmerman. Character artwork by Amanda Niday. Music is Ladybug Castle by Rolemusic.

Today on AirTalk, the Supreme Court is set to hear arguments and take another look at flavored vape regulations due to an appeal by the FDA. As mistrust in science-backed medicine grows, we're talking about what the future of public health might look like under Robert F. Kennedy Jr. For our weekly dive into SoCal History, we'll go back in time to prehistoric L.A. by discussing the La Brea Tar Pits. Rashida Jones and Will McCormack, the creators of the LA Times short film A Swim Lesson join us for a preview alongside the star of the film— a swim instructor. And, we want to hear from listeners about some common challenges they faced while learning to swim. Today on AirTalk: - Supreme Court hears FDA appeal on flavored vape regulations (0:15) - Science mistrust & the future of public health (15:19) - Black American influence on pop culture and mainstream media (33:06) - Prehistoric wildlife in LA (51:55) - Rashida Jones' short doc: A Swim Lesson (1:09:05) - What challenges did you face when you learned to swim? (1:19:49)

The 1997 film 'Volcano' is about a volcano that erupts in downtown Los Angeles and the efforts to stop the lava flow: Plot: A massive earthquake strikes Los Angeles, and the city's emergency management director, Mike Roark (Tommy Lee Jones), calls on geologist Dr. Amy Barnes (Anne Heche) to investigate. They discover that the earthquake was a sign of a volcano forming beneath the La Brea Tar Pits. As a second earthquake unleashes the lava, Roark and Barnes must work together to divert the flow.    Inspiration: The film was inspired by the 1943 formation of the Parícutin volcano in Mexico.    Cast: Also stars Don Cheadle and Keith David.    Director: Mick Jackson.    Writers: Jerome Armstrong and Billy Ray.    Producers: Neal H. Moritz and Andrew Z. Davis.    Trivia: The fictional California Institute of Geological Sciences (CIGS) was inspired by the real-life California Integrated Seismic Network (CISN).  www.mostlysuperheroes.com/season-5-blogcast/volcano-1997-film ©2024 Carrogan Ventures, LLC

Zach, Amin and Mayes are double dipping on 1997 Volcano movies as lava flows out of the La Brea Tar Pits and Tommy Lee Jones is given the power to command and control all the resources of Los Angeles. BRAND NEW CINEPHOBE MERCH - Check it out here: https://bit.ly/CTDMERCH Join the Count The Dings Patreon for exclusive Rewatchingtons, Ad-Free Episodes, extended cold opens and more at www.patreon.com/CountTheDings Cinephobe is now on Youtube! Subscribe and check out CT5s on Video. Subscribe to Cinephobe! Then Rate 5 Stars on Apple or Spotify. Follow Cinephobe on Twitter, Instagram & Threads: CTD @countthedings IG: @cinephobepod Threads: @cinephobepod  Zach Harper @talkhoops IG: @talkhoops Threads: @talkhoops Amin Elhassan @darthamin IG: @darthamin Threads: @darthamin  Anthony Mayes @cornpuzzle IG: @cornpuzzle Threads: @cornpuzzle Email: cinephobepodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Zach, Amin and Mayes are double dipping on 1997 Volcano movies as lava flows out of the La Brea Tar Pits and Tommy Lee Jones is given the power to command and control all the resources of Los Angeles. BRAND NEW CINEPHOBE MERCH - Check it out here: https://bit.ly/CTDMERCH Join the Count The Dings Patreon for exclusive Rewatchingtons, Ad-Free Episodes, extended cold opens and more at www.patreon.com/CountTheDings Cinephobe is now on Youtube! Subscribe and check out CT5s on Video. Subscribe to Cinephobe! Then Rate 5 Stars on Apple or Spotify. Follow Cinephobe on Twitter, Instagram & Threads: CTD @countthedings IG: @cinephobepod Threads: @cinephobepod  Zach Harper @talkhoops IG: @talkhoops Threads: @talkhoops Amin Elhassan @darthamin IG: @darthamin Threads: @darthamin  Anthony Mayes @cornpuzzle IG: @cornpuzzle Threads: @cornpuzzle Email: cinephobepodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Send us a Text Message.Want to learn all about these ice-age predators that have been found by the thousands at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles? Tune in and Morgan will tell you all about them!

Before everything could come up roses, there had to be a primordial flower – the mother, and father, of all flowers. Now scientists are on the hunt for it. The eFlower project aims to explain the sudden appearance of flowering plants in the fossil record, what Darwin called an “abominable mystery.” Meanwhile, ancient flowers encased in amber or preserved in tar are providing clues about how ecosystems might respond to changing climates. And, although it was honed by evolution for billions of years, can we make photosynthesis more efficient and help forestall a global food crisis? Guests: Eva-Maria Sadowski - Post doctoral paleobotanist at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin Regan Dunn - Paleobotanist and assistant Curator at the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum Royal Krieger - Rosarian and volunteer at the Morcom Rose Garden, Oakland, California Ruby Stephens - Plant ecology PhD candidate at Macquarie University in Australia, and member of the eFlower Project Stephen Long - Professor of Plant Science, University of Illinois Featuring music by Dewey Dellay and Jun Miyake *Originally aired March 13, 2023 You can get early access to ad-free versions of every episode by joining us on Patreon. Thanks for your support! Big Picture Science is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com to inquire about advertising on Big Picture Science. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Before everything could come up roses, there had to be a primordial flower – the mother, and father, of all flowers. Now scientists are on the hunt for it. The eFlower project aims to explain the sudden appearance of flowering plants in the fossil record, what Darwin called an “abominable mystery.” Meanwhile, ancient flowers encased in amber or preserved in tar are providing clues about how ecosystems might respond to changing climates. And, although it was honed by evolution for billions of years, can we make photosynthesis more efficient and help forestall a global food crisis? Guests: Eva-Maria Sadowski - Post doctoral paleobotanist at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin Regan Dunn - Paleobotanist and assistant Curator at the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum Royal Krieger - Rosarian and volunteer at the Morcom Rose Garden, Oakland, California Ruby Stephens - Plant ecology PhD candidate at Macquarie University in Australia, and member of the eFlower Project Stephen Long - Professor of Plant Science, University of Illinois Featuring music by Dewey Dellay and Jun Miyake *Originally aired March 13, 2023 You can get early access to ad-free versions of every episode by joining us on Patreon. Thanks for your support! Big Picture Science is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com to inquire about advertising on Big Picture Science. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Harland comments on an embarrassing situation Adam had in a bathroom at a comedy club. The guys also comment on courtroom sketch artists and Harland explains why he hates eggnog. Adam also tells a story about his sister recently watching him perform for the first time ever.. The guys watch a video of David Bowie and Bing Crosby before Harland becomes compelled to share his admiration for Adam. Chris reports the news on Tyrese ending a concert early to avoid being served legal documents, students hospitalized at the La Brea Tar Pits field trip after eating edibles, and Harrison Butker's viral commencement speech. Lastly, Michael Gurley and Phil Leavitt of dada join and announce their upcoming tour. Adam shares his love for the band and memories of listening to their 1992 debut album. The band shares memories of touring with Sting and the guys also give their picks on the greatest rock song of all time. For more with Harland Williams: ● LIVE DATES: ○ Ontario, Canada - SHOWTIME COMEDY CLUB - May 24 to 25 ○ Las Vegas, NV - WISEGUYS COMEDY CLUB - June 7 to 8 ● http://HarlandWilliams.com ● PODCAST: ‘The Harland Highway' ● INSTAGRAM: @HarlandWilliams For more with dada: ● TOUR: ‘Return to Dizz Knee Land Tour' ○ Runs May 31 through August 24. ○ Celebrating 30 years of dada. ○ Visit http://DadaForever.com for the full list of dates. Thank you for supporting our sponsors: ● http://ForThePeople.com/Adam or Dial #LAW (#529) ● http://OReillyAuto.com/Adam ● http://JustThriveHealth.com & use promo code ADAM ● http://Meater.com

