It’s time for another edition of Ask Sam, that special segment where scientists cringe as Sam and the team speculate wildly on answers to questions from listeners before calling in the real experts. This time we tackle the sleep habits of mosquitoes, rhubarb replication, the smell of line-dried laundry, and the reinvention of the toilet.

With Disney's reboot of The Lion King hitting theaters, does the original still hold up all these years later? In this episode, the team revisits an epic tale of class, land rights, and destiny... and critiques the landscapes, animals, and themes that so many 90's kids grew up watching. And once again, Jimmy defends the reputation of hyenas.

Ever since the threat of climate change was first made public, scientists have offered the possibility of a get-out-of-jail-free card: geoengineering. While reducing emissions is hard and complicated, why not just engineer the Earth's atmosphere in the meantime?

Swimming is something that is more or less a part of human experience, depending on who you are, where you are, when you are alive in history. More than half of Americans can't perform all of the basic swimming skills. 
On this episode, two stories that explore our relationship with the water, and why people do or don’t learn to swim. 

Traveling to Antarctica to hang with penguins on the company dime likely seems like the dream assignment for a journalist... or anyone. Ron Naveen has been living that dream, counting penguins by hand for decades. And today you're going to hear about that work and what he’s seen as the climate changes from our friends at the PBS Newshour's podcast "The Last Continent." 

This was a story that seemed like a perfect fit Outside/In, but wound up going places that we didn’t expect to go. When workers at the American embassy Cuba claimed to have been attacked by a mysterious weapon that left no trace, it led to a major shift in American diplomacy towards the Caribbean socialist state.

Sam and the team speculate wildly on human body temperature, the benefits of paper towels, cow poop, and how you weight a whale. Then we called the experts.

Textiles are all around us. We live in them, sleep on them, sit on them, walk on them, live in houses filled with them. It’s one of the biggest industries in the world. But it’s also one with a big problem and, at least for consumers in the United States, a largely invisible one - textile waste. Today, we’re tearing the very shirt off your back to explore the old is new approach to textiles that could eliminate millions of tons of garbage a year.