PODCAST · science
Time to Eat the Dogs
by Michael Robinson: historian of science and exploration
A podcast about science, history, and exploration. Michael Robinson interviews scientists, journalists, and adventurers about life at the extreme.
Episodes
-
3I/ATLAS, SETI, and the Controversy Over How We Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Jason Wright talks about 3I/ATLAS, the controversy surrounding it, and the way the search for life in the universe is beginning to change. Wright is a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State University. He's the director of the Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center. He is...
-
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 increasingly, scientific fascination. Claire Conklin Sabel talks about the gem trade in South and...
-
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 exactly what intelligence is. Togelius is an associate professor of Computer Science at New York...
-
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 what intelligence is. Togelius is an associate professor of Computer Science at New York…
more -
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: Venice and the Transformation of Western Civilization
-
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 on planets that may support life. Arney is a Research Space Scientist in the Planetary Systems...
-
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 with the horrors of the third expedition. Andrea Pitzer talks about the Arctic voyages of William...
-
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 Institute. Her opinion piece, "Can We Please Just Find the Aliens Already," was published by the...
-
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, Farsighted, Where Good Ideas Come From, and The Ghost Map. He's also the host of the PBS series How We...
-
Mountains, Writers, and Travelers in the 18th Century Alps
Célia 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. Abele is an assistant professor of French at Boston College. She's the author of "Mountain Time:...
-
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 omitted from explorer accounts. Armston-Sheret is a Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research,...
-
Replay: Quantum Legacies
David Kaiser talks about the history of twentieth-century physics and the forces that have shaped it as a scientific discipline. Kaiser is a Professor of the History of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he is also a Professor of Physics. He's the author of Quantum…
more -
Mungo Park's Ghost
Dane Kennedy talks about Mungo Park's troubled expeditions in West Africa and the rescue expeditions that set off to find him. Kennedy is an emeritus professor of history and international affairs at George Washington University. He has written eight books including Mungo Park's Ghost: The…
more -
Replay: The Tsarina's Lost Treasure
Gerald Easter and Mara Vorhees talk about the voyage of the Vrouw Maria and the long quest to find the ship under the waters of the Archipelago Sea off the coast of Finland. Easter is a professor of history at Boston College. Vorhees is a travel writer for Lonely Planet with an expertise in…
more -
The Challenger Disaster
Adam Higginbotham talks about the history of the Space Shuttle program and the decisions that made the Challenger explosion almost inevitable. Higgenbotham is a journalist and contributing writer for the New Yorker, Wired, and the New York Times. His book Midnight in Chernobyl won the Andrew...
-
Replay: Portuguese Exploration After the Age of Discovery
Catarina Madruga talks about Portuguese exploration in the nineteenth century as European powers made plans to conquer Africa and colonize its peoples. Madruga is a post-doctoral researcher at the Natural History Museum of Berlin. She's the author of "Expert at a Distance: Barbosa du Bocage and…
more -
An Empire of Solitude: Isolation and the Cold War Sciences of the Mind
Historian of science Jeffery Mathias talks about scientific experiments in isolation during the Cold War. Mathias is the author of the Ph.D dissertation, "An Empire of Solitude: Isolation and the Cold War Sciences of the Mind."
-
The Making of French Polar Exploration
Alexandre Simon-Ekeland talks about explorers, the Polar Regions, and the French imagination. Simon-Ekeland recently completed his doctoral dissertation at the University of Oslo. He is the author of Making French Polar Exploration, 1860s-1930s.
-
Sovietistan
Erika Fatland talks about her long journey through the Central Asian republics and the legacy of Soviet influence there. Fatland is the author of many books and essays including Sovietistan: A Journey Through Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.
-
Replay: American Arctic Exploration
Al Zambone talks with me about American polar exploration, the origin of Time to Eat the Dogs, and the history of science as an academic discipline. Zambone is the host of the podcast Historically Thinking. He's the author of Daniel Morgan: A Revolutionary Life. You can hear an extended version…
more -
How to be an African Travel Writer in Africa
Emmanuel Iduma talks about his experiences traveling through Africa and his quest to find a new language of travel. Iduma is a writer and lecturer at the School of Visual Arts in New York. His stories and essays have been published in Best American Travel Writing 2020 and the New York Review of...
-
Replay: The Mystery of Altitude Sickness
Lachlan Fleetwood talks about debates about altitude sickness in the Himalaya and the ways these debates became tied up with ideas about the physiology of Europeans and Himalayans in the 1800s. Fleetwood is the author of "Bodies in High Places: Exploration, Altitude Sickness, and the Problem of...
