Ever poked at roadkill? Watched videos of whales exploding? Drooled over a curio cabinet full of claws & bones? Peered into a jar with a pickled toad? Then this one is for you. Whether you’ve heard it before or are new to this classic ep, you’re sure to be delighted by this Ologist’s storytelling. Arguably the world's most famous comparative anatomist (and pretty-much-also functional morphologist) Dr. Joy Reidenberg pulls up a chair at Mt. Sinai Hospital to talk about her fascinating backstory, exploding whales, taxidermied chipmunks, dead toadfish, animal's weird anatomy and its function and how it might help human health. She is absolutely amazing and you will become obsessed with her work.
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Editing by Mercedes Maitland of Maitland Audio Productions and Steven Ray Morris
Managing Director: Susan Hale
Scheduling producer: Noel Dilworth
Transcripts by Aveline Malek and The Wordary
Website by Kelly R. Dwyer
Theme song by Nick Thorburn
Foraging Ecology (EATING WILD PLANTS) Encore with @BlackForager, Alexis Nikole Nelson
Columbidology (PIGEONS? YES) Part 2 with Rosemary Mosco
Columbidology (PIGEONS? YES) Part 1 with Rosemary Mosco
Smologies #42: TREES with J. Casey Clapp
Field Trip: I Chased the 2024 Eclipse with Umbraphiles
Heliology (THE SUN/ECLIPSES) with India Jackson and Michael Kirk
Smologies #41: PELICANS with Juita Martinez
Disgustology (REPULSION TO GROSS STUFF) with Paul Rozin
Field Trip: Alie’s Mystery Surgery!
Smologies #40: HAIR with Valerie Horsley
Oikology (DECLUTTERING) Encore with Jamie & Filip Hord + Joe Ferrari
Smologies #39: ANCIENT ROME with Darius Arya
Black Hole Theory Cosmology (WHAT ARE BLACK HOLES?!) Part 2 with Ronald Gamble, Jr.
Black Hole Theory Cosmology (WHAT ARE BLACK HOLES?!) Part 1 with Ronald Gamble, Jr.
Smologies #38: CARNIVORES with Rae Wynn-Grant
Hydrochoerology (CAPYBARAS) with Elizabeth Congdon
Theoretical & Creative Ecology (SCIENCE & ECOPOETRY) with Madhur Anand
Smologies #37: PROTEINS + DNA with Raven “The Science Maven” Baxter
Evolutionary Anthropology (METABOLISM) with Herman Pontzer
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