Outside/In
Episodes
Rake and Ride
03 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Pirate trails are everywhere: the pioneers of mountain biking built them on private land, public land and everything in between. They were built by ri...
Just Decide
20 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone's heard of Vikings - their daring North Atlantic voyages, their mysterious runes. But there's another ancient culture in Arctic Scandinavia t...
Now I am an Axolotl
06 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
There's only one place in the world that you can find the axolotl—the Mexican salamander—in the wild. This creature is the living embodiment of Xo...
Ask Sam: Trichomes, Bug hair, Bug Tumors, & Mollusk Shells
21 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ask Sam: that special time when scientists worldwide cringe as Sam & the team speculate wildly on a diverse range of topics before picking up the phon...
The Meat Matrix
08 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Listener feedback is a big part of working in radio and podcasting. We try to look for the lesson in every critical email, phone call, or tweet (even ...
So Over Population [Part 2]
25 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Today the second in our two-part series on the politics of population. In this episode, we’re digging into the story of how around the turn of the m...
So Over Population [Part 1]
11 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we’re talking about population. How it went from being on the front pages of our newspapers and all over late night television to being the i...
O/I Presents: Bear Brook
04 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Two barrels. Four bodies. And the decades-long mystery that led to a serial killer. A special look at a new podcast from NHPR, Bear Brook: A podcast a...
Look Toward the Dawn
27 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we take a step back to imagine a world without a web of GPS satellites telling your smartphone where you are every second of the day. While thi...
This Isn't Science, It's a Love Story
13 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we’re giving you an inside look at what it takes to make the podcast. A bunch of people make this show, which means that our ideas meetings a...
Shrunk and Punk'd
30 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
News flash: men aren't the only people who enjoy the outdoors. No sh*#, right? But the outdoor gear industry has only recently started to realize that...
The Sky is Burning
16 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
There are between eight and ten thousand wildfires in the United States each year, but most quietly burn out and we never hear about them. The Pagami ...
10x10 - Pine Barren
02 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Another year… another record-breaking wildfire season. Thanks to climate change the fire season now starts sooner and ends later. Scientists also ...
Loser Wolves: A Cat Fancy
19 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Bengal cat is an attempt to preserve the image of a leopard in the body of a house cat — using a wild animal’s genes, while leaving out the wild a...
Molto Moleche
05 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It took 200 years of dealing with with the invasive European green crab before American scientists finally decided to head back to the source. And whe...
The Most Dangerous Game
21 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Show that you love Outside/In! (And stick it to the guy in the corner office) Click here to donate: https://goo.gl/ijzVaZ On June 27th, 1981, a body...
The Forest for the Treesap
07 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Show that you love Outside/In! (And stick it to the guy in the corner office) Click here to donate: https://goo.gl/ijzVaZ Mysteries are brewing in the...
Ride or Die
24 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Storm chasing is a pursuit we love to hate in the comment section, but if you look at the TV ratings, or YouTube views, it’s clear that we can’t l...
Ask Sam: Hair of the Dog, Walking Fish and the Truth About Palm Trees
10 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Curiosity abounds in the listener ranks and the Ask Sam Hotline (1-844-GO-OTTER) has been ringing off the hook! Sam and the gang tackle your questions...
Stay In Your Lane
26 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
If you ask John Forester, there’s a war being fought, between the forces that want to eject cyclists from the roads, and those that want to prese...
Shine Service
12 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Person Sr. — Percy, as he’s known — has been shining shoes for 70 years. He started around age 10 and now, at 80, continues to work at Pe...
One Bin to Rule Them All
02 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The reality is, recycling doesn’t work because we believe in it. It works because it’s an industry. You might be keeping that plastic bottle out...
Life on the Edge of the Olympics
15 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When you watch the Olympics, you think you’re watching the best in the world competing at the pinnacle of their fitness. And while that is often tru...
Magical Drinking
01 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For thousands of years, natural spring waters have been associated with health. But recently something called the “raw water movement” has scienti...
Updates For Your Brain
15 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
There have been a couple of important developments on the subject of Canadian hydropower since we released our 4-part series, Powerline. Today, we bri...
An American Lobster in Stockholm
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In 2010 a researcher found a clutch of hybrid American-European lobster eggs in a Norwegian fjord. This kicked off a decade of research attempting to ...
Ask Sam: Caterpillar Legs, Living Fossils, & Sam Ruins Edison Bulbs
18 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
You've left us lots of great questions on the Ask Sam hotline (1-844-GO-OTTER) so Sam and the team crammed into a studio to try and answer a few. In...
Stoner Panels
04 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a legend among energy nerds. According to this legend, California pot-growers — with their illicit capital and counter-cultural ideas — ...
What's the Deal with Coydogs?
21 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This canine can be found all the way from Panama to Alaska, and shows no sign of going away anytime soon. But what are they? In this episode from Brav...
Fantastic Mr. Phillips
08 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In the late sixties, a soap factory in suburban Illinois discovered one of its outflow pipes had been intentionally clogged by an industrial saboteur....