-
Empires of the Sky
Alexander Rose talks about the history of airplanes and airships at the turn of the century, a time when the direction of aviation remained unclear. Rose is the author of Empires of the Sky: Zeppelins, Airplanes, and Two Men's Epic Duel to Rule the World.
-
Replay: Love, Travel, and Separation
Kate Hollander talks about Bertolt Brecht's life and work. She also talks about the community of artists who were his friends, lovers, and collaborators. Hollander is a historian of modern Europe. She's also the author of a book of poems, My German Dictionary, which was awarded the Anthony Hecht...
-
Why Did Scientists Collect the Blood of Indigenous Peoples?
Emma Kowal talks about the history of biospecimen collection among the aboriginal peoples of Australia. Kowal is a cultural and medical anthropologist at Deakin University. She's the co-author, along with Joanna Radin, of "Indigenous Biospecimen Collections and the Cryopolitics of Frozen Life,"...
-
Replay: Floating Coast
Bathsheba Demuth talks about the history and exploration of the Bering Strait, from the early 1800s to the present day. Demuth is Assistant Professor of History & Environment and Society at Brown University. She's the author of Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait.
-
A History of Modern Tourism
Eric Zuelow talks about the origins of tourism from the era of the European Grand Tour through the twenty-first century where is has become – until the current pandemic at least – the largest service sector industry in the world. Zuelow is a professor of European History at the University of New...
-
Replay: Fifteen Million Years in Antarctica
Rebecca Priestley talks about her journeys to Antarctica and the process of bringing them to life in her writing. Priestley is an associate professor at the Centre for Science in Society at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. She is the author of Fifteen Million Years in Antarctica...
-
A Strange Week at NASA
Eric Berger talks about the sudden departure of Doug Loverro, the head of human space flight at NASA, only days before the agency sends astronauts into space after almost a decade. Berger is the Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica.
-
Replay: An Update from the Hobbit Cave
Paige Madison talks about recent discoveries at the Liang Bua cave where researchers are trying to understand the complicated story of the hominin Homo Floresiensis. Madison is a PhD candidate in the history of science at Arizona State University where she also works with The Center for Biology…
more -
Sea Wife
Novelist Amity Gaige talks about her book Sea Wife. Gaige is a Fulbright and Guggenheim fellow. Her novel Schroder was one of the New York Times Best Books for 2013. A review and excerpt of Sea Wife can be read in the New York Times Book Review.
-
Replay: China is Going to the Moon
Dr. Namrata Goswami talks about the Chinese space program and its ambitious plans for lunar exploration. Goswami is a strategic analyst on space and great power politics. She's the author of many books and articles including Great Powers and Resource Nationalism in Space soon to be published by...
-
Women in Antarctica
Hanne Nielsen talks about the challenges facing women who work in Antarctica. Nielsen is a Lecturer in Antarctic Law and Governance at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) in Hobart, Tasmania. She's the co-author, along with Meredith Nash, of "Gendered Power Relations and Sexual...
-
Replay: Malaria, Tonic Water, and Empire
Kim Walker talks about the history and science of cinchona bark as a tonic, medicine, and mixer. Walker is a biocultural historian completing her PhD work on the Cinchona Bark Collection at Kew Gardens. She's the co-author (along with Mark Nesbitt) of Just The Tonic: A Natural History of Tonic...
-
Pacific Exploration, Botany, and Revolution
Edwin Rose talks about Joseph Banks and Georg Forster, naturalists on the Cook expeditions, and how political ideas shaped the way these specimens were understood back in Europe. Rose is completing a PhD. in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and…
more -
Replay: Hawaiian Exploration of the World
David Chang talks about the history of indigenous Hawaiians (Kanaka Maoli) as explorers and geographers of the world. Chang is a professor of history at the University of Minnesota. He's the author of The World and All the Things upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration.
-
The Lost White Tribe
Babak Ashrafi and Jessica Linker talk to me about my book The Lost White Tribe: Explorers, Scientists, and the Theory that Changed a Continent. Ashrafi and Linker produced this interview for the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine. You can find many podcasts, video...
-
Replay: How NASA Plans Big Missions
Glen Asner and Stephen Garber talk about NASA's efforts to plan ambitious missions in the face of huge political and financial challenges. Asner is the Deputy Chief Historian for the Historical Office, Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD). Garber works in the NASA History Division at NASA...
