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Smologies with Alie Ward

SHARKS with Chris Lowe

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SHAAAARKS. Leading shark researcher Dr. Chris Lowe dishes about why sharks get a bad rap, antibiotic mucus, 120 year old teenagers, eye lasers, and how to snooze when you’ve got to keep swimming. Alie learns that sharks are not the ocean's bad guys but true evolutionary marvels who suffer from sensationalized reputations and sometimes inside-out butts.

© Alie Ward Length 25 min 10 July 2025 Age: 6-10 , 11plus Topics: Science , Educational , Nature , Animals Country: USA Type: Episodic

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© Alie Ward Length 25 min 10 July 2025 Age: 6-10 , 11plus Topics: Science , Educational , Nature , Animals Country: USA Type: Episodic

Introducing Smologies: The Shorter, Kid-Safe Ologies

Introducing Smologies: The Shorter, Kid-Safe Ologies

This is an episodic podcast, so you can listen to it in any order, but episode one is a great place to start.

Listen to episode one here

SHAAAARKS. Leading shark researcher Dr. Chris Lowe dishes about why sharks get a bad rap, antibiotic mucus, 120 year old teenagers, eye lasers, and how to snooze when you’ve got to keep swimming. Alie learns that sharks are not the ocean's bad guys but true evolutionary marvels who suffer from sensationalized reputations and sometimes inside-out butts. Listen up as a science primer during this, the Week of the Shark.

Dr. Chris Lowe's SharkLab at Cal State University Long Beach

Follow the CSULB SharkLab on Instagram and Facebook

Full-length (*not* G-rated) Selachimorphology episode + tons of science links

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Sound editing by Mercedes Maitland of Maitland Audio Productions and Steven Ray Morris

Made possible by work from Noel Dilworth, Susan Hale, Jacob Chaffee, Kelly R. Dwyer, Aveline Malek and Erin Talbert

Smologies theme song by Harold Malcolm

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© Alie Ward | 25 min

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