Time to Eat the Dogs

A Podcast About Science, History, and Exploration

Replay: Women, Aviation, and Global Air Travel

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The history of women in aviation is filled with colorful people like Anne Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart. But there’s a bigger story here about women, planes, and commercial empires.

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Air Hostesses, 1960.

Emily Gibson talks about women, aviation, and global air travel. Gibson is an associate historian at the National Science Foundation. She is the author of the dissertation “Flying the Flag: Gender and the Projection of National Progress through Global Air Travel” which was funded by a Guggenheim Fellowship from the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. 

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Emily Gibson

 

Replay: The New Map of Empire

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Max Edelson talks about the British Board of Trade’s massively ambitious project to explore and survey British America from the St Lawrence River to the islands of the Caribbean. Edelson is a professor of history at the University of Virginia. He is the author of The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America Before Independence.

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Max Edelson

Replay: Making Planets into Places

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Lisa Messeri talks about planetary scientists and the way they use data to bring faraway places to life. Messeri is a professor of anthropology at Yale University. She is the author of Placing Out Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds.

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Lisa Messeri

Replay: The Making of 2001: A Space Odyssey

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Michael Benson talks about the making of 2001, a movie inspired by the collaboration of American director Stanley Kubrick and British futurist Arthur C Clark. Benson is a writer, artist, and film maker. He is the author of Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C Clark and The Making of a Masterpiece.

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Michael Benson

Replay: Science and Exploration in the U.S. Navy

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USS Vincennes in Disappointment Bay, Antarctica

Jason Smith discusses the US Navy’s role in exploring and charting the ocean world. Smith is an assistant professor of history at Southern Connecticut State University. He’s the author of To Master the Boundless Sea: The US Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography of Empire.

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Jason Smith