Podcasts by Time to Eat the Dogs
A podcast about science, history, and exploration. Michael Robinson interviews scientists, journalists, and adventurers about life at the extreme.
Further podcasts by Michael Robinson: historian of science and exploration
Podcast on the topic Wissenschaft
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The Making of French Polar Exploration from 2023-08-20T19:33
Alexandre Simon-Ekeland talks about explorers, the Polar Regions, and...
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A Window to Heaven: The Daring First Ascent of Denali from 2021-10-22T22:14
Patrick Dean talks about the first successful ascent of Denali in 1913. Dean is a writer and executive director of the Mountain Goat Trail Alliance. He’s the author of A Window to Heaven: The Darin...
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Replay: Sovietistan from 2021-09-01T13:38:42
Erika Fatland talks about her long journey through the Central Asian republics and the legacy of Soviet influence there. Fatland is the author of many books and essays including Sovietistan: A Jour...
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Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX from 2021-08-21T23:05:38
Eric Berger talks about the rise of SpaceX and its eccentric, mercurial founder Elon Musk. Berger is the Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica. He’s the author of Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate...
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Portuguese Exploration After the Age of Discovery from 2021-06-27T19:25:37
Catarina Madruga talks about Portuguese exploration in the nineteenth century as European powers made plans to conquer Africa and colonize its peoples. Madruga is a post-doctoral researcher at the ...
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The Strange Journey of Ṣägga Krǝstos from 2021-06-01T15:31
Matteo Salvadore talks about the strange journey of Ṣägga Krǝstos and his impact on the Renaissance world. Salvadore is an Associate Professor of History at the American University of Sharjah. He’s...
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Replay: Empires of the Sky from 2021-05-23T14:56
Alexander Rose talks about the history of airplanes and airships at the turn of the century, a time when the direction of aviation remained unclear. Rose is the author of 'Empires of the Sky: Zeppe...
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Inventing the World from 2021-04-30T16:13
Meredith Small talks about the city of Venice and its importance to the history of travel and exploration. Small is professor emerita of at Cornell University and visiting scholar in the Department...
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The Alchemy of Conquest from 2021-03-27T13:24
Ralph Bauer talks about early modern exploration in the Americas and its connection to ideas about discovery, science, and religion in Europe. Bauer is a professor of English and Comparative Litera...
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Replay: Why Did Scientists Collect the Blood of Indigenous Peoples? from 2021-03-17T01:36:56
Emma Kowal talks about the history of biospecimen collection among the aboriginal peoples of Australia. Kowal is a cultural and medical anthropologist at Deakin University. She’s the co-author, alo...
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Replay: A History of Modern Tourism from 2020-09-04T14:08:01
Eric Zuelow talks about the origins of tourism from the era of the European Grand Tour through the twenty-first century where is has become – until the current pandemic at least – the largest servi...
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Replay: Sea Wife from 2020-08-29T15:07:27
Novelist Amity Gaige talks about her book Sea Wife. Gaige is a Fulbright and Guggenheim fellow. Her novel Schroder was one of the New York Times Best Books for 2013. A review and excerpt of Sea Wif...
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Replay: Women in Antarctica from 2020-08-21T23:00
Hanne Nielsen talks about the challenges facing women who work in Antarctica. Nielsen is a Lecturer in Antarctic Law and Governance at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) in Hobar...
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The Argument Against Human Colonies in Space from 2020-08-17T02:40:34
Daniel Deudney makes the argument against the human colonization of space. He suggests that Space Expansionism is a dangerous project, a utopian ideal that masks important risks to human civilizati...
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Replay: Pacific Exploration, Botany, and Revolution from 2020-08-08T14:14:56
Edwin Rose talks about Joseph Banks and Georg Forster, naturalists on the Cook expeditions, and how political ideas shaped the way these specimens were understood back in Europe. Rose is completing...
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Replay: The Lost White Tribe from 2020-08-05T13:20:31
Babak Ashrafi and Jessica Linker talk to me about my book The Lost White Tribe: Explorers, Scientists, and the Theory that Changed a Continent. Ashrafi and Linker produced this interview for the Co...
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Replay: Neptune's Laboratory from 2020-07-25T15:41:29
Antony Adler talks about the history of ocean science in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Adler is a Research Associate in the History Department at Carleton College. He’s the author of Nept...
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Quantum Legacies from 2020-07-22T16:02:21
David Kaiser talks about the history of twentieth-century physics and the forces that have shaped it as a scientific discipline. Kaiser is a Professor of the History of Science at the Massachusetts...
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Replay: ‘Ruling the Savage Periphery’ from 2020-07-18T12:27
Benjamin Hopkins talks about the concept of the frontier: how it exists on the map but also as a set of practices used by colonial states around the world. Hopkins is an associate professor of hist...
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The Tsarina’s Lost Treasure from 2020-07-10T15:46:24
Gerald Easter and Mara Vorhees talk about the voyage of the Vrouw Maria and the long quest to find the wreck in the waters of the Archipelago Sea off the coast of Finland. Easter is a professor of ...
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Sovietistan from 2020-07-03T21:40
Erika Fatland talks about her long journey through the Central Asian republics and the legacy of Soviet influence there. Fatland is the author of many books and essays including Sovietistan: A Jour...
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Replay: Reimagining Liberation from 2020-07-03T21:34
Annette Joseph-Gabriel talks about black women writers, decolonization, and travel. Joseph-Gabriel is an assistant professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arb...
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Replay: Reimagining Liberation from 2020-07-03T21:34
Annette Joseph-Gabriel talks about black women writers, decolonization, and travel. Joseph-Gabriel is an assistant professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arb...
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Replay: Reimagining Liberation from 2020-07-03T21:34
Annette Joseph-Gabriel talks about black women writers, decolonization, and travel. Joseph-Gabriel is an assistant professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arb...
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Replay: American Arctic Exploration from 2020-06-27T01:12:13
Al Zambone talks with me about American polar exploration, the origin of Time to Eat the Dogs, and the history of science as an academic discipline. Zambone is the host of the podcast Historically ...