Episode 8 - Murdock and Marvel: 1970 We have made it to the second decade of the Marvel era!  The 1970s saw significant changes and challenges for comics, and we start to see them immediately as we take a look at the very first year of this eventful decade! Preshow Steve Ditko is now a “Disney Legend.” https://d23.com/disney-legends-2024/  Dan and Siena C2E2 panel is on Saturday, April 27th from 10:30am – 11:30am.  Room S405-B https://www.c2e2.com/en-us.html The Year in Comics  1970 marks the end of the “Silver Age of Comics” and the start of the “Bronze Age.” Underground comix continue to flourish The Steranko History of Comics by Jim Steranko (https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=482701) and All In Color for a Dime by Richard A. Lupoff (https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=20515571) were published  Robert Overstreet publishes his first Comic Book Price Guide The first Golden State Comic Book Convention is held in San Diego, with 300 attendees Shazam Awards honored comics excellence annually from 1970-1974 The Year in Marvel With a new distribution deal in place and its bullpen bursting with young talent, Marvel continued to expand in all directions, with 15 new titles that covered nearly every major comic genre. New Titles (and lots of reprints) New Characters Big Moments Who's in the Bullpen ROOKIE OF THE YEAR: Marv Wolfman The Year in Daredevil  Appearances: Daredevil #60-71, Avengers #82 Stan Lee continues as Editor through these books with Roy Thomas writing most and Gene Colan continuing for another year as the artist.   After Deborah cancels her engagement with Foggy after the fact that she is an ex-convict comes up once more. Daredevil takes down Crime Wave's illegal gambling ship and captures the boss – who's revealed to be Foggy's Assistant Hollis. Daredevil must deal with another villain team up as the Trio of Doom lure him into a trap at an old amusement park. Daredevil gets upstaged by another would be superhero – Nighthawk - who turns out to be just another villain in disguise.    Daredevil fights the Gladiator who pretends not to be the gladiator in an attempt to escape prison. While this is happening, Karen – fed up with Murdock, leaves for Los Angeles.   Daredevil heads to LA to try to find Karen, but instead finds the Stunt-Master – who has agreed to steal a film as a way to try to earn money.   Karen gets a job acting on the now struggling Strange Secrets TV Show. After she witnesses the actor playing Brother Brimstone attack another actor (as well as her), She is stocked by a new Brother Brimstone who is trying to murder the cast and crew. Daredevil finds Karen and saves her from the La Brea Tar Pits. Brother Brimstone isn't so lucky.   While on the set of the new Stunt-Master Tv Show, Daredevil fights Stilt-Man who is posing as Stunt-Master. Afterwards, DD tells Karen that he has to go back to New York. Karen declines to go with him having found she enjoys her career as an actress.    Daredevil helps out his Dad's old coach get his current boxer out from under an extremist group   Daredevil and Black Panther help out the Carver brothers who are being bullied/harassed by the Thunderbolts.    Finally, Daredevil goes up against the Tribune who's attempting to be judge, jury and executioner of the New York Three after they are arrested for blowing up the New York Hilton  New Powers, Toys or Places New Supporting Characters New Villains This Week's Spotlight: Daredevil #70 Nov 1970 “The Tribune” and Daredevil #71 Dec 1970 “If an Eye Offend Thee...!” Recap Why We Picked This Story The Takeaway Tough year for Marvel Questions or comments We'd love to hear from you!  Email us at questions@comicsovertime.com or find us on Twitter @comicsoftime. ------------------ THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING CREATORS AND RESOURCES  Music: Our theme music is by the very talented Lesfm.  You can find more about them and their music at https://pixabay.com/users/lesfm-22579021/.  The Grand Comics Database: Dan uses custom queries against a downloadable copy of the GCD to construct his publisher, title and creator charts.  Comichron: Our source for comic book sales data.  Man Without Fear: Kuljit Mithra's Daredevil site contains a staggering collection of resources about our hero, including news, interviews and comic details.    The American Comic Book Chronicles: Published by TwoMorrows, these volumes provide an excellent analysis of American comics through the years.  Because these volumes break down comic history by year and decade they are a great place to get a basic orientation on what is happening across the comic industry at a particular point in time.  Joshua and Jamie Do Daredevil: A fantastic podcast that does a deep-dive into Daredevil comics.  This ran from 2018-2020, and covered most of the first volume of Daredevil, and was a fun way to get an in-depth look at each issue of Daredevil from 1-377.  My Marvelous Year: This is a reading-club style podcast where Dave Buesing and friends chose important or interesting books from a particular year to read and discuss.  This helped me remember some fun and crazy stories, and would be a great companion piece to Murdock and Marvel for those who want more comic-story-specific coverage. 

