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Third Pod from the Sun — 189 episodes
Tales from the (manus)crypt: This is the end
Tales from the (manus)crypt: The sound of screams
Tales from the (manus)crypt: Zombie-making fungi
Tales from the (manus)crypt: Volcanic video games
Tales from the (manus)crypt: Mind-controlling mushrooms
Tales from the (manus)crypt: Evolved bloodsuckers
Tales from the (manus)crypt
Invisible forces: Weathering the (academic space) storm
Invisible forces: Gravity of the (Venus) situation
Invisible forces: Through the cloud of atmospheric aerosols
Invisible forces: Fielding Earth's magnetic mysteries
Invisible forces: Sharpening our cosmic vision
Invisible forces
Fieldwork rocks: Icy balloons & (natural) gaseous fumes
Fieldwork rocks: Can it be accessible for all?
Fieldwork rocks: Tree rings of the Civil War
Fieldwork rocks: Marooned on purpose
Fieldwork rocks: Head in the (funnel) clouds
Fieldwork rocks: From sea to quaking sea
Fieldwork rocks: Picturing science
Fieldwork rocks
Solving for climate: Understanding the "wild" in wildfire
Solving for Climate: The silent killer in your urban backyard
Solving for climate: Earth’s next top (climate) model
Solving for climate: (Health and) safety in (climate) numbers
Solving for climate: Do go chasing hurricanes
Solving for climate: Coasts in the machine
Solving for climate
One giant leap: For first-generational beginnings & talking rockets!
One giant leap: For beating the odds and troubleshooting telescopes
One giant leap: For opening up the sciences
One giant leap: For James Webb and scientists on the silver screen
One giant leap: For space librarians & accessible data
One giant leap: For meteorology & climate communication
One small step...for Third Pod?
Your favorites: Not your science fair volcano
Your favorites: A Martian on Earth
Your favorites: Dinosaurs, a big rock, and…climate change?
Your favorites: The ice ships of Project Habbakuk
Spaceship Earth: Overseeing space...& Earth
Spaceship Earth: The (visual) beauty of science
Spaceship Earth: Powering humans in space
Spaceship Earth: Discovering water on Earth from space
Spaceship Earth: A love of space through a son's telescope
Spaceship Earth: Using satellites to feed the world
Spaceship Earth
Distillations: Mapping the seafloor with computer games
Distillations: Quilting science & changing climates
Distillations: Bringing equity to community science in Chicago (& beyond)
Distillations: Clean water in the Navajo Nation
Distillations: Sharing science for the public good
Fire: Bringing fire back to the land
Fire: Lighting the skies with fireflies
Fire: Does a planet need life for fire to burn?
Fire: Mixing (volcanic) fire and water
Fire: Deep space burn
Fire: Forests under (mega) fire in the Pacific northwest
Halloween special: Nessie & the kraken
Halloween special: Sasquatches & mermaids
A podcast of fire and ice
Storied Careers: Gaining a footing in landslide science
Storied Careers: Auroras, deadly radiation, and Earth’s long-term future
Storied Careers: Ocean sensors and dog scenters
Storied careers: Scouring seas from the skies
Storied careers: The unexpected path to Ethiopian rifts
Storied careers: What you didn’t learn in (geo)science class
The (not so) secret histories of scientists
Ice: Ancient knowledge for modern tech
Ice: Stolen moon ice
Ice: Shells of an ice-less past
Ice: Birds foretelling climate change
Ice: Glacier tourism on thin ice
Ice: The ice ships of Project Habbakuk
A podcast of ice and fire
Extinctions: Space station splashdown
Extinctions: Oddballs of the Triassic
Extinctions: Showdown of the giant space rocks
Extinctions: Not your science fair volcano
Extinctions: The (Maybe) Cambrian (Not Really) Explosion
Extinctions: Dinosaurs, a big rock, and…climate change?
Extinctions: Dinosaurs, volcanoes, the space station, oh my!
True story: Migrating robins & thieving capuchins
True story: A prop plane, a bucket, and a trip to Antarctica
True story: Using TikTok for (shark) science good
True story: A Martian on Earth
True story: Lassoing lizards (for science)
True story: Slapped by a (misinformation) shark
True (science) stories you’ve never heard before
Staff Picks: Chasing Narwhals
Staff Picks: Toxic City Under the Ice
Staff Picks: Mythical monsters & their real-life inspirations (Part 2)
Staff Picks: Mythical monsters & their real-life inspirations (Part 1)
Third Pod Presents: Stereo Chemistry - Searching for Mars’s missing water
Staff Picks: The Johnstown Flood
Staff Picks: Parking Lot Lava
Special podcast episodes explore allyship and DEI at AGU - Part 2 of 2
Special podcast episodes explore allyship and DEI at AGU - Part 1 of 2
Standing Up for Science During an Epidemic
Scientists Mine 16th Century Ship Logs for Geophysical Research
Special Release: Allyship
What's It Like Pretending to Live on Mars?