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How to be an African Travel Writer in Africa from 2020-06-23T00:03:51
Emmanuel Iduma talks about his experiences traveling through Africa and his quest to find a new language of travel. Iduma is a writer and lecturer at the School of Visual Arts in New York. His stor...
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Replay: The Mystery of Altitude Sickness from 2020-06-20T00:00
Lachlan Fleetwood talks about debates about altitude sickness in the Himalaya and the ways these debates became tied up with ideas about the physiology of Europeans and Himalayans in the 1800s. Fle...
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Empires of the Sky from 2020-06-16T00:29:33
Alexander Rose talks about the history of airplanes and airships at the turn of the century, a time when the direction of aviation remained unclear. Rose is the author of 'Empires of the Sky: Zeppe...
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Replay: Love, Travel, and Separation from 2020-06-13T00:00
Kate Hollander talks about Bertolt Brecht’s life and work. She also talks about the community of artists who were his friends, lovers, and collaborators. Hollander is a historian of modern Europe. ...
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Why Did Scientists Collect the Blood of Indigenous Peoples? from 2020-06-09T02:04:33
Emma Kowal talks about the history of biospecimen collection among the aboriginal peoples of Australia. Kowal is a cultural and medical anthropologist at Deakin University. She’s the co-author, alo...
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Replay: Floating Coast from 2020-06-06T00:00
Bathsheba Demuth talks about the history and exploration of the Bering Strait, from the early 1800s to the present day. Demuth is Assistant Professor of History&Environment and Society at Brown Uni...
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A History of Modern Tourism from 2020-06-02T00:00
Eric Zuelow talks about the origins of tourism from the era of the European Grand Tour through the twenty-first century where is has become – until the current pandemic at least – the largest servi...
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Replay: Fifteen Million Years in Antarctica from 2020-05-30T00:00
Rebecca Priestley talks about her journeys to Antarctica and the process of bringing them to life in her writing. Priestley is an associate professor at the Centre for Science in Society at Victori...
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A Strange Week at NASA from 2020-05-26T00:00
Eric Berger talks about the sudden departure of Doug Loverro, the head of human space flight at NASA, only days before the agency sends astronauts into space after almost a decade. Berger is the Se...
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Replay: An Update from the Hobbit Cave from 2020-05-22T23:56:21
Paige Madison talks about recent discoveries at the Liang Bua cave where researchers are trying to understand the complicated story of the hominin Homo Floresiensis. Madison is a PhD candidate in t...
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Replay: China is Going to the Moon from 2020-05-16T00:00
Dr. Namrata Goswami talks about the Chinese space program and its ambitious plans for lunar exploration. Goswami is a strategic analyst on space and great power politics. She’s the author of many b...
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Women in Antarctica from 2020-05-12T00:28:09
Hanne Nielsen talks about the challenges facing women who work in Antarctica. Nielsen is a Lecturer in Antarctic Law and Governance at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) in Hobar...
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Replay: Malaria, Tonic Water, and Empire from 2020-05-09T00:00
Kim Walker talks about the history and science of cinchona bark as a tonic, medicine, and mixer. Walker is a biocultural historian completing her PhD work on the Cinchona Bark Collection at Kew Gar...
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Pacific Exploration, Botany, and Revolution from 2020-05-05T13:36:51
Edwin Rose talks about Joseph Banks and Georg Forster, naturalists on the Cook expeditions, and how political ideas shaped the way these specimens were understood back in Europe. Rose is completing...
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Replay: Hawaiian Exploration of the World from 2020-05-02T00:30:47
David Chang talks about the history of indigenous Hawaiians (Kanaka Maoli) as explorers and geographers of the world. Chang is a professor of history at the University of Minnesota. He’s the author...
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The Lost White Tribe from 2020-04-28T14:25:57
Babak Ashrafi and Jessica Linker talk to me about my book The Lost White Tribe: Explorers, Scientists, and the Theory that Changed a Continent. Ashrafi and Linker produced this interview for the Co...
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Replay: How NASA Plans Big Missions from 2020-04-25T00:15:50
Glen Asner and Stephen Garber talk about NASA’s efforts to plan ambitious missions in the face of huge political and financial challenges. Asner is the Deputy Chief Historian for the Historical Off...
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Neptune's Laboratory from 2020-04-21T00:00
Antony Adler talks about the history of ocean science in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Adler is a Research Associate in the History Department at Carleton College. He’s the author of Nept...
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Replay: How George Putnam's Arctic Expedition Got into Trouble from 2020-04-18T00:47:29
Tina Adcock talks about the controversy over George Putnam's Baffin Land expedition and why it tells a bigger story about the changing culture of exploration in the 1920s. Adcock is an assistant pr...
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'Ruling the Savage Periphery' from 2020-04-14T02:01:44
Benjamin Hopkins talks about the concept of the frontier: how it exists not merely as a place on a map but as a set of practices used by colonial states around the world. Hopkins is an associate pr...
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Replay: Searching for Life Beyond Earth from 2020-04-11T00:31:41
Claire Isabel Webb talks about the search for extraterrestrial life and the different strategies used by astronomers and exobiologists to look for it. Webb is a PhD candidate at MIT's History, Anth...
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American Arctic Exploration from 2020-04-07T01:05:58
Al Zambone talks with me about American polar exploration, the origin of Time to Eat the Dogs, and the history of science as an academic discipline. Zambone is the host of the podcast Historically ...
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Replay: Assembling the Dinosaur from 2020-04-03T23:00
Lukas Rieppel talks about dinosaur fossils in the Gilded Age – from the discovery and excavation of fossils in the American West to the re-construction of fabulous creatures in museums that were t...
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Replay: Jessica Nabongo is Traveling to Every Country in the World from 2020-03-31T22:40:49
Annette Joseph-Gabriel speaks to Jessica Nabongo about her quest to be the first black woman to travel to all of the countries of the world. Joseph-Gabriel is an Assistant Professor of French and F...
