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Smoky Signal

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Smoky Signal is a show about the science behind Great Smoky Mountains National Park. In season one, we explore three stories on the theme of Collections. We learn about renewing traditional plant gathering practices in the park, a natural history museum with thousands of specimens, and even the collection of something pretty stinky (in the name of science, of course). What can we learn about the Smokies—and ourselves—through these acts of collection?
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Don't step in it! Research it! In this episode, Great Smoky Mountains National Park staff teams up with the U.S. Geological Society and the University of Tennessee in Knoxville to learn more about elk abundance, recruitment, and survival since being reintroduced in the Smokies in 2001. --- TRANSCRIPT: --- Antoine Fletcher 0:00 Fecal matter dung, sc…
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From hellbenders to Smoky madtoms to rusty patched bumble bees, Antoine explores the natural history collections of the Smokies. Where do these collections come from? What can we learn from them? And how can studying decades-old specimens inform how we manage the park? Featuring: Baird Todd, Mike Aday, Arthur Stupka (archival), Paul Super, Becky Ni…
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Alix explores how citizens of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians are renewing connections to their traditional homelands in the park, with the help of a certain plant species. Featuring: Tommy Cabe and Joshua Albritton. For more info, visit: go.nps.gov/smokysignal --- TRANSCRIPT: --- [OPENING SCENE: ALIX SEARCHES FOR SOCHAN] Alix: It’s spring…
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Multi-millionaire Andrew Carnegie: Ruthless steel magnate. Unparalleled philanthropist determined to use his entire fortune for the betterment of all mankind. He believed a shared love of dinosaurs could usher in an era of world peace, and when his museum unearthed a diplodocus at the turn of the century, he set out to prove it.Podcast theme by Mic…
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For centuries, rumors of a huge, violent, long-necked monster have swirled around Africa's Congo Basin. Local tribes have pointed out images of brontosaurus as a dead ringer. Now, explorers believe the creature could be a boon for science or a mighty blow to evolution theory. What is the Mokèlé-mbèmbé?Podcast theme by Michael Guy BowmanListen to mo…
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Tyrannosaurus rex is probably the first thing to pop into our heads when we hear the word “dinosaur.” The tyrant lizard king might be the most popular dinosaur there ever was. But...its reign came at the end of an era. There were other, equally fearsome predators before it, so how did tyrannosaurs come to wear the crown? In its time, and in ours?Po…
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In 1967, sideshow performer Frank Hansen unveiled an ape-like man frozen in a chunk of ice. World-renowned zoologists pronounced that it was a real, unknown animal. Was it the abominable snowman? A missing link? Or a hoax that spiraled way out of control? Today on NatMysteryCast: The Minnesota Iceman Cometh!Podcast theme by Michael Guy BowmanListen…
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