December 2024: Patterns of Activity.

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This month, host Bill McGeeney is joined by Travis Longcore, Adjunct Professor and Co-Chair of the Environmental Science and Engineering Program at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, and Paul Bogard, author of The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light, a finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award!
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Bill's Picks:

• It’s Almost Halloween. That Means It’s Time for a Bat Beauty Contest, KQED Arts, KQED.

• The moon’s influence on the activity of tropical forest mammals, Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

• Shedding light with harmonic radar: Unveiling the hidden impacts of streetlights on moth flight behavior, PNAS.

• Archaeologists Explore Life After Dark in the Ancient Night, Nancy Gonlin and April Nowell, Atlas Obscura.

• light pollution more light FRIGHT pollution (for best effect please read this sentence on all hallow's eve), Qwantz.com.

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1. December 2024: Patterns of Activity. (00:00:00)

2. Nocturnal Animal Behavior and Light Pollution (00:28:38)

3. Seabirds Vulnerable to Artificial Light (00:38:24)