Powerline, Part IV: Down the Line
30 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Decades of legal and public relations battles with First Nations have changed the way that Hydro-Quebec approaches new projects. Today, the company hi...
Powerline, Part III: The Peace of the Braves
23 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Crees of Quebec signed a landmark agreement with their province and country. The Pessamit Innus now look to that playbook for help in their presen...
Powerline, Part II: The Project of the Century
16 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Hydro-Quebec is the provincially-owned utility that helped French-Canadians stake a claim in Quebec politics and economy. As it forged ahead with two ...
Powerline, Part I: Masters In Our Own Home
09 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This is part one of our series about how a company, with all of the force of a colonial culture behind it, tried to use its power to push original occ...
Introducing: Powerline
27 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Hydro-Québec, the world’s fourth largest hydropower producer, pumps out low carbon electricity at the cheapest rates in North America. For some, it...
Vultures Inherit the Earth
26 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Bicknell's Thrush is a bird that can only live in a few very very restricted places. It spends its summers in dense alpine forests in the Northeas...
Ask Sam | Eating Grass, Killing Trees, Bottling and Logging
12 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Ask Sam hotline has been blowing up lately! Not like the Galaxy 7, no. In a good way! So Sam, along with a couple of producers from the Outside/In...
In Too Deep
28 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The story of Michael Proudfoot is everywhere, and the details are always more or less the same: a SCUBA diver exploring a shipwreck breaks his regulat...
Pick Your Poison
14 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In our long, evolutionary history, modernity is just a blip. The wiring of our brains took place over hundreds of thousands of years of hunting and ga...
Lime and Tabasco
31 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Two young, starry-eyed conservation biologists take a college road trip through Mexico that transforms their outlook on the world. In so doing, they c...
The Hitchhiker's Guide to WWOOFing
17 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Looking for a relatively cheap way to spend a few weeks abroad? You might want to consider World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms, or WWOOF. Have a...
Bright Lights, Big Salad
03 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Lēf Farms built a $10 million dollar, state of the art, automated greenhouse, hoping to sell baby greens branded as fresh and local to area grocery s...
Healing Hands of Nature
20 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Wilderness Therapy is a form of treatment that uses the natural world to address behavioral and mental health issues in teens. But with a tattered his...
After The Flood
06 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In 1982, Times Beach was wiped off the map by an environmental disaster. But once the houses and streets were gone, the town was erased again, this ti...
Eat the Invaders & Ask Sam
22 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we attempt to not only eat the invaders, but drink them as well. And this time, most of us were on board. Also, the Ask Sam hotline gets som...
S.O.S.
08 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Global Rescue is a business that, should you get yourself into trouble, will drop everything to come and save you, anywhere in the world. They employ ...
10x10 - Midden
25 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Up along the banks of the Damariscotta River in Maine there used to be two stadium-sized piles of oyster shells. Where did they come from? Why are the...
Champagne on the Rocks
18 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
If you're a long-time listener of the podcast, you might remember this as Episode 6: Champagne on the Rocks. But if you're new around here, we thought...
Daisy Supply Chain
11 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wonder where those flowers in the grocery come from and why, no matter what time of year, there are always roses available? Just in time for Moth...
Ask Sam Round-up
27 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Since we launched the toll free version of our Ask Sam hotline, 1-844-GO-OTTER (844-466-8837), we've seen a real healthy uptick in queries. This time ...
Leave it to Beavers
13 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Beaver (Castor canadensis), have been kicking around in North America for 2 million years. Ecologically they do all sorts of great things: their ponds...
Full Disclosure
30 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Nature documentaries and wildlife films transport us to places in the world that still feel wild, but what if the wilderness they present is staged? W...
The Company Man
16 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
When he was just 38 years old, Mackie Branham Jr., a coal miner, was diagnosed with progressive massive fibrosis, a debilitating and terminal form of ...
Bonus Episode: 3 1/2 Feet Under
09 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This is a follow-up to Episode 30: The Death Machine. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collecti...
Gnar Pow
02 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Is skiing a sport reserved for rich people? Producers Maureen and Jimmy think so, and Sam wants to prove them wrong. In this episode, Sam takes his sk...
Fantastic Mr. Phillips
16 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In the late sixties, a soap factory in suburban Illinois discovered one of its outflow pipes had been intentionally clogged by an industrial saboteur....
Ask Sam | Snow Fleas, Wind, Mount Mitchell
02 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Every so often, we take some time out from telling stories to answer questions from you, our friends and listeners. These questions have been piling u...
The Death Machine
19 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
When Ryan and Sinehan Lessard first started dating, they discovered they have something strange in common: after they die, they both want to “become...
A House Built on Sand
12 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Coastal communities of every partisan stripe are wrestling with the reality of rising seas. But when you’ve built a life centered around your dream ...
The Accidental History of Solar Power
05 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re even the least bit interested in solar power, you’ve probably come across an obscure, hard-to-parse, seemingly conflict-free term: net m...
