The Natural Curiosity Project

I photograph, record, and write about the natural world. I see, I listen, I write. I fundamentally believe that curiosity can save the world—so I publish stories to make people curious. Ultimately, curiosity leads to discovery, discovery leads to knowledge, knowledge leads to insight, and insight leads to understanding. Please enjoy!

The Natural Curiosity Project is a education podcast hosted by Dr. Steven Shepard, with 362 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Dr. Steven Shepard hosts The Natural Curiosity Project, a education show with 362 episodes published.

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  Episode 328-Ages of the Anthropocene

  Jul 16, 202626 min

  A lot has been written about the ages of human existence, beginning with the Stone and Iron and Bronze Ages, then going all the way through to the Information Age. But I believe that there are actually more identifiable periods that aren’t talked about—13 of them in fact. In this episode, I’m going to talk about them and why I think they’re important. I’m also going to discuss how they relate to one another and what their contributions and liabilities have been.

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  Episode 327-Talk Dirty to Me, Part 1

  Jul 10, 202612 min

  It’s all around us. It lies beneath our feet, it gets embedded in our clothing and skin, and the air is filled with it. It makes us sneeze. Great clouds of the stuff are lifted from the African Sahara by harmattans and sciroccos and carried high into the atmosphere, where great westward-flowing aerial rivers carry it across the Atlantic to South America, where it falls like rain and feeds the equatorial rainforest. Weird, right? I’m talking, of course, about soil, or as most of us call it, dirt. This is the first part of a two-part series on soil and what lives in it. Enjoy.

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  Episode 326-Thoughts on Log From the Sea of Cortez

  Jul 8, 202611 min

  In 1940, author John Steinbeck and his good friend and marine biologist Ed Ricketts set off on a six-week collecting expedition in the Sea of Cortez. The book that resulted from that journey isn't well known, but it is wonderful. Here I offer a few thoughts about the book and their journey.

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  Episode 325-If You Want Something Different

  Jul 3, 202611 min

  Thoughts on America’s future on her 250th birthday.

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  Episode 324-Jennifer Comeau and Milo the Green Mussel

  Jun 27, 202616 min

  You've heard me refer more than once to my friend Liz McKenzie, the Alaska-based filmmaker who made the documentary, "The Singing Planet." Well, a few months ago, Liz was visiting family in northern Florida, and while she was there, we had a chat over Zoom about a handful or projects we're working on together. But while we were talking, she interrupted herself and told me that she wanted to introduce me to someone whom she had met while she was in Florida. "A very interesting person," she told me, "who does the kind of work that you love." Well, that's hard to ignore. So, Liz made an email introduction, and the next thing you know, I was on another Zoom call, this time with Jennifer. And boy, was Liz right. What started with a personal tragedy turned into something very, very special.

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