Time to Eat the Dogs
Episodes
Replay: The Nazi Cult of Mobility
14 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Denning talks about the Nazi cult of mobility, a set of ideas and practices that were crucial to its racist ideology. Denning is an Assistant P...
Jessica Nabongo is Traveling to Every Country in the World
10 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Annette Joseph-Gabriel speaks to Jessica Nabongo about her quest to be the first black woman to travel to all of the countries of the world. Joseph-Ga...
Replay: The Last Wild Men of Borneo
07 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Journalist Carl Hoffman talks about Bruno Manser and Michael Palmieri, two men who arrived in Borneo with very different dreams and aspirations. Hoffm...
Why are Women Beating Men in Ultra-Endurance Events?
04 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Beth Taylor talks about the physiological differences between men and women athletes and why ultra-endurance events seem to offer certain performa...
Replay: Should We Colonize Mars?
31 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lucianne Walkowicz talks about the ethics of colonizing Mars and new developments in the search for extraterrestrial life. Walkowicz held the 2017 NAS...
The Expedition that Tested Einstein's Theory
27 Aug 2019
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Daniel Kennefick talks about resistance to relativity theory in the early twentieth century and the huge challenges that faced British astronomers who...
Replay: Searching for the Origins of Humankind
24 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Emily Kern talks about the search for human origins in the 19th and 20th centuries, specifically why anthropologists came to see Africa – rather tha...
Chasing the Moon
20 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Director Robert Stone talks about his film Chasing the Moon, a three-part documentary which aired on PBS's American Experience for the fiftieth annive...
Replay: The Navigator in the Early Modern World
17 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 A...
Scurvy!
13 Aug 2019
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Ed Armston-Sheret talks about the mysterious disease of scurvy: how it affected expeditioners and why it was so difficult to understand. Armston-Shere...
Replay: Mountaineering and Glaciology after WWII
10 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dani Inkpen talks about expedition life in the Juneau Icefield, home to some of the most spectacular glaciers in North America. In the 1940s, it was t...
How We Talk about Apollo
06 Aug 2019
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Amy Shira Teitel talks about Apollo and the community of people who are deeply attached to space history. Teitel is a spaceflight historian and the cr...
Replay: Death in the Ice
03 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Russell Potter discusses new developments in the search for answers about the tragic Franklin Expedition that disappeared in the Arctic in 1845. Potte...
The Human Exploration of Mars
30 Jul 2019
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Jake Robins and Michael Robinson talk about the quest to explore Mars: how it compares to earlier eras of exploration in the West and in the Arctic as...
Replay: How Isolated Tribes Fight Back
27 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Wallace talks about his trip to Brazil reporting on the efforts of the Guajajara people to protect uncontacted tribes from loggers, miners, and ...
Replay: Into the Extreme
22 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Valerie Olson talks about why the idea of outer space as a "frontier" is giving way to one that frames it as a cosmic ecosystem. Olson is an associate...
Escape from Nazi-Occupied Europe, Part II
20 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In Part II, Ruth Gruenthal continues her story of her family's escape from France in 1940. She also discusses the challenges of living in the United S...
Replay: The Identity of the Traveler
13 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Joyce Ashuntantang talks about her experiences as a traveler and a poet, from her childhood Cameroon to her years studying in Great Britain and the Un...
Escape from Nazi-Occupied Europe, Part I
09 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ruth Gruenthal talks about her life in Germany as the Nazi Party came to power in the 1930s. Gruenthal and her family – along with thousands of Jewi...
Replay: The Archaeology of Exploration
06 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Anthropologist P.J. Capelotti discusses the role of exploration archaeology in understanding the Pacific voyage of Kon-Tiki, the Arctic airship expedi...
Human Exploration of the Deep Sea
02 Jul 2019
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Bruce Strickrott talks about the value of human exploration of the deep sea. Strickrott is the Program Manager and Senior Pilot of the United States' ...
Replay: Women, Aviation, and Global Air Travel
29 Jun 2019
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Emily Gibson talks about women, aviation, and global air travel. Gibson is an associate historian at the National Science Foundation.
Replay: The New Map of Empire
25 Jun 2019
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Max Edelson talk about the British Board of Trade's ambitious project to explore and survey British America from the St Lawrence River to the islands ...
Replay: Making Planets into Places
22 Jun 2019
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Anthropologist Lisa Messeri talks about planetary scientists and the way they use data to bring these places to life. Messeri is the author of Placin...
Replay: The Making of 2001: A Space Odyssey
18 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Benson talks about the making of 2001, a movie inspired by the collaboration of American director Stanley Kubrick and the British futurist Art...
