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- Rosie and Riff Talk to Dr. Cindy Jumper, a Lung Doctor
- Rosie and Riff Talk to Lief Sigren, a Wetland Ecologist
- Rosie and Riff Talk to Linda Holman, a Microbiologist
- Rosie and Riff Talk to Marta L. Fiorotto, Ph.D., Growth Biologist
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The Natural World
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Wildlife in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
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Insects
- Emerald Ash Borer Arrives on the NIEHS Campus
- Is the “Cat” Out of the Bag?: Eastern Bagworm
- NIEHS to Conduct Offensive to Protect its Ash – Emerald Ash Borer
- The Time Has Come – Emerald Ash Borer
- Couldn’t You At Least Say Something Nice About Me? – Cockroaches
- NIEHS Joins the Butterfly Highway
- Fall Webworms and Eastern Tent Caterpillars
- Pain and Anguish: Identification of the Campus Stinging Ants
- Protecting Yourself from Insect Associated Disease
- Fire Ants and Asian Needle Ants
- Sounding the Alarm for Monarch Butterflies
- Red Velvet Ants
- Wheel Bug (Arilus cristatus)
- Is There Really a Highway in the Sky? Who Uses It Besides Birds and Planes?
- Mason Bees
- Do You See the Light? Glowing, Glowing, Gone
- Bee Hives Make Appearance on NIEHS and EPA Campus
- Separating Fact from Fiction: Cockroach Myths and Misconceptions
- Emerald Ash Borer Continues to Move Through North Carolina and Beyond
- Cicada! Bet You Can't See Me: Heard but Seldom Seen
- Figeaters Compete With Fig Eaters
- Let’s Raise our Glasses to the Fruit Fly Salute!
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Animals
- A Call of the Wild Goes Out – Western Coyote and Eastern Wolf
- Bears in North Carolina
- Jake the Snake and Friends Visit NIEHS
- L'Oie Toulouse? Qui, Moi?
- Myrtle the Turtle Lays Eggs
- NIEHS' Pat the Rat: The Tail of a Cotton Rat
- Oh Deer, Have You Herd?
- You Sure We're in the Right Line? - Turkeys in NC Counties
- Be a Ver-y Good Craftsman, Born to Fell?
- How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck?
- Myrtle's Nest-egg Contributions Grow at NIEHS
- The Dawn of New Lawn Fawns
- "T" time at the Memorial Garden
- Our Boxed-in Friends Could Use Our Help
- Hibernation is More Than an Afternoon Nap
- Being Single is "Not for the Birds"! - Canada Geese
- A Lizard's Tale, a Lost (P)ART: The Ending to be Told
- A Fish Tale with a Happy Ending
- Coyotes in Research Triangle Park, NC
- Hatches in the Pines
- Why Are Bluebirds Blue?
- Snapping Turtles in RTP
- Why Do Birds Attack Windows?
- Bats in North Carolina
- Building Nuthatch Houses
- Do Woodchucks Chuck Wood?
- Man's New Best Friend: The Opossum
- Birds on Campus: Summer Varieties
- Rocky vs. Tweety: A True Survival Story
- Is the Robin the First Sign of Spring?
- A Canada Goose Story
- Why Don't Birds' Feet and Legs Get Frostbite?
- Death Defying High Wire Act
- Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? Some Fly-By-Nighter?
- Did One of the Feather Boas Start Shedding?
- Let's Go Down to the Crawdad Hole, Baby
- Good Snake, Not So Good Reaction
- Cowbirds Practicing Brood Parasitism on NIEHS Campus
- And the Peeps Go On. Do You Ever Wonder How?
- Easy Pickin's! Where?
- Large and Beautiful, the Southern Garden Spider
- Identity Theft Can Occur Anywhere, Anytime
- Why Do Birds Stand on One Leg?
- Moles, Voles, and Shrews - Do You Know the Differences?
- Well, That's Just Ducky!
- Where Do We Go From Here? Time to Settle Down? Toulouse, the White Goose, Has a New Friend.
- Snakes Alive, Mercy Me! How Do You ID Them?
- Carpenter Bees, The Buzz Isn't an Electric Drill
- They Seem to Be Everywhere, What Mite They Be?
- Possible Pigeon Peril Averted
- Hopping, Jumping, Peeping, Croaking, and Splashing. It's That Time Again!
- Seriously? "Knock on Wood?"
- Please Step Forward and Identify Yourself?
- Why Do Hummingbirds Hum?
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Plants
- Sorry, No Fringe on The Top
- Long versus Short Bloomers
- Leaf it to the Trees to Know What's Best
- Do You Have a Family Cress? – Hairy Bittercress
- You Sure This is a Crepe Myrtle?
- A Sedge Gone Nuts – Nutsedge
- Wildflowers in Research Triangle Park
- False Strawberries (Potentilla indica)
- Six Berry-Producing Superstars for Wildlife
- Trees Covered in Cork
- Making Homemade Ice Cream This Summer? Know Your Berries!
