Radiolab | The Stumpisode: The Wild World of Tree Stumps! | Terrestrials | Radiolab for Kids Podcast @Radiolabpod | Uploaded September 2024 | Updated October 2024, 16 hours ago.
As dead as they seem, tree stumps are hubs of life and relationships. From stumps to snags, deadwood provides habitat for rodents, falcons, insects and even humans! Stumps hold together the forest floor, give hunting perches to birds of prey in flatlands, prevent erosion and the encroachment of invasive species, usher in sunlight, provide nutrients, can be wells of renewable fuel, and hold onto stories human beings might have forgotten. Without these ghosts of trees past, nothing would be the same.
Scottish author, artist and lover of tree stumps, Dr. Amanda Thomson, leads host Lulu Miller on a “tour de stumps,” a journey across space and time to learn about some of the most magical stumps on the planet. We learn how these overlooked dead things actually sustain the living.
For more, check out:
• Bob Dolgan’s documentary about Tyler Funk and “The Magic Stump" — turnstoneimpact.com/the-magic-stump.html
• Amanda Thomson’s book “Belonging: Natural histories of place, identity and home" — passingplace.com/section/513059-belonging.html
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As dead as they seem, tree stumps are hubs of life and relationships. From stumps to snags, deadwood provides habitat for rodents, falcons, insects and even humans! Stumps hold together the forest floor, give hunting perches to birds of prey in flatlands, prevent erosion and the encroachment of invasive species, usher in sunlight, provide nutrients, can be wells of renewable fuel, and hold onto stories human beings might have forgotten. Without these ghosts of trees past, nothing would be the same.
Scottish author, artist and lover of tree stumps, Dr. Amanda Thomson, leads host Lulu Miller on a “tour de stumps,” a journey across space and time to learn about some of the most magical stumps on the planet. We learn how these overlooked dead things actually sustain the living.
For more, check out:
• Bob Dolgan’s documentary about Tyler Funk and “The Magic Stump" — turnstoneimpact.com/the-magic-stump.html
• Amanda Thomson’s book “Belonging: Natural histories of place, identity and home" — passingplace.com/section/513059-belonging.html
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🌎 Radiolab for Kids features episodes about nature. Sometimes these will be brand new Terrestrials episodes full of songs and silliness, sometimes they will be our very best, shiniest, furriest, family-friendliest Radiolab episodes about animals or plants or nature. You’ll always get a little hello from host Lulu Miller, and we hope that this feed will feel like a nature walk, a place you can show up and explore and always encounter something unexpected out there in the wilderness. You don’t have to be a kid to listen, just someone who likes to see the world anew.
Illustration by Tara Anand.
Video by Kim Nowacki.
