To Sidedoor, With Love
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Sidedoor
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From brontosauruses with bronchitis to birds on a wire to flying space rocks and a botched heist at 20 thousand feet. In this episode, Lizzie and Sidedoor producer James run all around the Smithsonian to answer listeners' questions from the Sidedoor mailbag.
Guests:
Lynn Heidelbaugh, curator at the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum
Sara Hallager, curator of birds at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute
Jim Nollman, composer and pioneer of the “interspecies music” genre, conceptual artist, and environmental activist
Cari Corrigan, research geologist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and curator of the Antarctic Meteorite Collection
Sharon Bryant, marketing specialist at the Smithsonian’s Office of Communications and External Affairs
Matthew Carrano, research geologist and curator of Dinosauria at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History
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