Time to Eat the Dogs
A Podcast About Science, History, and ExplorationReplay: Searching for the Origins of Humankind
“Zones of Migration Showing the Evolution of the Races” Griffith Taylor, 1919
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 in Sydney, Australia where she specializes in the history of modern science. She is currently completing her book Out of Asia: a History of the Global Search for the Origins of Humankind.
Emily Kern
Chasing the Moon
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. Stone talked to me in front of live audience at Bard College after he showed some clips from the film. Thanks to Paul LaBarbera and Cariahbel Azemar of Bard AV Services who recorded the audio for this episode. And thanks too to Paul Cadden-Zimansky, director of the Physics Program, who organized the event and introduced both of us to the audience.
Robert Stone
Replay: The Navigator in the Early Modern World
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.
Margaret Schotte
Scurvy!
Nares Expedition (1875)
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.
Ed Armston-Sheret
Replay: Mountaineering and Glaciology after WWII
Devil’s Paw, Juneau Icefield
The Juneau Icefield is 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.
Dani Inkpen talks about the links between mountaineering and glaciology after World War Two. 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” published in September 2018 in the history of science journal Isis.
Dani Inkpen
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