4 days Ago By Outside/In, Marina Henke
On the Cayman Islands, a sign warns against the dangers of the manchineel tree.(Scott Hughes (CC BY-SA 2.0) / Wikimedia)A few months ago, we got an email from a listener who tried a bit of a very poisonous apple and lived to tell the tale.
Ultimately, he was fine. But the incident left him full of questions.We figured, why not run with that curiosity? We put a call out for all of your poison related queries and you delivered: How much should you worry about those green potatoes in your pantry? Could our car tires be poisoning the environment? It’s another Outside/Inbox roundup on the show this week.
Buckle up.Are green potatoes toxic?Are invasive browntail moths expanding their range?Is hydroxyapatite an effective substitute for fluoride?How much toxic airborne pollution is contributed by vehicle tires?Featuring Hussein Elgridly, Deborah Blum, Andy Robinson, Angela Mech, Kyle Lombard and Heejung Jung.This is the first part of a “Things That Can Kill You” mini-series.
Up next, we tackle venom and allergies.For our next Outside/Inbox roundup, we’re looking for questions about sound! Dream big here: We’re talking animal sounds, traffic noise, the sounds of space..
. Send us your questions by recording yourself on a voice memo, and emailing that to us at [email protected].
Or you can call our hotline: 844-GO-OTTER.A full transcript of this episode is available here.ADDITIONAL MATERIALSCheck out the breakthrough paper where scientists identified 6PPD-quinone as the culprit for mass Coho salmon die-offs in the Pacific Northwest.
For our New Hampshire listeners, you can report sightings of brown tail moths at nhbugs.org. Pt.
1 of our "Things That Can Kill You" series. (Images top to bottom: A dandelion in a field (Jim Lukach, CC BY 2.0), peanuts (John Campbell, public domain), a Malabar Pit Viper (Yogendra Joshi, CC BY 2.
0). )SUPPORTTo share your questions and feedback with Outside/In, call the show’s hotline and leave us a voicemail. The number is 1-844-GO-OTTER.
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Follow Outside/In on Instagram or join our private discussion group on Facebook.CREDITSHosted by Nate HegyiThis episode was reported, produced, and mixed by Marina Henke, Justine Paradis, and Felix Poon. It was edited by Taylor Quimby and Justine Paradis.
Taylor Quimby is Outside/In's Executive Producer.Rebecca Lavoie is NHPR’s Director of On-Demand Audio.Music by Blue Dot Sessions, Caro Luna and Bomull.
Our theme music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.Outside/In is a production of New Hampshire Public Radio..