The gang is back in action! Doing a real movie and not a direct to VHS movie, this time doing a VHS movie! Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuudies! This podcast sees Mike and Inika headed out to sunny Encino, California, where a prehistoric man meets the 90s! Brendan Fraser stars in his first big time movie, along side Pauly Shore and Sean Astin. During the first ice age, a caveman attempts to make fire with his cavewoman girlfriend. An earthquake causes a cave-in that buries the two of them. In 1992, an earthquake awakens Dave Morgan, an Encino teenager who strives to attain popularity in high school, but unlike his popular friend, Stoney Brown, is unsuccessful. Dave is in love with Robyn Sweeney, who was his best friend in grade school and had been rejected by him several times prior. Her boyfriend, Matt Wilson, is a jock who constantly humiliates Dave and Stoney, usually due to Dave's affection toward Robyn. One day, while digging a pool in his backyard, Dave discovers the caveman, who is frozen in a gigantic block of ice. He leaves the ice block unattended in the garage before leaving for school the next morning, and space heaters left on cause the ice to melt, releasing the caveman. When Dave returns home with Stoney, they find hand paint covering the walls and the house in disarray. A beeping smoke alarm leads them to Dave's bedroom, where they discover the caveman attempting to start a fire. At first, he panics upon seeing them and hearing a telephone, but Stoney uses the flame of a lighter to mesmerize and calm him. After bathing and trimming him, Dave names him Link. Dave and Stoney manage to get Link some clothes and fool Dave's parents and sister into thinking he is an Estonian exchange student sent to live with them. They enroll him in school, where Link's bizarre behavior and supreme athletic skills make Dave and Stoney popular by association, allowing Dave to get closer to Robyn, stoking Matt's anger. Soon, Stoney's eccentric attitude influences Link's own mannerisms, which causes a rift between Dave and Stoney. Matt starts a fight with Link at a skating rink and becomes more enraged after Robyn leaves him. During a school field trip to the La Brea Tar Pits, Link grieves after realizing that the cavepeople he knew are all dead. Stoney and Dave reassure Link that he is not without friends in this time. During a driver's ed lesson, Link drives away in a car with Dave, Stoney, and Robyn before stopping at a dance club. Dave and Link are arrested after the police follow them there. Dismayed at the caveman's antics and Robyn's desire to go to the upcoming prom with Link, Dave tries to abandon him, but Stoney reprimands him, leading to a fight between the two. This causes Link to return and break up the fight, leading Dave to apologize for his actions. On prom night, Link is a hit at the party with Robyn as his date, while Dave stays at home for the evening. Matt breaks into Dave's bedroom and steals photographic evidence that Link is a caveman. As Dave and Stoney pursue Matt and his friends, another earthquake happens. Matt exposes Link as a caveman in an attempt to destroy his and Dave's reputation, but this instead makes Link even more popular. Matt is left humiliated, Dave and Robyn make up, and the three boys lead the entire prom in an impromptu caveman-like dance with Infectious Grooves providing the music. After the prom, some of the students visit Dave's house for a pool party, where Dave and Robyn kiss. Meanwhile, Stoney and Link discover breast prints on the slider and paint covering the walls of Dave's home. They follow muddy footprints to the bathroom and find Link's girlfriend, who also survived the earthquake during the ice age. He joins her in the bathtub and embraces her happily. She is also made to look like a modern human.

This is one of those full-circle stories that makes our dusty hearts glow a little brighter. It's the tale of big art that emerged from a fossil-filled trash heap, came to life in Black Rock City, then returned to its source as a proud symbol of what a community can accomplish together.Tahoe Mack, a Las Vegas artist, tells the story of the Black Rock City Honoraria art piece she started when she was 15 years old. Her final Girl Scouts project became, oh, so much more. Over a few years, she learned to weld, fundraise, and work with acclaimed artists Dana Albany and Luis Varelo-Rico.Her vision drew attention to an urban park with a rich archaeological history. Built from metal detritus that had accumulated there, “The Monumental Mammoth” dazzled Burners in Black Rock City 2019, and is now a permanent installation at a trailhead near the fossil field that inspired it all, and forged new connections between dozens of people.https://www.tahoemariemack.com/themounumentalmammothhttps://protectorsoftulesprings.org/monumental-mammoth-projecthttps://www.danaalbanyart.com/mammothhttps://burningman.org/podcast/dana-albany-dreaming-in-metal-and-glass LIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG

Join us as we talk with Museum Educator Ashley Hall about her career as a museum educator at the Museum of the Rockies, her research on Sauropod feet and her books including Fossils for Kids: A Junior Scientist's Guide to Dinosaur Bones and Ancient Animals, and Prehistoric Life on Earth and Prehistoric Worlds: Stomp Into the Epic Lands Ruled by Dinosaurs (due out at the end of March 2024).   Ashley is a dynamic paleontologist, naturalist, and museum educator. Originally from South Bend, Indiana, she grew up loving dinosaurs from an early age and was inspired by holiday trips to Chicago's Field Museum to pursue a career in natural history. Ashley earned her Bachelor of Arts in anthropology (focus: Zooarchaeology) and animal behavior from Indiana University, Bloomington. After graduation, she spent nearly a decade working as a science educator for various educational institutions in southern California, including the Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and the La Brea Tar Pits. During this time, Ashley also served as the assistant curator of paleontology at the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology in Claremont, California. While with the “Alf,” she managed the fossil collection and participated in fieldwork including Late Cretaceous dinosaur excavations in the Grand-Staircase Escalante National Monument in Utah and Miocene mammal reconnaissance paleontology in the Mojave Desert's Rainbow Basin. Ashley relocated to Ohio where she worked as a naturalist for the Cleveland Metroparks reservation system before taking a position with the Cleveland Museum of Natural as the adult programs coordinator.  When Ashley is not educating the public in person, she is an active science communicator on social media. Ashley has presented several invited workshops on communicating science through social media at professional, scientific meetings, including the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology and the Association for Materials and Methods in Paleontology annual conferences. Her scientific research has focused on sauropod claw morphology and function and the evolution of birds from deposits at the La Brea Tar Pits.

"Have you ever felt you were not moving forward in your life, but were not sure what was holding you back? You knew something prevented you from growing emotionally and spiritually, but you couldn't put your finger on what. Uncovering what makes us stay stuck is vital because dwelling in a pit only allows us to watch and dream. We can't walk into the plans and purposes God has gifted and called us to be while remaining stuck."-Tracy Hester, "Get Up Girl! Getting Unstuck and Living Free"In Part 2, Author and Life Coach, Tracy Hester, shares how an exhibit at a local museum helped her understand the concert of "being stuck" in a whole new way. As she read the history of the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, her eyes were opened to the perils of her own stuckness in life. Begin Your Heartlifter's Journey:Visit Heartlift Central on Substack. This is our new online coaching center and meeting place for Heartlifters worldwide. Learn more about Tracy and her books: Tracy HesterDownload Tracy's 10-day Devo to help you get unstuck: DOWNLOAD Download Tracy's LIFE MAP: DOWNLOADSupport the show: Subscribe to the Substack CommunityMake a tax-deductible donation through Heartlift InternationalMeet me on Instagram: @janellrardonMeet Tracy on Facebook: www.facebook.com/tracy.hester.509Support the showToday's Heartlift with Janell is currently fully supported by Heartlift International, a 501(c)3 committed to making home and family the safest, most secure place on earth. Every resource developed, every podcast recorded, and every book written has one goal: To help families become stronger every day. Learn more about Heartlift International and help support this podcast with your tax-deductible donation: https://www.janellrardon.com/heartliftinternational/

When journalist Mike Stark learned that giant short-faced bears stalked North America thousands of years ago, he decided to do a deep dive into this enigmatic creature. From the La Brea Tar Pits of Los Angeles to a cornfield in Iowa, the plains of Texas, and even to the far ends of the Artic, Stark retraced the tracks of this beast that on hind legs towered more than ten feet and eventually became extinct. When Stark learned that a ferry shipwrecked in Yellowstone Lake in the winter of 1906, he went into research mode and dug into another fascinating story. Now the Creative Director at the Center for Biological Diversity in Tucson, Mike Stark joins Russell and Alan to talk about his explorations and his books “Chasing the Ghost Bear,” “Wrecked in Yellowstone,” and his new novel “The Derelict Light.” A special thank you to western singer-songwriter Jim Jones for sharing his song, “The Queen is Dead," a story about a bear. 

