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Audio from The Daily Bolt Video Podcast Episode 181

The Daily Bolt Episode 180: We're BAAACK!

Episode 179: Ida Port-Mortem and Using Polar Orbiters to Track Wildfires

Episode 178: Ida Dominates the Gulf While Nora Pummels Puerto Vallarta

Episode 177: Much Ado About Ida

Episode 176: America's Poor Scientific Literacy

Episode 175: An Unsung Casualty of the Taliban Takeover: Scientists

Henri and Middle Tennessee Flooding Recaps

Episod 173: Grace Dissipates in Central Mexico; Henri headed for Long Island

Episode 172: Grace nears 2nd Landfall in Mexico; Henri to directly impact New England this weekend

Episode 171:Category 1 Grace Bears Down on Cozumel and Cancun

Episode 170: Fred's Floods, Grace's Strengthening and Henri's Shift

Fred and Grace threaten the FL Panhandle and Haiti

Episode 168: Fred is Down but not Dead

Episode 167: Is Tropical Depression Fred reforming south of Cuba?

Episode 166: The latest on TD Fred and where it's going.

Episode 165: Fred weakens to a tropical depression

Episode 164: Tropical Storm Fred and Idiocy in Oregon Education Policy

Episode 163: Will There Be a Tropical Storm "Fred" Tomorrow?

Episode 162: Profiles in Science: Benjamin Franklin, Part 2

Episode 161: Profiles in Science: Benjamin Franklin, Part 1

Episode 160: Unusual Cold Will Bring Higher Coffee Prices in 2022

Episode 159: Why Does It Work? Baking Soda and Vinegar as Cleaning Agents

Episode 158: This Day in Science August 2

Episode 157: Mixed News on the 2021 Western Drought

Episode 156: Who is Vladimir Zworkyin and Why Should We care?

Daily Bolt Episode 155: Coffee may be bad for your brain!

Episode 154: How Government Helps Form Scientific Consensus

Episode 153: More on the Validity of "Scientific Consensus"

The Daily Bolt Episode 152: How Valuable is Scientific Consensus?

Episode 151: Reflections on Humility from C.M. Christensen

Episode 150: We're Back...and: Using Drones for Rain Enhancement

Oct 10, 2020 Episode 149: Think you know the speed of sound? Think again.

Oct 6, 2020 Episode 148: Delta may or may not have hit it's peak but is still headed for the Gulf Coast

The Daily Bolt Episode 147 (10-3-20): California Wildfires: Climate Change,Forest Management, or Both?

Sep 16, 2020 Episode 146; and then there were three...but Sally still poses threats

Sep 15, 2020 Episode 145: Crawl, Sally, Crawl! Plus more on Paulette and the Western fires

Sep 14, 2020 Episode 144: Sally and Paulette stronger; goodbye Rene, hello Teddy amd Vicky

Sep 13, 2020 Episode 143: Paulette approaches Bermuda as a strong category 1 hurricane; Sally to strengthen

Sep 12, 2020 episode 142: Not one, not two, not three, but for Atlantic tropical systems, and maybe a fifth soon. Plus, fires raging on in the west

Sep 10, 2020 Episode 141: Extreme fire co ditio s spread morthward into the Pacific Northwest. Tens of millions affected by air quality alerts

Sep 8, 2020 Episode 140: Weather contrasts in the West; Paulette and Rene to be around for awhile

Sep 5, 2020 Episode 139: Typhoon Haisen lolks to set records in Japan and Korea

Sep 4, 2020 Episode 138: New genetic information regsrding the Tree of Life

Sep 3, 2020 Episode 137: Steroids a new weapon in the COVID fight? Or overblown hype?

Sep 3, 2020 Episode 136: Nana and Omar both weaken to Tropical Depression strength and expected to dissipate in about 2 Days

Sep 1, 2020 Episode 135: Nana and Omar provide some tropical surprises today. Belize and Guatemala to be seriously impacted.

Aug 31, 2020 Episode 134: Tropical Depression 15 likely to become Tropical Storm Nana overnight

Aug 30, 2020 Episode 133: Watch those naps---you may be hurting your health! Wait...what?

