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Podcast about science, history, & exploration hosted by @ExplorationBlog. Music by @zebratmusic. No dogs harmed.

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Time to Eat the Dogs@eatthedogs
27 Oct 2025
Claire Conklin Sabel @eclaaire talks about the gem trade in South and Southeast Asia, and the way this trade was impacted by European traders in the 17th and 18th centuries @Radiolab @NautilusMag @Rix_Harriet timetoeatthedogs.com/2025/10…

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 inc…

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Could AGI discover relativity theory by itself? @togelius and @ExplorationBlog discuss @Into_Impossible experiment (24:40) @ylecun timetoeatthedogs.com/2025/04…

Artificial General Intelligence, Part I

Part I of my interview with Julian Togelius, who talks about the history of machine learning, the quest for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and the difficulties AI researchers have in defini…

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Julian Togelius @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 timetoeatthedogs.com/2025/04… @nyutandon @modl_ai @UNIofSkovde

Artificial General Intelligence, Part I

Part I of my interview with Julian Togelius, who talks about the history of machine learning, the quest for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and the difficulties AI researchers have in defini…

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timetoeatthedogs.com/2025/04… .@meredithfsmall talks about the exploration culture of Venice during the Middle Ages and Renaissance @pegasus_books @Cornell @HKLiterary

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 of at Cornell University and visiting scholar in the Department…

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timetoeatthedogs.com/2025/03… For more podcast interviews with exoplanet scientists, check out the fabulous @exo_cast

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, focusin…

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Dr. Giada Arney @giadaplanet of @NASAGoddard talks about @NASAExoplanets and plans for the next generation Habitable Worlds Observatory timetoeatthedogs.com/2025/03…
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.@andreapitzer talks about the Arctic voyages of William Barents and their impact on Renaissance Europe. Pitzer is a journalist and author of Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World. @ScribnerBooks timetoeatthedogs.com/2025/02…

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…

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. @stevenbjohnson talks about the British pirate Henry Avery and his improbable capture of the Mughal treasure ship Gunsway. timetoeatthedogs.com/2025/02… @penguinrandom @riverheadbooks @AshleyGarlandBK @Shailyn_T

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, Far…

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Célia Abele talks about Wolfgang von Goethe, the French writer Chateaubriand, and the German physicist Georg Lichtenberg. @BostonCollege @UChicagoPress @HoughtonLib timetoeatthedogs.com/2025/01…

Mountains, Writers, and Travelers in the 18th-Century Alps

View Drawn at Mouri Near BernJohann Ludwig Aberli, 1785 Célia Abele talks about Wolfgang von Goethe, the French writer Chateaubriand, and the German physicist Georg Lichtenberg. These writers becam…

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Dane Kennedy talks about the troubled expeditions of Mungo Park timetoeatthedogs.com/2024/08… @CambridgeUP @gwucolumbian @danekkennedy

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 …

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.@mara_vorhees(@lonelyplanet) & Gerald Easter (@bostoncollege) talk about Catherine the Great, the geopolitics of art, & the wreck of the Vrouw Maria. timetoeatthedogs.com/2024/06… @pegasus_books @jilliganjonze @BCHistoryDept

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 o…

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For another excellent interview with @HigginbothamA about the Challenger disaster, listen to @interplanetypod interplanetary.org.uk/

The Interplanetary Podcast | UK | Space Exploration

The Interplanetary Podcast. The Space Podcast putting the Ace back into Space. Top Expert Interviews from Rockets to Blackholes and everything in between.

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Adam Higginbotham talks about the Challenger explosion and the decisions that made the disaster almost inevitable timetoeatthedogs.com/2024/05… @HigginbothamA @simonschuster

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 f…

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Catarina Madruga @cmadruga talks about Portuguese exploration in the nineteenth century as European powers made plans to conquer Africa and colonize its peoples. timetoeatthedogs.com/2024/05…

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 …

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Historian Jeffery Mathias @cheffmathias talks about scientific experiments in isolation during the Cold War timetoeatthedogs.com/2024/04…

An Empire of Solitude: Isolation and the Cold War Sciences of the Mind

“Experimental Interference with Reality Contact,” 1959, NYU. Collection of Robert R. Holt. During the Cold War, isolation experiments became something of a national obsession – for some it was a wa…

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Felipe Fernandez-Armesto talks about the life and work of Ferdinand Magellan @NotreDame @ucpress @ArtsLettersND timetoeatthedogs.com/2023/01…
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Dr. Hannah Wakeford talks about what the James Webb Space Telescope means for the study of exoplanets @StellarPlanet @NASAWebb @exo_cast @BristolUni @BristolUniPhys timetoeatthedogs.com/2022/10…
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.@Cfroeder talks about the Soviet search for the Abominable Snowman @DCRES_Harvard @Harvard_History @CarsonCenter @FU_Berlin @Una_Europa @JPHerzberg @Berghahnbooks timetoeatthedogs.com/2022/07…

The Abominable Snowman

Dr. Carolin Roeder talks about the Soviet search for the abominable snowman and parallels to other wildman legends in the United States and elsewhere. Roeder facilitates research collaboration betw…

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.@Markus_hallgren of @UmeaUniversity talks about the lessons of the 1996 Everest Expedition for organization and management timetoeatthedogs.com/2022/01…

The Lessons of the 1996 Everest Disaster

Kaji Sherpa traversing onto the North Face of Everest. Photo Credit: JAMIE MCGUINNESS/PROJECT HIMALAYA (2021) Markus Hällgren talks about the 1996 Everest disaster from the perspective of business …

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24 Oct 2021
This week on @eatthedogs Patrick Dean talks about his book "A Window to Heaven: The Daring First Ascent of Denali: America’s Wildest Peak." Dean is a writer & executive director of the Mountain Goat Trail Alliance. bit.ly/3m9EFWj

A Window to Heaven: The Daring First Ascent of Denali

Patrick Dean talks about the first successful ascent of Denali in 1913. Dean is a writer and executive director of the Mountain Goat Trail Alliance. He’s the author of A Window to Heaven: The Darin…

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