Constant Wonder
Stay in tune with our phenomenal world. Join us for explorations of science, art, history, and more. We're on a quest to find awe and wonder in all nature—human or wild, vast or small. Encounters that move us beyond words. Hosted by Marcus Smith, Constant Wonder is a production of BYUradio.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 50 minutes
- Episodes
- 190
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Making Peace in the Wolf Wars
Daniel Curry had had recurring dreams about wolves, long before he chose to devote his career to helping them. After working with captive wolves for several years, he became a "range rider," a human …
00:53:51 |
Wed 17 May 2023
Rough Sleepers: A Doctor's Quest to Help the Homeless
In this episode, meet Dr. Jim O'Connell, a tireless physician who has spent nearly four decades caring for the unhoused population of Boston. We'll also learn about some of his enterprising and gener…
00:52:50 |
Wed 10 May 2023
A Family Crosses the Color Line
As a young White girl in Ohio, Rachel Jamison had imagined what life was like for her pioneer ancestors, and she peppered her grandparents with questions about her past. Decades later, she and her fa…
01:01:58 |
Wed 03 May 2023
My Father's Brain: A Doctor Reckons With Alzheimer's
Prem Jauhar was a world-class agricultural scientist—an inspiration to his son Sandeep, our guest, who became a cardiologist. When the elderly father Prem started behaving oddly, Sandeep and his two …
00:57:43 |
Wed 26 Apr 2023
Getting Giddy in the Quiet World of Plants
Get to know BBC personality and naturalist Mike Dilger, from his passion for birds and wildlife, to his adventures in the cloud forests of Ecuador. In this podcast episode, we explore Mike's early ex…
00:55:47 |
Wed 19 Apr 2023
The Funky, Fragile World Beneath Your Feet
As a young woman from the East Coast, Sasha Reed had never been camping before when she was introduced to the Arizona desert by her future husband. She fell in love with both, and crouching on the dr…
00:58:03 |
Wed 22 Mar 2023
The Dust Within Us
In 1863 on the South Dakota frontier, a Lakota Indian elder and a US army colonel had a tense and deadly encounter. They could not have known that their children would marry each other, and thus crea…
00:52:50 |
Wed 15 Mar 2023
Dreams Before Dying
Dying patients often profess to see deceased loved ones around them in the days and weeks before they pass. So often that hospice care doctor Chris Kerr decided to make a scientific study of the phen…
00:52:50 |
Wed 08 Mar 2023
A Real-Life Indiana Jones Discovers Shackleton's Lost Ship
The apex of marine archaeologist Mensun Bound's stellar career happened a year ago this week, when the expedition he spearheaded found Ernest Shackleton's "Endurance" at the bottom of an Antarctic se…
01:00:02 |
Wed 01 Mar 2023
Blue Mind: Finding Emotional Healing in Water
Being in and around water heals us emotionally. Water "evangelist" J Nichols shares his insight and his personal "water stories," when water has inspired him and also when it's healed him from trauma…
00:55:10 |
Wed 22 Feb 2023
Experiencing Awe in Tragedy
Dacher Keltner has been a leading researcher on the subject of awe for nearly 20 years. It’s hard to improve upon his description of the phenomenon: Awe is an emotion we feel upon encountering someth…
00:47:51 |
Wed 15 Feb 2023
Anxiously Ever After: A Father Faces Mental Illness With Humor
Meet Clint Edwards, a man whose hilarious honesty has brought hope and laughter to his readers in the New York Times, Washington Post, and on his popular blog: No Idea What I’m Doing. Follow his stor…
00:59:58 |
Wed 08 Feb 2023
Elephants Hear With Their Feet – Infrasound, Part II
Constant Wonder presents the second of a two-part episode on "infrasound," or sound that lies below the threshold of human hearing. Infrasound can explain seemingly inexplicable animal behavior.
In…
00:37:26 |
Fri 03 Feb 2023
When Volcanoes Whisper – Infrasound, Part I
This is the first of a two-part episode on "infrasound," or sound that lies below the threshold of human hearing. Infrasound can warn of impending danger.
In part 1, we go to Hawaii and Chile with a…
00:24:33 |
Wed 01 Feb 2023
Snorkeling Right in Your Own Backyard (Practically)
If snorkeling seems like something you can only do on a tropical vacation, think again. In this podcast episode, we meet a river snorkeling guide who encourages us to stick our heads in the water, ri…
00:54:53 |
Wed 25 Jan 2023
Storyteller Kevin Kling, A Life of Humor and Humility
Storyteller Kevin Kling has overcome trauma and learned to live with disability, without ever losing sight of the hilarious–even in the horrible. We follow him from his mischievous childhood to his e…
00:53:58 |
Wed 11 Jan 2023
Saving Wild Sounds
If you've never stopped by the side of the trail to listen to a beetle larvae chewing on a pine tree, or to the sound of the woodpecker looking for that beetle, we'll give you a chance in this podcas…
00:51:18 |
Wed 04 Jan 2023
Magic In Neglected Spaces: Reaching People with Bookmobiles, Micro-museums and Street Mosaics
What good is a library or a museum if you can't get to it? In this episode of the podcast, Constant Wonder introduces innovators who bring inspiration to people in the most unexpected ways. We learn …
01:00:34 |
Wed 30 Nov 2022
Can Iceland's Elves Save the Planet?
Meet an Icelandic woman who speaks to (and for) elves. Her efforts led to a famous compromise over a highway construction project in Iceland that would've taken out an elf "church." But more importan…
00:52:50 |
Wed 23 Nov 2022
Uncovering Archaeology's Hidden Treasures . . . Out of Desert and Ice
In three decades at National Geographic, Ann Williams has been an eyewitness to some of the greatest archaeological treasures of the last century. She was just outside on the dark and stormy night wh…
00:52:50 |
Wed 16 Nov 2022
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