Aug 29, 2020 Episode 132: An update on wildfires in the Amazon

Aug 28, 2020 Episode 131: Laura now a tropical depression causing flooding; plus some exciting news on the COVID-19 front

Aug 27, 2020 Episode 130: Laura now a tropical storm, headed north and east plus a brief recap of the last 12 hrs on satellite

Aug 26, 2020 Episode 129: All eyes on category 4 Laura before tonight's landfall

Aug 25, 2020 Episode 128: Laura on track for SW Louisiana/SE Texas landfall overnight Wed/Thur as a significant Hurricane

Aug 24, 2020 Episode 127: Weakened Marco nearly ashore in Louisiana; Laura two days behind

Aug 23, 2020 Episode 126: Marco, Laura and The final part of my interview with Dr. Bill Gallus on the Iowa derecho

Aug 22, 2020 Episode 125: Laura, Marco and part three of my interview with Dr. Bill Gallus on the Iowa derecho event

Aug 21, 2020 Episode 124: Genevieve, Laura and TD14, plus part 2 of the interview with Dr. Bill Gallus on the Iowa Derecho

Aug 20, 2020 Episode 123: Tropical Storms Galore! And: Part 1 of my interview with Dr. Bill Gallus on the Iowa derecho

Aug 19, 2020 Episode 122: Societal Collapse in 2 Decades?! Well...maybe not.

Aug 18, 2020 Episode 121: Category 4 hurricane Genevieve slowly approaches Baja California

Aug 17, 2020 Episode 120: Furnace Creek lives up to its name; plus: Genevieve to pass ny Baja as a major hurricane

Aug 16, 2020 Episode 119: Heat, Fire and Blow: Exteme heat in the West and extreme fire danger as well

Aug 15, 2020 Episode 118: Pheromones for locust control: who knew? Plus a preview of next week

Aug 14, 2020 Episode 117: The curious Mpemba effect in heat transfer and new experimentation: why your hot coffee cools faster than your cold coffee

Aug 13, 2020 Episode 116: Beware the coming information catastrophe! In about 200 years

Aug 12, 2020 Episode 115: AeDES: Modeling mosquito-borne illness transmission

Aug 11, 2020 Episode 114: RIPE for better plant productivity

Aug 10, 2020 Episode 113: The return of drought to the West, including California

Aug 9, 2020 Episode 112: SMILE: it's not what you think, it's a new type of material

August 8, 2020:Episode 111: Thus far, COVID lockdowns believed to have minimal effects on global climate.

August 7, 2020 Episode 110: Breaking News: Antarctica apparently not safe from COVID-19 Impacts

August 6, 2020: Episode 109: Training animals for military purposes

August 5, 2020: Episode 108: Shetland Orcas appear: and: the tiniest "dinosaur" isn't really a dinosaur

August 4, 2020: The Daily Bolt Episode 107: More on Isaias plus glowing butterflies in space.

Aug 3, 2020 Episode 106: Isaias becomes a hurricane again, hours before landfall. Where's it going next?

Aug 2, 2020 Episode 105: Isaias update plus: Onion salmonella alert! How does this happen, anyway?

Aug 1, 2020 Episode 104: Isaias approaches Florida; Tropical Depression Ten expected to Fall apart

Jul 31, 2020 Episode 103: Hurricane Isaias, Tropical Depression 10 and a Stonehenge Mystery Solved

Jul 30, 2020 Episode 102: Tropical Storm Isaias and Perserverance Blasts Off

Jul 29, 2020 Episode 101: Potential Tropical Cyclone 9/Isaias and Big Heat in the West

Jul 28, 2020 Episode 100: Welcome back with “Superflies”

Jan 30, 2020 Episode 99: Surprise! Some good news on the climate change front!

Jan 29, 2020 Episode 98: The Coronavirus: Concern is warranted but not panic

Jan 7, 2020 Episode 97: The Mission Iconic Reefs Project

Jan 4, 2020 Episode 96: We need more scientists like this!

Jan 2, 2020 Episode 94: Bird Migration and Climate Change

Jan 1, 2020 Episode 93: So how old is your dog, really?

Dec 31, 2019 Episode 92: A warm Russian winter and a tepid Russian reaction to it

Dec 30, 2019 Episode 91: Ultra-cool LEGOS!

Dec 29, 2019 Episode 90: Technical Difficulties and snow in Joshua Tree

Dec 10, 2019 Episode 89: more extremist climate alarmism---Which is totally unnecessary

Dec 4, 2019 Episode 88: A picture of our distant future

Dec 1, 2019 Episode 87: How 'bout them apples?

