Ologies with Alie Ward
Volcanoes. Trees. Drunk butterflies. Mars missions. Slug sex. Death. Beauty standards. Anxiety busters. Beer science. Bee drama. Take away a pocket full of science knowledge and charming, bizarre stories about what fuels these professional -ologists' obsessions. Humorist and science correspondent Alie Ward asks smart people stupid questions and the answers might change your life.
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“Journalist and author of Under the Hefluence, Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them. Chickenologist. Toba Danovich”
“One Thorleaf Shelderup Ebe, who at the age of nineteen wrote The voices of chickens, a contribution to the psychology of chickens”
“And later the dissertation Gallus Domesticus in its daily life. Which earned him His PhD”
“Her book Under the henfluence. It hatches March twenty eighth, twenty twenty three”
“read a PDF of his two thousand and nine autobiography via the American Association of Avian Pathologists. Biographies of Professionals in Poultry Health”
“Author June Sprigg wrote a book called By Shaker Hands and noted that, quote, the shakers felt that work. And worship. were inseparable”
“I'm gonna Point to right now a really great book called Jumping the Broom by Tyler D. Parry ... this book, Jumping the Broom, The Surprising Multicultural Origins of a Black Wedding Ritual, traces the rise in popularity”
“one is the papal bull. of Pope Innocent the Eighth, and the other is called the Malays Malificarum, aka the hammer of witches”
“one is Swept Away by Karen Hobbs. This is how a lot of people got started making brooms”
“It's called The Handmade Broom, and she runs Sunhouse Craft also in Berea, Kentucky”
“Wrote the book. on the topics titled Horror on the Brain, The Neuroscience Behind Science Fiction”
“biopsychologist and author of the book, Brave New You. The now doctor, Mary Pafenroth”
“From the best selling novel by Ira Levin. Suggested for Mature audiences”
“who wrote the books Monsters in America and Dark Carnivals, Modern Horror and the Origins of the American Empire”
“who wrote the books Monsters in America and Dark Carnivals, Modern Horror and the Origins of the American Empire”
“science writer who authored the book Plight of the Living Dead”
“this is from Dr. Bell Hook's nineteen ninety nine book, All About Love, New Visions, in which The late author and philosopher writes, Love is an action”
“They wrote a book called Interpersonal Attraction I have here in nineteen sixty nine”
“I'm reading a historical book about a family that chooses the surname Willow at some point, which symbolically became important because they managed to survive through thick and thin and wars and peace and hiding”
“patron Rob H. said, I recently read Buffalo Birdwoman's garden. And Buffalo Birdwoman, they say, describes using willow sticks and boughs for all kinds of traditional work”
“get a copy of Willow by Allison Syme. published by Reaction Books, which is 240 pages of willow folklore”
“Did you ever weep at the giving tree by showing man, that's a real weeper, isn't it”
“He's authored several books, including a kid's book called Dr. Fred's Weather Watch”
“And to quote anthropologist Dr. Joseph Tainter from the collapsology episode, also the author of The Collapse of Complex Societies, humans just muddle through”
“He's authored several books, including a kid's book called Doctor Fred's Weather Watch”
“And in her book Plentitude, The New Economics of True Wealth, economist and sociologist Dr. Juliette Shore pinpoints what matters most”
“Ernest Thompson Seaton. Mm-hmm. So in nineteen thirteen he wrote a book called Wild Animals at Home”
“Well, there's also in South America Mm-hmm. The floor team codex. In the Was it the fifteen hundreds, maybe”
“the eighteen eighty seven White House cookbook features a recipe for squirrel soup”
“What fresh hell is this? Perimenopause, menopause, other indignities and you by Heather Carina”
“Autistic Menopause by Rachel Mosley and Julie Gamble Turner”
“he authored the New York Times bestselling books, The New Paramenopause Book”
“Doctor Softness also has a new book called Tell Me Where It Hurts”
“Let us read from the two thousand and four book. The rat nervous system. Third edition”
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