Replay: Science and Exploration in the U.S. Navy
15 Jun 2019
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Jason Smith discusses the U.S. Navy's role in exploring and charting the ocean world. Smith is an assistant professor of history at Southern Connectic...
Destined for the Stars
11 Jun 2019
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Catherine Newell talks about the religious roots of the final frontier, focusing on the collaboration of artist Chesley Bonestell, science writer Will...
Replay: After the Map
08 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Bill Rankin talks about the changes brought about by GPS and other mapping technologies in the twentieth century. Rankin is the author of After the M...
Starvation Shore
04 Jun 2019
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Laura Waterman talks about her novel, Starvation Shore, which relies upon memoirs, letters, and diaries to reconstruct the life of the Greely Party as...
Replay: One Long Night
01 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Andrea Pitzer talks about her book One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, one of the Smithsonian's Ten Best History Books for 2017...
Space Science and the Arab World
28 May 2019
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Matthias Determann talks about the importance of the space sciences in the Arab World. Determann is an associate professor of history at Virginia Comm...
Replay: Living on the International Space Station
25 May 2019
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Astronaut Garrett Reisman talks about life aboard the International Space Station. Reisman flew on two shuttle missions to the station and conducted t...
Faces, Beauty, and the Brain
22 May 2019
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Rachel Walker talks about physiognomy -- the study of the human face -- and why it was so popular among scientists and the general public. Walker is a...
Replay: Aboriginal Australians' First Encounter with Captain Cook
18 May 2019
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Maria Nugent talks about Aboriginal Australians' first encounter with Captain Cook at Botany Bay, a violent meeting has come to represent the origin ...
The History of Arctic Fever
15 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Radio host Kevin Fox interviews me about the history of American Arctic exploration. The disappearance of the Franklin Expedition in 1845 turned the A...
Replay: An American in Soviet Antarctica, Part I
11 May 2019
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Stewart Gillmor talks about his fourteen-month stay at Mirny Station, the Soviet Union's Antarctica base. Gillmor was the sole American at Mirny in 19...
Replay: An American in Soviet Antarctica, Part II
11 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Stewart Gillmor -- the sole American at Mirny Station in 1961 and 1962-- continues his discussion of life at the Soviet base: how communism plays out ...
The British Expeditionary Literature of Africa
07 May 2019
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Adrian Wisnicki talks about the British expeditionary literature of the late 1800s. Wisnicki is the author of Fieldwork of Empire, 1840-1900: Intercul...
Replay: The Mars Rover Curiosity
04 May 2019
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Emily Lakdawalla discusses the design and construction of Curiosity, formally known as the Mars Science Laboratory, one of the most sophisticated mach...
Replay: What the Dead Can Teach Us
30 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Too often, Dr. Pauline Chen argues, the focus on keeping patients alive gets in the way of helping those who are approaching death. Chen shares her ex...
Replay: Rethinking Humboldt
27 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Anthony discusses the Prussian naturalist and explorer, Alexander von Humboldt, the world's most famous explorer in the early 1800s. Famed and...
Women Wanderers of the Romantic Era
23 Apr 2019
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Ingrid Horrocks talks about the way women travelers, specifically women wanderers, are represented in late-eighteenth century literature. Horrocks in ...
Replay: The 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition
20 Apr 2019
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Martin Thomas discusses the 1948 Arnhem Land expedition and the controversy that surrounds it. His new documentary, Etched in Bone, which he co-direct...
New Insights about Darwin
16 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Alistair Sponsel talks about Darwin's experiences on HMS Beagle and his early career as a naturalist. Sponsel's close reading of Darwin's journals...
Replay: Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean
13 Apr 2019
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Dr. Joy McCann discusses the great circumpolar ocean that surrounds Antarctica. She is a historian at the Centre for Environmental History at Austra...
Creatures of Cain
09 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Erika Milam talks about the scientific search for human nature, a project that captured the attention of paleontologists, anthropologists, and primato...
Replay: Running and the Science of the Extreme
06 Apr 2019
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Dr. Beth Taylor discusses the science and psychology of running. Taylor is an Associate Professor of Kinesiology at the University of Connecticut. She...
Travel, Race, and Freedom
02 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Annette Joseph-Gabriel talks with Tiffany Gill about the history of African American travel in the late twentieth century and its importance to black ...
Replay: The Mystery of the Franklin Expedition
30 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 1845, the two British naval ships left England with 129 men in search of the Northwest Passage. They were never heard from again. Professor Russell...