Nov 29, 2019 Episode 86: Surprise, Surprise! China has no real intention of honoring its Paris Climate Accord Targets

Nov 28, 2019 Episode 85: The Quest for Happy Cows

Nov 23, 2019 Episode 84: An unexpected seismic hazard in the Middle East

Nov 17, 2019 Episode 83: A Listener's Question on Austalian Geoengineering

Nov 10, 2019 Episode 82; Responsible Stewardship Part 3: the Political angles

Nov 3, 2019 Episode 81: Responsible Stewardship Part 2

Oct 22, 2019 Episode 80: Responsible Stewardship Part 1

Oct 20, 2019 Episode 79: Nestor: the latest oddity in this tropical cyclone season

Sep 6, 2019 Episode 73: Dorian' competing forces. Plus: red, green and blue blobs

Sep 3, 2019 Episode 71: At least the laws of physics don't change

Sep 2, 2019 Episode 70: Dorian: the devil is in the details

Sep 1, 2019 Episode 69: Dorian becomes a record breaker

Aug 31, 2019 Episode 68: Dorian ramps up the 2019 Hurricane Season in a big way!

Episode 67: In science, details matter--I just wish they mattered to the media

Aug 4, 2019 Episode 66: Stories from the Iron and Bronze Ages

Aug 4, 2019 Episode 65: A truly Byzantine discovery

Jul 28, 2019 Episode 64: Remembering Fuquing Zhang

Jul 22, 2019 Episode 62: Alarmist Media and the "Hottest June on Record"

Jun 21, 2019 21:12 Episode 50: The Real message from Boaty McBoatface

Sep 15, 2018 08:54 Episode 48: 24 inches and counting

Sep 13, 2018 10:01 Episode 47: Shifts happen

Sep 11, 2018 19:35 Episode 46: Have we learned the leasons of Harvey, or not?

Sep 10, 2018 20:20 Episode 45: Florence's Fast Rise

Sep 9, 2018 20:02 Episode 44: Here come Florence and Olivia---will we have another Harvey?

Sep 3, 2018 19:20 Episode 43: The tropics are gettin' busy, Part 2: Pacific update

Sep 3, 2018 19:08 Episode 42: The Tropics are gettin' busy, Part 1

Aug 23, 2018 21:29 Episode 41: Hawai'i is not paradise this weekend

Aug 15, 2018 11:26 Episode 40: Who is Jeff Tilley: The Cost of Integrity in Science

Jul 30, 2018 14:52 Episode 37: Carbon Emissions: Surprise, Surprise!

Jul 29, 2018 10:31 Episode 36: Fire Whirls: what are they?

Jul 28, 2018 10:28 Episode 35: It’s wildfire season , and not just in the US

Jul 17, 2018 11:07 Episode 34: Unpleasant things lead to new truths

Jul 14, 2018 17:33 Episode 33: Beryl: Back from the Dead

Jul 2, 2018 16:48 Episode 32: We're Having a Heatwave, and not just here in the US!

Jun 27, 2018 15:42 Episode 31: Volcanoes erupting everywhere...and not a drop to drink!

Jun 13, 2018 19:40 Episode 28: Ice is Nice---except when too much of it is melting!

Jun 11, 2018 17:21 Episode 27: The Power in Perserverance: The Lessons of Aeolus

Jun 9, 2018 11:13 Epispde 26: If it sounds too good to be true---be skeptical

Jun 2, 2018 20:41 Episode 25: Records and the stories behind them

May 31, 2018 19:59 Episode 24: End of May wrapup

May 31, 2018 19:41 Episode 24: End of May wrapup

May 29, 2018 17:46 Episode 23: Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico, Death Tolls and Media Sensationalism

May 28, 2018 14:27 Episode 22: Alberto and Memorial Day: A connection you probably haven't thought about.

Episode 21: The quagmire of air pollution policy and politics: no silver bullets

May 26, 2018 10:02 Episode 20: Why do pollutants get trapped?

May 12, 2018 19:02 Episode 19: Summer Air Pollution Season is Back! ☹️

May 4, 2018 10:26 Episode 18: Volcanoes, Dust Storms and Dogs...Dogs?? Oh My!

Apr 29, 2018 14:23 Episode 16: Where have all our tornadoes gone?

Apr 25, 2018 18:37 Episode 15: There's plastic in our ice!

Episode 14: 911? Help! I’m trapped by giant tumbleweeds!!

Apr 18, 2018 16:17 Episode 13: Big Storm Recap

Mar 31, 2018 14:57 :Episode 10: corkscrews, DNA, and tornadoes

Mar 21, 2018 19:47 Mommy, the calendar says March 21st. Is it Spring Yet?

Episode 6: Severe Weather Safety Tips