New Books in Environmental Studies
Interviews with Environmental Scientists about their New Books
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- Description
- Interviews with Environmental Scientists about their New Books
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-01-02 05:50
- last episode published
- 2025-01-01 09:00
- publication frequency
- 6.0 days
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- Marshall Poe
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- Number of Episodes
- 980
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- Natural Sciences Science & Medicine
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-01-01 |
Brandon Keim, "Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World" (Norton, 2024) What does the science of animal intelligence mean for how we understand and live with the wild creatures around us? Honeybees deliberate democratically. Rats reflect on the past. Snakes have friends. In recent decades, our understanding of animal cogni... |
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| 2024-12-23 | Josh Spodek disconnected his Manhattan apartment from the electric grid in May 2022. Over time, he has reduced his consumption and contribution to landfill. His new book argues that sustainability is not a sacrifice but an upgrade that can bring joy an... |
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| 2024-12-20 |
Veronica Strang, "Water Beings: From Nature Worship to the Environmental Crisis" (Reaktion, 2023) Jana Byars talks to Veronica Strang about her new book Water Beings: From Nature Worship to the Environmental Crisis (Reaktion, 2023). Looking to the vast human history of water worship, a crucial study of our broken relationship with all things aquati... |
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| 2024-12-19 | Today I’m speaking with Erich Hatala Matthes, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Advisory Faculty for Environmental Studies at Wellesley College. We are discussing his Oxford University Press, What to Save and Why: Identity, Authenticity, and the Et... |
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| 2024-12-19 | To most of us, weeds can seem nothing more than intruders in gardens, farms and city streets. But the idea of the weed is a slippery one, constantly changing according to different needs, fashions and contexts. In a well-ordered field of corn, a scarle... |
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| 2024-12-19 | Peter Godfrey-Smith knows his cephalopods. Once of CUNY and now a professor of history and philosophy of science at University of Sydney, his truly capacious career includes books such as Theory and Reality (2003; 2nd edition in 2020), Darwinian Popula... |
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| 2024-12-18 | A wolf’s howl is felt in the body. Frightening and compelling, incomprehensible or entirely knowable, it is a sound that may be heard as threat or invitation but leaves no listener unaffected. Toothsome fiends, interfering pests, or creatures wild and ... |
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| 2024-12-17 | As climate crisis ensues, a transition away from fossil fuels becomes urgent. However, some renewable energy developments are propagating injustices such as landgrabs, colonial dispossession, and environmentally destructive practices. Changing the way ... |
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| 2024-12-17 | The Earth That Modernism Built: Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design (University of Texas Press, 2024) by Dr. Kenny Cupers traces the rise of planetary design to an imperialist discourse about the influence of the earthly environment on humanity. Dr... |
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| 2024-12-14 | Over 4.5 billion years, Earth's climate has transformed tremendously. Before our more temperate recent past, the planet swung from one extreme to another--from a greenhouse world of sweltering temperatures and high sea levels to a "snowball earth" in w... |
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