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Episode 6: Xenon-Huffing Mountaineers

Episode 6: Xenon-Huffing Mountaineers

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Co-hosts Matt Smith and Brian Cross mix up a powerful cocktail of mamba venom and xenon gas in the headlines. Matt’s Chemical Minute reaches a premature climax with the ultimate element: carbon. And Brian visits the Sutton Avian Research Center to learn more about bobwhites, prairie chickens, and the history of shotgun ornithology.


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Theme music: “Funky Machine” (ID874) by Lobo Loco (Accessed through FreeMusicArchive.org.; CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)


Production help provided by Scott Gregory.


Yackety Science is recorded at the studios of Public Radio Tulsa, Kendall Hall, University of Tulsa, and at the Center for Creativity at Tulsa Community College.


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Sutton Avian Research Center:

Sutton Avian Research Center

Wild Brew Fundraiser


Xenon Gas and Mountaineering:

They Inhaled a Gas and Scaled Everest in Days. Is It the Future of Mountaineering? (NYT; May 27, 2025)


Snake Venom

He injected himself with venom for decades. Can his antibodies help snakebite victims? (Science, May 2, 2025)


Disappearing Science:


NIH Grants Terminated: https://grant-watch.us/nih-data.html


NSF Grants Terminated: https://grant-watch.us/nsf-data.html



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