Nature and Science Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Despite millions of dollars spent on well meaning efforts access to clean water is still a problem for millions. That has not deterred  Phillips from giving it another effort.  Phillips played 50 rounds of golf in 50 states in just 50 days. Why is clean water important? It makes people healthier by eliminating water borne diseases and promoting better sanitation. Diseases from dir...

Send us Fan Mail Cave diver, Brian Starnes joins us to talk about his experiences with the rewards and dangers of cave diving exploration in caves all over the world.  Brian was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. He completed his cave diver training in 2014 and is now on the way to becoming a Full Cave Instructor. What does it mean to be a "full cave instructor"? Join to find out. Bria...

Send us Fan Mail Despite millions of dollars spent on well meaning efforts access to clean water is still a problem for millions. That has not deterred 64 year old Clay Phillips from giving another effort. Philips plans to play 50 rounds of golf in 50 states in just 50 days. Why is clean water important? It makes people healthier by eliminating water borne diseases and promoting better sanitation....

Send us Fan Mail Shades of Grey plays music for the ages and for all ages. A group of retired expats living in the small hamlet of Cotacachi, Ecuador, high in the Andes Mountains, formed the band out of a life long love for music and, get this, a love for each other. The four band members met six years ago. Two of its members, husband and wife, Bobby and Becca Vines, were in the audience when they...

Send us Fan Mail The great outdoors is what makes America great and Our guest, Derrick Crandall, who served as President and CEO of the American Recreation Coalition from 1981 to 2019 has proven that . He was also  the executive vice president of The Recreation Roundtable. As Counselor to the National Park Hospitality Association.  Mr. Crandall directs that organization’s staff efforts. He is Chai...

Send us Fan Mail The Mysteries of Easter Island continue to boggle the mind.  The islanders, however, prefer to call it by its Polynesian name, Rapa Nui or Te Pito o Te Tahiti.  The mystery is rooted in the iconic stone statues called moai.  People continue to wonder how the statues were made and who made them. Even though archeologists have answered some questions, mysteries still remain.  For ex...

Send us Fan Mail Has Your Personal Life Has Been Compromised By Cyber Criminals? Is it too late to secure your personal data? And what about state sponsored cyber warfare? Has the threat of a nuclear holocaust been replaced by the threat of destruction of our way of life by cyber warfare. Cyber security expert, Dom Nessi, will attempt to answer these questions as we explore the world of cyber secu...

Send us Fan Mail With all of the promise of a covid 19 vaccine it appears we need to be saved from ourselves, to make Covid19 vaccines effective. Doctor Y Bruce Lee is a writer, journalist, professor, systems modeler, computational and digital health expert, and entrepreneur. He will attempt to to explain why many health care workers refuse to get vaccinated and why there seems to be disagreements...

Send us Fan Mail In many public high schools all across America police are present on campus. This has led many criminal justice reform advocates to ask, do police belong on public high school campuses? Many also believe that police, often called resource officers, on high school campuses has led to the school to prison pipeline. Why? Because minor offenses on high school campuses sometimes lead t...

Send us Fan Mail Almost a decade ago the Higgs Boson, once referred to as the God Particle, was discovered at CERN . In this podcast we ask one of the leading researchers at CERN, Dr. Aaron Dominguez, How do the miracles of Jesus compare to scientific discoveries? We pose this question to Dr. Dominguez because as a professor at The Catholic University of America he believes science and religion sh...

Send us Fan Mail Is GPT-3 Artificial Intelligence's new mind? Dr. Jared Kaplan is a theoretical physicist who has been recently working on Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 ( GPT-3 ), which is an autoregressive language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text. We all use a limited version when we ask google a question or when google auto corrects our email. However, this t...

Send us Fan Mail Will a vaccination give you your life back?  Doctor Y Bruce Lee is a writer, journalist, professor, systems modeler, computational and digital health expert, and entrepreneur.  He will attempt to answer this question and more. He has over two decades of experience developing mathematical and computational models.  The models assist a wide range of decision makers in health and pub...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode we will have a conversation about Golf, social justice and race, and their strained relationship over the years. In this week's podcast we are joined by Michael Williams. Michael is a golf journalist.  Michael has interviewed many of the legends of golf including Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Gary Player and many others. During last year's US Op...

