Sunday, June 09, 2013

Big Picture Science for 06/10/13 - This Land Is Island

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Big Picture Science - This Land Is Island

There are many kinds of islands. There’s your iconic sandy speck of land topped with a palm tree, but there’s also our home planet – an island in the vast seas of space. You might think of yourself as a biological island … until you tally the number of microbes living outside – and inside – your body.

We go island hopping, and consider the Scottish definition of an island – one man, one sheep – as well as the swelling threat of high water to island nations. Also, how species populate islands … and tricks for communicating with extraterrestrial islanders hanging out elsewhere in the cosmos.

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Permalink: http://radio.seti.org/episodes/This_Land_Is_Island

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