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Third Pod from the Sun — 189 episodes

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Tales from the (manus)crypt: This is the end

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Tales from the (manus)crypt: The sound of screams

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Tales from the (manus)crypt: Zombie-making fungi

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Tales from the (manus)crypt: Volcanic video games

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Tales from the (manus)crypt: Mind-controlling mushrooms

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Tales from the (manus)crypt: Evolved bloodsuckers

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Tales from the (manus)crypt

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Invisible forces: Weathering the (academic space) storm

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Invisible forces: Gravity of the (Venus) situation

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Invisible forces: Through the cloud of atmospheric aerosols

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Invisible forces: Fielding Earth's magnetic mysteries

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Invisible forces: Sharpening our cosmic vision

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Invisible forces

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Fieldwork rocks: Icy balloons & (natural) gaseous fumes

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Fieldwork rocks: Can it be accessible for all?

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Fieldwork rocks: Tree rings of the Civil War

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Fieldwork rocks: Marooned on purpose

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Fieldwork rocks: Head in the (funnel) clouds

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Fieldwork rocks: From sea to quaking sea

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Fieldwork rocks: Picturing science

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Fieldwork rocks

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Solving for climate: Understanding the "wild" in wildfire

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Solving for Climate: The silent killer in your urban backyard

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Solving for climate: Earth’s next top (climate) model

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Solving for climate: (Health and) safety in (climate) numbers

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Solving for climate: Do go chasing hurricanes

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Solving for climate: Coasts in the machine

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Solving for climate

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One giant leap: For first-generational beginnings & talking rockets!

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One giant leap: For beating the odds and troubleshooting telescopes

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One giant leap: For opening up the sciences

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One giant leap: For James Webb and scientists on the silver screen

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One giant leap: For space librarians & accessible data

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One giant leap: For meteorology & climate communication

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One small step...for Third Pod?

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Your favorites: Not your science fair volcano

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Your favorites: A Martian on Earth

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Your favorites: Dinosaurs, a big rock, and…climate change?

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Your favorites: The ice ships of Project Habbakuk

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Spaceship Earth: Overseeing space...& Earth

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Spaceship Earth: The (visual) beauty of science

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Spaceship Earth: Powering humans in space

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Spaceship Earth: Discovering water on Earth from space

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Spaceship Earth: A love of space through a son's telescope

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Spaceship Earth: Using satellites to feed the world

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Spaceship Earth

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Distillations: Mapping the seafloor with computer games

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Distillations: Quilting science & changing climates

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Distillations: Bringing equity to community science in Chicago (& beyond)

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Distillations: Clean water in the Navajo Nation

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Distillations: Sharing science for the public good

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Fire: Bringing fire back to the land

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Fire: Lighting the skies with fireflies

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Fire: Does a planet need life for fire to burn?

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Fire: Mixing (volcanic) fire and water

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Fire: Deep space burn

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Fire: Forests under (mega) fire in the Pacific northwest

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Halloween special: Nessie & the kraken

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Halloween special: Sasquatches & mermaids

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A podcast of fire and ice

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Storied Careers: Gaining a footing in landslide science

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Storied Careers: Auroras, deadly radiation, and Earth’s long-term future

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Storied Careers: Ocean sensors and dog scenters

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Storied careers: Scouring seas from the skies

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Storied careers: The unexpected path to Ethiopian rifts

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Storied careers: What you didn’t learn in (geo)science class

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The (not so) secret histories of scientists

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Ice: Ancient knowledge for modern tech

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Ice: Stolen moon ice

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Ice: Shells of an ice-less past

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Ice: Birds foretelling climate change

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Ice: Glacier tourism on thin ice

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Ice: The ice ships of Project Habbakuk

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A podcast of ice and fire

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Extinctions: Space station splashdown

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Extinctions: Oddballs of the Triassic

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Extinctions: Showdown of the giant space rocks

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Extinctions: Not your science fair volcano

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Extinctions: The (Maybe) Cambrian (Not Really) Explosion

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Extinctions: Dinosaurs, a big rock, and…climate change?

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Extinctions: Dinosaurs, volcanoes, the space station, oh my!

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True story: Migrating robins & thieving capuchins

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True story: A prop plane, a bucket, and a trip to Antarctica

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True story: Using TikTok for (shark) science good

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True story: A Martian on Earth

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True story: Lassoing lizards (for science)

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True story: Slapped by a (misinformation) shark

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True (science) stories you’ve never heard before

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Staff Picks: Chasing Narwhals

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Staff Picks: Toxic City Under the Ice

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Staff Picks: Mythical monsters & their real-life inspirations (Part 2)

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Staff Picks: Mythical monsters & their real-life inspirations (Part 1)

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Third Pod Presents: Stereo Chemistry - Searching for Mars’s missing water

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Staff Picks: The Johnstown Flood

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Staff Picks: Parking Lot Lava

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Special podcast episodes explore allyship and DEI at AGU - Part 2 of 2

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Special podcast episodes explore allyship and DEI at AGU - Part 1 of 2

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Standing Up for Science During an Epidemic

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Scientists Mine 16th Century Ship Logs for Geophysical Research

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Special Release: Allyship

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What's It Like Pretending to Live on Mars?

