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                  -             Sidedoor Podcast  Dude, Where’s my Carbon?         How does so much carbon end up in tropical forests, and how is it measured? Visit Panama on this episode of *Sidedoor* and find out.          Sidedoor Podcast  Monkeyin' Around on the Devil's Island         Follow along on a search for the elusive and rambunctious capuchin monkey on an island in the Pacific.         Sidedoor Podcast  Jeepers Leapers!         Celebrate February 29th with fun facts about leap years.         Sidedoor Podcast  To Sidedoor, With Love          The *Sidedoor* team runs all around the Smithsonian to answer from a grab bag of listeners' questions.         Sidedoor Podcast  Welcome Back, Otter         We're on the hunt to learn more about North American river otters.         Sidedoor Podcast  Farewell Giant Pandas         A goodbye to the adorable bears after fifty years of pandas at the National Zoo.          Sidedoor Podcast  Cellphones Rock         Cellphones put the power of the world at our fingertips and it's all made possible by rocks formed millions of years ago, deep underground.         Sidedoor Podcast  Special: People Eating People         A Smithsonian researcher has made a discovery we couldn't wait to sink our teeth into.         Sidedoor Podcast  The Funk List         Using artificial intelligence and good old fashioned research skills to discover the lost women of science.         Sidedoor Podcast  Get Off My Lawn         Dig into the history of America's love of lawns to learn where the concept came from...and how we grew so obsessed.          Sidedoor Podcast  Bill Nye the Sidedoor Guy          We sit down with Bill Nye to get schooled on science education and comedy.         Sidedoor Podcast  Lights Out         Light pollution affects all life on earth, from humans to plants and insects. Can we have the dark, without giving up the light?         Sidedoor Podcast  Hubble Trouble         America's first large space telescope went from a "billion-dollar blunder" to one of history's most important scientific instruments.         Sidedoor Podcast  The Sex Lives of Giant Pandas         With a little help from science, the once-endangered giant panda is making a comeback.         Sidedoor Podcast  The Robot in the Mirror         Artificial intelligence is built on human intelligence. Meet a very special robot who asks us to consider: whose image will be reflected in our AI future?         Sidedoor Podcast  King of the Herbs         The *Sidedoor* team goes searching for the elusive wild American ginseng—and finds that scientists, conservationists, and criminals are also on the hunt.         Sidedoor Podcast  Bloodsuckers!         Discover how these toothy hangers-on wormed their way into medical practices, performance art, and EVERY human cavity.         Sidedoor Podcast  Make Way for Elephants         With little remaining habitat, learn what happens when wild elephants go urban.         Sidedoor Podcast  Ode to Cicadas         A celebration of the notorious Brood X cicadas that crawl out of the earth by the billions every 17 years.         Sidedoor Podcast  Bonus: The 1957 Pandemic That Wasn’t         Go back to a time when viruses had the upper hand and learn about the vaccine that helped turn the tide in the war against infectious diseases.         Sidedoor Podcast  Holding Out for a Herring         Join the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center’s herring tagging team to learn how dam removal restores habitats for herring.         Sidedoor Podcast  Hot Bird Summer         Where do black-crowned night herons fly off to in the fall? For more than a century, nobody knew. Until now.         Sidedoor Podcast  The Gorilla Epidemic         When a highly contagious mystery illness spread through the world’s mountain gorilla population, biologists feared the entire species could be lost.         Sidedoor Podcast  The People's Insect         Unlock the secret lives of monarch butterflies and learn how to support them on their journey.         Sidedoor Podcast  The Riverkeeper         Meet Fred Tutman, the longest-serving Waterkeeper in the Chesapeake Bay region and the founding Patuxent Riverkeeper.          Sidedoor Podcast  Apollo 12's Really Close Call         Hear the often-overlooked story of Apollo 12, one full of danger, discovery, and the power of friendship.         Sidedoor Podcast  Birds, Birds, Birds!         Three billion birds have gone missing since 1970. In this episode, we go bird-spotting with Pete Marra, and learn what each of us can do to bring birds back.         Sidedoor Podcast  The Last Man Who Knew It All         You may not know his name, but Alexander von Humboldt inspired a key part of America’s national identity through science and art.         Sidedoor Podcast  Outer Space & Underwear         Learn how lingerie, and the expert seamstresses who sewed it, played a critical role in the first well-supported steps on the moon.         Sidedoor Podcast  This Episode Smells         A team of artists and scientists use DNA to try to revive the scent of a flower extinct for more than a century.         Sidedoor Podcast  The Dinosaur War         Behind the fossilized teeth, bones, and claws displayed in the National Museum of Natural History’s new Fossil Hall is the story of two men and a nasty feud.         Sidedoor Podcast  The Wild Orchid Mystery         Scientists at the Smithsonian are working to protect orchids and their habitats, but first they need solve a surprisingly difficult problem: how to grow one.         Sidedoor Podcast  Space Jocks & Moon Rocks*Sidedoor* joins forces with the National Air and Space Museum to explore the mysteries of lunar science.         Sidedoor Podcast  The Feather Detective         Learn how Roxie Laybourne and her team helped keep the friendly skies friendly for both birds and people.         Sidedoor Podcast  The Silence of the Frogs         Travel to the Panamanian jungle to learn how the Smithsonian is helping some endangered frogs avoid extinction.         Sidedoor Podcast  50 Shades of Gray Whales         Explore our surprising relationship with whales through the lens of one species: the gray whale.         Sidedoor Podcast  Seriously Seeking Sasquatch         Grover Krantz is usually remembered as a man who loved science so much that he donated his body to it, but some remember Krantz as a pioneer in the study of Sasquatch.         Sidedoor Podcast  The World’s Deadliest Animal         The world’s deadliest animal isn’t the tiger, the snake, or even the alligator—it’s the mosquito.  The Mystery Bones of Witch Hill         Grab your Scooby Snacks and join *Sidedoor* as we journey to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama to hear about unusual bones found on a dig of “Witch Hill.”         Sidedoor Podcast  Don’t Call Me Extinct         Erased from the wild for three decades, the scimitar-horned oryx are back in the Central African country of Chad.         Sidedoor Podcast  A Crane with a Crush         Take a peek into an unlikely relationship between an animal keeper and a white-naped crane, with high stakes for the future of an entire species.         Sidedoor Podcast  America’s First Food Spy         Meet the food spies—globe-trotting scientists and explorers of the 19th-century who sought exotic crops to enhance America’s diet and help grow the economy.         Sidedoor Podcast  If These Bones Could Talk         Explorer, scholar, and 19th-century darling Robert Kennicott seemed destined to lead a full and adventurous life.         Sidedoor Podcast  The Hungry Hungry Hippo Baby         A race with time to save Fiona the baby hippo with help from the world's largest exotic-milk repository at the Smithsonian's National Zoo.         Sidedoor Podcast  The Mean, Green, Water-Cleaning Machine         The Algal Turf Scrubber harvests algae from large bodies of water and converts it to biomass, and is one of the marine ecology field’s best-kept secrets.           Sidedoor Podcast  Butting Heads         A grab bag of stories from the Smithsonian *Sidedoor* team.         Sidedoor Podcast  Masters of Disguise         A grab bag of stories from the Smithsonian *Sidedoor* team.         Sidedoor Podcast  Special Delivery         The payoff is all in the delivery: missile mail, orangutan pregnancy, and landing a joke.         Sidedoor Podcast  Tech Yourself         A grab bag of stories from the Smithsonian *Sidedoor* team.  Sidedoor- Season 10
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