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Synopsis

A podcast about science, history, and exploration. Michael Robinson interviews scientists, journalists, and adventurers about life at the extreme.

Episodes

  • Replay: The Problem with Andrea Wulf's Biography of Humboldt

    24/09/2019 Duration: 32min

    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. Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra talks about some of the problems of the book, specifically how Wulf’s view of Humboldt divorces him from the intellectual traditions of Central and South American scholars who helped Humboldt imagine the Americas for European and North American readers. Cañizares-Esguerra is a professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of many books including How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World.

  • Replay: The Galapagos Expedition that Vindicated Darwin

    21/09/2019 Duration: 29min

    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 Evolution: The Galapagos Expedition that Vindicated Darwin.

  • Anticipating the Astronaut

    18/09/2019 Duration: 33min

    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 Research Fellow at Princeton University. He’s the author of Anticipating the Astronaut which is under contract to MIT Press, expected in Spring 2021.

  • Replay: The Nazi Cult of Mobility

    14/09/2019 Duration: 30min

    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 University of Kansas in Lawrence. He is the author the essay “'Life is Movement, Movement is life!' Mobility Politics and the Circulatory State in Nazi Germany,” published in the American Historical Review.

  • Jessica Nabongo is Traveling to Every Country in the World

    10/09/2019 Duration: 24min

    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 Francophone Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Nabongo is a writer, entrepreneur, and the founder of Jet Black, a boutique luxury travel company that promotes tourism to Africa, the Caribbean, and Central and South America.

  • Replay: The Last Wild Men of Borneo

    07/09/2019 Duration: 29min

    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 Geographic Traveler and Wired Magazine. He is the author of The Last Wild Men of Borneo: A True Story of Death and Treasure.

  • Why are Women Beating Men in Ultra-Endurance Events?

    04/09/2019 Duration: 32min

    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 professor of kinesiology at the University of Connecticut and the Director of Exercise Physiology Research in Cardiology at Hartford Hospital.

  • Replay: Should We Colonize Mars?

    31/08/2019 Duration: 37min

    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 Congress. She is currently an astronomer at the Adler Planetarium.

  • The Expedition that Tested Einstein's Theory

    27/08/2019 Duration: 35min

    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 eclipse of 1919. Kennefick is an associate professor of physics at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. He’s the author of No Shadow of Doubt: the 1919 Eclipse that Confirmed Einstein’s Theory of Relativity.

  • Replay: Searching for the Origins of Humankind

    24/08/2019 Duration: 31min

    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 is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in New Earth Histories at the University of New South Wales.

  • Chasing the Moon

    20/08/2019 Duration: 24min

    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.

  • Replay: The Navigator in the Early Modern World

    17/08/2019 Duration: 32min

    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. She is the author of Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill.

  • Scurvy!

    13/08/2019 Duration: 27min

    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 University of London. He’s the author of "Tainted bodies : scurvy, bad food and the reputation of the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–1904," published this year in the Journal of Historical Geography.

  • Replay: Mountaineering and Glaciology after WWII

    10/08/2019 Duration: 32min

    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 joined hands and, occasionally, came into conflict. Inkpen is a Faculty Fellow at NYU Gallatin. She is the author of "The Scientific Life in the Alpine: Recreation and Moral Life in the Field," (Isis, Sept 2018).

  • How We Talk about Apollo

    06/08/2019 Duration: 26min

    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. She is also the author of two books, Breaking the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight Before NASA and Apollo Pilot: The Memory of Astronaut Don Eisele.     

  • Replay: Death in the Ice

    03/08/2019 Duration: 26min

    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 at Rhode Island College. He's the author of Finding Franklin: The Untold Story of a 165-year Search.

  • The Human Exploration of Mars

    30/07/2019 Duration: 36min

    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 of thousands of people. Robins is the host of WeMartians, a podcast that considers the exploration of the Red Planet from a variety of angles, both technical and scientific.

  • Replay: How Isolated Tribes Fight Back

    27/07/2019 Duration: 24min

    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 at the University of Connecticut, a contributor to National Geographic, and a former reporter for CBS and CNN. He's the author of The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon’s Last Uncontacted Tribes.

  • Replay: Into the Extreme

    22/07/2019 Duration: 32min

    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 California, Irvine. She is the author of Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics Beyond Earth.

  • Escape from Nazi-Occupied Europe, Part II

    20/07/2019 Duration: 46min

    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.

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