Time to Eat the Dogs
A Podcast About Science, History, and ExplorationReplay: China is Going to the Moon
Chinese astronaut and figher pilot Liu Yang
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 books and articles including Great Powers and Resource Nationalism in Space soon to be published Lexington Press.
Dr. Namrata Goswami
Women in Antarctica
Justine Ryan, Polar historian and expedition guide from England, prepares her zodiac in Antarctica. Credit: Acacia Johnson, Time Magazine
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 Hobart, Tasmania. She’s the co-author, along with Meredith Nash, of “Gendered Power Relations and Sexual Harassment in Antarctic Science in the Age of #Me Too,” due out this year in Australian Feminist Studies.
Hanne Nielsen
Replay: Malaria, Tonic Water, and Empire
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 Gardens. She’s the co-author (along with Mark Nesbitt) of Just The Tonic: A Natural History of Tonic Water.
Kim Walker
Pacific Exploration, Botany, and Revolution
Botanical illustration by Georg Forster, © The Trustees of the Natural
History Museum, London
Edwin Rose talks about Joseph Banks and Georg Forster, naturalists on the Cook expeditions, and how political ideas shaped the way their specimens were understood back in Europe. Rose is completing a PhD. in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and will soon be the Munby Fellow in Bibliography at Cambridge University Library and a research fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge. He’s the author of “Publishing Nature in the Age of Revolutions: Joseph Banks, Georg Forster, and the Plants of the Pacific” in the April edition of the Historical Journal.
Edwin Rose
Replay: Hawaiian Exploration of the World
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 of The World and All the Things upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration.
David Chang
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