The Abstract

Our Neck of the Woods: Minnesota Mavericks

In this episode, we dive into the heart of the Twin Cities: literally. Learn how Minnesota's most famous university became the place to perfect a life-changing surgery, and how Minnesotan cardiologists are carrying on that legacy today.

Our Neck of the Woods: Up North

Wolves are everywhere and nowhere; they live on pretty much every continent in the Northern hemisphere, but only the most intrepid have seen one in the wild. But across the world, only one place can say it was the first to research them. In the first episode of this three-part series, we'll be traveling to the boreal forests of Northern Minnesota, the home of the International Wolf Center. Up north, the wolves don't act quite the way you'd expect, and an innovative new research team is trying to figure out why.

Introducing Our Neck of the Woods

Welcome to Season 3 of the Abstract! This season is all about Minnesota: the amazing scientific discoveries that have happened here, and the incredible stories of the people that made them. Our first episode launches Friday April 8th and can be found wherever you get your podcasts.

Keynotes: Creativity, Collections, and Cretaceous Cannibals

In the final episode of Keynotes, professors and researchers Ray Rogers and Kristi Curry Rogers speak about their research on death and dinosaurs, the importance of imagination in science, and exploits that took them anywhere from Montana to Madagascar.

Keynotes: Charcoal, Cores, and Cultural Knowledge

On this episode of Keynotes, Josh Stephenson speaks about his work on charcoal in the lakes of Glacier National Park, and how conducting research from the heart, and incorporating traditional ecological knowledge, can change modern science.