68: Craving Outside Water

Inge Lehmann forever. Spaceward tungstan shotgun! Worst Salt Lake? Poisonous confidence! We celebrate the horse girls. Breathing bees! The deepening mystery of the prototaxites. The sperm whale miracle! Negative ions: the real and the influenced. To the moon again, despite it all.Inge Lehmann:https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/inge-lehmann-and-earths-deepest-secret/Pulverize it!:https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/inside-a-bold-plan-to-pulverize-an-earth-bound-asteroid/Great Arsenic Lake:https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/utahs-great-salt-lake-may-be-hiding-a-massive-reservoir-of-fresh-water/The occasionally confidant snake:https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/these-snakes-steal-poison-from-their-prey-heres-how-they-know-they-have/Prototaxites?:https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-mysterious-407-million-year-old-fossil-may-represent-a-previously-unknown-branch-of-life-180988052/Sprem Whale Birth:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/climate/sperm-whale-birth-assistance.html?searchResultPosition=2The moon again:https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasas-artemis-era-may-finally-solve-three-major-moon-mysteries/Produced by Joe Fisher and Finlay StevensonEdited & Mastered by Rich PalmerMusic: My Own Kind of Tango by Alexandra WoodardLeave Finlay a message or a voicemail: https://www.hwatweekly.comFollow us on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@hwatweeklyFollow us on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/hwatweekly.bsky.socialFollow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hwatweekly/Find and support our sponsors at: fableandfolly.com/partnersSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.