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Replay: Starlink is Blanketing the Earth with Satellites from 2020-03-28T00:24:37
Lisa Ruth Rand talks about the Starlink satellite program. She also talks about Project West Ford, which attempted to create an artificial ionosphere in 1961 by launching millions of copper needles...
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The Mystery of Altitude Sickness from 2020-03-25T05:39:56
Lachlan Fleetwood talks about debates about altitude sickness in the Himalaya and the ways these debates became tied up with ideas about the physiology of Europeans and Himalayans. Fleetwood is the...
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Replay: The City Built by Travel from 2020-03-21T00:04:17
Fiona Vernal talks about the migration stories of Hartford Connecticut’s many communities. Vernal is an associate professor of history at the University of Connecticut and the creator of the exhibi...
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Love, Travel, and Separation from 2020-03-17T01:04:50
Kate Hollander talks about Bertolt Brecht’s life and work. She also talks about the community of artists who were his friends, lovers, and collaborators. Hollander is a historian of modern Europe. ...
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Replay: Inuit Testimony and the Search for Franklin's Ships from 2020-03-14T00:00
David Woodman talks about his quest to find the missing wrecks of the Franklin Expedition, a mission that led him to the journals of the Arctic explorer Charles Hall who lived with the Inuit for fo...
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Reimagining Liberation from 2020-03-11T07:53:27
Annette Joseph-Gabriel returns to Time to Eat the Dogs. Joseph-Gabriel is an assistant professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She’s the author of Reim...
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Replay: Science, Islam, and Evolution from 2020-03-07T00:00
Sarah Qidwai talks about her research on Sayyid Ahmad Khan as well as her own journey to Mecca and Medina. Qidwai is a Ph.D candidate in the History of Science at the University of Toronto. Her ess...
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Replay: The Polar Star is Falling Apart from 2020-03-03T07:31:09
Richard Read talks about the troubled life of the Coast Guard's sole heavy icebreaker, Polar Star. Read is the Bureau Chief of the Los Angeles Times in Seattle. He is the winner of two Pulitzer pri...
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Replay: Mental Illness and the Mawson Expedition from 2020-02-29T00:00
Elizabeth Leane talks about Sidney Jeffryes, radio operator for Douglas Mawson’s Australasian Antarctic Expedition in 1913. Jeffryes’ struggle with mental illness challenged Mawson’s expedition and...
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Floating Coast from 2020-02-25T00:00
Bathsheba Demuth talks about the history and exploration of the Bering Strait, from the early 1800s to the present day. Demuth is Assistant Professor of History&Environment and Society at Brown Uni...
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Replay: Anticipating the Astronaut from 2020-02-22T00:00
Jordan Bimm talks about early experiments in space medicine involving subjects who did not resemble the white male test pilots who would become America's first astronauts. Bimm is a Postdoctoral Re...
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Fifteen Million Years in Antarctica from 2020-02-18T00:00
Rebecca Priestley talks about her journeys to Antarctica and the process of bringing them to life in her writing. Priestley is an associate professor at the Centre for Science in Society at Victori...
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Replay: Why are Women Beating Men in Ultra-Endurance Events? from 2020-02-15T01:00
Dr. Beth Taylor talks about the physiological differences between men and women athletes and why ultra-endurance events seem to offer certain performance advantages to women. Taylor is an associate...
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An Update from the Hobbit Cave from 2020-02-11T00:00
Paige Madison talks about recent discoveries at the Liang Bua cave where researchers are trying to understand the complicated story of the hominin Homo Floresiensis. Madison is a PhD candidate in t...
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Replay: The Expedition that Tested Einstein's Theory from 2020-02-08T00:00
Daniel Kennefick talks about resistance to relativity theory in the early twentieth century and the huge challenges that faced British astronomers who wanted to test the theory during the solar ecl...
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China is Going to the Moon from 2020-02-04T00:00
Dr. Namrata Goswami talks about the Chinese space program and its ambitious plans for lunar exploration. Goswami is a strategic analyst on space and great power politics. She’s the author of many b...
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Replay: Chasing the Moon from 2020-02-01T00:01:01
Director Robert Stone talks about his film Chasing the Moon, a three-part documentary which aired on PBS’s American Experience for the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. Learn more abou...
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Malaria, Tonic Water, and Empire from 2020-01-28T23:59:47
Kim Walker talks about the history and science of cinchona bark as a tonic, medicine, and mixer. Walker is a biocultural historian completing her PhD work on the Cinchona Bark Collection at Kew Gar...
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Replay: How We Talk about Apollo from 2020-01-25T00:24:58
Amy Shira Teitel talks about Apollo and the community of people who are deeply attached to space history. Teitel is a spaceflight historian and the creator of the YouTube Channel, Vintage Space. Sh...
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Hawaiian Exploration of the World from 2020-01-22T00:00
David Chang talks about the history of indigenous Hawaiians (Kanaka Maoli) as explorers and geographers of the world. Chang is a professor of history at the University of Minnesota. He’s the author...
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Replay: Scurvy! from 2020-01-18T00:00
Ed Armston-Sheret talks about the mysterious disease of scurvy: how it affected expeditioners and why it was so difficult to understand. Armston-Sheret is a PhD candidate at Royal Holloway Universi...
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How NASA Plans Big Missions from 2020-01-14T03:27:07
Glen Asner and Stephen Garber talk about NASA’s efforts to plan ambitious missions in the face of huge political and financial challenges. Asner is the Deputy Chief Historian for the Historical Off...
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Replay: The Human Exploration of Mars from 2020-01-11T00:37:53
Jake Robins and Michael Robinson talk about the quest to explore Mars: how it compares to earlier eras of exploration in the West and in the Arctic as well as its power to capture the imagination o...
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How George Putnam's Arctic Expedition Got into Trouble from 2020-01-07T00:00
Tina Adcock talks about the controversy over George Putnam's Baffin Land expedition and why it tells a bigger story about the changing culture of exploration in the 1920s. Adcock is an assistant pr...