#215: How To LA is getting sciency! We're checking out 30,000 year old baby bison bones, extinct giant sloths and the jaws of American Lions.  L.A. might be more known its entertainment industry and beach weather. But the city is ALSO home to the only active urban fossil dig site in the world: La Brea Tar Pits.  These bubbling pools of asphalt coming out of the ground are the richest source of Ice Age fossils on earth.  Today, HTLA digs into the history of the Tar Pits and how it's continuing to serve the research community today with asst. curator Dr. Emily Lindsey. Guests: Emily Lindsey, Associate Curator and Excavation Site Director, La Brea Tar Pits 

Geek Girl Susan was in Los Angeles last week and finally got two of the Geek Guys together. So, this week, we present you with a Very Special carcast from LA!Susan and Chris visited the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and the La Brea Tar Pits. They joined Erik to help out with the 2024 Rose Parade float. Then they recorded this little episode for you from a bit of a noisy restaurant then from the car.We apologize for not delivering on our promised programming for this week, our Hanukkah episode. With Susan out of town and Kelly being sick, things went off the rails. But we're sure you'll be thrilled with this carcast! And Happy Hanukkah!Next week: Christmas with “Home for Christmas” (“Hjem til Jul”) and “I Hate Christmas” (“Odio il Natale”). Throw in “A Storm for Christmas” and “Over Christmas,” if you feel like it—all on Netflix.-Original music by Garrett ThompsonFollow us on Instagram @GeekGirlSoupContinue the conversation on FacebookListen to Cort's podcast with Brad at PureFandom.comCheck out Susan's movie stats on Letterboxd Email your questions and comments to GeekGirlSoup@gmail.comGeek on!

Nanavati Low is cofounder and CEO at BIB Technologies aka Business-in-a-Box a Los Angeles startup building EV mobile store platforms. Fully powered by solar and battery electric storage, their storefronts are like mobile pop ups accelerating companies to using clean energy to market and sell products with data and ecommerce intrgrated. Today you can visit their stores at La Brea Tar Pits and the Los Angeles National History Museum. Her career includes stints at industry giants Red Bull, SpaceX, Fiat Chrysler, MUFG Union Bank, and venture-backed V7 Labs (formerly Aipoly). Nanavati led emerging technologies product and engineering at Red Bull Media House, grew mobile app innovation for Red Bull TV and Wings For Life Foundation, and launched the world's largest global running event with over 161,000 participants from 192 nations, raising €4.7M. Her proven track record of building successful partnerships includes Emmy-winning projects and “Best of Innovation” at CES. Nanavati's passion for product development began during her time at Fiat Chrysler and SpaceX where she developed manufacturing and digital automation tools for Jeep Cherokee production lines and the NASA Cargo Resupply CRS-7 mission. With her MS from USC and BS in Industrial Engineering Operations Research from UC Berkeley, Nanavati seeks to inspire the next generation of female leaders.

In recent years, Californians have had to deal with some deadly and destructive wildfires. But in fact, this part of the western United States has been shaped by fire for millennia. And in this episode we hear about new research from California into a decades-old mystery about the extinction of large animals at the end of the Ice Age, which is providing some worrying lessons from history about the way humans, fire and ecosystems interact. Featuring Emily Lindsey, associate curator at La Brea Tar Pits and adjunct faculty at University of California, Los Angeles, and Stacy Morford, environment and climate editor at The Conversation in the US.This episode was produced and written by Katie Flood Gemma Ware. The executive producer was Gemma Ware. Sound design was by Eloise Stevens and our theme music is by Neeta Sarl. Full credits for this episode are available here. A transcript will be available soon. Sign up for a free daily newsletter from The Conversation.Further reading: A changing climate, growing human populations and widespread fires contributed to the last major extinction event − can we prevent another?‘Zombie fires' in the Arctic: Canada's extreme wildfire season offers a glimpse of new risks in a warmer, drier futureWhat 2,500 years of wildfire evidence and the extreme fire seasons of 1910 and 2020 tell us about the future of fire in the West Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we're digging up some fossils! But we don't have to go far, because one of the most active dig sites out there is actually right in the middle of Los Angeles! We're talking about the La Brea Tar Pits, where a surprising amount of specimens from the Ice Age have been discovered over the last hundred years. We're joined by Laura Tewksbury, Sean Campbell and Stevie Morley, who all work at the Tar Pits, part of the Natural History Museums of LA County. No bones about it, this is a fun one!

Roughly 13,000 years ago, Ice Age animals such as saber-toothed cats, the American lion and mammoths started going extinct in the Los Angeles basin about a thousand years before their extinction in other parts of North America. To find out why, a team of scientists collaborated on a new study that argues that wildfires due to increased human activity in the region was likely to blame. The scientists made their findings based on fossil specimens extracted from preserved remains at the La Brea Tar Pits, along with sediment cores they dug up to provide a prehistoric timeline of wildfire activity amid a changing landscape. Edward Davis is the director of the Condon Fossil Collection at the University of Oregon’s Museum of Natural and Cultural History, and one of the authors of the study which was published in August. He joins us to talk about the study and its relevance in an era of extreme wildfires driven by climate change. 

