In FE5.1 & 5.2 we got to know jumping spiders primarily through a single genus: Habronattus, the paradise jumping spiders. In this bonus conversation with photographer Michael Lun, we discuss the only genus of jumping spiders that can claim to be even more bedazzling: Maratus, the peacock jumping spiders.

Okinawa, 2019: Producer Simone Miller and Dr. Nick Friedman set off into the Yanbaru Forest to visit one of the OIST Ryukyu Soundscapes Project field sites, for FE2.5 - The Nature of Sound.

Despite being briefly blocked by several unscheduled wildlife road crossings, they reach the field recorder and witness the procession of insect and bird calls from day into dusk.

We’re speaking with documentarian Dan Pierce, director of Heartwood: an ongoing series of short films exploring the ecological, social, and economic impacts of industrial logging

Get to know our friends and collaborators, Miriam Quick and Duncan Geere — the hosts of Loud Numbers, a data sonification podcast. How do data visualization and sonification differ? What are the possibilities and pitfalls? And how can you incorporate the practice into your life?

Jonathan's work is in both FE4.10 Geopoetics and the Emergence Magazine piece we recently featured: When the Earth Started to Sing — music in the former, and paleo-soundscapes in the latter.

One sunny day this past April, Wil and Mendel travelled to Adam's home studio on Galiano to record the first takes for FE4.6