Eating Bugs, Wandering Arctic Fox, Underwater Hockey, Democracy and Slavery

Eating Bugs Is Good for You and the Planet Guest: Daniella Martin, host of the insect cooking/travel show"Girl Meets Bug," blogger for "Huffington Post," an author, “Edible: An Adventure into the World of Eating Insects and the Last Great Hope to Save the Planet” We desperately need new and reliable food sources. We also need to start scaling back our carbon footprint and our effect on the environment. Daniella Martin offers entomophagy, the eating of insects, as the answer to both these apparently contradictory issues. What is more, she can also tell us how to cook and eat them. Producer Eric Schulze eats one on the air! Arctic Fox Runs from Norway to Canada in 76 Days Guest: Eva Fuglei, Research Biologist, Norwegian Polar Institute Norwegians have a reputation for being fearless explorers. Most people know by now that Columbus was not the first European to discover America. We are pretty sure from Norse sagas and from Norse archeological evidence on Newfoundland, out on the edge of Canada, that nearly 500 years before Columbus, Norwegian voyagers––including Eric the Red and his son, Leif Eriksen––most likely navigated from Scandinavia to Iceland to Greenland to a part of what is now Canada, which they called Vinland. It was an epic journey in long, open boats across often stormy seas. But at least the Vikings had boats. Last summer, another Norwegian completed that same journey, on foot. She left the coast of Norway without support or supplies, traveling 2,175 miles in 76 days from Norway, cutting across Greenland, and ending in Canada. She traveled across solid ice for much of the journey, averaging nearly 28 miles a day––a rate that blew the mind of researchers following her journey via a GPS device. OK, the Norwegian athlete here was Norwegian and female, but she wasn’t a homo sapien. She was an arctic fox. But the speed and distance of her jaunt nonetheless shocked experts. We talk to the researcher who put the radio collar on the little traveler. It’s like Hockey, But at the Bottom of a Pool Guest: