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 Alie Ward

Science Communicator. podcaster. elective redhead.

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GO TO MARS WITH ME. Sort of. On tomorrow’s Innovation Nation on CBS, we trek out to Hanksville, Utah to see how aspiring astronauts live in a Mars simulation and it was ... a trip. Saturday mornings, @cbsinnovationtv, check local listings. Also @cwinventiontv is an encore of the premiere in case you like spider catchers, a jetski-motorcycle-submarine, a soccer ball that can help kids do their homework at night and more. Okay happy Friday bye.
Sweet birthday baaaby! It’s choreographer, performer, cat mom, and friendhusband @katmburns’s birthday today and so here is a pic of our embryos from maybe 2005 to say HAAAAPPPY BIRFDEAH. Meeting you while shopgirls on Franklin was such lucky thing that happened and watching you follow your dream and kick ass is like, a daily joy for us all ✨💖✨ Also thanks for making me not hate musicals anymore.
I purchased this latte so I wouldn’t work from home in my underpants and I’m sorry that I’m your embarrassing aunt
Visited my parents and left with a bag of dead birds. About twice a year they’ll get a fatal window strike and much to our collective sadness and my mom’s disgust [pictured, left] my pop stores them in their freezer until I can grab them and foist them upon taxidermist @allis. Oh ps: Allis, would you like 3 dead quail? Quails?
Hello it’s midnight and I just ate several slices of American cheese singles out of my parents’ fridge in the woods while I write about hagfish in their kitchen (I am in the kitchen; the hagfish are in the ocean/your nightmares) and if you’re awake or up early on Saturday, this week’s @ologies is with the wonderful #scorpiologist (SCORPIONS) and @500queerscientists founder @caribales upon whom I forced #cheesetea (with Dr. @teagwall) and it’s a greeeat episode and you can hear how scorpions make out with each other and were once THE SIZE OF COUCHES. Also on @cbsinnovationtv I jam my hand into active flames and learn about fancy fountains and on @cwinventiontv hear about parking hacks and so much more okay one more slice of cheese, so what who cares
The best $16 an Angeleno can spend. If you live in LA, this book #WildLA tells you allll about the plants and critters and trees around to you on the porch, in the park, on the lamp post. It is so so so so good. For the price of one craft cocktail you can learn about all the amazing alive things that surround to you. Follow authors/pals @colilaoptera & @jgold85 (Greg Pauly & Charles Hood aren’t on IG) and hear them read their favorite excerpts on this week’s @ologies. Did I mention it’s so good BECAUSE IT IS AND I AM SO PROUD OF THEM. (Also Jason & I are looking in two different cameras at Phil’s wedding and I cropped all of our other friends out. Sorry friends.)
Hi guess what it’s #willowhutwednesday. This week’s @ologies is a ✨LOVE LETTER✨to the @nhmla in the form of an audio Field Trip. Hear about how volunteering there changed my whole friggin’ life plus the weirdest spookiest coolest behind-the-scenes exhibits and vaults. Also I’ll be doing a live Q&A with Ologists this coming Friday April 5 and on June 7 — and the wonderful @polycrystalhd (a member of the beloved #NerdBrigade) is filling in for me for May 3. Listen to the episode via the link in bio, meet me at the NHM on Friday and/or follow the museum and all of these nerds to fill your life with more wonder and science.
 
 
 

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Latest Episodes
Hagfishology (HAGFISH) with Tim Winegard
Hagfishology (HAGFISH) with Tim Winegard
Scorpiology (SCORPIONS) with Dr. Lauren Esposito
Scorpiology (SCORPIONS) with Dr. Lauren Esposito
FIELD TRIP: How to Change Your Life via the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
FIELD TRIP: How to Change Your Life via the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
Victimology (CRIME VICTIMS) with Dr. Callie Rennison
Victimology (CRIME VICTIMS) with Dr. Callie Rennison
Astrobiology (ALIENS) with Dr. Kevin Peter Hand
Astrobiology (ALIENS) with Dr. Kevin Peter Hand
Ludology (VIDEO GAMES) with Dr. Jane McGonigal
Ludology (VIDEO GAMES) with Dr. Jane McGonigal
Etymology (WORD ORIGINS) with Helen Zaltzman of The Allusionist podcast
Etymology (WORD ORIGINS) with Helen Zaltzman of The Allusionist podcast
Thermophysiology (BODY HEAT) with Dr. Shane Campbell-Staton
Thermophysiology (BODY HEAT) with Dr. Shane Campbell-Staton
Personality Psychology (PERSONALITIES) with Dr. Simine Vazire
Personality Psychology (PERSONALITIES) with Dr. Simine Vazire
Matrimoniology (MARRIAGE) with Dr. Benjamin Karney
Matrimoniology (MARRIAGE) with Dr. Benjamin Karney