The Global Lab - Pinning It Down - a podcast by The Global Lab

Our theme for this episode is "pinning it down", the importance of labelling, classification and definitions in the fields of cities research, mapping and technology, with a literary sidestep into the eighteenth century for good measure.

Our guests are Giles Rhys Jones, CMO of the innovative new mapping website what3words.com, Sophie Coulombeau, a specialist in eighteenth century literature who tells us about why botanical classification was once considered dangerously sexual, and Elsa Arcaute, a physicist here at CASA, who has been working on the surprising difficult task of how you actually define a city.

Links related to each of our guests may be found below.

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GUESTS:

Giles Rhys Jones:
https://twitter.com/gilesrhysjones (twitter)
http://what3words.com (What3Words)

Sophie Coulombeau:
https://twitter.com/SMCoulombeau (twitter)
https://sophiecoulombeau.wordpress.com (blog)

Elsa Arcaute:
https://twitter.com/ElsaArcaute (twitter)

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PRESENTERS:

Mike Fell:
https://twitter.com/mikefsway (twitter)

Kaisa Puustinen:
https://twitter.com/kaisaph (twitter)

Thomas Oléron Evans:
https://twitter.com/Mathistopheles (twitter)
http://www.mathistopheles.co.uk/ (personal website)

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