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These Vibes are Too Cosmic

Aug 8, 2021 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

With DJ AskTheQuestion

Science Show

Every Week

Here on WPRB

Learn what the researchers know

Remember that science is a process

Nothing has to be beyond your understanding!

The Oyster Landscapes Show

10:00 AM		DakhaBrakha Torokh DakhaBrakha Alambari DakhaBrakha 2020
10:00 AM		Jeff Snyder Happy Swing Jeff Snyder These Vibes Theme Song S/R 2016
10:01 AM		Brian Jackson, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge Bain De Minuit N Brian Jackson JID008 Jazz Is Dead 2021
10:06 AM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- Show intro : The way that Earth's slowing rotation and oxygen concentrations in our atmosphere are related https://science-sciencemag-org.ezproxy.princeton.e...
10:17 AM		Lord Tusk Mk Ultra Waves Paradise Awaits UltraWaveVisions 2020
10:24 AM		Backxwash Purpose of Pain Backxwash N I Lie Here Buried With My Rings and My Dresses Ugly Hag Records 2021
10:25 AM		TEKE::TEKE Kaminari TEKE::TEKE N Shirushi Before Sunrise Records 2021
10:29 AM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- Squirrels manage their maneuvers based on branch flexibility & distance to target - and they do so with developing mastery! https://www.sciencenews.org/article/squirrel-jump-...
10:39 AM		Palomares de Ojinaga El Leon de La Sierra The Devil's Swing: Ballads from the Big Bend Country of the Texas-Mexican Border V/A Arhoolie 2000
10:43 AM		Carlos Niño & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Part III Carlos Nino Chicago Waves International Anthem Recording Co. 2020
10:48 AM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, responsible for temperate weather in the Northern Hemisphere, may be in serious danger https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01097-4...
11:03 AM		Lala Lala When You Die You Become Perfect The Lamb Hardly Art 2018
11:06 AM		Liv.e Party Life (Liv).e N CWTTY+ - EP In Real Life 2021
11:08 AM		Waxahatchee Dixie Cups and Jars Waxahatchee Cerulean Salt Don Giovanni Records 2013
11:10 AM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- Lowering the bar for identifying gravitational waves with LIGO: now we may have found more events https://www.sciencenews.org/article/gravitational-...
11:24 AM		The Nudge & Troy Kingi He Ōrite N He Ōrite - Single Loop Recordings Aot(ear)oa 2021
11:28 AM		Tiye Phoenix So Real Tiye Phoenix The Glow EP 1109128 Records DK 2020
11:32 AM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- Kate Orff is championing revitalization of barrier islands and polluted waterways with oysters https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/09/the-...
11:42 AM		Marco Jimenez Adios Mariquita Linda Radio-Cine-Teatro de Revista: Epoca de Oro de la Cancion V/A El Disco Es Cultura 1991
11:46 AM		Charlie Duda Please Irene Charlie Duda N Roller Coaster - EP Exotic Pet Songs 2021
11:50 AM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- The Perseverance Rover tried to grab a rock, but so far no dice https://phys.org/news/2021-08-mars-rover-1st-sampl...
11:55 AM		Sō Percussion It Is Time: III. Marimba Sō Percussion Mackey: It Is Time Cantaloupe Music 2011

Chat is archived.

Good morning world and worldly inhabitants! What would you like to learn about today?

Good morning, Brian! Either today ... or at a future time ... I've read that climate change is slowing and/or altering the courses of certain major ocean currents -- including (I believe) the Gulf Stream, which brings warm waters to .the British Isles, moderating their climates. Is this true and what's the "why/how" of its happening?

Great suggestion, Richard! Let's see what can be dug up.

I can totally confirm the core conclusions of that scientific study on squirrels' learning processes as they jump from branch to branch. I've had backyard and, currently, back deck bird feeders. And it's been a constant battle of wits for me to design squirrel-proof -- or even just squirrel resistant -- bird feeders.

And those squirrels are clever. We tried our best to keep a bird feeder out of their reach. But they navigated from a garbage can to a screen to the top of the window frame where they jumped from window to window across the back of the house to reach the seed.

That is absolutely true! They can be menaces to birdfeeders. Where I currently live the squirrels have not discovered the feeder, which I attribute to luck alone. Eventually they'll catch on.

The squirrels are obviously very intelligent, true problem solvers who learn from and build on recent past experiences. Plus they seem to have evolved or are evolving true hands with juxtaposed thumbs, making them manually most formidable. jmbss

Evolution in progress! It's an arms race!

Ha! Good one Brian! It certainly is an arms -- and also hands LOL -- race. I can design a bird feeder system that will defeat any squirrel ... for about, um, 36 hours! ;-)) After that, I look out and see that they've figured a way to hang on to the feeder and chow down.

Actually, my current bird feeder, a combination of a slippery half-dome plastic covering and a spring-loaded feeder whose seed dispensing holes close up when anything heavier than a blue jay lands on it. Still, I must remain vigilant ...

That design sounds beyond ingenious. One advantage we have over squirrels is the combined intelligence of our connected human brain economy - ie., we can buy other people's inventions to keep our birdfeeders secure

Great show again.when we first started listening to your show earlier this season, I would say stop talking and play some tunes🎶. But the show is a great blend.

Woo thanks for the comment Mike! I know it's a different flavor of radio compared to "normal" WPRB but I hope it appeals to some of you out there.

Great show, Brian, enjoyed the music and also learned lots! I'll be emailing you off-list a future show topic suggestion. All best!

Thank you Richard, glad you could tune in!

Thanks all, nice to be with you this morning!