How Early Humans May Have Transformed L.A.'s Landscape ForeverJoin us on a time traveling adventure, as we go back 15,000 years to visit what's now southern California. During the last Ice Age, saber-toothed cats, wooly mammoths, and dire wolves prowled the landscape, until … they didn't. The end of the Ice Age coincided with the end of these species. And for decades, scientists have been trying to figure out a big question: Why did these animals go extinct? A new study in the journal Science offers new clues and suggests that wildfires caused by humans might've been the nail in these critters' coffins. Guest host Flora Lichtman talks with paleoecologist Dr. Emily Lindsey and paleobotanist Dr. Regan Dunn, both curators at the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum in Los Angeles, California, about what we can learn from animals preserved in tar pits, how fire transformed the ecosystem, and why we have to look to the past for modern day conservation and land management. How Scientifically Accurate Are The Sharks In ‘Meg 2: The Trench'?“Meg 2: The Trench” is the sequel to the 2018 movie “The Meg,” in which a team of ocean scientists discover a megalodon, the largest shark that ever lived, thriving at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. Megalodon went extinct over 2.6 million years ago … or so the movie's characters thought.When the team's research sub gets damaged, a skilled rescue diver, played by Jason Statham, is brought in, who happened to have encountered the same megalodon years earlier. Over the course of the movie, the team discovers how this long-thought extinct apex predator survived, and what they can do to stop it before it wreaks havoc on the surface world.“Meg 2: The Trench” largely follows in that movie's footsteps, but this time, it features not just one, but multiple megalodons. Oh, and they're even bigger this time. Universe of Art host D. Peterschmidt chats with Dr. Sora Kim, an associate professor of paleoecology at University of California, Merced, about what science the movie got wrong (and right) and how these over-the-top blockbusters can inspire the scientists of the future. Scientists Discover Dinosaur ‘Coliseum' In Alaska's Denali National ParkResearchers recently discovered a rocky outcrop at Denali National Park in Alaska covered in dinosaur tracks, which they dubbed the “Coliseum.” It's the largest dinosaur track site ever found in Alaska. The area has thousands of prints from generations of dinosaurs living about 70 million years ago, including: duck-billed dinosaurs, horned dinosaurs, raptors, tyrannosaurs.  Flora Lichtman talks with Dustin Stewart, former graduate student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and paleontologist for the environmental consulting firm Stantec, based in Denver, Colorado, about this dino hotspot. Your Guide To Conquering History's Greatest CatastrophesGuest host Flora Lichtman takes us back to some of the scariest, deadliest moments in history. Think along the lines of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, the Ice Age, and the asteroid that wiped out the dinos. But we're going to revisit them using what we know now—and science, of course—to figure out if and how we could survive those events.The idea of using science and hindsight to survive history is the premise of a new book, How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes by Cody Cassidy. We have a new podcast! It's called Universe Of Art, and it's all about artists who use science to bring their creations to the next level. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.To stay updated on all-things-science, sign up for Science Friday's newsletters.Transcripts for each segment will be available the week after the show airs on sciencefriday.com.

This weekend would have been jazz musician and spiritual leader Alice Coltrane's 86th birthday. Her family celebrates and remembers her legacy. The extinction of large, Ice Age mammals coincided with the arrival of humans, according to researchers who studied bones from the La Brea Tar Pits and Lake Elsinore. Black Restaurant Week is back and bigger than ever, focusing on diverse offerings of LA's Black-owned eateries, food trucks, and coffee shops.

KVMR's Al Stahler talks Salmon with UC Davis professor, Dr. Nann Fangue, about how, for the endangered Chinook salmon, internal chemical balances are largely the cause for population decline. The California Report takes us to L.A.'s La Brea Tar Pits to talk with Emily Lindsey, a curator at the Tar Pits and a co-author of a new study that argues that both climate change and human impacts—specifically human-ignited fires—may have been the catalyst for the extinction of the regions megafauna during the Pleistocene. Marc Cuniberti closes the newscast with another Money Matters commentary. 

Ancient wildfires may have doomed Southern California's big mammals, and do insular societies have more complex languages?   First up on this week's show, what killed off North America's megafauna, such as dire wolves and saber-toothed cats? Online News Editor Mike Price joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the likely culprits: climate or humans, or one that combines both—fire. They discuss how the La Brea Tar Pits are helping researchers figure this out. Read the related Science paper.   Next up, do languages get less complex when spoken in multilingual societies? Olena Shcherbakova, a doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, joins Sarah with a broad look at how the complexity of languages changes under different social and linguistic environments.   In a sponsored segment from the Science/AAAS Custom Publishing Office, Jackie Oberst, associate editor for custom publishing, discusses with Trine Bartholdy, chief innovation officer at the BioInnovation Institute, an international life science incubator in Copenhagen, Denmark, about the continued disparity in women's health research and funding and ways in which these challenges are being overcome. This segment is sponsored by the BioInnovation Institute.   This week's episode was produced with help from Podigy.   Authors: Sarah Crespi, Mike Price   Episode page: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk3475    About the Science Podcast: https://www.science.org/content/page/about-science-podcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ancient wildfires may have doomed Southern California's big mammals, and do insular societies have more complex languages?   First up on this week's show, what killed off North America's megafauna, such as dire wolves and saber-toothed cats? Online News Editor Mike Price joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the likely culprits: climate or humans, or one that combines both—fire. They discuss how the La Brea Tar Pits are helping researchers figure this out. Read the related Science paper.   Next up, do languages get less complex when spoken in multilingual societies? Olena Shcherbakova, a doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, joins Sarah with a broad look at how the complexity of languages changes under different social and linguistic environments.   In a sponsored segment from the Science/AAAS Custom Publishing Office, Jackie Oberst, associate editor for custom publishing, discusses with Trine Bartholdy, chief innovation officer at the BioInnovation Institute, an international life science incubator in Copenhagen, Denmark, about the continued disparity in women's health research and funding and ways in which these challenges are being overcome. This segment is sponsored by the BioInnovation Institute.   This week's episode was produced with help from Podigy.   Authors: Sarah Crespi, Mike Price   Episode page: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk3475    About the Science Podcast: https://www.science.org/content/page/about-science-podcast

Local fundraising efforts continue after Maui's deadly wildfires. Two geese stuck in hot asphalt at LA Brea Tar Pits last month are still recovering. Nearly a dozen arts organizations in LA are set to receive funding from a Latino Community Foundation grant. Support The L.A. Report by donating now at LAist.com/join and by visiting https://laist.com.Support the show: https://laist.com

Dr. Robert Klapper is one of a kind. A pioneer of minimally intrusive surgical techniques and tools that have changed the lives of millions of people. He is the director of the Joint Replacement program at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, and has replaced the thousands of knees and hips – including many of famous athletes and celebrities. But Dr. Klapper's passions and style go beyond the operating room. He is a marble sculptor, an avid surfer, and for 12 years he hosted the ESPN radio show “The Weekend Warrior”, giving advice to callers about their aches and pains.   Dr. Klapper's stories and advice, medical or otherwise, are thought-provoking, inspirational and entertaining. He has developed and mastered an authentic and powerful communication style, full of humor and common sense, and perfectly anchored by his life experiences. To send Alita a message or sign up for her free newsletter click here.For more on Dr. Robert Klapper click here.La Brea Tar Pits