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Replay: Escape from Nazi-Occupied Europe, Part II from 2020-01-04T05:25:45
In Part II, Ruth Gruenthal continues her story of her family's escape from France in 1940. She also discusses the challenges of living in the United States after the war. Learn more about your ad c...
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Replay: Escape from Nazi-Occupied Europe, Part I from 2020-01-01T00:33:23
Ruth Gruenthal talks about her life in Germany as the Nazi Party came to power in the 1930s. Gruenthal and her family – along with thousands of Jewish refugees -- raced to escape France when the Ge...
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Searching for Life Beyond Earth from 2019-12-27T17:02
Claire Isabel Webb talks about the search for extraterrestrial life and the different strategies used by astronomers and exobiologists to look for it. Webb is a PhD candidate at MIT's History, Anth...
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Replay: Human Exploration of the Deep Sea from 2019-12-21T04:35:47
Bruce Strickrott talks about the value of human exploration of the deep sea. Strickrott is the Program Manager and Senior Pilot of the United States’ deepest diving science submersible, the DSV Alv...
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Replay: Destined for the Stars from 2019-12-18T04:34:53
Catherine Newell talks about the religious roots of the final frontier, focusing on the collaboration of artist Chesley Bonestell, science writer Willy Ley, and the NASA rocket engineer Wernher von...
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Replay: Starvation Shore from 2019-12-14T02:46:57
Laura Waterman talks about her novel, Starvation Shore which reconstructs the life of the Greely Party as it attempted to survive impossible conditions. Waterman is a climber, conservationist, and ...
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Assembling the Dinosaur from 2019-12-09T22:49:06
Lukas Rieppel talks about dinosaur fossils in the Gilded Age – from the discovery and excavation of fossils in the American West to the re-construction of fabulous creatures in museums that were t...
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Replay: Space Science and the Arab World from 2019-12-07T00:00
Matthias Determann talks about the importance of the space sciences in the Arab World. Determann is an associate professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. He is the author ...
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Starlink is Blanketing the Earth with Satellites from 2019-12-02T23:59:41
Lisa Ruth Rand talks about the Starlink satellite program. She also talks about Project West Ford, which attempted to create an artificial ionosphere in 1961 by launching millions of copper needles...
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Replay: Travel, Race, and Freedom from 2019-11-30T10:10:15
Annette Joseph-Gabriel talks with Tiffany Gill about the history of African American travel in the late twentieth century and its importance to black communities across the lines of class and gende...
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Replay: The History of Arctic Fever from 2019-11-27T08:46:58
Radio host Kevin Fox interviews me about the history of American Arctic exploration. The disappearance of the Franklin Expedition in 1845 turned the Arctic into an object of fascination. By the end...
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Replay: The British Expeditionary Literature of Africa from 2019-11-22T23:55:22
Adrian Wisnicki talks about the British expeditionary literature of the late 1800s. Wisnicki is the author of Fieldwork of Empire, 1840-1900: Intercultural Dynamics in the Production of British Exp...
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Replay: Faces, Beauty, and the Brain from 2019-11-19T00:00
Rachel Walker talks about physiognomy -- the study of the human face -- and why it was so popular among scientists and the general public. Walker is an assistant professor of history at the Univers...
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Replay: New Insights about Darwin's Voyage from 2019-11-16T00:00
Alistair Sponsel talks about Darwin’s experiences on HMS Beagle and his early career as a naturalist. Sponsel’s close reading of Darwin’s journals and letters reveals insights about the man that wo...
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Inuit Testimony and the Search for Franklin's Ships from 2019-11-13T01:41:21
David Woodman talks about his quest to find the missing wrecks of the Franklin Expedition, a mission that led him to the journals of the Arctic explorer Charles Hall who lived with the Inuit for fo...
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Replay: Women Wanderers of the Romantic Era from 2019-11-09T01:00
Ingrid Horrocks talks about the way women travelers, specifically women wanderers, are represented in late-eighteenth century literature. Horrocks in an associate professor in the School of English...
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Science, Islam, and Evolution from 2019-11-07T01:00
Sarah Qidwai talks about her research on Sayyid Ahmad Khan as well as her own journey to Mecca and Medina. Qidwai is a Ph.D candidate in the History of Science at the University of Toronto. Her ess...
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Replay: Creatures of Cain from 2019-11-02T00:00
Erika Milam talks about the scientific search for human nature, a project that captured the attention of paleontologists, anthropologists, and primatologists in the years after World War II. Milam ...
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The City Built by Travel from 2019-10-31T00:00
Fiona Vernal talks about the migration stories of Hartford Connecticut’s many communities. Vernal is an associate professor of history at the University of Connecticut and the creator of the exhibi...
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Replay: Higher and Colder: A History of Extreme Physiology and Exploration from 2019-10-26T00:00
Dr. Vanessa Heggie talks about the history of biomedical research in extreme environments. Heggie is a Fellow of the Institute for Global Innovation at the University of Birmingham. She is the auth...
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Replay: The Medieval Invention of Travel from 2019-10-22T00:00
Shayne Legassie talks about Medieval travel, especially long distance travel, and the way it was feared, praised, and sometimes treated with suspicion. He also talks about the role the Middle Ages ...
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Replay: Apollo in the Age of Aquarius from 2019-10-18T21:57:13
Neil Maher talks about the social forces that shaped NASA in the 1960s and 1970s, connecting the space race with the radical upheavals of the counterculture. Maher is a professor of history at the ...
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Replay: After Leichhardt Went Missing from 2019-10-15T00:00
Andrew Wright Hurley talks about the life and afterlife of Prussian explorer Ludwig Leichhardt, a man whose posthumous reputation has changed many times since his disappearance 170 years ago. Hurle...
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Replay: African American Women and Jamaican Travel from 2019-10-12T00:00
Annette Joseph Gabrielle talks with Bianca Williams about African American women who travel to Jamaica as tourists looking for happiness, intimacy, and new identities free from the limits of Americ...
