The Amoeba People Podcast
Where science and music collide! This season we are featuring The Amoeba People Audio Cartoon, our musical, scientific, sci-fi radio-style adventure series! Music. Science. It's The Amoeba People Podcast!
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 35 minutes
- Episodes
- 28
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2022
The Amazing Marie Tharp with Hali Felt
In the 1950s, when Marie Tharp mapped the ocean floor and noticed what appeared to be a rift valley at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, her idea was ridiculed by a male colleague as "girl talk". But…
Mass Extinction with Kirk Johnson
Kirk Johnson, director of the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington D.C., paleobotanist, author and science communicator extraordinaire, helps us understand the worst day in the history of…
Rockin' the Mesozoic with Jared Heuck
What would a battle royale of 16 Ceratopsians look like? Jared Heuck, Fossil Preparator of the Raymond Alf Museum of Paleontology helps us understand the Mesozoic Era, better known as the Age of the …
So You Want To Be A Paleontologist? With Billie Guerrero
Paleontologist Billie Guerrero was in the foster care system as a child and wound up homeless in her late teens. The idea that she might become a scientist one day was the furthest thing from her min…
Fossil Hunting with Gabriel Santos
We break down our song "The Ballad of Barnum Brown," about the greatest fossil hunter of all time. Then we talk with paleontologist Gabe Santos about his work at the Raymond Alf Museum of Paleontolog…
The Art of Deep Time with Ray Troll
In this episode we talk with the legendary paleo artist Ray Troll, whose drawings of dinosaurs, fossils, fish, and geologic rock formations have become iconic all around the world. He's produced nume…
Volcanoes with Arianna Soldati
Could your head actually explode from the heat of a volcanic eruption? Is it possible to have a lightsaber duel while surfing down a lava flow? In this episode we ask the important questions about vo…
Coprolites with Tony Fiorillo
This episode is all about fossilized poop! First, we break down our song "Coprolites" track by track, then we talk with paleontologist Dr. Tony Fiorillo of the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in …