Beste Past Time podcaster (2024)

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Episode 34 – March of the Trilobites 18:11

4+ y ago18:11

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Of Collective Behavior and Trilobites Reading scientific papers can be a daunting prospect. Even the titles can contain layers of jargon. On Past Time, we work diligently to break down the barriers of science to make the discoveries of science for audiences of all ages. In this episode, we experiment with a new method: breaking […]…

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Episode 33 – The Story of the Sloth 37:15

5y ago37:15

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PAST TIME RETURNS! After three and a half months of discovering how insanely busy a museum curator can be, I (Adam) am back to past times with a brand new episode of Past Time! Join me on a journey back to the Smithsonian Institution to learn about the whole history of sloths. We’ll also meet RYAN […]…

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Episode 32 – The Changing Face of Crocodiles 24:13

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Episode 32 – The Changing Face of Crocodiles INTRODUCTION TO GROWING UP – Every living thing grows up, and this episode of “Past Time” explores the evolution of the growing process. Specifically, we explore the evolution of growth in crocodiles, and how changes to the growing process at the earliest stages of crocodile development help […]…

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Episode 1: Apex and Rainbow Six Siege 45:30

5y ago45:30

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Today we’ll talk about rainbows current state and what’s to come with the new E3 trailer for Rainbow Six Quarantine and Apex legends with the new season.

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Episode 31 – The First Frogs of the Age of Dinosaurs! 11:38

5+ y ago11:38

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THE FIRST FROGS OF NORTH AMERICA Every discovery we make in natural history happens thanks to specimens. Fossil bones, shells, footprints, coprolites, tissue samples—even field notes and photograms—are the building blocks scientists use to tell the story of life on our planet. On Past Time, we talk a LOT about the contributions of museums and […]…

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Episode 30 – SVP Recap, guest-starring I KNOW DINO 26:44

5+ y ago26:44

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Meeting of the Minds There is no bigger paleontology conference for fans of dinosaurs, prehistoric mammals, birds, fishes, and reptiles than the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting. The 78th annual meeting just took place this October in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA and Matt, Adam, and Catherine were in attendance. They learned about …

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The Prime Ep 4 12:05

6y ago12:05

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I have guest with me in this episode, Nicole. Nicole and I will be talking about our experiences in Singapore and the things that we faced

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The Prime Ep 3 6:03

6y ago6:03

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Today I have a guest with me today, Nicole. We both talk about our pasts in Singapore and things we have in common or things we both have faced in Singapore.

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Prime Ep 2 7:24

6y ago7:24

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This time I will be talking about my past experiences that I faced in primary school, from 1st to 6th grade. As well as talk about the funnn experiences I had with my friends in a different country without my parents being with me, something that I had never experienced!😱

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The Prime Ep 1 6:05

6y ago6:05

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I talk a little about myself and a few experiences I had in Secondary school, mainly talking about my time in Girl Guides.

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Episode 29 – First of the Four-Footed Giant Dinosaurs! 12:02

6y ago12:02

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Ledumahadi and the first dinosaur giants The sauropod dinosaurs—the classic long-necks—included the largest land animal species that have ever lived. Throughout the Jurassic and Cretaceous, multiple families of sauropods achieved body masses over 50 tons: greater than any modern elephant and even exceeding the colossal indricothere rhinoceroses. De…

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Episode 28 – PAST TIME reviews Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom! 50:15

6y ago50:15

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First Iteration I (Adam) am both proud and nervous to say that this is an atypical Past Time episode, as we’re not talking about a new discovery nor a real scientific topic; it is a recap/review of Jurassic World 2. However, I think it is worth addressing whether or not particular elements of new movies, […]…

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Episode 27 – Machairoceratops: An Extinct Horned Dinosaur Under Threat! 31:30