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The Polar Star is Falling Apart from 2019-10-09T00:00
Richard Read talks about the troubled life of the Coast Guard's sole heavy icebreaker, Polar Star. Read is the Bureau Chief of the Los Angeles Times in Seattle. He is the winner of two Pulitzer pri...
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Replay: Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans from 2019-10-05T00:00
Helen Rozwadowski talks about the history of the oceans and how these oceans have shaped human history in profound ways. Rozwadowski is a professor of history at the University of Connecticut Avery...
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Mental Illness and the Mawson Expedition from 2019-09-30T22:53:33
Elizabeth Leane talks about Sidney Jeffryes, radio operator for Douglas Mawson’s Australasian Antarctic Expedition in 1913. Jeffryes’ struggle with mental illness challenged Mawson’s expedition par...
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Replay: Re-imagining People in Anthropological Photographs from 2019-09-28T00:00
Artist Chiadikobi Nwaubani talks about his efforts to find, restore, and publish photographs from the colonial archives of West Africa. He also talks about his work re-interpreting these photograph...
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Replay: The Problem with Andrea Wulf's Biography of Humboldt from 2019-09-24T11:33:58
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra talks about Andrea Wulf’s book the 'The Invention of Nature' and how it divorces the explorer Alexander von Humboldt from the intellectual traditions of Central and South A...
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Replay: The Galapagos Expedition that Vindicated Darwin from 2019-09-21T00:00
Matthew James talks about the 1905 Galapagos Expedition organized by the California Academy of Sciences. James is a professor of geology at Sonoma State University. He is the author of Collecting E...
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Anticipating the Astronaut from 2019-09-18T00:00
Jordan Bimm talks about early experiments in space medicine involving subjects who did not resemble the white male test pilots who would become America's first astronauts. Bimm is a Postdoctoral Re...
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Replay: The Nazi Cult of Mobility from 2019-09-14T00:20:23
Andrew Denning talks about the Nazi cult of mobility, a set of ideas and practices that were crucial to its racist ideology. Denning is an Assistant Professor of Modern European History at the Univ...
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Jessica Nabongo is Traveling to Every Country in the World from 2019-09-10T00:00
Annette Joseph-Gabriel speaks to Jessica Nabongo about her quest to be the first black woman to travel to all of the countries of the world. Joseph-Gabriel is an Assistant Professor of French and F...
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Replay: The Last Wild Men of Borneo from 2019-09-07T01:46:48
Journalist Carl Hoffman talks about Bruno Manser and Michael Palmieri, two men who arrived in Borneo with very different dreams and aspirations. Hoffman served as a contributing editor to National ...
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Why are Women Beating Men in Ultra-Endurance Events? from 2019-09-04T00:00
Dr. Beth Taylor talks about the physiological differences between men and women athletes and why ultra-endurance events seem to offer certain performance advantages to women. Taylor is an associate...
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Replay: Should We Colonize Mars? from 2019-08-31T00:00
Lucianne Walkowicz talks about the ethics of colonizing Mars and new developments in the search for extraterrestrial life. Walkowicz held the 2017 NASA Chair in Astrobiology at the Library of Congr...
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The Expedition that Tested Einstein's Theory from 2019-08-27T00:00
Daniel Kennefick talks about resistance to relativity theory in the early twentieth century and the huge challenges that faced British astronomers who wanted to test the theory during the solar ecl...
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Replay: Searching for the Origins of Humankind from 2019-08-24T00:00
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. Kern...
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Chasing the Moon from 2019-08-20T00:00
Director Robert Stone talks about his film Chasing the Moon, a three-part documentary which aired on PBS’s American Experience for the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. Learn more abou...
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Replay: The Navigator in the Early Modern World from 2019-08-17T02:20:49
Margaret 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...
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Replay: Mountaineering and Glaciology after WWII from 2019-08-10T00:00
Dani 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 joine...
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How We Talk about Apollo from 2019-08-06T00:00
Amy Shira Teitel talks about Apollo and the community of people who are deeply attached to space history. Teitel is a spaceflight historian and the creator of the YouTube Channel, Vintage Space. Sh...
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Replay: Death in the Ice from 2019-08-03T00:00
Russell Potter discusses new developments in the search for answers about the tragic Franklin Expedition that disappeared in the Arctic in 1845. Potter is a professor of English and Media Studies a...
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The Human Exploration of Mars from 2019-07-30T00:52:25
Jake Robins and Michael Robinson talk about the quest to explore Mars: how it compares to earlier eras of exploration in the West and in the Arctic as well as its power to capture the imagination o...
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Replay: How Isolated Tribes Fight Back from 2019-07-27T00:00
Scott Wallace talks about his trip to Brazil reporting on the efforts of the Guajajara people to protect uncontacted tribes from loggers, miners, and poachers. Wallace is a professor of journalism ...
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Replay: Into the Extreme from 2019-07-22T22:26:11
Valerie 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 Cal...
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Escape from Nazi-Occupied Europe, Part II from 2019-07-20T09:19:23
In Part II, Ruth Gruenthal continues her story of her family's escape from France in 1940. She also discusses the challenges of living in the United States after the war. Learn more about your ad c...
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Replay: The Identity of the Traveler from 2019-07-13T00:00
Joyce 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 Eng...
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Escape from Nazi-Occupied Europe, Part I from 2019-07-09T14:13
Ruth Gruenthal talks about her life in Germany as the Nazi Party came to power in the 1930s. Gruenthal and her family – along with thousands of Jewish refugees -- raced to escape France when the Ge...
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Replay: The Archaeology of Exploration from 2019-07-06T00:00
Anthropologist 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 I...
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Human Exploration of the Deep Sea from 2019-07-02T00:00
Bruce Strickrott talks about the value of human exploration of the deep sea. Strickrott is the Program Manager and Senior Pilot of the United States’ deepest diving science submersible, the DSV Alv...
