Time Travel to Tide Pool 101 from Our July 1925 Issue

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🗓️ 21 July 2025

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Time travel to an introduction to tide pools, the start of commercial air travel and an intercontinental aviation museum dispute. Host Rachel Feltman is taking a look at a 1925 issue of Scientific American for this archival episode. If you don’t find the past to be a blast, don’t worry! We’ll be back to our regular schedule of science news, deep dives and editor picks next week. In the meantime, read some recent coverage of marine marvels and flight! Recommended reading: Yes, Airline Flights Are Getting Bumpier: Here’s Why https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/yes-airline-flights-are-getting-bumpier-heres-why/ See the Lush Kelp Forests Scientists Are Fighting for as Oceans Warm https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/as-oceans-warm-scientists-fight-to-save-lush-kelp-forests/ E-mail us at sciencequickly@sciam.com if you have any questions, comments or ideas for stories we should cover! Discover something new every day: subscribe to Scientific American and sign up for Today in Science, our daily newsletter. Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Kelso Harper and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was hosted by Rachel Feltman. Our show is edited by Alex Sugiura with fact-checking by Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck. The theme music was composed by Dominic Smith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.5	For today, I thought it would be fun to dip back into the Scientific American Archives for a few
1:10.0	minutes.
1:16.2	Let's check in on what Siam was up to exactly one century ago in July of 1925.
1:22.8	I'll start with the issue's cover story, which was contributed by the curator of marine life at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and seems to have been written,
1:27.4	at least in large part, to introduce seems to have been written, at least in
1:28.1	large part, to introduce readers to the concept of tide pools. These are indents in rocky coastal
1:34.1	areas that during high tide get filled with water, which remains trapped inside once the tide goes
1:38.9	back out. The writer describes the abundant marine life that could be found in the high tide
1:44.0	puddles
1:44.3	of Woods Hole, Massachusetts and other Massachusetts tidal zones, waxing poetic about
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