We get back to covering actual Worst Picture Winners with 1998's An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn, winner at the 19th Annual Golden Raspberry Awards! You can tell how excited we were to talk about this one by how long we talk about whether Batman's a fascist in the opening. We break down what did and didn't work about the movie, marvel at how anyone could possible cast Harvey Weinstein in an on-screen role, dig into what went wrong with this film's bizarre soundtrack, lambast Joe Esterhaz's lazy writing while defending his Wookiee-like appearance, and try to grasp how a movie like this can be so bad that the director took an Alan Smithee credit himself unironically. We come up with film aliases for ourselves, Jack recounts a bathroom crime, and Joe struggles and fails to remember the title of Comedy Central's single-season adult animated series Kid Notorious about producer Robert Evans. Get comfy, enjoy the episode, and please let us know if you know anything about Michael Ovitz. CW: Brief mention of Harvey Weinstein and the #MeToo movement; racism; sexism; Hollywood being obsessed with itself Link to our stupid short film, Knife-Bricker: The Brickening: https://youtu.be/JPkpfdmvlFU Podcast plugged in this episode: Making a Martini (@MartiniMaking on Twitter) Things Mentioned In This Episode: Mark Waid, Alex Ross, Grant Morrison, Alan Moore, Superman: Red Son, Knife-Bricker, Caligula, the Wu-Tang Name Generator, Joe Esterhaz, the Star Wars Christmas Special, Burt Reynolds, Demolition Man, Sylvester Stallone, Whoopi Goldberg, Jackie Chan, Richard Jeni, Ryan O'Neil, Eric Idle, Chuck D, Coolio, Spike Lee, La Brea Tar Pits, Robert Evans, Flashdance, Paul Verhoeven, Showgirls, Basic Instinct, Dark Knight Rises, The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards, Rotten Tomatoes, IMDB, The Avengers, Sean Connery, Ralph Fiennes, Meet The Deedles, Spice World, Scary Spice, Ilya Kazan, the House Committee on Un-American Activities, Dalton Trumbo, Stanley Kubrick, Sparticus, Kirk Douglas, the Hollywood Blacklist, Inside Baseball, Kathleen Kennedy, Kevin Feige, Michael Eisner, Bruce Willis, Armageddon, Mercury Rising, The Siege, Leonardo DiCaprio, The Man In The Iron Mask, Gas Van Sant, Paris Texas, Milk, My Own Private Idaho, Keanu Reeves, Cinema Sins, Monty Python, Sean Penn, Jon Peters, Pinnochio, Dragnet, Dan Aykroyd, Leslie Nielsen, Miramax, Eric King, Dexter, Arthur Hiller, The Directors' Guild of America, Rugrats, Mark Mothersbaugh, DEVO, Wes Anderson, Asteroid City, Hoopla --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/derazzled/support

Growing up, I spent a lot of time with my grandmother, nicknamed Moo. We always had fun; we'd play, make things up, sing songs, write poems… just be creative together. As she gets older, though, and reaches 100 years old, she develops dementia. Sometimes she's with us and other times not. I go over to her house one afternoon, and she's super happy and pleasant and lovely... yet she doesn't know who I am. And I'm her only grandchild! I start to get a little frustrated because I want that connection with Moo again. So I begin to bring up things from our past and ask her if she remembers what we did together. Did she remember rolling down the hill together at La Brea Tar Pits? Or that time we made a crazy salad and water went everywhere? She doesn't. As I grasp for more things, I recall one song she taught me that has two verses. One verse is very slow and methodical, the other goes very, very fast, and they're meant to be sung by two people in tandem. So I start singing the fast verse. And pretty soon without any prodding, Moo starts singing the slow verse. And for that one moment, we connect again, sharing a reality with both of us present that melts my heart. That's the power of music. It can stop time. My special guest today, Laura Hall, has spent a career in music, song, and sound. In this episode of the Storytelling School podcast, she talks about finding your voice in storytelling through her lens of Musical Improv and answers questions like: What drives a scene in an Improv story when it's combined with music--the scene or the song? When can Improv help you with your audience as a speaker or storyteller, (in non-Improv situations)? How does variety make you a better storyteller? And how can you start sharing your stories and ensure that you get helpful feedback? What you will learn in this episode: How music and Improv work together to bring stories to life Why finding and connecting to the truth of your story is vital for audience reception What you can do to change the fear story you're telling yourself before a performance Who is Laura? Laura Hall got her start as an Improv Musician performing with The Second City National Touring Company of Chicago. While in Chicago, she worked with almost every Improv theater in town and used Improv to create original musicals at The Annoyance Theater. She also played in cover and original bands, did solo piano work, played recording sessions, and taught at The Old Town School of Music.  After moving to Los Angeles, Laura studied music for film and television and focused on songwriting and original musicals with Theater-A-Go-Go. She has worked with several Improv groups worldwide such as Second City Hollywood, iO West, and others, and taught Music Improv extensively with her husband Rick Hall. Laura performed on every season of the American version of Whose Line Is It Anyway? with hosts Clive Anderson, Drew Carey, and Aisha Tyler. She's also toured extensively with Drew Carey and the Improv All Stars, including performances at Carnegie Hall and Radio City Music Hall and a USO tour of the Middle East. In addition, she's performed with Whose Line Live at the Adelphi, the Palladium, and Royal Albert Hall theatres in London. You can find out more about Laura on her website. Links and Resources: Laura Hall @laurahallmusic on Instagram @LauraHallMusic on Facebook @LauraHallMusic on Twitter @laurahall2306 on Youtube Storytelling School Website @storytellingschool on Instagram @storytellingSchool on Facebook

The Jons are back with the brilliant Jason Mantzoukas, who made the ingenious suggestion that we pick him up for the podcast AFTER DARK! That's right cool cats, this Two Jons takes place during the SEXY NIGHTTIME. LA at night is like jazz. The traffic has it's own rhythm, flowing like a trumpet line against the thrumming bass buzz of humans in clubs and bars, making out, wearing sexy outfits, day trading and farting. Jason and The Jons bebop up to the Sunset Strip, the piano heats up into a blistering solo, many neon signs are visible, cutting lines in Tall Jon's vision as he plays the FARTVAN like a sax, moving in and out of traffic like Coltrane at Newport '67, reinventing sound with his eyes closed, the Jons make a rhythmic left at Doheny and end up highhattin' it to Larchmont of all places. But that's where jazz can take you... All places. This episode is pure night, and you can feel it. Hard and soft like the wind. Like when you pass the La Brea Tar Pits and get a whiff of the tar. Or is it just the asphault the Jons are turning left on, still hot from the day? The podcast isn't over till we turn right. Right Jon? Cymbals crash....