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Replay: Women, Aviation, and Global Air Travel from 2019-06-29T02:16:42
Emily Gibson talks about women, aviation, and global air travel. Gibson is an associate historian at the National Science Foundation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Replay: The New Map of Empire from 2019-06-25T00:00
Max Edelson talk about the British Board of Trade’s ambitious project to explore and survey British America from the St Lawrence River to the islands of the Caribbean. Edelson is a professor of his...
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Replay: Making Planets into Places from 2019-06-22T00:00
Anthropologist Lisa Messeri talks about planetary scientists and the way they use data to bring these places to life. Messeri is the author of Placing Out Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Wor...
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Replay: The Making of 2001: A Space Odyssey from 2019-06-18T00:00
Michael Benson talks about the making of 2001, a movie inspired by the collaboration of American director Stanley Kubrick and the British futurist Arthur C. Clark. Benson is the author of 'Space Od...
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Replay: Science and Exploration in the U.S. Navy from 2019-06-15T02:05:43
Jason Smith discusses the U.S. Navy’s role in exploring and charting the ocean world. Smith is an assistant professor of history at Southern Connecticut State University. He’s the author of To Mast...
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Destined for the Stars from 2019-06-11T00:00
Catherine Newell talks about the religious roots of the final frontier, focusing on the collaboration of artist Chesley Bonestell, science writer Willy Ley, and the NASA rocket engineer Wernher von...
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Replay: After the Map from 2019-06-08T00:00
Bill Rankin talks about the changes brought about by GPS and other mapping technologies in the twentieth century. Rankin is the author of After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformat...
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Starvation Shore from 2019-06-04T00:00
Laura Waterman talks about her novel, Starvation Shore, which relies upon memoirs, letters, and diaries to reconstruct the life of the Greely Party as it attempted to survive impossible conditions....
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Replay: One Long Night from 2019-06-01T00:07:10
Andrea Pitzer talks about her book One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, one of the Smithsonian’s Ten Best History Books for 2017 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon...
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Space Science and the Arab World from 2019-05-28T00:00
Matthias Determann talks about the importance of the space sciences in the Arab World. Determann is an associate professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. He is the author ...
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Replay: Living on the International Space Station from 2019-05-25T00:00
Astronaut Garrett Reisman talks about life aboard the International Space Station. Reisman flew on two shuttle missions to the station and conducted three seven-hour spacewalks during his 107 days ...
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Faces, Beauty, and the Brain from 2019-05-22T00:00
Rachel Walker talks about physiognomy -- the study of the human face -- and why it was so popular among scientists and the general public. Walker is an assistant professor of history at the Univers...
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Replay: Aboriginal Australians' First Encounter with Captain Cook from 2019-05-18T00:00
Maria Nugent talks about Aboriginal Australians' first encounter with Captain Cook at Botany Bay, a violent meeting has come to represent the origin story of Australia’s colonial settlement. Nugent...
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The History of Arctic Fever from 2019-05-15T00:17:12
Radio host Kevin Fox interviews me about the history of American Arctic exploration. The disappearance of the Franklin Expedition in 1845 turned the Arctic into an object of fascination. By the end...
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Replay: An American in Soviet Antarctica, Part II from 2019-05-11T00:00
Stewart Gillmor -- the sole American at Mirny Station in 1961 and 1962-- continues his discussion of life at the Soviet base: how communism plays out 10,000 miles from Moscow, the problems with pla...
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Replay: An American in Soviet Antarctica, Part I from 2019-05-11T00:00
Stewart Gillmor talks about his fourteen-month stay at Mirny Station, the Soviet Union's Antarctica base. Gillmor was the sole American at Mirny in 1960-1962 during the height of the Cold War. Lea...
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The British Expeditionary Literature of Africa from 2019-05-07T00:00
Adrian Wisnicki talks about the British expeditionary literature of the late 1800s. Wisnicki is the author of Fieldwork of Empire, 1840-1900: Intercultural Dynamics in the Production of British Exp...
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Replay: The Mars Rover Curiosity from 2019-05-04T00:00
Emily Lakdawalla discusses the design and construction of Curiosity, formally known as the Mars Science Laboratory, one of the most sophisticated machines ever built. Lakdawalla is a senior editor ...
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Replay: What the Dead Can Teach Us from 2019-04-30T00:00
Too often, Dr. Pauline Chen argues, the focus on keeping patients alive gets in the way of helping those who are approaching death. Chen shares her experiences as a medical student and transplant s...
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Replay: Rethinking Humboldt from 2019-04-27T00:37:56
Patrick Anthony discusses the Prussian naturalist and explorer, Alexander von Humboldt, the world's most famous explorer in the early 1800s. Famed and admired for his 1799 expedition to South and C...
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Women Wanderers of the Romantic Era from 2019-04-23T00:34:13
Ingrid Horrocks talks about the way women travelers, specifically women wanderers, are represented in late-eighteenth century literature. Horrocks in an associate professor in the School of English...
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Replay: The 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition from 2019-04-20T00:00
Martin Thomas discusses the 1948 Arnhem Land expedition and the controversy that surrounds it. His new documentary, Etched in Bone, which he co-directed with Beatrice Bijon, traces the events of th...
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New Insights about Darwin from 2019-04-16T00:00
Dr. Alistair Sponsel talks about Darwin’s experiences on HMS Beagle and his early career as a naturalist. Sponsel’s close reading of Darwin’s journals and letters reveals insights about the man tha...
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Replay: Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean from 2019-04-13T00:00
Dr. Joy McCann discusses the great circumpolar ocean that surrounds Antarctica. She is a historian at the Centre for Environmental History at Australian National University and the author of Wild ...
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Creatures of Cain from 2019-04-09T00:54:04
Erika Milam talks about the scientific search for human nature, a project that captured the attention of paleontologists, anthropologists, and primatologists in the years after World War II. Milam ...