-
Neptune's Laboratory
Antony Adler talks about the history of ocean science in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Adler is a Research Associate in the History Department at Carleton College. He's the author of Neptune's Laboratory: Fantasy, Fear, and Science at Sea.
-
Replay: How George Putnam's Arctic Expedition Got into Trouble
Tina Adcock talks about the controversy over George Putnam's Baffin Land expedition and why it tells a bigger story about the changing culture of exploration in the 1920s. Adcock is an assistant professor of history at Simon Fraser University. She's the author of the essay "Scientist Tourist...
-
'Ruling the Savage Periphery'
Benjamin Hopkins talks about the concept of the frontier: how it exists not merely as a place on a map but as a set of practices used by colonial states around the world. Hopkins is an associate professor of history at George Washington University. He's the author of Ruling the Savage Periphery:...
-
Replay: Searching for Life Beyond Earth
Claire Isabel Webb talks about the search for extraterrestrial life and the different strategies used by astronomers and exobiologists to look for it. Webb is a PhD candidate at MIT's History, Anthropology, Science, Technology, and Society Program. Her dissertation project, "Technologies of...
-
American Arctic Exploration
Al Zambone talks with me about American polar exploration, the origin of Time to Eat the Dogs, and the history of science as an academic discipline. Zambone is the host of the podcast Historically Thinking. He's the author of Daniel Morgan: A Revolutionary Life. You can hear an extended version…
more -
Replay: Assembling the Dinosaur
Lukas Rieppel talks about dinosaur fossils in the Gilded Age – from the discovery and excavation of fossils in the American West to the re-construction of fabulous creatures in museums that were the darlings of wealthy philanthropists. Rieppel is an assistant professor of history at Brown...
-
Replay: Jessica Nabongo is Traveling to Every Country in the World
Annette Joseph-Gabriel speaks to Jessica Nabongo about her quest to be the first black woman to travel to all of the countries of the world. Joseph-Gabriel is an Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Nabongo is a writer, entrepreneur, and...
-
Replay: Starlink is Blanketing the Earth with Satellites
Lisa Ruth Rand talks about the Starlink satellite program. She also talks about Project West Ford, which attempted to create an artificial ionosphere in 1961 by launching millions of copper needles into orbit. Rand is the Haas Postdoctoral Fellow at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia....
-
The Mystery of Altitude Sickness
Lachlan Fleetwood talks about debates about altitude sickness in the Himalaya and the ways these debates became tied up with ideas about the physiology of Europeans and Himalayans in the 1800s. Fleetwood is the author of "Bodies in High Places: Exploration, Altitude Sickness, and the Problem of...
-
Replay: The City Built by Travel
Fiona Vernal talks about the migration stories of Hartford Connecticut's many communities. Vernal is an associate professor of history at the University of Connecticut and the creator of the exhibition "From Human Rights to Civil Rights: African American, Puerto Rican, and West Indian Housing...
-
Love, Travel, and Separation
Kate Hollander talks about Bertolt Brecht's life and work. She also talks about the community of artists who were his friends, lovers, and collaborators. Hollander is a historian of modern Europe. She's also the author of a book of poems, My German Dictionary, which was awarded the Anthony Hecht...
-
Replay: Inuit Testimony and the Search for Franklin's Ships
David Woodman talks about his quest to find the missing wrecks of the Franklin Expedition, a mission that led him to the journals of the Arctic explorer Charles Hall who lived with the Inuit for four years and recorded their encounters with British explorers. Woodman is the author of Unravelling...
We're indexing this podcast's transcripts for the first time — this can take a minute or two. We'll show results as soon as they're ready.
No matches for "" in this podcast's transcripts.
Loading reviews...
Loading similar podcasts...
Frequently Asked Questions
How many episodes does Time to Eat the Dogs have?
Time to Eat the Dogs currently has 247 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is Time to Eat the Dogs about?
A podcast about science, history, and exploration. Michael Robinson interviews scientists, journalists, and adventurers about life at the extreme.
How often does Time to Eat the Dogs release new episodes?
Time to Eat the Dogs publishes regularly with 247 episodes available. Check the episode list for the typical release schedule.
Where can I listen to Time to Eat the Dogs?
You can listen to Time to Eat the Dogs on PodParley by clicking any episode. We provide an embedded audio player for direct listening, and you can also subscribe via your preferred podcast app using the RSS feed.
Who hosts Time to Eat the Dogs?
Time to Eat the Dogs is created and hosted by Michael Robinson: historian of science and exploration.
URL copied to clipboard!