We talk with Cody Diffiefenthaler with the Florida Center for Interactive Media about how found his career as a Application Developer.
“We're not in the artifact-collecting business; we're in the information-collecting business.”
That's Dr. Glen Doran, Chair of the FSU Anthropology Department (Retired). “Florida has one of the richest prehistoric and historic heritages of any place in the country.”
Many historic sites...
For more than three decades the St. Francis Wildlife Association has worked to save and return injured and orphaned wild animals back into their habitat. WFSU's Mike Plummer visits the facility in Gadsden county and talks with Teresa...
For this Fork in the Road, Charles Renaud returns to Pecan Ridge Plantation in Southern Georgia to meet Eric Cohen and his Black Lab, Tate. Tate has been trained to hunt for truffles, a mushroom prized by chefs...
The Aucilla and Wacissa Rivers are home to archeological sites dating back as far as fourteen thousand years. Stone tools and the remains of hunted animals can offer clues as to the identities of these first Floridians. A team...
Recent cold weather reminds us that we're in winter, but in the Red Hills of Georgia and the Apalachicola National Forest, this is the time of year when a very rare flower blooms. If you visited these areas in...
The reality of the old west with names like Bat Masterson, Tom Horn, "Buffalo Bill" Cody, and "Wild Bill" Hickok may be long past. But the romantic spirit of the old west is still alive and WFSU's...
We travel into the Apalachicola National Forest with Bruce Means to learn more about his favorite animal, the eastern diamondback rattlesnake. He has spent forty years studying the snake using radio telemetry. He has taken his decades...
In 1973, Charles Hoffman found mammoth bones alongside spearpoints in the Silver River. At the time, many archeologists didn't believe that humans could be in Florida early enough to interact with mammoths, and that underwater excavations were unscientific....
The first time I meet Chris Omni, we take off our shoes and walk barefoot in Governor’s Park. It’s an exercise in mindfulness in nature. Without shoes, we walk more slowly and take in our surroundings. We feel the...
