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Outside/In — 396 episodes

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Big porpoise energy

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A tinned fish renaissance

3

Never add sodium to your pasta water

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A cow named Speckles

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In defense of darkness

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Life and death and psilocybin

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Silicon Planet

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A Dry Hot American Summer

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Like a Dirty Rotten Whale

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The Dead Bird Rabbit Hole

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The Microplastics Cleanse

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A climate activist and a gas executive walk into a bar

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The Raw Milk Question

14

Hunting Party

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Catching the Codfather

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Red is the warmest color

17

Reefer madness and the future of hemp

18

Goats, Ghosts, and Roadkill [Live stories from Portsmouth]

19

That's so raven

20

The Emerald Forest

21

Safe to Drink, Episode 1: You don’t know about this?

22

Remembering Christa

23

In Challenger's wake: The ethics of sending citizens to space

24

Bill McKibben has changed (but not that much)

25

nom nom nom

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Return of the Kiwi Apocalypse: 10 years of Outside/In

27

How Broadway’s SFX designers make it rain (and snow) on stage

28

The FernGully Effect

29

Time heals all wounds

30

Of Men and Mice

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On the mend: 8 tips on how to repair your clothes

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Operation Night Cat, Episode 3: A Duck’s a Duck

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Operation Night Cat, Episode 2: Behind the Brick Wall

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Operation Night Cat, Episode 1: Why Did the Deer Cross the Road?

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Introducing: Operation Night Cat

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Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

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Critical Mast

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On the edge of the ice

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The Brick Lady of St. Louis

40

O/I Trivia: Natural Selection

41

How to solve the climate crisis in 60-90 minutes

42

Why is there so much roadkill?

43

The cold truth about refrigeration

44

All Wings Considered

45

Saving the shipwrecks of Stellwagen Bank

46

Your brain on GPS

47

Taxonomy's 200-Year Mistake

48

People are buying coyote urine. Where does it come from?

49

Field reports from the cutting edge of science

50

The Element of Surprise: The $1,000 Balloon

51

A Map to the Next World

52

The Trojan Seahorse

53

A 2,200 Mile Podcast

54

What Jurassic Park got wrong (and right) about dinosaurs

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Phallic windchimes and ASMR: the magic of sound

56

Lawn and Order

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Cruise-o-nomics

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Where the Wild Things Grow

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A Righteous Gemstone

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Foraging made her famous

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The future was hydrogen

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Black Sheep Metal

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The Cold War Ice Core of Greenland

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Dark Magic Rabbit

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The Bee’s Sneeze: Why allergies are getting worse

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Venom and the cure

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Tasting the forbidden fruit

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The Final Days of Sgt. Tibbs

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The Emerald Forest: Why Irish farmers aren’t happy about some American trees

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Why we sing

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Why do animals play?

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What is a forest for?

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FEMA and the other 50 percent

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The Great Grand Canyon Burro Rescue

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Order on the pickleball court!!!

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Fluoridation nation

77

What are Trump's Climate Plans?

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The tinned fish renaissance

79

Once in a blue moon

80

Bigfoot is from North Carolina

81

No Regrets Coyote

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What Remains: More MOVE remains found

83

Making the most of ‘stick season’

84

Shhhh! It’s the sound and silence episode

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The Ballad and the Flood

86

What's living under your porch

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The Night Owls

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Postmortem: The Stolen Bodies of Harvard

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What Remains, Part 2: In Memoriam

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What Remains, Part 1: No Justice, No Peace

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What Remains: What's Past is Prologue

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"Primitive, Unconfined Recreation"

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Ghosts in the machine

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The cold, hard truth about refrigeration

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The Mississippi Cyborg

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The $1,000 balloon

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Why we get scared—and why we like it

98

The not-so-secret life of plants

99

This is your brain on GPS

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The fifth sense

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Saving the tallest trees on Earth

102

Hot Olympic Summer: Is Paris Greenwashing the Games?

