Playlist: Rose Eveleth's Portfolio
Rose Eveleth is a writer and producer based in New York City. She's dabbled in everything from research on pelagic invertebrates to animations about beer to podcasts about fake tumbleweed farms. Listen to some of her work here.
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Repeat after me
From Rose Eveleth | Part of the Scienceline Podcast series | 07:01
Chances are you’ve chanted before. Whether you were in the streets protesting, at church praising, or just in your living room rooting for your favorite team, there’s something about chanting that we just can’t resist. But what is it? And what makes one chant better than another?
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Chances are you’ve chanted before. Whether you were in the streets protesting, at church praising, or just in your living room rooting for your favorite team, there’s something about chanting that we just can’t resist. But what is it? And what makes one chant better than another?
Is that my cell phone ringing?
From Rose Eveleth | Part of the Scienceline Podcast series | 06:05
Ah, the cell phone. That magical device that can text, tweet, check email, make appointments, keep our calendar organized, order food, calculate the tip, keep us on the right road … oh right, and make phone calls. But there could be a dark side to our favorite little machines — they could be making us hallucinate.
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Ah, the cell phone. That magical device that can text, tweet, check email, make appointments, keep our calendar organized, order food, calculate the tip, keep us on the right road … oh right, and make phone calls. But there could be a dark side to our favorite little machines — they could be making us hallucinate.
Tumbling along
From Rose Eveleth | Part of the Scienceline Podcast series | 07:33
Meet the world's most successful tumbleweed saleswoman.
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A few months ago, Scienceline got interested in tumbleweeds. After lots of research and a few confused phone calls with Western movie historians, we were pointed to a place called Prairie Tumbleweed Farm. Want to buy a tumbleweed? Prairie Tumbleweed Farms has you, and the rest of the world, covered. Hear their surprising story in this week’s Scienceline podcast.
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s … an earthquake?
From Rose Eveleth | Part of the Scienceline Podcast series | 07:00
For hundreds of years there have been reports of strange lights during earthquakes, now scientists are trying to figure out what they are.
The reports read like science fiction: “Fireballs a few meters in diameter often popped out of the ground in a repetitive manner at distances of up to only a few meters away from the observers.” These observers may sound crazy, but they’re not. They’re actually describing a real phenomenon called earthquake lights. Scienceline talks to David Brumbaugh, director of the Arizona Earthquake Information Center about these lights and what might cause them.