68: Craving Outside Water

Inge Lehmann forever. Spaceward tungstan shotgun! Worst Salt Lake? Poisonous confidence! We celebrate the horse girls. Breathing bees! The deepening mystery of the prototaxites. The sperm whale miracle! Negative ions: the real and the influenced. To the moon again, despite it all. Inge Lehmann: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/inge-lehmann-and-earths-deepest-secret/ Pulverize it!: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/inside-a-bold-plan-to-pulverize-an-earth-bound-asteroid/ Great Arsenic Lake: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/utahs-great-salt-lake-may-be-hiding-a-massive-reservoir-of-fresh-water/ The occasionally confidant snake: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/these-snakes-steal-poison-from-their-prey-heres-how-they-know-they-have/ Prototaxites?: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-mysterious-407-million-year-old-fossil-may-represent-a-previously-unknown-branch-of-life-180988052/ Sprem Whale Birth: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/climate/sperm-whale-birth-assistance.html?searchResultPosition=2 The moon again: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasas-artemis-era-may-finally-solve-three-major-moon-mysteries/ Produced by Joe Fisher and Finlay Stevenson Edited & Mastered by Rich Palmer Music: My Own Kind of Tango by Alexandra Woodard Leave Finlay a message or a voicemail: https://www.hwatweekly.com Follow us on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@hwatweekly Follow us on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/hwatweekly.bsky.social Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hwatweekly/ Find and support our sponsors at: fableandfolly.com/partners See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.