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SciWorks Radio Podcast – Educational and Scientific Narration

Voiceover Nerd Productions, Inc. remains committed to science learning and accessibility. I am therefore refurbishing many of my SciWorks Radio Podcast episodes and making them available for anyone (students, teachers, science enthusiasts) to listen to and/or read. These educational science podcasts were created between 2014 and 2017 when I worked at SciWorks, now called Kaleideum. Located in Winston-Salem, NC, Kaleideum is an interactive museum of arts, sciences, and exploration formed by the merger of The Children’s Museum of Winston-Salem and SciWorks in July 2016. The two museums merged into a single organization to reimagine learning and better meet the needs of our diverse community by providing more access to informal science discovery and cultural experiences.

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The Dinosaurs in your Back Yard – SciWorks Radio Podcast

October 29, 2021 by Shawn Fitzmaurice

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Dinosaurs are still here, and they’re an incredibly successful species.

Ok, what about the fact that earth was hit by an asteroid 65 million years ago, resulting in the extinction of the dinosaurs?

Three decades of evidence have forced us to re-think the story:
Sixty-five million years ago, an astroid collided with Earth, resulting in the extinction of many or most dinosaur species. 

Dinosaurs were a specific group of animals. One evolutionary line of them, which shared a close common ancestor with Tyrannosaurus Rex, evolved into birds. That all happened before the extinction! 

Birds were flying around other dinosaurs’ heads! 

All but that specific line went extinct. That means that that the birds in your backyard are living, breathing dinosaurs! 

Today, dinos are more diverse than any other invertebrate group.

In this podcast, Dr. Lindsay Zanno, Director of the Paleontology and Geology lab at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, North Carolina and Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, at NC State University breaks down what we know, and how we know that dinosaurs live among us.

This Time Round, the theme music for SciWorks Radio, appears as a generous contribution by the band Storyman and courtesy of UFOmusic.com. 

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Blue-Footed Boobies’ Struggle To Survive in the Galapagos

October 29, 2021 by Shawn Fitzmaurice

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Winner of the National Science Foundations’s Science 360 Best Science Podcast Award, 2014.

The Galapagos islands are famous for their association with Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution by natural selection.

But the islands also have species who live there, but did not evolve there; Blue-Footed Boobies for example. Interestingly, they might be relying on more deep-seated and complex survival strategies.

The driving goal of life is to reproduce. But that doesn’t work if you don’t survive.  Over billions of years, life has adapted so many weird and wonderful strategies to cope with hard times, and Doctor David Anderson, professor of Biology at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem believes the Boobies kind of waiting for financial stabilitie before having children… Sort of…

First aired August 8, 2014

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A New Dinosaur Discovery

January 5, 2021 by Shawn Fitzmaurice

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Yes, we’re still discovering new dinosaurs!

In this podcast, learnabout a new dinosaur discovered by paleontologist Doctor Lindsay Zanno of the  Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, North Carolina.

A predator, carnivore, 2-legged animal, Siats Meekerorum may have looked and behaved a lot like a Tyrannosaurus Rex, but it lived in a much earlier time period, and was not closely related. What in evolution would cause the similarity? And why did this one particular person become a scientist? Listen to find out on this podcast episode of SciWorks Radio.

Here are some related links.

  • What is a dinosaur is (for kids).
  • Jurassic 
  • late Cretaceous (more dino times).
  • Most dinosaurs went extinct about 65 million years ago (Learn about geologic time).
  • Siats is from a completely different group of predators then tyrannosaurs are; Carcharodontosauridae.
  • convergent evolution.
  • And so Siats, it was the man eating monster. Meekerorum was chosen to honor the Meeker family for Their contributions helping young scientist.

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