How Do Animals Handle Environmental Change? Can They Adapt?

10/06/19 • 23 min

ANIMALS ADAPT: Tracy Langkilde, professor and head of the Department of Biology at Penn State, joins Nate and Sam in the studio to discuss how animals respond to changes in their environment, like invasive species and traffic noise. How do lizards and frogs respond to such abrupt changes? Can they adapt? Is there a cost?
Links to Tracy's work:
- @TracyLangkilde on Twitter - https://twitter.com/TracyLangkilde
- Tracy's Website - bio.psu.edu/directory/tll30
Links to the Eberly College of Science:
- Eberly College of Science Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/PennStateScience
- Eberly College of Science Twitter - https://twitter.com/PSUScience
- Eberly College of Science Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/pennstatescience
- Eberly College of Science Website - http://science.psu.edu/

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How Do Vaccines Work? Are Vaccines Safe?

VACCINES: Too many guests to fit into our tiny studio this month! So, Nate and Sam take a trip to the Millennium Science Complex at Penn State to talk to Scott Lindner, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology; Matt Ferrari, associate professor of biology and of statistics; and Troy Sutton, assistant professor of veterinary and biomedical sciences, about vaccines. What are vaccines? Are they safe and effective? Spoiler alert: YES!
Links to Scott's work:
- @LindnerLab on Twitter - https://twitter.com/LindnerLab
- Scott's Website - http://sites.psu.edu/lindnerlab
Links to Matt's work:
- @TheFerrariLab on Twitter - https://twitter.com/TheFerrariLab
- Scott's Website - http://www.theferrarilab.com
Links to Troy's work:
- Troy's Website - http://huck.psu.edu/people/troy-sutton
More sites:
Epidemics: http://epidemics.psu.edu/
CIDD: https://www.huck.psu.edu/institutes-and-centers/center-for-infectious-disease-dynamics
CMaR: https://www.huck.psu.edu/institutes-and-centers/center-for-malaria-research
Links to the Eberly College of Science:
- Eberly College of Science Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/PennStateScience
- Eberly College of Science Twitter - https://twitter.com/PSUScience
- Eberly College of Science Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/pennstatescience
- Eberly College of Science Website - http://science.psu.edu/

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Is Pluto a Planet? What is a Planet Anyway?

PLANETS: Chris Palma, associate dean for undergraduate students in the Eberly College of Science and teaching professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State, visits the studio to explain to Nate and Sam that nostalgia is not a proper scientific argument and that Pluto is not a planet. So, what is a planet and what defines them? What else is out there in the solar system? Find out on this month’s episode of “Hey! I got a question about that.”
Links to Chris's work:
- @dfrctionspikes on Twitter - https://twitter.com/dfrctionspikes
- Chris's Website - sites.psu.edu/chrispalma/
- Tales from the Outer Solar System (Dr. Mike Brown's talk mentioned in the podcast): https://live.libraries.psu.edu/Mediasite/Play/a802036989ac471583276e03e825d15b1d?catalog=8376d4b2-4dd1-457e-a3bf-e4cf9163feda
Links to the Eberly College of Science:
- Eberly College of Science Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/PennStateScience
- Eberly College of Science Twitter - https://twitter.com/PSUScience
- Eberly College of Science Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/pennstatescience
- Eberly College of Science Website - http://science.psu.edu/