Taylor Quimby
Supervising Senior Producer, Outside/InTaylor Quimby is Supervising Senior Producer of the environmental podcast Outside/In, Producer/Reporter/Host of Patient Zero, and Senior Producer of the serialized true crime podcast Bear Brook.
Taylor pitches and produces stories, participates in and coordinates large group edits with other members of his station, and specializes in providing both gimmicky and subtle sound design. As a musician, Taylor sometimes provides music for various programs and segments, and has written at least one very catchy podcast theme song.
Taylor’s stories have aired on NPR’s Here & Now and WBUR’s Only a Game, and his editing chops have been internationally recognized for his work as broadcast producer for the debate program Intelligence Squared U.S..
He is best known by his colleagues for his terrible taste in athletic footwear, and trying to convince literally everybody to watch Avatar: The Last Airbender.
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You think the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was bad? Wait until you hear about the Siberian Traps.
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Scent-marking, bird calls, giant piles of dung: Animals communicate territory in all sorts of different ways.
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Turns out, a fallout shelter can be just about anywhere — if you’re meeting the right conditions.
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Every other Friday on Morning Edition, the Outside/In team answers a question from a listener about the natural world.This week, one of Outside/In’s Instagram followers asked, “What makes an animal a pest?"
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Philip asks: “Have humans always thought of ice as cold? To put it another way: would a neanderthal in Maine still have needed a jacket in November?”
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If we’re in the middle of a mass extinction, shouldn’t more species be going extinct?
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The Outside/In team answers a question from a listener about the natural world.
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Do blockbuster movies have an obligation to accurately represent science?
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Bill from Lyme asks: “Does anyone know if the origin of life was a singular event, or was there a particular period in earth’s development that spawned the creation of life in multiple places? Is there any evidence [that] process may still be going on somewhere on or under the earth at this time?”
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Every other Friday on Morning Edition, the Outside/In team answers a question from a listener about the natural world.This week, we answer three questions about moss.