Byrd Pinkerton

Los Angeles, New York

Podcast Producer at Vox

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Best 70 Science News Podcasts

2 weeks ago | millionpodcasts.com | Noam Hassenfeld |Byrd Pinkerton |Meradith Hoddinott |Mandy Nguyen

Here is our list of top Science News podcasts you can listen to or contact them for your outreach campaign. Find hosts, booking agents and producers info for each podcast for collaboration. Podcast Media Contact Database Streamline Your Podcast Outreach with EaseAre you a PR professional, marketer, outreach manager, or a business owner looking to get featured on the right podcasts?
After heat waves and sea star wasting, researchers look to protect California’s tidepools

3 weeks ago | vox.com | Byrd Pinkerton

In just a few hours, the world I’m walking into will disappear beneath the waves. I’m at Pillar Point Harbor, a 40-minute drive from San Francisco, near low tide.
Writers Guild Awards 2025 Winners List (Updating Live)

2 months ago | variety.com | Byrd Pinkerton |Michael Schneider

The Writers Guild Awards are underway in both Los Angeles and New York, as the WGA recognizes the best of 2024's writing in television and film. This year's annual event bicoastal event is being at the Beverly Hilton for the West Coast edition and at New York's Edison Ballroom for the East Coast ceremony. In Los Angeles, Joel Kim Booster hosts this year's event, while in the East, comedian Roy Wood Jr. serves as host.
'Challengers,' 'Dune 2' and 'Wicked' Among the Nominees

Jan 15, 2025 | variety.com | Byrd Pinkerton |Clayton Davis

A Real Pain, Written by Jesse Eisenberg; Searchlight Pictures Anora, Written by Sean Baker; NEON Challengers, Written by Justin Kuritzkes; Amazon MGM Studios Civil War, Written by Alex Garland; A24 My Old Ass, Written by Megan Park; Amazon MGM Studios A Complete Unknown, Screenplay by James Mangold and Jay Cocks, Based on the Book Dylan Goes Electric! by Elijah Wald; Searchlight Pictures Dune: Part 2, Screenplay by Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, Based on the Novel Dune by Frank Herbert;...
Why did we think Neanderthals weren’t smart?

Dec 7, 2024 | vox.com | Byrd Pinkerton

H.G. Wells is probably best known for his story about an alien invasion, “The War of the Worlds,” and some of his other fantastical science fiction. But he also dabbled in some less well known prehistorical fiction. In 1921, he published a story about early modern humans and Neanderthals called “The Grisly Folk.” In it, a group of early modern humans is wandering around. Wells makes it clear that he does not think they are especially refined.
Why is fear fun? The science of why we love to scare ourselves.

Oct 29, 2024 | vox.com | Byrd Pinkerton

It’s spooky season, that time of year when people spend lots of time and money deliberately freaking themselves out. It’s a time for watching scary movies or touring through haunted houses or curling up with a bloodcurdling Stephen King novel. This is, for many people, very fun. But why? Why do some people (myself not included, if I’m being honest) get such a kick from being scared? What is so fun about fear?
What’s a wild bat worth to you? This economist is asking.

Jun 18, 2024 | vox.com | Benji Jones |Byrd Pinkerton

Bats, the world’s only flying mammals, spend much of their lives eating. In North America, most of them chow down on insects — things like mosquitos, moths, and leafhoppers. They can catch as many as 1,000 bugs in a single hour. We benefit from bats’ dietary preferences. Beyond limiting the number of disease-carrying, skin-irritating mosquitoes, bats eat the insect pests that damage our crops, such as corn earworms. They voluntarily provide pest-control services for farmers across the country.
More animals take a DIY approach to reproduction than was previously understood. Scientists aren’t sure why.

May 11, 2024 | vox.com | Byrd Pinkerton

Charlotte the stingray was pregnant. That in and of itself was not all that exciting but, according to the staff at the North Carolina aquarium where she is based, Charlotte alsohadn’t come into contact with a male of her species for eight years. She’d been living in a tank with two sharks, and no male rays. Which left people all across the internet wondering: Who was the father of her embryos? The most likely answer, according to most researchers, was ... no one. There was no father.
WGA Awards See the Full List of Winners

Apr 15, 2024 | fiz-x.com | Byrd Pinkerton |“It Ain’t Over |Sean Mullin |Errol Morris

The HBO drama “Succession” concluded its run with a resounding victory at the Writers Guild of America Awards, taking home two prestigious honors: best drama series and best drama episode. Creator Jesse Armstrong accepted the awards in New York, joined by the show’s writers in Los Angeles, marking the series’ final major awards show eligibility following its conclusion in May.
Writers Guild Awards - Updating Live From Los Angeles & New York

Apr 14, 2024 | news.blogtop10.com | Byrd Pinkerton |Jeff L. Lieberman |Sean Mullin |Errol Morris

Apr 15, 2024 8:34 am | entertainment, News Refresh for latest… The elongated 2023-24 awards season wraps tonight as the WGA presents its strike-delayed 2024 Writers Guild Awards in simultaneous ceremonies on both coasts. Deadline is posting the winners live as they are revealed; see the running list below.

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