- Ho, Ho, Ho: The Mistletoe
- NIEHS Springs to Life with Hardy Orange Flag Flowers
- What's Not to Lichen? Little Known, Little Understood?
- Where Would You Go to Find a Bald Cypress?
- Poison Ivy: Tri Leafing It Alone or Itch a Lot!
- NIEHS Promotes Campus-wide Pollinator Program
- Needleless to Say, It Does Look Strange
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Ecology
- Wonders on Discovery Lake? What’s Happening?
- Been Slimed Lately? Well. They Do it All the Time
- Discovery Lake Shares a Moment of Wonder
- A Japanese Barberry and Lyme
- Bat-ter Up - Bat Roost
- The Impact of Artificial Lighting on Nocturnal Wildlife
- The Monsters that Threatened to Take over Discovery Lake
- Are Leaves Headed for a Fall: What Leads Up to the Color Change
- What's Happening Outside Now?
- Riparian Zones
- Invasive Plant Species in North Carolina
- Wildlife and Industry Together (W.A.I.T.)
- Would You Keep These Pills in Your Medicine Cabinet? - Pillbugs
- Why do Earthworms Crawl on the Sidewalk?
- Algal Blooms and Nutrient Enrichment
- The Purple Martin's History of Dependence on Humans
- Nuthatches and Bluebirds
- Our Health Depends on Pollinators
- What's Happening Outside Now - Has Spring Sprung?
- Discovery Lake Becomes the Canvas for a Spring Watercolor Scene
- Discovery Lake Seems to Keep Changing, What's Going On?
- Stick Built Lodges Allowed on Lake Despite Restrictions in Place
- What's Not to Lichen? Little Known, Little Understood?
- What's Happening Outside Now? Are Dog Days Here?
- Eclipsed By None, NIEHS Employees Look To the Skies
- What is the Effect of Hurricanes on Wildlife?
- What's Hiding in That Dead Tree?
- Wonders on Discovery Lake? What's Happening?
- NIEHS Pollinator Program
- How Does Your Early Morning Start Out? Red Sky?
- Breathe in, Slowly Exhale. Now, Cough, Sneeze and Rub Your Eyes
- What Happened Outside in April 2018?
- Chigger, Chigger, Scratch, Scratch: A Little Scratch Can Go a Long Ways
- What's Happening Outside in Summer 2018
- Kudzu Bugs (Megacopta cribraria)
- Invasive Species
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Insects
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Children's Songs
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- On Top of Spaghetti
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- Over the River
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- Oh Playmate, Come out and Play with Me
- Polly Wolly Doodle All Day
- Polly Put the Kettle on
- Pretty Colors
- My Pony Boy
- I've Been Working on the Railroad
- Please Don't Smoke
- My Hand on My Head
- Little Tin Soldier
- Mr. Yuk Song
- Five Little Ducks
- Alice the Camel
- All the Pretty Little Horses
- Animal Fair
- The Ants Go Marching
- Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
- Take Me out to the Ballgame!
- The Alphabet Song
- Be Kind to Your Webfooted Friends
- Baby Beluga
- Billy Boy
- Bimbo
- B-I-N-G-O
- Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing
- Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
- Blow the Man Down
- Dry Bones
- Daniel Boone
- Brahm's Lullaby
- Go to Sleep My Little Buckaroo
- Apples and Oranges
- Buffalo Gals
- A Bushel and a Peck
- Clementine
- Columbus, a Great Crazy Sailor
- Christofo Columbo
- Come Little Leaves
- Cover Your Mouth and Turn Your Head
- Cuppycake
- Daisy Bell
- Hey Diddle Diddle
- Do Your Ears Hang Low
- The Farmer in the Dell
- Michael Finnegan
- Three Little Fishies
- Frere Jacques
- Frog Went A-Courtin'
- Funiculi Funicula
- Camp Granada
- My Grandfather's Song
- And the Green Grass Grew All Around
- If I Had a Hammer
- Happy and You Know It
- Happy Days Are Here again
- Happy Trails
- Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
- Hickory, Dickory, Dock!
- I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
- Hokey Pokey
- Old Mother Leary
- Humpty Dumpty
- How Much is That Doggie in the Window?
- Hush Little Baby
- I'm a Nut
- In a Cabin in the Woods
- Irish Lullaby
- It's Raining, It's Pouring
- Itsy Bitsy Spider
- John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
- Library Song
- The Little White Duck
- I Don't Want to Live on the Moon
- London Bridge
- Loop de Loop
- Make New Friends (but Keep the Old)
- Robert Baden Powell
- Mary Had a Little Lamb
- Waltzing Matilda
- The More We Get Together
- She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain
- Morningtown Ride
- First Grade, First Grade
- Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone?