Millionaires' Hunt Club
29 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Sam is going to take us all hunting this week. Not hunting for animals, but instead, hunting for the secret of what’s behind that 26-mile fence cutt...
HumaNature - Hoofprints on the Heart
22 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the show we’re bringing you something a little different, a story from someone else. Caroline Ballard and Micah Schweizer started HumaN...
The 2nd Greatest Show on Earth
15 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Mount Washington is famously home of "The World's Worst Weather", but it also hosts a huge amount of tourist infrastructure. Senior producer Taylor Qu...
Don't Cheer For Me Argentina
08 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Sam won’t tell you this, but he’s a really great athlete. He has another secret, too. There’s this photo of him leading a ski race, and it’s p...
10x10 - Traffic Circle
22 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In our series, 10X10, we take you on a journey to a 10X10 plot and uncover the secrets in spaces you’d never think to look. This time, we look for s...
Always. Wear. Earth. Tones.
10 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Tony Bosco hid in plain sight for more than two decades in the most densely populated state in the nation. How did he do it? And what makes someone ex...
Nature is a Haunted House
27 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, Friday the Thirteenth, Blair Witch. It seems the woods make a great backdrop for scary stories, but why? Ar...
Eat the Invaders - Lionfish
20 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This is Eat The Invaders - our occasional segment where we take a bite out of invasive species populations. On the menu today, one of the scariest, mo...
Look Toward the Dawn
06 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we take a step back to imagine a world without a web of GPS satellites telling your smartphone where you are every second of the day. While thi...
Dr. Percy & the Magic Soybean
22 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
It’s not surprising that many of the medicines we use today are derived from plants. The surprising part is how similar the molecular components of ...
The Early Birder Gets the Bird
08 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In 2013, Neil Hayward was depressed. He had just left the biotech company he helped start, and he was getting over the end of a very serious relations...
When the Cat's Away, The Mice Will Play
01 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The producers commandeer the show while host Sam Evans-Brown is on a much-needed vacation. They sail into weird territory almost immediately. Note: Sa...
WTF is TFC?
18 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
When you walk a trail in the woods, have you ever wondered, how did this get here? Who carved this path? Was this stone staircase always like this? No...
Never Bring a Sledgehammer to a Scalpel Fight
04 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
When a Harvard professor accidentally let Gypsy Moths loose in the 1860s, he didn’t realize he was releasing a scourge that would plague New England...
These Shoes Were Made For Mocking
21 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Producer Taylor Quimby has been defending Vibram FiveFingers™ shoes to naysayers for years. When people see him wearing them while he’s on the tra...
The Pokémon Question
14 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Pokémon Go is getting people outside and moving around, but is that enough? When it comes to developing a lasting appreciation for the natural world,...
Up Against the Ropes
07 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The “Save the Whales” movement of the 1970’s was instrumental in putting a stop to commercial whaling. But even as humpbacks and other whale pop...
Ask Sam | Syrup-titious
23 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Two listeners, two very different questions for Sam. Can you 'taste' which state maple syrup comes from & why do dogs spend so much time deciding wher...
Anothah Boston Cheat
09 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Ari Ofsevit is a guy from Boston fueled by an intense, nerdy love for sports. The day after running this year’s Boston Marathon, his face was all ov...
Tiny Terror
25 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
A mini-episode about the world's cutest predator. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection a...
Gridlocked
18 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We're gonna give it to you straight. This story is Sam's white whale. For years, the electrical grid has called to him like a siren, and lead him down...
Parenting At 24,000 Feet
04 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
For alpinist Ben Clark, scaling the world's toughest montains was a source of pride and accomplishment, for his parents it was a source of constant wo...
The Young Man of the Mountain
26 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Tyler Armstrong is 12 years old. He likes to play laser tag. He’s learning to play guitar. And this spring he’s heading to China, where he will at...
Smashing Pumpkins-The Gourd That Changed A Town
03 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In the early '90s Keene, New Hampshire created a pumpkin festival to bring the community together, but after 24 years the quaint festival tore the tow...
Champagne on the Rocks
19 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This past summer, Scott Jurek set a new record for running the 2,181 miles of the Appalachian Trail. But on his triumphant day atop the last mountain ...
Pier Pressure
22 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In 1998, Forest Quimby spent thousands of dollars building one of the most beautiful, most elaborate docks on Franklin Pierce Lake in New Hampshire. T...
The Moose Whisperer
15 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In 2015 about 2,700 of the 50,000 people who applied will receive a moose hunting permit. If you're one of the lucky ones who has waited 20 years for ...
10x10 - Vernal Pools
08 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
....or, why you should always be careful when you're traipsing through the woods in the springtime. In this episode we check out the most short-lived ...
The Kiwi Apocalypse
01 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Or, how Sam learned to stop worrying and love the cold hardy kiwi. It's a fruit you've never heard of, but it could be the key to one man's dream, eve...
Welcome to Outside/In!
20 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Outside/In, a show where curiosity and the natural world collide. Outside/In is hosted by Nate Hegyi, and produced by New Hampshire Public ...