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Send us Fan Mail With the holidays approaching, millions of families are preparing to gather around the Thanksgiving table—and inevitably fall into the same political, social, and ideological debates. But why is it almost impossible to change a family member's mind over dinner? On this episode of the Nature and Science Podcast , host Donald Murphy sits down with behavioral scientist Dr. JonRo...

Send us Fan Mail Summary / Description What if modern scientific discovery hasn't pushed us away from God, but has actually brought us closer than we realize? Can the fine-tuning of natural law, the digital elegance of DNA, and the mathematical symmetry of the cosmos point toward an underlying Mind? In this special feature episode of the Nature and Science Podcast , we bridge the worlds of hi...

Send us Fan Mail About the Episode For more than fifty years, Dr. David Pickar has stood at the absolute forefront of psychiatric research and neuroscientific discovery. As the former Chief of the Experimental Therapeutics Branch at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and a long-standing member of the FDA’s Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee, Dr. Pickar has not only witnessed...

Send us Fan Mail “Pretty landscapes become spectacular when you know what you’re looking at. I’ve spent my career visiting volcanoes—first drawn by their natural beauty, and then compelled to understand the structure, processes, and time that shape them.” — Dr. Tamie J. Jovanelly Overview With over 1,350 active volcanoes worldwide and up to 70 eruptions occurring annually, understanding the geolog...

Send us Fan Mail Originally Published Under: Life Is A Story We Tell Ourselves 2023 **Cave Diving Journey and Techniques** CAVE DIVING JOURNEY AND TECHNIQUES Brian Starnes, a cave diver, shares his exciting journey from open water diving to the more challenging world of cave diving. Starnes became captivated by diving after exploring the island of Utilla in El Salvador, where he discovered the thr...

Send us Fan Mail What does a 46-million-year-old blood-engorged mosquito tell us about deep time? How do planetary forces inside giant magma chambers shape the future of human civilization? What are the latest discoveries in the bio medical sciences.  On this show, we go beyond surface summaries to explore extraordinary scientific discoveries, Earth history, and environmental stewardship. We sit d...

Send us Fan Mail   Originally Published Under: Life Is A Story We Tell Ourselves “When I first saw the fossil of a blood-engorged mosquito, it was one of the most interesting, amazing moments in my life—because I realized this was something that no one on the planet had ever seen before. I was the first human being to ever look upon a fossil of a blood-engorged mosquito.” — Dr. Dale Greenwalt We l...

Send us Fan Mail We like to believe that we navigate our lives as fully conscious, rational architects of our own destinies. But how much of the life you are living right now is a result of deliberate, conscious choice—and how much is dictated by unseen cognitive shortcuts, subtle societal defaults, and hidden behavioral biases? In this episode of Journey Through Nature and Science , host Donald M...

Send us Fan Mail "An archival 2023 interview with Anthropic co-founder Jared Kaplan discussing scaling laws, large language models, and the trajectory of artificial intelligence." "What is the universe? What is intelligence? What is the mind?" When theoretical physicist turned AI researcher Jared Kaplan shifted his focus to artificial intelligence, he wasn't just looking t...

Send us Fan Mail "An archival 2023 interview with Anthropic co-founder Jared Kaplan discussing scaling laws, large language models, and the trajectory of artificial intelligence." "What is the universe? What is intelligence? What is the mind?" When theoretical physicist turned AI researcher Jared Kaplan shifted his focus to artificial intelligence, he wasn't just looking t...

Send us Fan Mail Is The Earth Losing Its Balance and beginning to turn against us? Author Dominic Nessi explores that terrifying possibility in The Source , a gripping new science thriller that combines geophysics, political suspense and human survival in a story where Earth’s very stability begins to unravel. The first installment in a planned trilogy, The Source follows a team of brilliant women...

Send us Fan Mail Host and Executive Producer of the podcast will discuss his latest science fiction novel, The Progenitor Field.   The novel tells the story of the experiment to reunite the seventeen known fields of physics and prove that the universe is conscious.   The experiment fails and plunges the world back into  primordial DARKNESS.  Ethiopian twins, endowed from birth with an enhanced gen...