- Old Macdonald
- The Bunny Hop
- The World Is a Rainbow
- If All the Little Raindrops
- Red River Valley
- Ring Around the Rosies
- Rock-a-Bye, Baby
- Rubber Duckie
- Sailing, Sailing
- School Days, School Days
- See-Saw, Margery Daw
- Shew Fly, Don't Bother Me!
- Short'nin' Bread
- Sidewalks of New York
- I Can Sing a Rainbow
- Sing Your Way Home
- Sippin Cider
- Six Little Ducks
- Sing a Song of Sixpence
- Skip to My Lou
- It's a Small World
- Down by the Station
- Smokey the Bear
- Ragtime Cowboy Joe
- Oh Suzanna
- Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
- I'm a Little Teapot
- There's a Hole in the Middle of the Sea
- This Old Man
- A-Tisket, a-Tasket
- Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
- I Love You, You Love Me
- Down in the Valley
- The Vowel Song
- The Walking Song
- I Want a Dog
- Way out West in Kansas
- Pop Goes the Weasel
- Wheels on the Bus
- When You Wish upon a Star
- Who Is Wearing (Name a Color) ... ?
- Why Does the Sun Shine?
- Wiggly Woo
- Please Woodcutter
- Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah
- Boom, Boom, Ain't It Great to Be Crazy!
- You Are My Sunshine
- Inchworm
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Favorite Songs
- Forever Young
- He Ain't Heavy
- Ain't No Mountain High Enough
- All You Need Is Love
- A, You're Adorable
- Amazing Grace
- Yes, We Have No Bananas!
- The Band Played on
- Beautiful Boy
- Don't Worry, Be Happy
- Big Yellow Taxi
- Blowing in the Wind
- My Bonnie
- Bridge over Troubled Water
- Calypso
- It Don't Come Easy
- Dancing in the Streets
- America
- Deep in the Heart of Texas
- Beautiful Dreamer
- Earth Day Everyday (Celebrate)!
- Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
- Fly Away
- Flying Free
- Friends
- Goober Peas
- There's a Time Each Year
- I Believe
- I'll Be There
- In My Life
- When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
- For He's a Jolly Good Fellow
- Leader of the Band
- Let It Be
- Like an Eagle
- Bonnie Banks O' Loch Lomond
- Louie Louie
- To Make You Feel My Love
- Maybe This Time
- Meet Me Halfway
- Michael, Row Your Boat Ashore
- Moon River
- Danny Boy
- Natureboy
- Our House
- Grandma's Lye Soap
- Give My Regards to Broadway
- Everybody Says Don't
- Sing
- Snoopy's Christmas
- A Song for Mama
- Stand by Me
- Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream
- Yellow Submarine
- Ballin' the Jack
- Turkey in the Straw
- The Unicorn
- Up on the Roof
- You'll Never Walk Alone
- The White Cliffs of Dover
- Little White Cloud That Cried
- Wonder!
- Yakety Yak
- Y.M.C.A
- (You Say It's Your) Birthday
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- Guess This Tune
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Movies/Musicals
- A Whole New World
- All I Ever Wanted
- Journey to the Past
- Baby Mine
- Bali Ha'i
- Bare Necessities
- Beauty and the Beast
- I Wa'nna Be Like You
- Bella Notte
- Be Our Guest
- Best of Friends
- Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo
- Candle on the Water
- The Candyman
- I Just Can't Wait to be King
- Can You Feel the Love Tonight
- Castle on a Cloud
- I Will Be There for You
- Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful
- In My Own Little Corner
- The Sweetest Sounds
- Climb Ev'ry Mountain
- Circle of Life
- The Colors of the Wind
- I Have Confidence in Me
- Consider Yourself
- Corner of the Sky
- Da-Doo
- The Ballad of Davy Crockett
- Do-Re-Mi
- A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes
- Edelweiss
- When I See an Elephant Fly
- Endless Night
- Ev'rybody Wants to be a Cat
- Eye to Eye
- My Favorite Things
- Feed the Birds
- Let's Go Fly a Kite
- Gary Indiana
- Give a Little Whistle
- The Lonely Goatherd
- Good Company
- Good Night Sweetheart
- Go the Distance
- You're a Grand 'Ole Flag
- (It's Not That Easy) Bein' Green
- Grizabella, the Glamour Cat
- Chim Chim Cher-Ee
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Patriotic Songs
- I Have a Dream
- America the Beautiful
- Anchors Aweigh
- Star Spangled Banner
- Battle of New Orleans
- The Caissons Go Rolling Along
- Semper Paratus
- Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean
- Dixie
- Ballad of the Green Beret
- Hail Columbia
- I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy
- When Johnny Comes Marching Home again
- Liberty Bell March
- The Navy Hymn
- O Canada
- Off We Go into the Wild Blue Yonder
- Song of Freedom
- There's a Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere
- Stars and Stripes Forever
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