6y ago31:30

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Eighty million years ago, a wildly ornamented species of horned dinosaur roamed the southern half of North America’s western landmass, Laramidia. In 2016, paleontologist Eric Lund and his colleagues named it Machairoceratops cronusi, and we fell in love with this ceratopsian from Utah with hooks over its frill. In 2017, the site where Machairocerat…

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Episode 26 – Colobops: the tiny reptile with a big bite! 15:33

6y ago15:33

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Big bites come in small skulls This episode tells a story of one of Adam Pritchard’s favorite projects from Yale University, describing the skull of a teeny reptile from the early days of the Age of Reptiles. Hailing from the eastern coast of North America (present-day Connecticut), Colobops noviportensis had a skull only an inch […]…

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Episode 25 – Ceratosaurs: Story of a Predatory Dinosaur Dynasty! 4:16

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Masters of horns and teeth Throughout the Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods, dinosaurs were top dogs on every continent and in every sort of environment. The ceratosaurs were some of the classic predators that ruled the tops of the food chains for much of that time. Including classic predators such as Ceratosaurus, Carnotaurus, and Majungasaurus—as w…

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Episode 24 – Dinosaurs and crocodiles in the Land Before Egypt! 9:02

6+ y ago9:02

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Egyptian paleontology has a long and storied history, although much of it is focused on discoveries from the Cenozoic Era. Incredible fossils of early whales, primates, and other mammals have been discovered in Egypt since the beginning of the twentieth century, work that continues to this day. However, fossils from the Age of Reptiles are […]…

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Episode 23: Meet the Echinoderms! Adventures with Ancient Sea Stars! 14:03

6+ y ago14:03

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This episode was a blast to produce for a vertebrate scientist. I learned a ton about the echinoderms, the group of invertebrate animals to which sea stars, brittle stars, sea cucumbers, sea urchins, and crinoids belong. Be prepared for more adventures with invertebrate animals in the future. Engineering Echinoderms with Elizabeth Clark! This episo…

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Gunsmoke - Uncle Finney

6+ y ago

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When Merry Florene's brothers return to Dodge to turn in their 103 year old Uncle Finney for fifty dollars, you know some shenanigan are afoot. Gunsmoke - Uncle Finney.mp4Av Times Past (Robert)

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Maverick - Shady Deal at Sunny Acres

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Bret is picked clean & stranded in Sunny Acres by the burg's arrogant banker, so he puts together an M Team of con artists to take down & embarrass the handle-barred buzzard in Denver, while Bret sits whittling & rocking in a chair on a shady Sunny Acres porch, poor-mouthing all by-passers that he's "just working on" a plan. The small-town banker i…

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Danny Meets Andy Griffith

6+ y ago

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Danny is arrested by Sheriff Andy Taylor for going through an unnoticed stop sign in the town of Mayberry. Danny Meets Andy Griffith.mp4Av Times Past (Robert)

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Wyatt Earp Becomes a Marshal

6+ y ago

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Initially resistant to becoming a lawman, Wyatt Earp has a change of heart after seeing the sheriff of Ellsworth, Kansas murdered in cold blood by the inebriated brother of town scourge Ben Thompson. Wyatt Earp Becomes a Marshal.mp4Av Times Past (Robert)

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The Cabin

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To escape a potentially lethal blizzard, Matt seeks shelter in a cabin in which two psychopathic bandits have enslaved and repeatedly molested a young woman after murdering her father. The Cabin.mp4Av Times Past (Robert)

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Episode 22: Matheronodon, a new dinosaur with a different kind of bite! 13:51

6+ y ago13:51

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Matheronodon is certainly a dinosaur worthy of a bigger bite. With proportionally giant teeth strikingly different from the standard-issue ornithopod dinosaur, it is certainly one of the most important dino discoveries out of Europe this year. Better yet, the original scientific paper by Pascal Godefroit and colleagues is free to read in the journa…

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Maverick s01e01 War of the Silver Kings