Send us Fan Mail National Parks Traveler founder and editor-in-chief, Kurt Repanshek will discuss the destructive behavior in national parks caused by the Covid19 virus and other topics about our National Parks. Kurt is the founder and editor-in-chief of National Parks Traveler , the No. 1-ranked, editorially independent nonprofit media organization that provides daily news, feature, and commentar...

Send us Fan Mail With the sounds of her native Brooklyn, New York in the background Accessibility advocate Janice Lintz tells her story of how she has used eternal vigilance to make sure the hard of hearing has access to information that everyone else has.  She is a passionate and accomplished consultant/advocate across the hearing advocacy and related political spectrum. She effects change and im...

Send us Fan Mail Conservation Biologist Jim Tolisano has worked on nature conservation projects in more than 50 countries, ranging widely and wildly through such experiences as Grizzly Bear conservation work in Colorado, to forest conservation work with remote communities in Papua New Guinea, chimpanzee conservation work with Jane Goodall’s Institute in West Africa, nature-based business developme...

Send us Fan Mail Latino Outdoors' José González is an experienced educator in formal and informal education settings with an array of associated interests in the arts, education, conservation, and the environment. He has broad experience as a K-12 public education teacher, environmental education advisor, outdoor education instructor and coordinator, and university adjunct faculty. He receive...

Send us Fan Mail National Parks Advocate Audrey Peterman is President and Co-founder of Earthwise Productions, Inc., and in 2014 co-launched the Diverse Environmental Leaders Speakers Bureau. Earthwise Productions focuses on connecting the public lands system and the American public.  Audrey will share how her life was transformed by a mystical experience at Acadia National Park.   She talks about...

Send us Fan Mail Christina Marz shares her experience treating pandemic anxiety with horse guided empowerment.  Christina is a systemic family counselor, certified trauma specialist and the founder of Horse Guided Empowerment , a method for holistic therapy with a herd of horses. She teaches the method all over the world and has certified practitioners in Europe, Latin America and the Middle East....

Send us Fan Mail Paul Rogers, award winning environmental journalist, will join us and share stories about his experiences as an environmental journalist and science writer. Paul writes about energy, water policy, environmental justice, parks and other environmental issues. He was a member of the Mercury News Pulitzer Prize winning team that covered the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1990. His most rec...

Send us Fan Mail Yosemite Ranger, Shelton Johnson, shares his stories as a Buffalo Soldier re-enactor.  In addition, Shelton will talk about his experience hosting Oprah Winfrey and a group of her friends on their first camping experience at Yosemite.  Shelton's experience as a four year old standing in the Bavarian Alps planted the seed leading to him becoming a ranger.   He talks about his...

Send us Fan Mail Our new trailer highlights up coming podcasts.  We interview Yosemite Ranger and Buffalo Soldier Re-enactor, Shelton Johnson.  Shelton was featured on the Ken Burns documentary on National Parks.  Next up will be award winning environmental journalist, Paul Rogers.  Later in August former National Park Service director Jon Jarvis and his daughter will join us to tell stories about...

Send us Fan Mail Host Don Murphy and his co-host Anna Murphy explore stories about policing and American racism. They also tackle the confederate flag problem.   Joining Don on the podcast are former California State Park Ranger Peace Officers, Steve Treanor and Rich Rojas.  Steve and Rich share their stories as police officers highlighting the differences between police officers as guardians vers...

Send us Fan Mail On this Father's Day remembrance, host Don Murphy and his co-host daughter, Anna reminisce and share stories about their father daughter adventures.  From the time she was a seven years old Anna helped her father with constructions projects and the two of them often went shopping together.  Anna even invited her father to help shop for her prom dress, which began a life long...

Send us Fan Mail Alphonzo, known to his friends as Zo,  will share stories with us about directing giant entertainment personalties like Oprah Winfrey; and a life changing encounter with famed photographer and director, Gordon Parks.  Zo tells some personal anecdotal stories about Oprah and how a movie based on an Ian Fleming novel, no not James Bond, but Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, influenced his yo...