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Seth's Storm Shelter

Big Picture Science

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.51K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2012

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Expect the unexpected when we go digging in Seth’s storm shelter – who knows what we’ll find! In this cramped never-never land, tucked between piles of dehydrated food packets and old civil defense helmets, we stumble (but don’t step) upon marauding ants … a mission to Pluto…. “evidence” of a spaceship crash … the Apollo astronaut who shot the “Earth Rise” photograph … and Jonah Lehrer meditating on creativity. Tune in, find out and, help move this box of canned soup, will you? Guests: Mark Moffett - Entomologist, research associate at the Smithsonian Institution, author of Adventures among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions John Spencer - Planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and member of the New Horizons science team Joe Nickell - Paranormal investigator, Senior Research Fellow, Skeptical Inquirer Magazine William Anders - Astronaut on Apollo 8, and photographer of “Earth Rise” Jonah Lehrer - Author of Imagine: How Creativity Works Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Watch your step here, Molly. I haven't been down these steps in a while. Well, you don't see many storm shelters these days. Well it used to be a

1:15.1

civil defense shelter as you'll see when we get down into it. Of course there's not

1:19.4

much need for a civil defense shelter anymore. Now there's not much need for a storm shelter in California

1:25.1

either Seth, Wisconsin, where I'm from.

1:27.7

We had half a dozen tornado warnings in a summer.

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