Time To Eat The Dogs
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Sinopsis
A podcast about science, history, and exploration. Michael Robinson interviews scientists, journalists, and adventurers about life at the extreme.
Episodios
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Should We Colonize Mars?
08/01/2019 Duración: 37minAstronomer Lucianne Walkowicz talks about the ethics of colonizing Mars and new developments in the search for extraterrestrial life.
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Replay: Chasing Exoplanets
05/01/2019 Duración: 32minScientists have now identified almost 4000 exoplanets --planets that orbit stars outside our own solar system-- and with powerful new telescopes about to come on line, that number is about to skyrocket. Exoplanet scientist Hannah Wakeford, Giaconni Fellow at the Space Telescope Science Institute, discusses this revolutionary new field and its impact on Earth and planetary sciences.
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Searching for the Origins of Humankind
01/01/2019 Duración: 31minHistorian Emily Kern talks about the search for human origins in the 19th and 20th centuries, specifically why anthropologists came to see Africa – rather than Asia – as the cradle of the human species.
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The History of Madagascar in Trade and Exploration
29/12/2018 Duración: 28minJane Hooper talks about Madagascar and its importance to the history of Indian Ocean trade and exploration. Hooper is the author of Feeding Globalization: Madagascar and the Provisioning Trade, 1600-1800, published by Ohio University Press.
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Replay: The Medieval Pilgrimage
25/12/2018 Duración: 30minArt historian Fran Altvater talks about the Medieval Pilgrimage, a practice that became central to Christian Europe in the early Middle Ages.
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Replay: Inventing the American Astronaut
21/12/2018 Duración: 34minMatthew Hersch, author of Inventing the American Astronaut, talks about the origins and evolution of the U.S. astronaut program.
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The Navigator in the Early Modern World
18/12/2018 Duración: 32minMargaret Schotte talks about how sailors were trained to do the difficult and dangerous work of navigation in the early modern world. Schotte is an Assistant Professor of History at York University. She is the author of Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill.
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Replay: How We Got the Scientific Revolution Wrong
15/12/2018 Duración: 33minJorge Canizares-Esguerra discusses the 16th century mining center of Potosí and how its peoples and technologies shaped 16th century science.
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Mountaineering and Glaciology after WWII
11/12/2018 Duración: 32minDani Inkpen talks about expedition life in the Juneau Icefield, home to some of the most spectacular glaciers in North America. In the 1940s, it was the place where science and mountaineering joined hands and, occasionally, came into conflict.
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Replay: Monsters on the Map
08/12/2018 Duración: 27minCannibals, headless men, and giants were common figures of Medieval and Renaissance maps. Historian Surekha Davies tells us why we need to take these figures seriously. Davies is the author of Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters.
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Death in the Ice
05/12/2018 Duración: 26minRussell Potter discusses new developments in the search for answers about the tragic Franklin Expedition that disappeared in the Arctic in 1845.
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Replay: The History of UFOs
01/12/2018 Duración: 32minIn 1946, Swedish and Finnish observers reported "ghost rockets" flying over Scandinavia. In the United States, they became known as "flying saucers." Historian Greg Eghigian discusses the science and culture of UFOs in the twentieth century (rebroadcast).
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How Isolated Tribes Fight Back
27/11/2018 Duración: 24minScott Wallace talks about his recent trip to Brazil reporting on the efforts of the Guajajara people to protect uncontacted tribes from loggers, miners, and poachers.
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Backpack Ambassadors
23/11/2018 Duración: 33minRichard Ivan Jobs talks about the rise of backpacking in Europe after the Second World War, a phenomenon that contributed to the political integration of Europe during the 1960s and 1970s (rebroadcast).
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Into the Extreme
20/11/2018 Duración: 32minValerie Olson talks about why the idea of outer space as a "frontier" is giving way to one that frames it as a cosmic ecosystem. Olson is an associate professor of anthropology at University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics Beyond Earth.
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Searching for Hobbits
17/11/2018 Duración: 32minPaige Madison talks about her work at the Liang Bua cave in Indonesia where she studies Homo Floresiensis as well as the team of researchers who have worked at the cave for years, sometimes for generations.
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The Psychology of Extreme Environments
15/11/2018 Duración: 31minNathan Smith discusses the psychology of exploration, specifically the psychology of performance in extreme environments. Smith worked closely with polar explorer Ben Saunders in 2013 as Saunders attempted to complete Robert Falcon Scott's trek to the South Pole and back.
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Lands of Lost Borders
12/11/2018 Duración: 28minKate Harris -- writer, scientist, and extreme cyclist – talks about the trip she made with her friend Mel, tracing Marco Polo’s route across Central Asia and Tibet. The journey is the subject of Harris’s book, Lands of Lost Borders: a Journey on the Silk Road (rebroadcast).
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The Identity of the Traveler
06/11/2018 Duración: 40minJoyce Ashuntantang talks about her experiences as a traveler and a poet, from her childhood Cameroon to her years studying in Great Britain and the United States. Ashuntantang is a professor of English at Hillyer College, University of Hartford. She is the author of many works of poetry, including Beautiful Fire, published this year with Spears Media Press.
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The Archaeology of Exploration
30/10/2018 Duración: 37minAnthropologist P.J. Capelotti discusses the role of exploration archaeology in understanding the Pacific voyage of Kon-Tiki, the Arctic airship expeditions of Walter Wellman, and the fate of Orca II, a fishing boat used in the film Jaws.