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Replay: Running and the Science of the Extreme from 2019-04-06T00:00
Dr. Beth Taylor discusses the science and psychology of running. Taylor is an Associate Professor of Kinesiology at the University of Connecticut. She also serves as the Director of Exercise Physio...
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Travel, Race, and Freedom from 2019-04-02T00:00
Annette Joseph-Gabriel talks with Tiffany Gill about African American travel in the late twentieth century and its importance across the lines of class and gender. Joseph-Gabriel is an assistant pr...
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Replay: The Mystery of the Franklin Expedition from 2019-03-30T00:38:36
In 1845, the two British naval ships left England with 129 men in search of the Northwest Passage. They were never heard from again. Professor Russell Potter talks about the expedition and the reas...
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Higher and Colder: A History of Extreme Physiology and Exploration from 2019-03-25T23:58:14
Dr. Vanessa Heggie talks about the history of biomedical research in extreme environments. Heggie is a Fellow of the Institute for Global Innovation at the University of Birmingham. She is the auth...
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Replay: Watching Vesuvius from 2019-03-23T00:00
Sean Cocco talks about the 1631 eruption of Vesuvius and its impact on Renaissance science and culture. Cocco is an associate professor of history at Trinity College. He is the author of Watching V...
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The Medieval Invention of Travel from 2019-03-19T00:11:42
Shayne Legassie talks about medieval travel, especially long distance travel, and the way it was feared, praised, and sometimes treated with suspicion. He also talks about the role the Middle Ages ...
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Replay: Mapping the Polar Regions from 2019-03-16T00:01:50
Cole Kelleher talks about his work for the Polar Geospatial Center at the University of Minnesota, an agency that uses satellite data to make cutting-edge maps for the support of polar scientists i...
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Apollo in the Age of Aquarius from 2019-03-12T22:31:31
Neil Maher talks about the social forces that shaped NASA in the 1960s and 1970s, connecting the space race with the radical upheavals of the counterculture. Maher is a professor of history at the ...
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Replay: The Last Uncontacted Tribes from 2019-03-09T00:00
Scott Wallace talks about his 2002 expedition into Amazon to find the Arrow People, one of the world's last uncontacted tribes. Wallace is a professor of journalism at the University of Connecticu...
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After Leichhardt Went Missing from 2019-03-05T00:11:58
Andrew Wright Hurley talks about the life and afterlife of Prussian explorer Ludwig Leichhardt, a man whose posthumous reputation has changed many times since his disappearance 170 years ago. Hurle...
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Replay: Descartes, Traveler from 2019-03-02T00:38:09
Hal Cook talks about the travels and trials of the young René Descartes, a man who spent as much time traveling and fighting as studying philosophy. Cook is the John F. Nickoll Professor of History...
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African American Women and Jamaican Travel from 2019-02-26T00:00
Annette Joseph Gabrielle talks with Bianca Williams about African American women who travel to Jamaica as tourists looking for happiness and intimacy, free from the limits of American racism. Josep...
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The Revolution in Paleoanthropology from 2019-02-23T03:41:14
Anthropologist John Hawks talks about new developments in paleoanthropology: the discovery of a new hominid species Homo Naledi in South Africa, the Neanderthal ancestry of many human populations, ...
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Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans from 2019-02-20T02:28:43
Helen Rozwadowski talks about the history of the oceans and how these oceans have shaped human history in profound ways. Rozwadowski is a professor of history at the University of Connecticut Avery...
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Replay: Talking Exploration Books with Sarah Pickman from 2019-02-16T00:00
Sarah Pickman talks about the literature of exploration. She offers some picks for categories of exploration books not commonly seen in indexes and bibliographies. Learn more about your ad choices....
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Replay: The Biggest Exploration Exam Ever from 2019-02-16T00:00
Doctoral candidate Sarah Pickman talks about studying exploration for her Ph.D exams: specifically what it's like to read three hundred books and articles and then discuss them in front of a commit...
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Re-imagining People in Anthropological Photographs from 2019-02-12T00:00
Artist Chiadikobi Nwaubani talks about his efforts to find, restore, and publish photographs from the colonial archives of West Africa. He also talks about his work re-interpreting these photograph...
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Replay: Project Vanguard from 2019-02-09T00:00
Dr. Angelina Callahan talks about the Naval Research Laboratory's Project Vanguard. While this satellite mission was part of the Cold War "Space Race," it also represented something more: a scienti...
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The Problem with Andrea Wulf's Biography of Humboldt from 2019-02-06T00:40:56
Andrea Wulf’s book the The Invention of Nature tells the story of Alexander von Humboldt, one of the world’s most important nineteenth-century explorers. Professor Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra talks ab...
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Replay: Do You See Ice? from 2019-02-02T00:00
Dr. Karen Routledge talks about Baffin Island’s Inuit community as it came into contact with western whalers and explorers in the nineteenth century. Even though the Inuit worked closely with outsi...
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The Galapagos Expedition that Vindicated Darwin from 2019-01-29T00:00
Matthew James talks about the 1905 Galapagos Expedition organized by the California Academy of Sciences. James is a professor of geology at Sonoma State University. He is the author of Collecting E...
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Replay: The Journeys of Eslanda Robeson from 2019-01-26T00:26:41
Professor Annette Joseph-Gabriel talks about Eslanda Robeson who, in addition to being a political activist with her husband Paul Robeson, was a chemist, anthropologist, and epic traveler. Learn mo...
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The Nazi Cult of Mobility from 2019-01-22T00:00
Andrew Denning talks about the Nazi cult of mobility, a set of ideas and practices that were crucial to its racist ideology. Denning is an Assistant Professor of Modern European History at the Univ...
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Replay: The Rise of Women in Climbing from 2019-01-19T00:00
Noel Phillips discusses the growing popularity of climbing among women. Her article, “No Man’s Land: The Rise of Women in Climbing” was recently published in Climbing Magazine. Learn more about you...
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The Last Wild Men of Borneo from 2019-01-15T01:26:51
Journalist Carl Hoffman talks about Bruno Manser and Michael Palmieri, two men who arrived in Borneo with very different dreams and aspirations. Hoffman served as a contributing editor to National ...
