Ask Sam: Trichomes, Bug hair, Bug Tumors, & Mollusk Shells

Outside/In

NHPR

Society & Culture, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Nature, Science

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Ask Sam: that special time when scientists worldwide cringe as Sam & the team speculate wildly on a diverse range of topics before picking up the phone to call in the real experts. This time, we've got another hirsute mystery: Are insect and plant hairs also made from the magical (seeming) protein called keratin? Also, do bugs get cancer? And which came first: the chachalaca (not a typo) or the turkey? The Ask Sam Hotline (1-844-GO-OTTER) is always open, so do your best to stump the gang and send us down another figurative rabbit-hole! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Don't have an extra thing. They've got these, but then there's something back here.
0:04.8	Yeah, the up top guy.
0:06.0	Oh, the do, the do claw.
0:09.0	The do claw?
0:10.0	Yeah, the do claw is like the bonus, the bonus claw.
0:14.3	And dogs, they call them that.
0:15.9	Yeah.
0:16.8	What's the deal with the do-claw?
0:19.0	Hey, listeners, thanks for sticking in with us
0:22.1	through a month of heavy somber theme music.
0:25.7	Now we're going to have a lot more fun.
0:28.1	Why do geese make feasts?
0:29.8	Does the bubble bees sneeze?
0:30.7	Can a person eat trees in In a polar bear freezes.
0:32.5	Is a kidney stone kind of like a pearl and a clam?
0:34.6	I don't know.
0:35.6	Ask Sam.
0:37.1	This is Outside In, a show about the natural world and how we use it.
0:40.3	I'm Sam Evans Brown, and I'm here in studio with Hannah McCarthy.
0:43.8	Hi Sam and Taylor Quimmy.
0:45.4	Well, hello there.
0:46.4	Hannah McCarthy who is now host of her own podcast.
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