Higher and Colder: A History of Extreme Physiology and Exploration
25 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Vanessa Heggie talks about the history of biomedical research in extreme environments. Heggie is a Fellow of the Institute for Global Innovation a...
Replay: Watching Vesuvius
23 Mar 2019
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Sean Cocco talks about the 1631 eruption of Vesuvius and its impact on Renaissance science and culture. Cocco is an associate professor of history at ...
The Medieval Invention of Travel
19 Mar 2019
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Shayne Legassie talks about Medieval travel, especially long distance travel, and the way it was feared, praised, and sometimes treated with suspicion...
Replay: Mapping the Polar Regions
16 Mar 2019
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Cole Kelleher talks about his work for the Polar Geospatial Center at the University of Minnesota, an agency that uses satellite data to make cutting-...
Apollo in the Age of Aquarius
12 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Neil Maher talks about the social forces that shaped NASA in the 1960s and 1970s, connecting the space race with the radical upheavals of the counterc...
Replay: The Last Uncontacted Tribes
09 Mar 2019
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Scott Wallace talks about his 2002 expedition into Amazon to find the Arrow People, one of the world's last uncontacted tribes. Wallace is a profess...
After Leichhardt Went Missing
05 Mar 2019
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Andrew Wright Hurley talks about the life and afterlife of Prussian explorer Ludwig Leichhardt, a man whose posthumous reputation has changed many tim...
Replay: Descartes, Traveler
02 Mar 2019
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Hal Cook talks about the travels and trials of the young René Descartes, a man who spent as much time traveling and fighting as studying philosophy....
African American Women and Jamaican Travel
26 Feb 2019
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Annette Joseph Gabrielle talks with Bianca Williams about African American women who travel to Jamaica as tourists looking for happiness, intimacy, an...
The Revolution in Paleoanthropology
23 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Anthropologist John Hawks talks about new developments in paleoanthropology: the discovery of a new hominid species Homo Naledi in South Africa, the N...
Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans
20 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Helen Rozwadowski talks about the history of the oceans and how these oceans have shaped human history in profound ways. Rozwadowski is a professor o...
Replay: The Biggest Exploration Exam Ever
16 Feb 2019
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Doctoral candidate Sarah Pickman talks about studying exploration for her Ph.D exams: specifically what it's like to read three hundred books and arti...
Replay: Talking Exploration Books with Sarah Pickman
16 Feb 2019
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Sarah Pickman talks about the literature of exploration. She offers some picks for categories of exploration books not commonly seen in indexes and bi...
Re-imagining People in Anthropological Photographs
12 Feb 2019
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Artist Chiadikobi Nwaubani talks about his efforts to find, restore, and publish photographs from the colonial archives of West Africa. He also talks ...
Replay: Project Vanguard
09 Feb 2019
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Dr. Angelina Callahan talks about the Naval Research Laboratory's Project Vanguard. While this satellite mission was part of the Cold War "Space Race,...
The Problem with Andrea Wulf's Biography of Humboldt
06 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Andrea Wulf's book the The Invention of Nature tells the story of Alexander von Humboldt, one of the world's most important nineteenth-century explore...
Replay: Do You See Ice?
02 Feb 2019
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Dr. Karen Routledge talks about Baffin Island's Inuit community as it comes into contact with western whalers and explorers in the nineteenth century....
The Galapagos Expedition that Vindicated Darwin
29 Jan 2019
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Matthew James talks about the 1905 Galapagos Expedition organized by the California Academy of Sciences. James is a professor of geology at Sonoma St...
Replay: The Journeys of Eslanda Robeson
26 Jan 2019
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Professor Annette Joseph-Gabriel talks about Eslanda Robeson who, in addition to being a political activist with her husband Paul Robeson, was a chemi...
The Nazi Cult of Mobility
22 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Denning talks about the Nazi cult of mobility, a set of ideas and practices that were crucial to its racist ideology. Denning is an Assistant P...
Replay: The Rise of Women in Climbing
19 Jan 2019
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Noel Phillips discusses the growing popularity of climbing among women. Her article, "No Man's Land: The Rise of Women in Climbing" was recently publi...
The Last Wild Men of Borneo
15 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Journalist Carl Hoffman talks about Bruno Manser and Michael Palmieri, two men who arrived in Borneo with very different dreams and aspirations. Hoffm...
Replay: The Amazing Phytotron
12 Jan 2019
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David Munns, professor of history at John Jay College, talks about his new book, Engineering the Environment: Phytotrons and the Quest for Climate Con...
Should We Colonize Mars?
08 Jan 2019
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Astronomer Lucianne Walkowicz talks about the ethics of colonizing Mars and new developments in the search for extraterrestrial life.
