Yesterday we showed you the first set of pictures from our coffee field trip, showing you how Phil Broughton from Funranium Labs dosed us with his special highly caffeinated brew, Black Blood of the Earth. (Which, thanks to friend of the podcast Padgett, we just realized is a Big Trouble in Little China reference. *Facepalm*...

On our first adventure for the new season of the Field Trip, we took our lives into our own hands by investigating the awesome power of extreme caffeine. We’d heard tell of the legend of Phil Broughton, the brains behind Funranium Labs, an Oakland-based company that makes extreme coffee via a special cold-brewing vacuum extraction process....

If you like science podcasts and are looking for a way to sample some new options for free, without having to download them or sign up for a subscription, check out the group we set up on SoundCloud for our fellow podcasting nerds! This is a place for radio stations or podcasters to share sound...

Hi Field Trip friends, just a little note to let you know what we’ve been working on. It’s definitely been a little quiet around here lately on the site, but there’s been a lot going on behind the scenes. We’ve been out reporting Series 2 of the podcast, meeting some of our strangest, funniest, most...

Summer, 2009 Until just a few days before I arrived, the San Francisco Zoo had been the proud home of a committed, monogamous pair of male penguins named Harry and Pepper. They’d moved in to a burrow together a year or so before, and incubated and fussed over first a wooden egg, then a real...

So we were in the women's bathroom on a World War II naval carrier, looking for ghosts, and for a minute there it looked like we had one cornered.

Sometimes you’re tootling along on your way to some great and wonderful adventure and the road opens before you and (to quote the poet Browning) the lark is on the wing and the snail’s on the thorn and you think, not so badly done, life. Not bad at all.

Happy 2012, Field Trip Podcast friends! We're back from our holiday break, we have wiped the sleep out of our eyes and gotten the crumbs out of our hair, and we're back to work on Series 2.

Want to come along on a photo tour of our visit to Cultured Pickle Shop in Berkeley? Follow us! You can see the carbonated carrots, the mad scientist kombucha lab, and (part of) the 750 pounds of cabbage.

Field trip friend Steve DeMello sent us this action photo of him listening to the podcast at his desk, surrounded by many important podcast-accompanying totems.

Just in time for all of your holiday travel — you know, for staring blankly out the windows of airport terminals, train stations, bus stops, cabs, station wagons, jetliners, ferries, rickshaws, and whatever other conveyances you may use as you hurtle towards home and loved ones. Or for those of you skipping the travel and having...