Time to Eat the Dogs Podcast
1) Gems, Science, and Empire
17th century traders who traveled the sea routes between India and Southeast Asia were interested in spices, but they were also interested in gemstones, objects of desire, commercial value, and increa...Show More
2) Artificial General Intelligence, Part II
Part two of my interview with Julian Togelius, who talks about the history of machine learning, the quest for Artificial General Intelligence, and the difficulties AI researchers have in defining exac...Show More
3) Artificial General Intelligence, Part I
In the first of two episodes, Julian Togelius talks about the history of machine learning, the quest for Artificial General Intelligence, and the difficulties AI researchers have in defining exactly w...Show More
4) Replay: Inventing the World
Meredith Small talks about the city of Venice and its importance to the history of travel and exploration. Small is professor emerita at Cornell University. She’s the author of Inventing the World: V...Show More
5) The Habitable Worlds Observatory
Dr. Giada Arney talks about the Habitable Worlds Observatory, a space telescope that, when it’s built and launched into space, will be able to image planets in other solar systems directly, focusing o...Show More
6) Replay: Icebound
In the late 1500s, Dutch navigator William Barrents sailed north in search of a Northeast Passage to Asia. This expedition and a second one both suffered hardships, but they were mild in comparison wi...Show More
7) The Europa Clipper and the Search for Extraterrestrial LIfe
Claire Isabel Webb talks about the Europa Clipper mission and NASA’s broader agenda to find life on other worlds. Webb is a historian of science and directs the Future Humans program at the Berggruen ...Show More
8) Replay: Enemy of All Mankind
Steven Johnson talks about the British pirate Henry Every and his improbable capture of the Mughal treasure ship, Gunsway. Johnson is the author of twelve books, including Enemy of All Mankind, Farsi...Show More
9) Mountains, Writers, and Travelers in the 18th Century Alps
CĂ©lia Abele talks about Wolfgang von Goethe, the French writer Chateaubriand, and the German physicist Georg Lichtenberg. These writers became fascinated in the Alps and volcanoes such as Vesuvius. Ab...Show More
10) On the Backs of Others: Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration
Ed Armston-Sheret returns to Time to Eat the Dogs to talk about British geographical expeditions and the labor that made them possible, specifically the labor of local peoples that is frequently omitt...Show More
On the Backs of Others: Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration
36:47 | Nov 11th, 2024