Legends of the fall: fallout shelters, dreams of falling, and autumnal vibes

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🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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It’s time to open our mailbag and answer your questions about fall – and not just the season. We’ve interpreted the theme to include everything from dreams about falling to fallout shelters and, um, tornadoes. Plus, we reveal the long-anticipated winner of our poll on best alternatives for replacing the term “leaf-peeping.” Question 1: Why do so many have recurring dreams about falling? Question 2: How do tornadoes figure in myths around the world? Question 3: How deep does a fallout shelter need to be? Question 4: Are berries ripening earlier because of climate change? Do you have a question about the natural world? Submit it to the Outside/Inbox! Send a voice memo to outsidein@nhpr.org or call our hotline: 1-844-GO-OTTER (844-466-8837). Don’t forget to leave a number so we can call you back. Featuring: Abhinav Singh, Nani Pybus, David Monteyne, Shaheen Dewji, Richard Primack, Nicole Herman-Mercer, Katie Spellman. SUPPORT Outside/In is made possible with listener support. Click here to become a sustaining member of Outside/In. Subscribe to our (free) newsletter. Follow Outside/In on Instagram or Twitter, or join our private discussion group on Facebook. LINKS On dreams German chemist August Kekulé claimed to have pictured the ring structure of benzene, after dreaming of a snake eating its own tail A study on the threat simulation theory of dreaming On Fallout Shelters Fallout Shelter: Designing for Civil Defense in the Cold War by David Monteyne A calculator to estimate your personal annual radiation dose Fallout Five Zero, a photographic chronicle of the Boston area’s now defunct shelters On Berries Walden Warming: Climate Change Comes to Thoreau’s Woods by Richard Primack A study on Indigenous knowledge on climate-related changes to berry production in Alaska CREDITS Host: Nate Hegyi Reported, produced and mixed by Felix Poon, Justine Paradis, Taylor Quimby, and Jessica Hunt Edited by Taylor Quimby and Justine Paradis. Executive producer: Rebecca Lavoie Music for this episode by Jharee, Thea Tyler, and Blue Dot Sessions. Our theme music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Outside/In is a production of New Hampshire Public Radio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So I want to ask you, Nate, what do you think of when you think of like the tropiest of
0:06.8	fall tropes?
0:07.8	Oh, I mean, obviously pumpkin spice lattes, decorative gourd season.
0:15.8	I think of leaf looking, I'm going to say the P word, the P word is banned on this
0:22.4	show now.
0:23.4	I guess we should explain for those who don't get the reference to what was the episode
0:27.6	we did where we looked for alternatives to, uh, it was our last outside inbox round
0:33.2	up.
0:34.2	When we talked about, I'll say it, I'll say it now and then we'll never say it again
0:36.4	leaf peeping.
0:37.4	It's a bad word.
0:39.4	No one keeps it leaves.
0:46.9	Well we actually asked for alternatives to calling it leaf peeping, and it was voted
0:51.8	on by our listeners.
0:53.4	Do you want to know what new term one?
0:56.1	Yes.
0:57.1	Tree tourists.
0:58.1	Okay.
0:59.1	I like tree tourists a lot more.
1:01.2	I don't know.
1:02.2	It's kind of a little boring, don't you think?
1:04.4	It is, but that's exactly what they are.
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