Snow and Ice

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January 22, 2006

Ice is amazing stuff. A few cubes in a glass and you have a refreshing drink. A light glaze on a highway and you have a tragedy waiting to happen. In this hour of To The Best Of Our Knowledge, a visit with a woman who knows pretty much all there is to know about ice. And, where there's ice, there's often snow. We'll also hear from the woman who runs the Alaska Mountain Safety Center and is one of the world's leading experts on avalanches.

Jill Fredston on "Snowstruck"

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Jill Fredston tells Jim Fleming how avalanches happen. She says it has everything to do with the terrain and the condition of the snowpack.

Bernd Heinrich on "Winter World"

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Bernd Heinrich tells Steve Paulson about frogs that survive being frozen solid and bears that convert nitrogen into protein while they hibernate sleep.

Piers Vitebsky on 'The Reindeer People'

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Piers Vitebsky is an anthropologist who studies the Eveny — also known as the "Reindeer People of Siberia." He tells Steve Paulson they keep herds of reindeer for meat, but also have personal, consecrated reindeer animal doubles, which they believe will die for them.

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10:18

Mariana Gosnell on "Ice"

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Mariana Gosnell tells Anne Strainchamps why ice floats, and stories about ice bergs.

Lawrence Millman on Edward Beauclerk Maurice's diary

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Lawrence Millman wrote the foreward and saw through the publication of Edward Beauclerk Maurice's diary.

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December 24, 2006
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Jill Fredston

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Bernd Heinrich

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Piers Vitebsky

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Mariana Gosnell

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Lawrence Millman

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August 02, 2024