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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Whether you grow them, collect them, or grind them up and swallow them, antlers are one of the most astonishing sets of bones on Earth.
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As soon as Jocelyn Smith started her descent from the last mountain summit of the Appalachian Trail, she started to wonder… what now?
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“In"Don't Look Up", the business tycoon wanted to split the asteroid into a couple dozen pieces and retrieve them after they landed in the ocean. Would the consequences to us of a large asteroid hit be any less if it were broken up like that?”
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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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Author Mary Roach is no stranger to squirmy subjects. By comparison, her latest book sounds almost cute: It’s called Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law.
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Every other Friday, the Outside/In podcast team answers one listener's question about the natural world.This week’s question comes from Rebecca, from the Bay Area of California.
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Once upon a time, potpourri was a popular way to freshen up a space. Now, for some, it feels a bit like the lava lamp of fragrance: an outdated fad from a bygone decade.
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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, Kristin from Portsmouth has a question about allergies: “So this Spring [was] particularly rough for me and it got me wondering if animals also experience allergies or it’s just us humans. Thanks!”
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One day, after a hike up Mt. Lafayette, David Baril posted a photograph to a Facebook hiking group. It seemed pretty benign: just a photograph of an…
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When composer and traveling musician Ben Cosgrove was just 7 years old, he wrote a song called “Waves.” Since then, he’s made a career out of music…