Pump: A Natural History of the Heart

Pump: A Natural History of the Heart

Constant Wonder • Season 2022, Episode 1262, Segment 1
Nov 5, 2021 • 26m

In 2014, nine blue whales feeding in the Cabot Strait were caught in a massive ice floe and died. Some of their bodies washed up in Newfoundland where the public's interest in the size of a blue whale's heart led a team to salvage and preserve one. Guest: Bill Schutt, author of "Pump: A Natural History of the Heart"