What Tree Rings Can Tell Us About the U.S. Civil War
A Modern Way to Look for Aliens
Special Release: The Beast of the Arctic
Special Release: It's astrobiology, my dear WATSON
Special Release: Can Volcano Forecasting Make Visiting Whakaari Safe Again?
Special Release: The Canadian Wildfire Chronicles
From Athlete to Astronaut
Songs of the Arches (with Helicopters)
Special Release: Mythical Monsters and their Real-life Inspirations (Part 2)
Special Release: Mythical Monsters and their Real-life Inspirations (Part 1)
Final Frontier? The Evolution of Planetary Science Missions
The Unusual Relationship Between Climate and Pandemics
Putting Brains in Rock Machines
Escape from Thera
Instruments of Unusual Size
Special Release: Climate change, tree rings, and string theory
Mt. St. Helens: 40 Years Later
Third Pod Live: The Dirty Links between Soil and Climate
Third Pod Presents: Sci & Tell - James Garvin on Earth Day at 50
Third Pod Presents: Sci & Tell - Earth Day at 50, Stories from NASA
Earthrise
Paradise Lost
Third Pod Presents: Sci & Tell - Kim Cobb, Standing Up for Women in Science
Et tu Etna?
Third Pod Presents: Sci & Tell – Pulwarty & Hayes, Connecting Science & Society
Exhuming a Buried Piece of American History
Discovering Europe’s History Through its Timbers
Third Pod Presents: Sci & Tell - Bärbel Hönisch, “Queen of Boron”
Antarctica's Oldest Ice
Third Pod Presents: Sci & Tell - Lori Glaze on Nudging Asteroids
The Johnstown Flood: A Most Avoidable Tragedy
Third Pod Live: O-klahoma, where there's fracking, oil, faults, and more!
A Walk in the (Gemstone) Vault with Jeff Post - Part 2
(Hope) Diamonds are Forever - Part 1
Special Release: Tribes, Trails, and Tailings
A Nuclear Legacy Buried in Ice
Third Pod Presents: Sci & Tell - Rafael Loureiro on Space Plants
Bonus Clip: Meteorite Hunting in Antarctica
Between a Varnished Rock and a Hard Place
Third Pod Presents: Sci & Tell - Jim Green on Space Exploration
Plate Tectonics: The Theory that Changed Earth Science
Special Release: Managing Emergencies in a Water World
Diamond Anvils and the Heart of Jupiter
Volcano Disaster Prepping
Bonus Clip: Field Mishaps in Remote Chile
X-rays of the Earth's Gooey Center
The Sun and the Exploding Sea
Special Release: Deviations from the Norm
Ballooning on Venus
Guardian of the Moon Rocks
Eavesdropping on the Ocean
Third Pod Live: Anthony Rapp of "Star Trek: Discovery"
Night of the Killer Smog
Riders on the Storm
A Tale of Two Journeys
Bonus Clip: Memories of the North
Science Turns to Search and Rescue
When the Sahara was Green
Gunslingers of the Sea
Special Release: Hawaii’s Volcanoes, Water, and…Vog?
Centennial episode 4: Toxic City Under the Ice
Polluted Water Everywhere, and Not a Drop to Drink
Third Pod LIve: James Balog, Climate Activist
Third Pod Live: James Balog, Adventurer
Third Pod Live: James Balog, Photographer
Rifts Beneath the Ocean Floor
Bonus Clip: Supporting Women in Science
Footprints from an Ancient World
Uncovering the Ozone Hole
Waiting for Poop
Bonus Clip: The Smell of Water
How the Cold War advanced atmospheric science
The Oldest Water on Earth
Deep Sea Drilling with Dawn
Tracking Adorable Chainsaws
Bonus Clip: The Sounds of the Sun
Inside the Boiling Center of the Solar System
Bonus Clip: Scientists of the Corn
The Dark Sound of the Moon
From Landfills to Martian Hills
Bonus Clip: Newspaper is the New Duct Tape
The Secret Lives of Tide Gauge Operators
Bonus Clip: Wildlife of Svalbard
Journey to the Center of the Ice
Alvin and the Ocean Deep
Chasing Narwhals, Unicorns of the Sea
Science at a Glacier’s Edge
Parking Lot Lava