Time to Eat the Dogs
A Podcast About Science, History, and ExplorationReplay: Science, Islam, and Evolution
Indian Postal Stamp of Sayyid Ahmad Khan
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 essay “Reexamining Complexity: Sayyid Ahmad Khan’s Interpretation of ‘Science’ in Islam” is in the edited collection Rethinking History, Science and Religion: Exploring Complexity published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.
Sarah Qidwai
Replay: The Polar Star is Falling Apart
USCGC Polar Star
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 prizes for his investigations on the Asian Financial Crisis and abuses by U.S. immigration officials. His article on the Polar Star was published in the August 2nd edition of the Los Angeles Times.
Richard Read
Replay: Mental Illness and the Mawson Expedition
Sidney Jeffryes
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 party as well as the way Mawson tried to present his expedition to audiences back home. Leane is a professor of English at the University of Tasmania and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. She’s also the co-author (along with Ben Maddison and Kimberley Norris) of “Beyond the Heroic Stereotype: Sidney Jeffryes and the Mythologising of Australian Antarctic History.”
Elizabeth Leane
Floating Coast
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.
Bathsheba Demuth
Replay: Anticipating the Astronaut
Donald Farrell in a space cabin simulator (1958). Credit: Texas State Historical Association
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.
Jordan Bimm
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