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Up To Date | Hummingbird Divebombs; Collapsing Ice Sheets
FromInquiring Minds
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Length:
12 minutes
Released:
Dec 22, 2018
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Podcast episode
Description
This week: A study looking into how male hummingbirds divebomb fast enough that their tail feathers make high-pitched squeaks; and new evidence explaining why sea levels were 6-9 meters higher about 150,000 years ago (even though the climate was just about as warm as it is today), and why that’s especially relevant now.
Released:
Dec 22, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
14 Carolyn Porco - Why Seeing Earth From Space Matters: On Valentine's Day 1990, from more than four billion miles away, the Voyager 1 spacecraft snapped our photo. From that distance, there wasn't much to see; the resulting shot simply showed several light beams with a tiny speck in one of them. Earth. But t by Inquiring Minds