Ghosts in the machine

Outside/In

NHPR

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

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Perhaps you’re familiar with our Outside/Inbox hotline, 1-844-GO-OTTER. Anyone can leave us a voicemail sharing questions about the natural world, and we periodically answer them on the show. A few weeks ago, it came to our attention that we hadn't gotten a new voicemail in some time. Turns out our hotline has been bugging out for at least six months, and we have a lot of catching up to do. So, we present: Outside/Inbox, the lost voicemails edition. Featuring Stephanie Spera, with contributions from Ariel, Joe, Carolyn, Maverick, Jarrett, Eben, a rooster, and a closet (?) full of snakes. SUPPORT Outside/In is made possible with listener support. Click here to become a sustaining member. Subscribe to our newsletter for occasional emails about new show swag, call-outs for listener submissions, and other announcements. Follow Outside/In on Instagram or Twitter, or join our private discussion group on Facebook. LINKS This is the study Marina mentioned with a comparative life cycle assessment of hand dryers vs. paper towel dispensers. If you want to learn more about chronic wasting disease, Nate recommends listening to Bent Out of Shape, a three-part series from KUNC. For a quick read, here’s a fact sheet from the CDC. Listen to Outside/In’s behind-the-scenes journey into a human decomposition facility, aka “body farm,” reported by Felix Poon. If you’ve been to Acadia National Park in Maine and taken photos of the fall foliage anytime since 1950, you can participate in research about how climate change is shifting the timing of peak foliage. Contribute your pictures of the autumn leaves to the Acadia National Park Fall Foliage Project here. Many are predicting that fall 2024 will be a banner season for spectacular foliage, including our colleagues at NHPR’s Something Wild. Plus, here’s more on the dynamics of fall foliage, precipitation, and anthocyanin. CREDITS Outside/In host: Nate Hegyi Reported by Justine Paradis, Nate Hegyi, and Marina Henke. Produced and mixed by Justine Paradis. Edited by Taylor Quimby NHPR’s Director of Podcasts is Rebecca Lavoie Our staff also includes Kate Dario. Music by Blue Dot Sessions, Brigham Orchestra, Guustavv, Katori Walker, John B. Lund, and Bonkers Beat Club. Outside/In is a production of New Hampshire Public Radio. Editor's note: A previous version of this episode incorrectly stated that Forest Park is the biggest public park in the United States. It is the biggest in St. Louis, Missouri and arguably bigger than Central Park. The audio and transcript have been updated. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, you're listening to Outside In. I'm Nate Hedgy. Today here with producers Justine Paradise.
0:06.7	Hello Hello? And debuting here on the show, our newest addition to the team. I kind of want to do it like Oprah does.
0:16.5	Marina Henking! And then I walk out screaming or dancing, but on a microphone.
0:24.4	Hailing from the beautiful town of St. Louis, Missouri.
0:30.0	If one of our listeners is going,
0:31.6	they've got one day in St. Louis, where should they go?
0:35.0	They should go to Forest Park, which is the largest public park in the country.
0:40.0	Wow. Central Park is second, but it's controversial because if you include our golf course, that's what makes it the first.
0:47.1	And so, is the golf course public?
0:49.5	Can anyone play on it?
0:50.5	Yes, you can.
0:51.5	You can cross country ski on it. You can walk your dog on it.
0:53.5	That's public space I think. Sorry Central Park. That's that's what I'm telling every New Yorker
0:58.7	I see. It's the first thing I say. They love me. All right, let's get down to Brass Tax. So we hear it outside in have a confession to make.
1:21.0	A few weeks ago, we noticed something something or I guess rather the absence of something.
1:26.9	Listeners you all know our outside inbox hotline right? We put in the show notes. We mentioned it every time
1:31.6	we answer your questions.
1:33.0	Well, a few weeks ago, Justine noticed that we hadn't gotten a new voicemail in like five months.
1:39.0	I know, I was like, no one calls us anymore. is kind of weird right? questions about the natural world. No question is too silly or too serious. So let's hear it.
1:55.4	New message. This is Justine calling from Maine testing our hotline to see if it's broken or not.
2:04.0	Long story short, as it turns out, our listener hotline has been bugging out for at least six months.
2:15.0	You've been calling, it's been recording them, we have just not been getting them.
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