Out in the garage and into the DeLorean — the inventor field trip in photos
A few weeks back, we did a show on garage inventors and DIY culture, and that meant spending the first half of the show hanging out in the backyard shop of inventor Ben Krasnow, a man whose list of garage creations includes homemade Pop Rocks, an ice cream freeze drier, a keyboard that can be played inside...
Into the meat freezer and up a deer’s nose: The taxidermy field trip in photos
If you've listened to our podcast on taxidermy, you've heard us make various "Whoa!" noises as we toured the San Francisco workshop of Leah Wade, who runs the Quiet Science Taxidermy Studio. If you want to see what that was all about, join us here on a photo recap of the field trip.
The Field Trip Podcast gets real with taxidermy
In this episode, we visit Leah Wade at San Francisco's Quiet Science Taxidermy Studio to learn about the art of making the dead live again ... sort of. We also check in with Jay Kirk, the biographer of Carl Akeley, the man who created the African Hall at New York's Museum of Natural History and...