Replay: Chasing Exoplanets
05 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Scientists have now identified almost 4000 exoplanets --planets that orbit stars outside our own solar system-- and with powerful new telescopes about...
Searching for the Origins of Humankind
01 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Historian Emily Kern talks about the search for human origins in the 19th and 20th centuries, specifically why anthropologists came to see Africa – ...
The History of Madagascar in Trade and Exploration
29 Dec 2018
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Jane Hooper talks about Madagascar and its importance to the history of Indian Ocean trade and exploration. Hooper is the author of Feeding Globaliz...
Replay: The Medieval Pilgrimage
25 Dec 2018
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Art historian Fran Altvater talks about the Medieval Pilgrimage, a practice that became central to Christian Europe in the early Middle Ages.
Replay: Inventing the American Astronaut
21 Dec 2018
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Matthew Hersch, author of Inventing the American Astronaut, talks about the origins and evolution of the U.S. astronaut program.
The Navigator in the Early Modern World
18 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 A...
Replay: How We Got the Scientific Revolution Wrong
15 Dec 2018
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Jorge Canizares-Esguerra discusses the 16th century mining center of Potosí and how its peoples and technologies shaped 16th century science.
Mountaineering and Glaciology after WWII
11 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dani Inkpen talks about expedition life in the Juneau Icefield, home to some of the most spectacular glaciers in North America. In the 1940s, it was t...
Replay: Monsters on the Map
08 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Cannibals, headless men, and giants were common figures of Medieval and Renaissance maps. Historian Surekha Davies tells us why we need to take these ...
Death in the Ice
05 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Russell Potter discusses new developments in the search for answers about the tragic Franklin Expedition that disappeared in the Arctic in 1845.
Replay: The History of UFOs
01 Dec 2018
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In 1946, Swedish and Finnish observers reported "ghost rockets" flying over Scandinavia. In the United States, they became known as "flying saucers." ...
How Isolated Tribes Fight Back
27 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Wallace talks about his recent trip to Brazil reporting on the efforts of the Guajajara people to protect uncontacted tribes from loggers, miner...
Backpack Ambassadors
23 Nov 2018
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Richard Ivan Jobs talks about the rise of backpacking in Europe after the Second World War, a phenomenon that contributed to the political integration...
Into the Extreme
20 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Valerie Olson talks about why the idea of outer space as a "frontier" is giving way to one that frames it as a cosmic ecosystem. Olson is an associate...
Searching for Hobbits
17 Nov 2018
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Paige Madison talks about her work at the Liang Bua cave in Indonesia where she studies Homo Floresiensis as well as the team of researchers who have ...
The Psychology of Extreme Environments
15 Nov 2018
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Nathan Smith discusses the psychology of exploration, specifically the psychology of performance in extreme environments. Smith worked closely with po...
Lands of Lost Borders
12 Nov 2018
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Kate Harris -- writer, scientist, and extreme cyclist – talks about the trip she made with her friend Mel, tracing Marco Polo's route across Central...
The Identity of the Traveler
06 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Joyce Ashuntantang talks about her experiences as a traveler and a poet, from her childhood Cameroon to her years studying in Great Britain and the Un...
The Archaeology of Exploration
30 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Anthropologist P.J. Capelotti discusses the role of exploration archaeology in understanding the Pacific voyage of Kon-Tiki, the Arctic airship expedi...
Women, Aviation, and Global Air Travel
24 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Emily Gibson talks about women, aviation, and global air travel. Gibson is an associate historian at the National Science Foundation.
The New Map of Empire
16 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Historian Max Edelson talk about the British Board of Trade's ambitious project to explore and survey British America from the St Lawrence River to th...
Making Planets into Places
09 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Anthropologist Lisa Messeri talks about planetary scientists and the way they use data to bring these places to life. Messeri is the author of Placing...
The Making of 2001: A Space Odyssey
02 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Benson talks about the making of 2001, a movie inspired by the collaboration of American director Stanley Kubrick and the British futurist Art...
Science and Exploration in the U.S. Navy
27 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Smith discusses the U.S. Navy's role in exploring and charting the ocean world. Smith is an assistant professor of history at Southern Connectic...
After the Map
18 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Bill Rankin talks about the changes brought about by GPS and other mapping technologies in the twentieth century. Rankin is the author of After the Ma...
Living on the International Space Station
11 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Astronaut Garrett Reisman talks about life aboard the International Space Station. Reisman flew on two shuttle missions to the station and conducted t...
One Long Night
04 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Andrea Pitzer talks about her book One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, one of the Smithsonian's Ten Best History Books for 2017