Longest Treasure Hunt, Dung Beetles, Kumari, Washington Post Obits

Longest Treasure Hunt, Dung Beetles, Kumari, Washington Post Obits

Constant Wonder - Season 2022, Episode 153

  • Apr 23, 2019 6:00 am
  • 1:37:30 mins
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Curse of Oak Island: the World's Longest Treasure Hunt (Originally Aired 4/17) Guest: Randall Sullivan, author, "The Curse of Oak Island: The Story of the World’s Longest Treasure Hunt" The legendary buried treasure on Oak Island, Nova Scotia has confounded searchers for more than 200 years, killed six people, and contains booby traps that no engineers have been able to figure out or dismantle, even with millions of dollars of today’s cutting edge technology.  What is the true story behind this cursed, real life treasure hunt – which is also the subject of a hit TV show on the History Channel?   Why the World Needs Dung Beetles (Originally Aired 4/17) Guest: Marcus Byrne, Professor of Entomology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa and author of “Dance of the Dungbeetles” Small phenomena on this planet quite possibly make the world go round, as they say. The fundamental small stuff on which everything else depends. And in the case of dungbeetles, many of...