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Every bite is a story

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Introducing “The Youth Development Center”

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The new space race

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The Potato Show

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Ed Yong and The Spoonbill Club

108

The Winter Rangers

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Wolves, water, and global weirding

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Dead bird rabbit hole

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The Department of Living Animals

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The papyrus and the volcano

113

The Kings and Queens of "the Water Prom"

114

The Element of Surprise

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‘Til the landslide brings it down

116

The mystery of the missing extinctions

117

Meet the meatfluencers

118

Reefer madness, the CBD bubble, and the future of hemp

119

Songbird accents, eating rats, and why we need the moon

120

In search of an ethical 401k

121

The story you won’t hear in Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer”

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You can make kids hike, but you can’t make them hikers

123

The disappearing dunes of 'Dune'

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Hunters do cry

125

What's the most successful species on Earth?

126

The edge of the ice

127

The plot thickens

128

Blue is the loneliest color

129

Not everyone is wild about wild horses

130

Pigeons are weird

131

The Oatly Chronicles

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Dragons, trolls and pine trees

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Baby it’s GREAT outside: 12 more tips for embracing winter

134

Is 'Yellowstone' ruining Montana?

135

Dear ChatGPT: Are you a climate solution? Or climate problem?

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How does the National Weather Service work?

137

Why did the road cross the chicken?

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The secret lives of bugs

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As American as hard apple cider: an immigrant food story

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Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana

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Bat Out of Hell Ranch

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Environmental disinformation is getting weirder

143

Do airports dream of electric planes?

144

Close Encounters with Mato Tipila

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Where there’s smoke, there’s ire

146

The greatest disaster story of all time

147

The last great trip

148

Let's talk boundaries

149

After the avalanche: rescue gone wrong

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Of lab mice and men

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What the heck is El Niño, anyway?

152

Drilled: The Panic

153

If houseplants could talk: communication and the natural world

154

What's really in your wine?

155

Oppenheimer's omission

156

Shhhhhh! It’s the sound and silence episode

157

Shrimp on the line

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Do your doo diligence

159

The Call of the Void

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The carbon in your closet: cotton vs. polyester and other fabricated dilemmas

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When protest is a crime, part 2: city in a forest

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When protest is a crime, part 1: the Standing Rock effect

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Is Biden a good climate president?

164

Just try not to breathe

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A tale of two deserts: Are Saudi cows to blame for Arizona's water crisis?

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It's not easy being evergreen

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The city inside a glacier

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The Race to Net Zero: building a car-free future

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The Race to Net Zero: will EVs get us there fast enough?

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The Underdogs Ep3: You sell your soul

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The Underdogs Ep 2: 'It has to be earned'

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The Underdogs Ep1: Honey and vinegar

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Outside/In presents The Underdogs

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Scents & sensibility

175

Who owns the sky?

176

Worm Wars! Invasive species and the stories we tell about them

177

Groundhogs: incidental archaeologists, mystical meteorologists

178

The “extreme” beat: whale hearts, mudslides, and more

179

The ocean is a place of queer possibility

180

Dinner reservations: how to eat sustainably (and does it even matter?)

181

Cold t*ts, warm hearts: the cold water dippers of Maine

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Hot dam! Climate news that isn’t terrible

183

How a chicken saved my life

184

13 tips on how to "surthrive" this winter

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O Possum! My Possum!

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The reality of History’s “Alone”

187

Legends of the fall: fallout shelters, dreams of falling, and autumnal vibes

188

Why we get scared (and why we like it)

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The curious case of the missing extinctions

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The last veterinarians in town

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The olive & the pine

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Why do we stare at fire and other existential questions

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Your Wildest Wildlife Encounters

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Yardwork: A bitter melon grows in Boston

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Yardwork: Gardening is heavy metal

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Yardwork: Lawn and Order

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The most successful species on Earth?!

