Episode 131: Meteorology

David Grubbs hosts a conversation with Michial Farmer, Nathan Gilmour, and Book of Nature host Dan Dawson about meteorology. Starting from the contrast between weather-mythologies and explanations from states of matter, the quartet spend much of the time examining why storms in particular inspires such respect and awe among human beings. Among the writers, ideas, and other phenomena discussed are Aristotle, Job, the water cycle, the synoptic gospels, forecasting, Polar Vortex, and Snowmageddon.