In the book Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet, journalist Ben Goldfarb details how roads have transformed our world. On this week’s show, Ben shares insights from his reporting on the science of studying how roads interact with animals and ecosystems. He recounts tales of tallying roadkill, scooping up stranded frogs, and visiting the roadkill capital of the world. Along with discussing the problems wrought by roads, Ben shares how efforts to help animals, such as wildlife crossings, have fared. And we talk about what roads reveal about people and our societies.
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#425 Cooperative Microbes
#424 Biohacking (Rebroadcast)
#423 Built On Bones
#422 Is Our Children Learning
#421 Hopeful Monsters
#420 Medical Marijuana (Rebroadcast)
#419 The Death and Life of the Single-Family House
#418 Animal Research Revisited
#417 Lab-Cultured Beef
#416 Bodies Everywhere (Rebroadcast)
#415 Weapons of Math Destruction
#414 Perpetual Now
#413 Concrete
#412 PTSD
#411 Coal Wars (Rebroadcast)
#410 The Big Sleep
#409 Trump War On Science
#408 The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar
#407 Voices Within
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