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The National Park Service

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The first national park

200

Is climate journalism experiencing a Great Resignation?

201

Life and Death at a Human Decomposition Facility

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Update: Happy the Elephant is Not a Person

203

Six Foot Turkey: What Jurassic Park Got Wrong (And Right) About Dinosaurs

204

Et Tu, Brute? The Case for Human Rights for Animals

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Frog Sex, Tree Soap, and Other Signs of Spring

206

After the Avalanche

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Call of the Void

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The So-Called Mystery of Rapa Nui (AKA Easter Island)

209

How to Build a Solar-Powered Website

210

Frankenfish

211

Outside/Inbox: You Can't Get Further Outdoors than Space

212

Holy Scat! Why Antlers Are Freaking Amazing

213

The Immigrant Apple and The Hard Cider Comeback

214

What the Tofurkey is Going On with Fake Meat?

215

Even Hikers Get The Blues

216

Dispatches from the New American Shore

217

The “Do-Nothing” Farmer: Part II, The Mountain

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The “Do-Nothing” Farmer: Part I, The Revolution

219

It Was the Ladies Who Hugged the Trees

220

Sheep + Solar, A Love Story

221

How to Embrace Winter (like Norwegians do)!

222

Outside/Inbox: Do Bears Hoot?

223

A Vegetarian Turned Deer Hunter in Deutschland

224

Can an Animal be a Criminal?

225

The So-called Mystery of Rapa Nui (Easter Island)

226

Tourism Spoils

227

The Himalayan Land Grab

228

Outside/Inbox: The Ramen Wasp Murders & Other Mysteries

229

Scents and Sensibility

230

Book Club: Four Lost Cities

231

The Problem with America’s National Parks

232

Bonus: Ciao for Now, Sam Evans-Brown

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Windfall, Part 5: The Just Transition

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Windfall, Part 4: Port of Departure

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Windfall, Part 3: Squid Pro Quo

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Windfall, Part 2: Please Let Me Finish, Mr. Kennedy.

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Windfall, Part 1: Sea Change

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Introducing: Windfall

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In Pittsburgh

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Book Club: Trace

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The Sand Protocol

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The Trouble With Music About Wilderness

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10x10: Sand Beach

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A Climate Activist Goes to Business School

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10X10: City Gutter

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The Acorn: An Ohlone Love Story

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Ask Sam: Do Hummingbirds Sleep and Other Questions

248

I Would Prefer Not To

249

Thin Green Line

250

If You Wanna Get Kosileg, You Gotta Get a Little Friluftsliv

251

Coal and Solar in the Navajo Nation

252

Climate Migration

253

Cat of the Clouds

254

The Forest for the Carbon

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Fortress Conservation

256

10x10: Pine Barren

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The Olive and the Pine

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Rice is Food and Other Stories

259

The Lithium Gold Rush

260

Sidedoor: The Riverkeeper

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The Darién Gap

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Ask Sam: Spice Must Flow

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Open Worlds

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UPDATE: The GFOAT, or Greatest Fruit of All Time

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Ginkgo Love

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Fruit Fight!!!

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Birding While Black

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Massachusetts v. EPA

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Inside/In: Moss & Mold

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On Fires and Feelings

271

The Carrington Event

272

Inside/In: How To Be A Backyard Birber

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Cat People

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Inside/In

275

10X10: Kettle Bog

276

Tempest in a Teacup

277

Nudge-Off Results! Plus, The Forest for the Treesap [Replay]

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Nature Has Done Her Part

279

A Battle of Tiny Proportions

280

Leo Rising

281

Chasing The Light

282

A Year of Wonders

283

Jesabel Y Eddie

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The Particular Sadness of Trout Fishing in America

285

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bug

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Ask Sam: Grandpa's Rhubarb

287

Cold, Dark, and Sharky

288

Patient Zero: The Laser

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Patient Zero: The Vector

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Patient Zero: The Triangle

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Introducing Patient Zero

292

Can You Feel the Lies Tonight

293

Plan B

294

Swimming Lessons

295

I'm a Penguin Counter for God's Sake!

