Time to Eat the Dogs
A Podcast About Science, History, and ExplorationReplay: Portuguese Exploration After the Age of Discovery
Catarina Madruga talks about Portuguese exploration in the nineteenth century as European powers made plans to conquer Africa and colonize its peoples. Madruga is a post-doctoral researcher at the Natural History Museum of Berlin. She’s the author of “Expert at a Distance: Barbosa du Bocage and the Production of Scientific Knowledge on Africa,” Journal for the History of Science and Technology, 11, 57-74.
An Empire of Solitude: Isolation and the Cold War Sciences of the Mind
During the Cold War, isolation experiments became something of a national obsession – for some it was a way of tapping the unconscious, for others, if offered a means for brainwashing, and of others still, a testing ground for the challenges of space. Historian Jeffery Mathias talks about scientific experiments in isolation during the Cold War. Mathias is the author of the Ph.D dissertation, “An Empire of Solitude: Isolation and the Cold War Sciences of the Mind.” He is also the author of the 2021 essay “American Solitude.”
Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto talks about the life and work of Ferdinand Magellan. Fernandez-Armesto is the William P. Reynolds Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan.
How does the Webb Telescope Change the Search for Exoplanets?
Dr. Hannah Wakeford talks about the Webb Telescope and its significance for the study of exoplanets, planets orbiting suns in other solar systems. Wakeford is a lecturer in Astrophysics at the University of Bristol. She is also one of the hosts of Exocast: a podcast about exoplanet research and discovery.
The Abominable Snowman
Dr. Carolin Roeder talks about the Soviet search for the abominable snowman and parallels to other wildman legends in the United States and elsewhere. Roeder facilitates research collaboration between the Freie Universität in Berlin and other European universities as part of the Una Europa project. She is the author of the essay “Cold War Creatures: Soviet Science and the Problem of the Abominable Snowman” in Ice and Snow in the Cold War: Histories of Extreme Climatic Environments
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