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What Tree Rings Can Tell Us About the U.S. Civil War

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A Modern Way to Look for Aliens

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Special Release: The Beast of the Arctic

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Special Release: It's astrobiology, my dear WATSON

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Special Release: Can Volcano Forecasting Make Visiting Whakaari Safe Again?

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Special Release: The Canadian Wildfire Chronicles

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From Athlete to Astronaut

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Songs of the Arches (with Helicopters)

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Special Release: Mythical Monsters and their Real-life Inspirations (Part 2)

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Special Release: Mythical Monsters and their Real-life Inspirations (Part 1)

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Final Frontier? The Evolution of Planetary Science Missions

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The Unusual Relationship Between Climate and Pandemics

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Putting Brains in Rock Machines

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Escape from Thera

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Instruments of Unusual Size

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Special Release: Climate change, tree rings, and string theory

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Mt. St. Helens: 40 Years Later

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Third Pod Live: The Dirty Links between Soil and Climate

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Third Pod Presents: Sci & Tell - James Garvin on Earth Day at 50

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Third Pod Presents: Sci & Tell - Earth Day at 50, Stories from NASA

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Earthrise

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Paradise Lost

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Third Pod Presents: Sci & Tell - Kim Cobb, Standing Up for Women in Science

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Et tu Etna?

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Third Pod Presents: Sci & Tell – Pulwarty & Hayes, Connecting Science & Society

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Exhuming a Buried Piece of American History

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Discovering Europe’s History Through its Timbers

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Third Pod Presents: Sci & Tell - Bärbel Hönisch, “Queen of Boron”

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Antarctica's Oldest Ice

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Third Pod Presents: Sci & Tell - Lori Glaze on Nudging Asteroids

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The Johnstown Flood: A Most Avoidable Tragedy

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Third Pod Live: O-klahoma, where there's fracking, oil, faults, and more!

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A Walk in the (Gemstone) Vault with Jeff Post - Part 2

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(Hope) Diamonds are Forever - Part 1

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Special Release: Tribes, Trails, and Tailings

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A Nuclear Legacy Buried in Ice

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Third Pod Presents: Sci & Tell - Rafael Loureiro on Space Plants

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Bonus Clip: Meteorite Hunting in Antarctica

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Between a Varnished Rock and a Hard Place

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Third Pod Presents: Sci & Tell - Jim Green on Space Exploration

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Plate Tectonics: The Theory that Changed Earth Science

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Special Release: Managing Emergencies in a Water World

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Diamond Anvils and the Heart of Jupiter

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Volcano Disaster Prepping

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Bonus Clip: Field Mishaps in Remote Chile

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X-rays of the Earth's Gooey Center

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The Sun and the Exploding Sea

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Special Release: Deviations from the Norm

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Ballooning on Venus

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Guardian of the Moon Rocks

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Eavesdropping on the Ocean

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Third Pod Live: Anthony Rapp of "Star Trek: Discovery"

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Night of the Killer Smog

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Riders on the Storm

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A Tale of Two Journeys

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Bonus Clip: Memories of the North

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Science Turns to Search and Rescue

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When the Sahara was Green

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Gunslingers of the Sea

161

Special Release: Hawaii’s Volcanoes, Water, and…Vog?

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Centennial episode 4: Toxic City Under the Ice

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Polluted Water Everywhere, and Not a Drop to Drink

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Third Pod LIve: James Balog, Climate Activist

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Third Pod Live: James Balog, Adventurer

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Third Pod Live: James Balog, Photographer

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Rifts Beneath the Ocean Floor

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Bonus Clip: Supporting Women in Science

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Footprints from an Ancient World

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Uncovering the Ozone Hole

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Waiting for Poop

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Bonus Clip: The Smell of Water

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How the Cold War advanced atmospheric science

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The Oldest Water on Earth

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Deep Sea Drilling with Dawn

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Tracking Adorable Chainsaws

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Bonus Clip: The Sounds of the Sun

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Inside the Boiling Center of the Solar System

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Bonus Clip: Scientists of the Corn

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The Dark Sound of the Moon

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From Landfills to Martian Hills

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Bonus Clip: Newspaper is the New Duct Tape

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The Secret Lives of Tide Gauge Operators

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Bonus Clip: Wildlife of Svalbard

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Journey to the Center of the Ice

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Alvin and the Ocean Deep

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Chasing Narwhals, Unicorns of the Sea

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Science at a Glacier’s Edge

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Parking Lot Lava