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Sylvia Earle’s Life Aquatic
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Monday, February 9, 2009 at 11:00 am

Sylvia Earle has spent a lifetime exploring ocean depths. She tells us about her new brainchild, Google Ocean, and the bottom of the deep blue sea.

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Tuna on the Brink
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Thursday, August 21, 2008 at 11:00 am

A new take on the tuna — the world’s favorite fish — and why we’re in danger of loving it to death.

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Oceans in Peril
Monday, March 3, 2008 at 11:00 am

For a long, long time, the world’s oceans have seemed just too vast to be seriously affected by the hand of humankind. The endless rolling waves, the briny depths, the creatures beyond number — all these seemed to dwarf our footprints on the beach and ships at sea.
No more. A new global mapping of human [...]

 
Recent Shows
The Future of Aging
Thursday, November 5, 2009 image

A surge of new strategies to “manage” aging — from diets to testosterone. We’ll get the story.

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Climate, Congress & Copenhagen
Thursday, November 5, 2009 image

The Copenhagen climate conference is one month away. US climate action is going nowhere in Congress. We’ll look at the global implications of America’s domestic climate politics.

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On Point Blog
California, here we come! And we need your questions!

On Point is headed west!
No, no. Not for good. Only for one show. But it’s a very special show!  The NPR station in Thousand Oaks, California – KCLU – is celebrating their 15th anniversary. We’re lucky to have been on their airwaves for nearly seven years, and they invited us out west to host a live [...]

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For Love of Science – or Money?

A new study supports the idea that U.S. dominance in engineering and science is threatened — but not for lack of training and education. It has more to do with a lack of social and economic incentives.

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Matthew Hoh’s Resignation Letter

Matthew Hoh, a former Marine captain, became the first foreign service official to publicly resign in protest over the war in Afghanistan. The move has generated a lot of reaction. You can read Hoh’s resignation letter, posted by The Washington Post, which reported on it here.

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