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War of the Silver Kings - Season 1, Episode 1 - 22 Sep. 1957 - We first glimpse Bret unshaven & dirty, lugging a rifle, trying to register at a classy hotel. Using the $1000 bill pinned inside his jacket, and adding some dollar-size strips cut from a newspaper, Bret cadges a room via a bulging envelope for the guest safe. Maverick s01e01 War of the…

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Episode 21: New History of Ancient DNA

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The quest to recover ancient genetic material from extinct animals had its blockbuster moment when Jurassic Park came out. But where did the idea come from and who is trying to figure out if the science fiction of Jurassic Park can be science reality? We talk to Dr. Elizabeth Jones, a science historian at University […]…

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Episode 20: Digging the Dawn of Dinosaurs – Paleontology at Ghost Ranch 33:40

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Hi all. Adam Pritchard here. I’ve been thinking about telling the story of my field experience in the Triassic-aged Chinle Formation of northern New Mexico for many years. The Hayden Quarry fossil site at Ghost Ranch has produced the best-preserved and most diverse record of American dinosaurs from the Triassic of North America, plus some […]…

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Episode 19: Masrasector—Egypt’s Ancient Slicer! 12:10

7y ago12:10

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A few weeks ago Past Time co-host Matt Borths published a study that identified a new species of now-extinct carnivorous mammal from Egypt. The animal was near the top of the African food chain when Africa was cut off from the other continents. It lived in the same swampy ecosystem that was home to our earliest […]…

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Episode 18: The Bird Brains and the Dinosaur Expert 26:27

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Av Matt Borths, Adam Pritchard, Catherine Early

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Bob Dylan - No Direction Home 2-2

7+ y ago

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"Bob Dylan: No Direction Home" is a two-hour, two-part music intensive radio special features exclusive music, interviews and other content from Bob Dylan's personal archives. Bob Dylan - No Direction Home 2-2Av Times Past (Robert)

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Bob Dylan - No Direction Home 1-2

7+ y ago

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"Bob Dylan: No Direction Home" is a two-hour, two-part music intensive radio special features exclusive music, interviews and other content from Bob Dylan's personal archives. Bob Dylan - No Direction Home 1-2Av Times Past (Robert)

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Episode 17: Kingdom of the Monkey Lizard! 16:46

7+ y ago16:46

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Past Time is BACK! Matt and Adam have been traveling the world independently for some time, delving deeply into the history of life on the planet, but now they’re back to tell you all about what they’ve discovered! In this episode, Matt interviews Adam about his research into the early days of the Age of […]…

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Journey to the Center of the Earth

8y ago

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Journey to the Center of the Earth.mp3Av Times Past (Robert)

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A Food Chain in a Fossil: A snake skeleton with its prey still inside! 6:20

8y ago6:20

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The relationship between predator and prey is a primal one, and one that fires the curiosity of many fossil fans. We love paintings of Tyrannosaurus battling Triceratops or saber-toothed cats leaping onto the backs of ground sloths. And we can be pretty sure that those interactions happened based on TRACE FOSSILS, like tooth marks in […]…

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Grandma Sharkie: The Greenland Shark is the World’s Oldest Vertebrate Animal! 6:53

8y ago6:53

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Growth is a universal facet of all organisms that have ever lived, but figuring out how old they grow isn’t always easy. A new study examined the growth in one of the biggest predatory fish in all the ocean, the Greenland Shark (Somniosus microcephalus), revealing it to be the vertebrate species with the longest lifespan: nearly […]…

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90 Years of BBC Radio

8y ago

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90 Years of BBC Radio.mp3Av Times Past (Robert)

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A Tale of Two Crocs: Predators of Cretaceous Spain 8:33

8+ y ago8:33

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I tried to google “crocodiles are living fossils,” to see just how commonly that expression was used in popular articles. There were indeed a few articles that referenced this idea, suggesting that croc fossils from 80 million years ago would look identical the skeletons they have today. However, most were news stories reporting various discoveries…

