Time to Eat the Dogs
A Podcast About Science, History, and ExplorationTime to Eat the Dogs Live Podcast!
I’ll be doing three live zoom interviews in May — on May 3rd, May 10th, and May 17th from 3:00-4:00pm EST– for students of the President’s College here at the University of Hartford. Anyone can register for the events and when you do, you can watch my interviews and ask your own questions at the end. I’ll be talking to Eric Berger about his new book Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days that Launched SpaceX and Kristina Newman-Scott, artist and arts director, about her journeys from Jamaica to Brooklyn where she is now the president of BRIC, one of the most important arts and media institutions of New York. Registration costs $60 and proceeds (including my honorarium) will go to supporting student fellowships here at the university. I hope you can join us! Register here.
Inventing the World
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 of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. She’s the author of Inventing the World: Venice and the Transformation of Western Civilization
Replay: Running and the Science of the Extreme
The sport of running has exploded in the last three decades with some runners pushing the envelope of the extreme. But what do we really know about running and its effects?
- Is there a running type?
- Does running affect men and women differently?
- What do we know about extreme runners – people running races of 50 miles or more?
I talk with Dr. Beth Taylor about 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 Physiology Research at Hartford Hospital.
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For more on Taylor’s work on running, see her website:
http://kins.uconn.edu/beth-taylor/
And some of her recent publications:
Physical activity intensity and subjective well-being in healthy adults. Panza GA, Taylor BA, Thompson PD, White CM, Pescatello LS. J Health Psychol. 2017 Feb 1:1359105317691589. doi: 10.1177/1359105317691589. [Epub ahead of print]
An update on the Boston Marathon as a research laboratory. Panza GA, Taylor BA, Zaleski AL, Thompson PD. Phys Sportsmed. 2015 Jul;43(3):312-6. doi: 10.1080/00913847.2015.1039923. Epub 2015 Apr 27.
Influence of chronic exercise on carotid atherosclerosis in marathon runners. Taylor BA, Zaleski AL, Capizzi JA, Ballard KD, Troyanos C, Baggish AL, D’Hemecourt PA, Dada MR, Thompson PD.
Effect of marathon run and air travel on pre- and post-run soluble d-dimer, microparticle procoagulant activity, and p-selectin levels. Parker BA, Augeri AL, Capizzi JA, Ballard KD, Kupchak BR, Volek JS, Troyanos C, Kriz P, D’Hemecourt P, Thompson PD.Am J Cardiol. 2012 May 15;109(10):1521-5. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2012.01.369. Epub 2012 Feb 18.
Effect of air travel on exercise-induced coagulatory and fibrinolytic activation in marathon runners. Parker B, Augeri A, Capizzi J, Troyanos C, Kriz P, D’Hemecourt P, Thompson P.Clin J Sport Med. 2011 Mar;21(2):126-30. doi: 10.1097/JSM.0b013e31820edfa6.
The Alchemy of Conquest
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 Literature at the University of Maryland. He’s the author of The Alchemy of Conquest: Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World.
Replay: Why Did Scientists Collect the Blood of Indigenous Peoples?
Genomic History of Aboriginal Australia (Nature)
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, along with Joanna Radin, of “Indigenous Biospecimen Collections and the Cryopolitics of Frozen Life,” published in the Journal of Sociology.
Emma Kowal