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Replay: The Amazing Phytotron from 2019-01-12T00:00
David Munns, professor of history at John Jay College, talks about his new book, Engineering the Environment: Phytotrons and the Quest for Climate Control in the Cold War. Learn more about your ad ...
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Should We Colonize Mars? from 2019-01-08T00:00
Astronomer Lucianne Walkowicz talks about the ethics of colonizing Mars and new developments in the search for extraterrestrial life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Replay: Chasing Exoplanets from 2019-01-05T00:09:57
Scientists 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 skyro...
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Searching for the Origins of Humankind from 2019-01-01T16:04:04
Historian Emily Kern talks about the search for human origins in the 19th and the 20th centuries, specifically why anthropologists came to see Africa – rather than Asia – as the cradle of the human...
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The History of Madagascar in Trade and Exploration from 2018-12-29T00:00
Jane 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, 160...
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Replay: The Medieval Pilgrimage from 2018-12-25T00:46:43
Art historian Fran Altvater talks about the Medieval Pilgrimage, a practice that became central to Christian Europe in the early Middle Ages. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/a...
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Replay: Inventing the American Astronaut from 2018-12-21T21:00
Matthew Hersch, author of Inventing the American Astronaut, talks about the origins and evolution of the U.S. astronaut program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Navigator in the Early Modern World from 2018-12-18T02:16:21
Margaret 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...
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Replay: How We Got the Scientific Revolution Wrong from 2018-12-15T00:00
Jorge Canizares-Esguerra discusses the 16th century mining center of Potosí and how its peoples and technologies shaped 16th century science. Learn more about your ad choices. Visitmegaphone.fm/adc...
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Mountaineering and Glaciology after WWII from 2018-12-11T02:44:10
Dani 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 joine...
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Replay: Monsters on the Map from 2018-12-08T00:00
Cannibals, 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 Rena...
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Death in the Ice from 2018-12-05T03:54:08
Russell Potter discusses new developments in the search for answers about the tragic Franklin Expedition that disappeared in the Arctic in 1845. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.f...
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Replay: The History of UFOs from 2018-12-01T00:00
In 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 a...
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How Isolated Tribes Fight Back from 2018-11-27T15:48:25
Scott 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. Learn more about your ad choic...
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Backpack Ambassadors from 2018-11-23T12:00
Richard 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 (rebroadc...
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Into the Extreme from 2018-11-20T00:05:31
Valerie 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 Cal...
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The Psychology of Extreme Environments from 2018-11-15T00:02:53
Nathan 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 a...
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Lands of Lost Borders from 2018-11-12T22:47:39
Kate 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 Ha...
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The Identity of the Traveler from 2018-11-06T00:10:03
Joyce 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 Eng...
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The Archaeology of Exploration from 2018-10-30T00:04:41
Anthropologist 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 I...
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Women, Aviation, and Global Air Travel from 2018-10-24T17:51:30
Emily Gibson talks about women, aviation, and global air travel. Gibson is an associate historian at the National Science Foundation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The New Map of Empire from 2018-10-16T00:00
Historian Max Edelson talk about the British Board of Trade’s ambitious project to explore and survey British America from the St Lawrence River to the islands of the Caribbean. Learn more about yo...
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Making Planets into Places from 2018-10-09T00:00
Anthropologist Lisa Messeri talks about planetary scientists and the way they use data to bring far away places to life. Messeri is the author of Placing Out Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other ...
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The Making of 2001: A Space Odyssey from 2018-10-02T02:49:11
Michael Benson talks about the making of 2001, a movie inspired by the collaboration of American director Stanley Kubrick and the British futurist Arthur C. Clark. Learn more about your ad choices....
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Science and Exploration in the U.S. Navy from 2018-09-27T01:26:34
Jason Smith discusses the U.S. Navy’s role in exploring and charting the ocean world. Smith is an assistant professor of history at Southern Connecticut State University. He’s the author of To Mast...
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After the Map from 2018-09-18T02:31:12
Bill Rankin talks about the changes brought about by GPS and other mapping technologies in the twentieth century. Rankin is the author of After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformat...
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Living on the International Space Station from 2018-09-11T00:00:53
Astronaut Garrett Reisman talks about life aboard the International Space Station. Reisman flew on two shuttle missions to the station and conducted three seven-hour spacewalks during his 107 days ...
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One Long Night from 2018-09-04T00:44:55
Andrea Pitzer talks about her book One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, one of the Smithsonian’s Ten Best History Books for 2017. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megapho...
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Searching for Hobbits from 2018-08-28T00:00
Paige 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 gen...
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Australians' First Encounter with Captain Cook from 2018-08-21T00:00
Maria Nugent talks about Aboriginal Australians' first encounter with Captain Cook at Botany Bay, a violent meeting has come to represent the origin story of Australia’s colonial settlement. Learn ...
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An American in Soviet Antarctica, Part II from 2018-08-15T01:18:21
Stewart Gillmor -- the sole American at Mirny Station in 1961 and 1962-- continues his discussion of life at the Soviet base: how communism plays out 10,000 miles from Moscow, the problems with pla...
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An American in Soviet Antarctica, Part I from 2018-08-07T00:00
Stewart Gillmor talks about his fourteen-month stay at Mirny Station, the Soviet Union's Antarctic base. Gillmor was the sole American at Mirny in 1960-1962 during the height of the Cold War. Learn...
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The 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition from 2018-07-31T02:25:20
Historian Martin Thomas discusses the 1948 Arnhem Land expedition and the controversy that surrounds it. His new documentary, Etched in Bone, which he co-directed with Beatrice Bijon, traces the ev...
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Mapping the Polar Regions from 2018-07-24T00:03:22
Cole Kelleher talks about his work for the Polar Geospatial Center at the University of Minnesota, an agency that uses satellite data to make cutting-edge maps for the support of polar scientists i...
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