Time to Eat the Dogs
Episodes
Searching for Hobbits
28 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Australians' First Encounter with Captain Cook
21 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Maria Nugent talks about Aboriginal Australians' first encounter with Captain Cook at Botany Bay, a violent meeting has come to represent the origin ...
An American in Soviet Antarctica, Part II
15 Aug 2018
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 ...
An American in Soviet Antarctica, Part I
07 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition
31 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Historian Martin Thomas discusses the 1948 Arnhem Land expedition and the controversy that surrounds it. His new documentary, Etched in Bone, which he...
Mapping the Polar Regions
24 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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-...
My Interview with Radio Canberra
17 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Broadcast journalist Jolene Laverty interviews me for ABC Radio Canberra. We talk about my exploration research, podcast, and recent work at Australia...
Watching Vesuvius
09 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Wild Sea
03 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Joy McCann discusses the great circumpolar ocean that surrounds Antarctica. McCann is the author of Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean. She ...
The Egyptologist
27 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Historian Kate Sheppard discusses Egyptologist Margaret Alice Murray who was central to the field of British Egyptology at the turn of the twentieth c...
The Rise of the Megafire
19 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Journalist Michael Kodas talks about the phenomenon of megafires, forest fires that burn over 100,000 acres, and why the number of these fires is incr...
The Ebola Outbreak of 2013
12 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Stephan Bullard discusses the 2013 Ebola outbreak in West Africa which killed 11,000 people. It is the subject of his new book, A Day to Day...
The Mars Rover Curiosity
05 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Emily Lakdawalla discusses the design and construction of Curiosity, formally known as the Mars Science Laboratory, one of the most sophisticated mach...
Psychology in Extreme Environments
29 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan Smith discusses the psychology of exploration, specifically the psychology of performance in extreme environments. Smith worked closely with po...
What the Dead Can Teach Us
21 May 2018
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...
Rethinking Humboldt
15 May 2018
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...
The Revolution in Paleoanthropology
10 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
John Hawks talks about new developments in paleoanthropology – the discovery of a new hominid species Homo Naledi in South Africa, the Neanderthal a...
The Vanguard Project
01 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Angelina Callahan talks about the Naval Research Laboratory's Vanguard Project. While this satellite mission was part of the Cold War "Space Race," it...
Descartes, Traveler.
24 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Hal Cook talks about the travels and trials of the young René Descartes, a man who spent more time traveling and fighting than studying philosophy. ...
The Journeys of Eslanda Robeson
17 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Annette Joseph-Gabriel talks about Eslanda Robeson who, in addition to being a political activist with her husband Paul Robeson, was also a chemist, a...
The Medieval Pilgrimage
10 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Art historian Fran Altvater talks about the Medieval Pilgrimage, a practice that became central to Christian Europe in the early Middle Ages.
The Last Uncontacted Tribes
03 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Journalist Scott Wallace talks about a 2002 expedition into Amazon to find the Arrow People, one of the world's last uncontacted tribes. Wallace is th...
Bonus Episode: Exploration Books
27 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Our conversation with Sarah Pickman continues about the literature of exploration. It focuses on some new categories of exploration books not commonly...
The Biggest Exploration Exam Ever
27 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Doctoral candidate Sarah Pickman talks about studying exploration for her qualifying exam: specifically what it's like to read three hundred books and...
Backpack Ambassadors
20 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Historian Richard Ivan Jobs talks about the rise of backpacking in Europe after the Second World War. Jobs argues that youth travel helped create a ne...
The History of Madagascar in Trade and Exploration
13 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jane Hooper talks about Madagascar and its importance to the history of Indian Ocean trade and exploration. Hooper is the author of Feeding Globaliza...
Lands of Lost Borders
06 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 Ebola Outbreak of 2013
27 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Stephan Bullard, associate professor of biology at the University of Hartford, discusses the 2013 Ebola outbreak which is the subject of his new book,...
Inventing the American Astronaut
20 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Hersch, author of Inventing the American Astronaut, talks about the origins and evolution of the U.S. astronaut program.
The First Americans on Everest, Part II
13 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Phil Clements continues his discussion of the 1963 American Mount Everest Expedition, the subject of his new book: Science in an Extreme Environment: ...
The First Americans on Everest, Part I
13 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Phil Clements discusses the 1963 American Mount Everest Expedition, the subject of his new book: Science in an Extreme Environment: The American Mount...
The Falcon Heavy
06 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Berger, senior space editor at Ars Technica, talks about this week's launch of the Falcon Heavy -- the world's most powerful rocket -- and how it...
How We Got the Scientific Revolution Wrong
30 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jorge Canizares-Esguerra discusses the 16th century mining center of Potosí and how its peoples and technologies shaped 16th century science.
The Egyptologist
23 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Historian Kate Sheppard discusses Egyptologist Margaret Alice Murray who was central to the field of British Egyptology at the turn of the twentieth c...
In Search of Brightest Africa
16 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jeannette Eileen Jones discusses the idea of Africa in the American imagination from the "Darkest Africa" of Henry Morton Stanley to the "Bright Afric...
Chasing Exoplanets
09 Jan 2018
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...
Monsters on the Map
02 Jan 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 ...
The Amazing Phytotron
26 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
David Munns, professor of history at John Jay College, talks about his new book, Engineering the Environment: Phytotrons and the Quest for Climate Con...
The History of UFOs
19 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In 1946, Swedish and Finnish observers reported "ghost rockets" flying over Scandinavia. In the United States, they became known as "flying saucers." ...
Can You See the Ice?
12 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Karen Routledge tells the story of Baffin Island's Inuit community as they came into contact with western whalers and explorers in the nineteenth cent...
California is Burning
08 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
California is in the middle of its worst fire season ever. 1.2 million acres have burned so far with no end in sight. Now, with flames threatening Los...
NASA in the Age of Trump
05 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In September President Trump nominated Jim Bridenstine – a three term Congressman from Oklahoma-- to lead NASA. Discussing Bridenstine's nomination ...
The Mystery of the Franklin Expedition
28 Nov 2017
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.The disappearance ...
The Ascent of Women Climbers
21 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 First Americans on Everest
18 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Ten years after the 1953 summit of Everest by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, a team of 19 Americans and hundreds of Sherpas, attempted to do it ag...
The Science of Running
18 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The sport of running has exploded in the last three decades with some runners pushing the envelope of the extreme. Dr. Beth Taylor discusses the scien...
Rise of the Megafire
18 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Journalist Michael Kodas talks about the phenomenon of megafires, forest fires that burn over 100,000 acres, and why the number of these fires is incr...