When We Talk About Animals
When We Talk About Animals is a series of in-depth conversations with leading thinkers about the big questions animals raise about what it means to be human. Supported by the Law, Ethics & Animals Program at Yale Law School, Yale University’s Human Nature Lab, and the Yale Broadcast Studio.
- Website
- http://www.whenwetalkaboutanimals.org/
- Description
- When We Talk About Animals is a series of in-depth conversations with leading thinkers about the big questions animals raise about what it means to be human. Supported by the Law, Ethics & Animals Program at Yale Law School, Yale University’s Human Nature Lab, and the Yale Broadcast Studio.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-11-02 04:19
- last episode published
- 2023-04-11 13:20
- publication frequency
- 31.64 days
- Contributors
- Yale Podcast Network
- Author
- Yale Podcast Network
- Owner
- yalepodcasts@gmail.com (Yale Podcast Network)
- Managing editor
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 52
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Natural Sciences Science & Medicine
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Episodes
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| 2023-04-11 |
Ep. 51 – Novelist Ned Beauman on venomous lumpsuckers and the price of extinction Fiction can provide the most profound, incisive truths about the absurdities of our reality. In his most recent novel, Venomous Lumpsucker, Ned Beauman, a master of finding the humor and the fantastical in even the most devastating facets of human natu... |
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| 2023-02-21 |
Ep. 50 – Australian Biologist Danielle Clode on the Extraordinary World of Koalas Upon seeing an adorable Koala sitting on an eucalyptus branch in Australia, few would expect the beloved marsupial to emit a booming bellow to alert potential mates or rivals of its presence. But this powerful roar is just one of koalas’ many surprises... |
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| 2022-10-05 |
Ep. 49 – Dog Cognition Expert Alexandra Horowitz on the Quiddity of Puppies Most books on puppies are dog-improvement manuals, guiding readers ‘How to Raise the Perfect Dog’ or how to achieve ‘Perfect Puppy in 7 Days.’ Alexandra Horowitz’s profound and totally delightful new book is not that type of book. It’s an unprecedented... |
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| 2022-08-02 |
Ep. 48 – Patrick Rose on the Fight to Save Florida’s Manatees Grazing peacefully through shallow waterways, the Florida manatee is one of the state’s most beloved creatures. Due to a multitude of compounding, human-caused crises, the last couple years have been some of the deadliest on record for manatees. Years ... |
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| 2022-05-24 |
Ep. 47 – Poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil on writing love letters to nature Poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s exuberant book of essays, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, & Other Astonishments, has unlocked protective passion for nature among readers since its release in 2020. In the book’s thirty dazzling ... |
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| 2022-03-21 |
Ep. 46 – Paleobiologist Thomas Halliday on the Animals of Ancient Worlds The fossil record acts as both a memorial to life’s spectacular possibilities and as a warning to humanity about how fast dominance can become forgotten history, according to our guest, Scottish paleobiologist Dr. Thomas Halliday. Halliday’s research i... |
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| 2022-02-02 |
Ep. 45 – Rob Dunn on what the laws of biology predict about our future Amid the cataclysms of the Anthropocene, an era defined by humans’ attempts to control the natural world, it’s easy to forget that we remain as subject as ever to the ecological laws that govern living things. Like the laws of physics, paying attention... |
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| 2021-11-22 |
Ep. 44 – Rick McIntyre on the stories of Yellowstone’s greatest wolves In 1995, the U.S. government took unprecedented actions to restore the wolf population of Yellowstone National Park, which it had brutally destroyed seventy years prior. More than thirty wolves from multiple packs were captured in Canada, transported t... |
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| 2021-09-22 | From tiny cowries to giant clams, seashells have gripped human imaginations since time immemorial. In her magnificent new book, The Sound of the Sea, journalist Cynthia Barnett tells the epic history of humanity’s interactions with shells and the soft-... |
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| 2021-08-16 | Most of us land-lubbers assume that light-making among ocean creatures is an exotic and rare phenomenon. But that’s wrong. The majority of animals in the ocean, which means the majority of animals on the planet, are capable of making light. From top to... |
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