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Episode 16: Hunting Antarctic Dinosaurs 18:51

8+ y ago18:51

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Erik Gorscak and Pat O'Connor, two paleontologists from Ohio University, are about to set out on an expedition to Antarctica to hunt for fossils from the end of the Age of Dinosaurs. They are part of a larger team called the Antarctic Peninsula Paleontology Project (AP3), an international collaboration of fossil hunters and geologists who are about…

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News Bite: Dodos and the evolution of bird brains 7:24

8+ y ago7:24

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If you wander into the basement of the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University, and wander into the fossil collections, you will find a vast array of different dinosaurs dating back over 200 million years. However, just a few feet away from the oldest dinosaurs you will find several drawers filled with the […]…

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News Bite: The evolution of ornithischian dinosaur jaws and bites! 5:39

8+ y ago5:39

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With Past Time, Matt and I tend to focus on the new discoveries in paleontology: the new species that show up in the news, or the important specimens discovered in museum collections. These are the raw materials that feed the fires of paleontology as a science. However, observation is only the first step in the […]…

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Charlie Poole - You Ain't Talkin' to Me

8+ y ago

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Charlie Poole (1892-1931), groundbreaking banjoist/songwriter, is known as the "Robert Johnson of country music." With his banjo-fiddle-guitar trio, The North Carolina Ramblers, Poole wrote and recorded country music's first mega-hit single ("Don't Let Your Deal Go Down") and many other classic songs that gave birth to the music of both Bill Monroe…

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Episode 15: Degrees of Doctoral Dissertation Domination 37:42

9y ago37:42

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On this episode of Past Time, Drs. Matthew Borths and Adam Pritchard share their dissertation stories, and a bit of advice on the grad school experience!Av Matt Borths, Adam Pritchard, Catherine Early

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News Bite: Kerberos! Giant mammal carnivore from after the Age of Dinosaurs! 6:40

9y ago6:40

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It weighed twice as much as a modern wolf. It had three pairs of meat-slicing teeth. It was the first carnivorous land animal to reach 200 pounds on the entire continent of Europe after the extinction of the dinosaurs. And a team of European scientists and Past Time co-host Matthew Borths just introduced us to it. Ladies and gentlemen: meet Kerbero…

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Shirley Temple

9y ago

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Shirley Temple Black (April 23, 1928 – February 10, 2014) was an American film and television actress, singer, dancer, and public servant, most famous as Hollywood's number-one box-office star from 1935 through 1938. As an adult, she entered politics and became a diplomat, serving as United States Ambassador to Ghana and later to Czechoslovakia, an…

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Agatha Christie - Philomel Cottage

9y ago

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The recently married Alix Martin is obsessed with a recurring dream of her new husband’s murder. Agatha Christie - Philomel Cottage.mp3Av Times Past (Robert)

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Agatha Christie - Witnesss for the Prosecution

9y ago

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Leonard Vole is arrested for the murder of Emily French, a wealthy older woman. Unaware that he was a married man, Miss French made him her principal heir, casting suspicion on Leonard. Agatha Christie - Witnesss for the Prosecution.mp3Av Times Past (Robert)

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News Bite: Salamanders of the Caribbean! 5:10

9y ago5:10

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Arrr, ye mateys! Pour out some grog, and I’ll tell ye a tale of mines, beaches, and death in ancient jungles. I of course be talkin’…about salamanders! Okay, not going to do that voice the whole time (though maybe it should be in the episode), but I will briefly present Palaeoplethodon hispaniolae, the first salamander […]…

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The Three Stooges

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The Three Stooges were an American vaudeville and comedy act of the mid–20th century best known for their numerous Columbia short subject films, still syndicated on television in the 21st Century. Their hallmark was physical farce and slapstick. In films, the Stooges were commonly known by their first names: "Moe, Larry, and Curly" or "Moe, Larry, …