Before everything could come up roses, there had to be a primordial flower – the mother, and father, of all flowers. Now scientists are on the hunt for it. The eFlower project aims to explain the sudden appearance of flowering plants in the fossil record, what Darwin called an “abominable mystery.” Meanwhile, ancient flowers encased in amber or preserved in tar are providing clues about how ecosystems might respond to changing climates. And, although it was honed by evolution for billions of years, can we make photosynthesis more efficient and help forestall a global food crisis? Guests: Eva-Maria Sadowski - Post doctoral paleobotanist at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin Regan Dunn - Paleobotanist and assistant Curator at the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum Royal Krieger - Rosarian and volunteer at the Morcom Rose Garden, Oakland, California Ruby Stephens - Plant ecology PhD candidate at Macquarie University in Australia, and member of the eFlower Project Stephen Long - Professor of Plant Science, University of Illinois Featuring music by Dewey Dellay and Jun Miyake Big Picture Science is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com to inquire about advertising on Big Picture Science. You can get early access to ad-free versions of every episode by joining us on Patreon. Thanks for your support! Please take our listener survey! Help us get to know you and enter to win a $500 Amazon gift card!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While North America is notable for its many famous dinosaur discoveries, it is also well-known for other fossil finds. The La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California are home to a seemingly never-ending supply of fossil mammals, plants, insects, and more! In this episode, Dr. Emily Lindsey, Associate Curator and Excavation Site Director at the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum joins us to talk about the unique paleontology of the Tar Pits as well as her ongoing research related to extinction, climate change, and more.   #EmilyLindsey #Cranbrook #CranbrookPaleoPodcast #PodcastNation #Dionsoaurs #Fossils #TarPits #LeBreaTarPits

The La Brea Tar Pits hold the largest collection of Ice Age fossils in the world. Now its grounds, museum, and research facilities are being reimagined. The Long Beach Ballet gets ready to perform ‘The Nutcracker' for its 40th anniversary. It all started with David Wilcox, the artistic director.

Have you ever wondered what was going on in California, oh, ten or fifty thousand years ago? About, perhaps, the social lives of saber-toothed cats, just how big giant ground sloths actually were, or the difference between a mammoth and a mastodon? Join me and Sean Campbell, Senior Paleontological Preparator at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California, as we explore what California and the world were like at the last glacial maximum. Handy Links: La Brea Tar Pits: https://tarpits.org/ Island Living Can Shrink Humans: https://www.science.org/content/article/island-living-can-shrink-humans Saber-toothed animals: https://www.livescience.com/54130-saber-toothed-animals.html Extremophile Microbes: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070510151916.htm Diatoms: https://diatoms.org/what-are-diatoms You can find me on Instagram or Tiktok @goldenstatenaturalist My website is www.goldenstatenaturalist.com My Patreon page is www.patreon.com/michellefullner The theme song is called "i dunno" by grapes, and it can be found here.

How Past Extinctions At The La Brea Tar Pit Can Teach Us About Our Climate Future If you drive through Los Angeles, you'll pass by some of California's most iconic sites—the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Universal Studios, the Santa Monica Pier. But if you don't look for it, you may miss the La Brea tar pits—a place where Ice Age life from around 50 thousand years ago got trapped and preserved in sticky black ooze. Visitors can see megafauna, including skeletons of saber tooth cats and dire wolves, along with a vast collection of specimens, including things as small as beetle wings and rodent dung. La Brea was recently named as one of the world's most important geological heritage sites by the International Union of Geological Sciences. The museum is currently planning an extensive redesign that will seek to connect visitors to research, offering lessons about climate, extinction, and survival. Dr. Lori Bettison-Varga, president and director of the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History, joins Ira to explain the significance of the site, and how a trove of Ice Age specimens can serve as a modern-day climate laboratory.   Across The Country, RSV Is Overwhelming Medical Systems If you have a child—or interact with children on a regular basis—odds are you've heard about a very contagious virus: RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus. This isn't a new illness, but it has been surging across the country. This has left parents and caretakers stressed about how to keep their kids safe. Hospitals across the country are having trouble coping with this year's surge, which has come earlier and stronger than normal. This week, Science Friday is spotlighting two regions affected by the wave: Wisconsin and Washington, D.C. The two regions have their own challenges when it comes to the RSV surge. In Wisconsin, care deserts and a large elderly population make containing this virus important to avoid dangerous consequences. In Washington, D.C., hospitals are feeling the effects of years of shutting down pediatric units to make room for adult beds. Joining Ira to talk about RSV in Wisconsin and Washington D.C. are two journalists who have been following this: Jenny Peek, news editor for Wisconsin Public Radio and Aja Drain, reporter at WAMU public radio.   What You Should Know About This RSV Surge Respiratory syncytial virus, known as RSV, is the number one cause of infant hospitalizations in the United States, and cases are soaring this year. Because young children have spent part—if not most—of their childhoods isolated, masking, or staying home due to the pandemic, many of their immune systems haven't been exposed to RSV until now. It's caused a huge surge in cases, and placed a heavy burden on pediatric clinics and hospitals. What do you need to know about the spike in infections? Ira talks with Dr. Carol Kao, a pediatrician and assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, who has treated RSV for years. They dig into why this surge is happening now, the basics of the virus, how RSV is treated, and where we stand with an RSV vaccine.   Mapping Brain Connections Reinforces Theories On Human Cognition Brain regions are associated with different functions—the hippocampus is responsible for long-term memory, for example, and the frontal lobe for personality, behavior, and emotions. After decades of research using sophisticated brain imaging, there's a growing consensus among neuroscientists that understanding the connections between brain regions may be even more important than the functions of the regions themselves. When it comes to understanding human cognition, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Ira speaks with Dr. Stephanie Forkel, assistant professor at the Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging at Radboud University in Nijmegen in the Netherlands, who wrote a review article in the journal Science about the importance of brain connectivity, and what it means for the future of neuroscience. Transcripts for each segment will be available the week after the show airs on sciencefriday.com.  

This week, a 1958 Russian report on Bigfoot was translated into English for the first time, a New York lawmaker's house is ransacked by very unpatriotic raccoons, and in Mike's latest tale from the road, he sees a fake baby and a real dead body.    Hosts: Kevin Harrison, Mike Wiebe, Brian Camp Producer & Music: Mark Ryan Announcer: Nancy Walker Graphic Designer: Mike Tidwell   Merch: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/79908204 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/internationalnewspod

On October 30th, 1938, Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater re-envisioned the 1897 H.G. Wells’ classic “War of the Worlds” as a Halloween treat and created a global sensation. Adapted from Orson Welles’ adaptation, Madison embarks upon her own journey through the infamous Martian invasion in her hometown of Los Angeles across landmarks like the Griffith Park Observatory, Hollywood Boulevard and the La Brea Tar Pits. It’s Madison vs. Martians… who will survive the invasion? TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE ON OUR WEBSITE: MadisonOnTheAir.com

