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Big Picture ScienceBare Bones (rebroadcast)You may not feel that your skeleton does very much. But without it you’d be a limp bag of protoplasm, unable to move. And while you may regard bones as rigid and inert, they are living tissue. Bones are also time capsules, preserving much of your personal history. Find out how evolutionary biologists, forensic anthropologists, and even radiation scientists read them.And why won’t your dog stop gnawing on that bone?Guests:
Brian Switek – Pen name of Riley Black, Author of “Skeleton Keys: the Secret Life of Bone.”
Ann Ross – Forensic anthropol...2022-01-3154 min
Big Picture ScienceBare BonesYou may not feel that your skeleton does very much. But without it you’d be a limp bag of protoplasm, unable to move. And while you may regard bones as rigid and inert, they are living tissue. Bones are also time capsules, preserving much of your personal history. Find out how evolutionary biologists, forensic anthropologists, and even radiation scientists read them.And why won’t your dog stop gnawing on that bone?Guests:
Brian Switek – Pen name of Riley Black, Author of “Skeleton Keys: the Secret Life of Bone.”
Ann Ross – Forensic anthropol...2020-11-3056 min
Reading GlassesEp 131 - Not Enough Tub Reading - 2019 Reader Challenge and Tres Dean!Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Tres Dean For Your Consideration by Tres Dean Books Mentioned - The Deep by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado This Is Water by David Foster Wallace Dri...2019-12-1950 min
Instant GeniusBrian Switek: How did bones evolve?Brian Switek, the pen name of science writer and fossil fanatic Riley Black. This year she released a book called The Secret Life of Bones: Their Origins, Evolution and Fate (£9.99, Duckworth), which as well as explaining how and why we evolved bones, explains the relationship us humans have with these sturdy struts of osseous tissue.In this week's episode of the Science Focus Podcast, she helpfully explains what a bone is and how they turn into fossils, as well as how they revealed Richard III’s diet, were historically used to justify scientific racism, and why Hollywood is...2019-12-0542 min
Listen to Top Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Biology & ChemistrySkeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone by Riley Black (brian Switek)Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343539 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone Author: Riley Black (brian Switek) Narrator: Will Damron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 56 minutes Release date: March 5, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Biology & Chemistry Publisher's Summary: “A provocative and entertaining magical mineral tour through the life and afterlife of bone.” —Wall Street Journal Our bones have many stories to tell, if you know how to listen. Bone is a marvel, an adaptable and resilient building material developed over more than four hundred million years of evolutionary history. It gives your b...2019-03-0510 min
Listen to Top Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Biology & ChemistrySkeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone by Riley Black (brian Switek)Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343539to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone
Author: Riley Black (brian Switek)
Narrator: Will Damron
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 56 minutes
Release date: March 5, 2019
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1
Genres: Biology & Chemistry
Publisher's Summary:
“A provocative and entertaining magical mineral tour through the life and afterlife of bone.” —Wall Street Journal Our bones have many stories to tell, if you know how to listen. Bone is a marvel, an adaptable and resilient building material developed over more than four hundred million years of evolutionary history. It gives your body i...2019-03-056h 56
Press Play On The Full Audiobook That Keeps Book-Lovers Hooked.Skeleton Keys by Riley Black (Brian Switek)Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/45145to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Skeleton Keys
Author: Riley Black (Brian Switek)
Narrator: Will Damron
Format: mp3
Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
Release date: 03-05-19
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 99 ratings
Genres: Anthropology
Publisher's Summary:
Author Brian Switek is a charming and enthusiastic osteological raconteur. In this natural and cultural history of bone, he explains where our skeletons came from, what they do inside us, and what others can learn about us when these wondrous assemblies of mineral and protein are all we've left behind.2019-03-056h 56
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur PodcastDracopelta - Episode 211Dinosaur of the day Dracopelta, an ankylosaur with sides covered in overlapping armor.We also interview Riley Black, a science writer who’s written for Smithsonian, National Geographic, Nature, Slate, and Jurassic World, to name a few. She has a blog, Laelaps, on Scientific American, and she’s written numerous books, including My Beloved Brontosaurus, Prehistoric Predators, and Written in Stone.In dinosaur news this week:A new dinosaur, and close relative to Carnotaurus, was named after the supervillain ThanosThe holotype jaw of Megalosaurus from the 1790s was chemically analyzed, they found Lead and Bari...2018-12-1254 min
Tumble Science Podcast for KidsThe Case of the Living Dinosaurs with Riley BlackDinosaurs never went extinct. They're living in our backyards. How did scientists discover that birds are secretly dinosaurs? Science writer Riley Black tells us how some suspicious fuzz on a farmer's fossil find cracked open the biggest case in dinosaur paleontology. Note, Riley Black is referred to in this episode as Brian Switek. Music in this episode by Podington Bear, Noveller, and Johnny the Ripper, courtesy of the Free Music Archive.
2015-09-0315 min