Time to Eat the Dogs

A Podcast About Science, History, and Exploration

Replay: Floating Coast

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Bathsheba Demuth talks about the history of the Bering Strait, from the early 1800s to the present day. Demuth is an assistant professor of History & Environment and Society at Brown University. She’s the author of Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait.

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Bathsheba Demuth

A History of Modern Tourism

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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 service sector industry in the world.  Zuelow is a professor of European History at the University of New England. He’s the author of A History of Modern Tourism.

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Eric Zuelow

Replay: Fifteen Million Years in Antarctica

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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 Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is the author of Fifteen Million Years in Antarctica which was recently longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

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Rebecca Priestley     (photo: Victoria Birkinshaw)

A Strange Week at NASA

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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 Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica.

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Eric Berger

Replay: An Update from the Hobbit Cave

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Paige Madison talks about recent discoveries at the Liang Bua cave where researchers are trying to understand the complicated story of the hominin Homo Florensiensis. Madison is a PhD candidate in the history of science at Arizona State University where she also works with The Center for Biology and Society and the Institute of Human Origins. She writes about paleoanthropology at the blog Fossil History. She recently wrote about her trip for National Geographic and Scientific American.

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Paige Madison