PREMIERES OCTOBER 1st! On October 30th, 1938, Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater re-envisioned the 1897 H.G. Wells' classic "War of the Worlds" as a Halloween treat and created a global sensation. Adapted from Orson Welles' adaptation, Madison embarks upon her own journey through the infamous Martian invasion in her hometown of Los Angeles across landmarks like the Griffith Park Observatory, Hollywood Boulevard and the La Brea Tar Pits. It's Madison vs. Martians... who will survive the invasion? Find us on the web: MadisonOnTheAir.com

On today's episode of Who's There, our weekly call-in show, we accidentally tackle So. Much. Who. Spon. There's Antoni and JVN's [redacted], Chloe Bailey's Trident song (ft. Mouth Noises), Teyonah Parris's ClearBlue spon, and Keyshia Ka'Oir's NON-ClearBlue spon. Plus: Steve Lacy's viral smash, India Royale's alleged breakup, the La Brea Tar Pits, and more! Call 619.WHO.THEM to leave questions, comments & concerns, and we may play your call on a future episode. Support us and get a ton of bonus content over on Patreon.com/WhoWeekly. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Morgan got the special opportunity to interview Laura Tewksbury, a Senior Fossil Preparator at The La Brea Tar Pits! Join Morgan as she asks Laura about The Tar pits and what Laura does there!

This week Zach and Sloane unwrap 1997's surprise volcano in Los Angeles film: Volcano! This movie reminds us of a simpler time in America where Anne Heche's cinematic love interests were inexplicably 30 years older than her and volcanoes sprouted from the La Brea Tar Pits. It truly was a different time. Women still had reproductive rights! How times have changed! Although we are probably on track for a real life volcano to pop up in downtown Los Angeles any day now. Zach and Sloane stay mostly on topic for this film save for a few quick google searches like "are the La Brea Tar Pits real?" and "who sings the song I Love LA?" Spoiler alert: Sloane doesn't get that answer right. All that and so much more on this week's Mummy Dearest! Support the show

Martin Wittfooth was born in Toronto, Canada in 1981 and works in two studios in Kingston, New York, and Savannah, Georgia. He earned his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 2008. Wittfooth's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, including the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Akron Art Museum in Ohio, and La Halle Saint-Pierre in Paris, with solo exhibitions in New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Copenhagen. His paintings have also appeared in numerous publications, including Juxtapoz, The New York Times Art Review, and Vice, and cover features in New American Paintings, Hi-Fructose, Chronogram, and American Artist Magazine. Wittfooth's paintings, drawings, installations, and sculptural works investigate themes of the intersection and clash of industry and nature, and the human influence on the environment. Many of his works explore the theme of shamanism - rituals and practices as old as our species - through which we have attempted to dialogue with nature: the nature outside of ourselves and the nature within. His creative language uses the combination of allegory and symbolism to convey visual narratives. Martin Wittfooth is represented by Gallery Poulsen in Copenhagen, Denmark. Topics Discussed In This Episode: Martin's upcoming solo exhibit “The Plasticene Era,” which opens on September 17th, 2022 @ Gallery Poulsen in Cøpenhagen The longest amount of time he has spent on one painting Getting inspiration from the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles The pre-career retrospective Creating an exquisite corpse with oneself Martin growing up in Finland Martin working as an illustrator directly out of college  3D printing World building Speaking about one's personal observations of the world through one's paintings The Siren in Greek mythology Google's “sentient” AI, LaMDA Creating meaning out of one's own life Balancing being a working artist and having a family Being a community-focused artist People / Artists Mentioned: Gerhard Richter (Visual Artist) David Cronenberg (Director) Bret Easton Ellis (Writer) Darren Aronofsky (Director) Adrian Ghenie (Painter) Justin Mortimer (Painter) Cecily Brown (Painter) Anish Kapoor (Sculptor) James Turrell (Artist) Albert Einstein (Physicist) Blake Lemoine (Google AI Engineer) Books Mentioned: American Psycho Less Than Zero Films / TV Shows Mentioned: Crimes of the Future (2022) Mother! (2017) The Shining (1980) martinwittfooth.com instagram.com/martinwittfooth

On episode THREE HUNDRED FIFTY-NINE of The Purrrcast, Sara and Steven welcome the La Brea Tar Pits' Mairin Balisi & Laura Tewksbury to kick off Saber-Toothed Cat Summer. The Purrrcast, talking to cat people because we can't talk to their cats.Here is a link to Mairin's paper:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-99853-1 Saber-toothed Summer page:tarpits.org/sabertoothedsummer The Purrrcast is the cat podcast for you and your feline friends. Based in Los Angeles, hosts Sara Iyer and Steven Ray Morris chat with fellow cat enthusiasts about the furry little creatures they love. Not sure how the cats feel about it though. New episodes every Wednesday! Please rate and subscribe in iTunes: https://www.exactlyrightmedia.com/the-purrrcast Email us! thepurrrcast@gmail.com Consider donating to Black Lives Matter: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_blm_homepage_2019 - COVID-19 FAQs - https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prepare/faq.html NEW PURRRCAST MERCH: https://www.exactlyrightmedia.com/shop Elijah McClain details and links to help:Donate to the family's GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/elijah-mcclainSign the Petition: https://www.change.org/p/adams-county-district-attorney-justice-for-elijah-mcclain-88600e12-fb72-41e4-9137-030a1dcaf695 Call city and state officials to demand justice: https://justiceforelijahmcclain.yolasite.com/ Follow Justice For Elijah McClain for updates: https://www.instagram.com/justiceforelijahmcclain/ Follow The Purrrcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThePurrrcaston Instagram: https://instagram.com/thepurrrcast/Please like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePurrrcastFollow Sara Iyer on Twitter: https://twitter.com/saraanjuliiyerFollow Sara Iyer on Instagram: https://instagram.com/saraiyer/Check out Sara Iyer on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/saraiyerListen to Sara's Weezer podcast: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/weezer-has-turned-and-left-us-hereListen to Sara's Don Bluth podcast: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-bluth-the-whole-bluth-and-nothing-but-the-bluthFollow Steven Ray Morris on Twitter: https://twitter.com/StevenRayMorrisCheck out Steven's new podcast, See Jurassic Right: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/see-jurassic-right/id1239538917?mt=2Theme song by Anabot (Analise Nelson) and Dax Schaffer:https://thesaxelnaiad.bandcamp.com/Artwork by Jillian Yoffe: flatratstudio.comPart of the Exactly Right podcast networkSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

There's something strange about the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry. The fossils found there date back to the Late Jurassic Period and one species accounts for roughly two-thirds of all the bones: Allosaurus fragilis. But what killed all these big predators? Was the site itself a deadly trap, like the La Brea Tar Pits? Or was it a poisoned spring? Or was it simply a watering hole? This episode will dig into the mystery of this dinosaur graveyard. Eons: Mysteries of Deep Time is produced by Complexly for PBS. © 2022 PBS. All rights reserved.