Send us Fan Mail Michael Williams joins us to discuss the proposed restoration of the golf courses in DC including Langston Golf Course and East Potomac.  We will explore the effects of the proposed restoration on future affordability and the restorations relation to the Act of 1897 and the history of public golf course development in the 20th century. In 2005, Mr. Williams launched his first radi...

Send us Fan Mail “Debbie Friedman adds a bouyant new element to history, introducing the strong and brave women who battled ocean waves and stinging sexism to become the first ocean lifeguards on the California coast. GUARDED combines tender memoir and heart-pounding rescue scenes. Friedman captures the salty grit of her fellow guards as they smash through boundaries and risk their lives.” —Elaine...

Send us Fan Mail Sustainable Farming Brings Healthy Food To Your Table is what this podcast is all about. Shawn and Lindsay and their three children work to provide you with healthy food through practicing permaculture and raising their farm animals in a humane way.  Their pigs are pastured raised meaning they are allowed to roam free and forage on the land.  They will tell the story of how they b...

Send us Fan Mail This is the story of how a young man fell in love with the beauty and mystery of the desert and translated that love into a career as ranger protecting that desert. Vic Maris began his career with California State Parks, working at Red Rock Canyon in 1974. He served throughout the State during his 30-year career working as a park ranger, supervising ranger, and superintendent. His...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to my third memoir about my unusual trajectory in the world of medicine. In my first memoir, “ Medicine and Miracles in the High Desert ,” I shared with readers my profoundly life-changing and eye-opening time on the Navajo Reservation as a young schoolteacher in the early 1970s. Many years later, I returned to the Navajo people to serve them as a medical doctor in Cuba, N...

Send us Fan Mail Hello everyone, I'm your host of Nature and Science Podcast, Don Murphy.  In the episode I am interviewed by our producer, Anna Murphy to discuss, how my two time failure in chemistry ultimately led to the founding of Ky'Orda. The mission of Ky'Orda is to eliminate the fear and failure in learning complex subjects for everyone by creating an education app with a per...

Send us Fan Mail Scientific research at Yellowstone and other National Park has yielded many useful discoveries benefiting humanity.  One of the most important was the discovery of the thermophilic bacterium, Thermus aquaticus.  Later an enzyme was purified by a team led by Dr. Henry Erlich, which led to the practical use of the PCR test in covid detection and many other uses. Science in parks is...

Send us Fan Mail This episode explores the mystery of a cellular organelle known as the vault and how unlocking the secrets of nano vaults could revolutionize Disease Cures.  Though its structure is well know and its protein composition well established, its function remains a mystery.  Joining us to explain this mystery is its discoverer, Dr. Leonard Rome. Dr. Leonard H. Rome is a cell biologist,...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is all about deep fakes.  It is getting more difficult everyday to tell what is real and what is fake, especially on social media and even on TV networks.  In this episode we will explore, the war thats raging between creation and detection of deep fakes.  So what exactly is a deep fake.  Joining us to answer that question is Dr. Ilke Demir.  She’s on the front lines...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode we speak with Dr. Zafra Lerman about how a love for science is fostering world peace. Zafra Lerman is an American chemist, educator, and humanitarian. She is the President of the Malta Conferences Foundation, which aims to promote peace by bringing together scientists from otherwise hostile countries to discuss science and foster international scientific and techni...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode we speak with Dr. Jesse Goodman about the spread of the H5N1 virus.  We will discuss what a virus is, how viruses migrate from animal populations to humans and assess the chances for a new pandemic. Jesse L. Goodman, M.D., M.P.H., directs Georgetown COMPASS, which focuses on science based policy and research to address unmet public health needs with an emphasis on...

Send us Fan Mail The next episode will explore how to avoid the devastating psychological impacts of disasters. A native of Long Island, New York, Dr. Katz attended Harvard College and went on to Columbia University where he obtained his medical degree, completed his psychiatric residency training and served as chief resident in psychiatry. He subsequently completed a fellowship in forensic psychi...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode we speak with Dr. Jonathan Zehr.  He and his colleagues discovered an example of evolution in action.  Dr. Zehr will share with us how such a revolutionary discovery was made. Jonathan Zehr is the distinguished professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Institute of Marine Sciences.  He and his colleagues have discovered the possibility of a complex cel...