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Operation Confirmation Bias

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Ask Sam: Bidets the Day

298

Pants on Fire

299

Must Love Logs

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Killing Cats, Saving Numbats

301

The Family Business

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Hunting The Night Parrot

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10X10: Under The Ice

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Leave No Stone

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32 Is the New 40

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Falling Doesn't Count

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Rake and Ride

308

Just Decide

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Now I am an Axolotl

310

Ask Sam: Trichomes, Bug hair, Bug Tumors, & Mollusk Shells

311

The Meat Matrix

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So Over Population [Part 2]

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So Over Population [Part 1]

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O/I Presents: Bear Brook

315

Look Toward the Dawn

316

This Isn't Science, It's a Love Story

317

Shrunk and Punk'd

318

The Sky is Burning

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10x10 - Pine Barren

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Loser Wolves: A Cat Fancy

321

Molto Moleche

322

The Most Dangerous Game

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The Forest for the Treesap

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Ride or Die

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Ask Sam: Hair of the Dog, Walking Fish and the Truth About Palm Trees

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Stay In Your Lane

327

Shine Service

328

One Bin to Rule Them All

329

Life on the Edge of the Olympics

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Magical Drinking

331

Updates For Your Brain

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An American Lobster in Stockholm

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Ask Sam: Caterpillar Legs, Living Fossils, & Sam Ruins Edison Bulbs

334

Stoner Panels

335

What's the Deal with Coydogs?

336

Fantastic Mr. Phillips

337

Powerline, Part IV: Down the Line

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Powerline, Part III: The Peace of the Braves

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Powerline, Part II: The Project of the Century

340

Powerline, Part I: Masters In Our Own Home

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Introducing: Powerline

342

Vultures Inherit the Earth

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Ask Sam | Eating Grass, Killing Trees, Bottling and Logging

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In Too Deep

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Pick Your Poison

346

Lime and Tabasco

347

The Hitchhiker's Guide to WWOOFing

348

Bright Lights, Big Salad

349

Healing Hands of Nature

350

After The Flood

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Eat the Invaders & Ask Sam

352

S.O.S.

353

10x10 - Midden

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Champagne on the Rocks

355

Daisy Supply Chain

356

Ask Sam Round-up

357

Leave it to Beavers

358

Full Disclosure

359

The Company Man

360

Bonus Episode: 3 1/2 Feet Under

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Gnar Pow

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Fantastic Mr. Phillips

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Ask Sam | Snow Fleas, Wind, Mount Mitchell

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The Death Machine

365

A House Built on Sand

366

The Accidental History of Solar Power

367

Millionaires' Hunt Club

368

HumaNature - Hoofprints on the Heart

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The 2nd Greatest Show on Earth

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Don't Cheer For Me Argentina

371

10x10 - Traffic Circle

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Always. Wear. Earth. Tones.

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Nature is a Haunted House

374

Eat the Invaders - Lionfish

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Look Toward the Dawn

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Dr. Percy & the Magic Soybean

377

The Early Birder Gets the Bird

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When the Cat's Away, The Mice Will Play

379

WTF is TFC?

380

Never Bring a Sledgehammer to a Scalpel Fight

381

These Shoes Were Made For Mocking

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The Pokémon Question

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Up Against the Ropes

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Ask Sam | Syrup-titious

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Anothah Boston Cheat

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Tiny Terror

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Gridlocked

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Parenting At 24,000 Feet

389

The Young Man of the Mountain

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Smashing Pumpkins-The Gourd That Changed A Town

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Champagne on the Rocks

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Pier Pressure

393

The Moose Whisperer

394

10x10 - Vernal Pools

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The Kiwi Apocalypse

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