Earth Ideas

About Earth Ideas

These are long-form, unscripted interviews with Academics, Scientists & Journalists about their areas of research. Forming a series of in-depth conversations with fascinating people, with loads to say about the current state of the world, everything that came before us, and everything that could be still to come. FOLLOW Insta @earthideas.podcast Twitter @ideas_earth

Publisher

Laura Mahler

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Sept 2020

Latest episode

11 Dec 2020

Latest episodes

23 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   11 Dec 2020

   How Special Is The Earth? | with Dr Elizabeth Tasker | PODCAST #21

   Dr Elizabeth Tasker is an astrophysicist who studies exoplanets: extra-solar planets - those worlds that exist, function and potentially support life outside of our own solar system. We talked about methods & theories in discovering and learning about exoplanets, the search for a planet similar to Earth, and the very exciting near future of space technologies & discoveries. 0:00 Elizabeth's career journey 9:51 First exoplanet discovery 17:00 Detecting their compositions 29:24 How to we detect & guess? 34:52 Searching for water 36:53 Searching for life 44:29 The $.5bn Question 52:07 JAXA's next missions This is a series of in-depth conversations with fascinating people, with loads to say about the current state of the world, everything that came before us, and everything that could be still to come. We hope you enjoy. Leave us a comment :) SHARE SUBSCRIBE! And come back next week for more. If you found this episode valuable, please support me with caffeine to keep them coming https://www.buymeacoffee.com/lauramahler :) Refs & Links: Hayabusa 2 Asteroid samples landing: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-55201662 The Planet Factory: https://www.elizabethtasker.com/planetfactory Elizabeth's Links: https://twitter.com/girlandkat https://twitter.com/nexssmanyworlds https://www.elizabethtasker.com/ Our Socials: https://twitter.com/ideas_earth https://twitter.com/llcmahler https://www.instagram.com/earthideaspodcast https://www.instagram.com/laura.mahler

2. 

   26 Nov 2020

   What Can Indigenous Languages Teach Us? | with Dr Lindsay Morcom | PODCAST #20

   Dr Lindsay Morcom (Ardoch Algonquin First Nation) is a linguist and researcher of aboriginal languages and teaching. She works actively in language revitalisation techniques and advocates for decolonising education. Indigenous languages hold knowledge, histories & ways of thinking about their lands and culture that do not easily translate into western vocabularies and, as hundreds of languages die out every year, people like Lindsay work to make sure they are received by their heirs. 0:00 Introduction to Lindsay 5:07 Urban language revitalisation 12:46 How do you think First Nation Canadians feel about their language? 19:06 Can we have true direct synonyms or translations? 25:42 Isolate languages 28:19 Reconstructing languages 33:24 Lindsay's approach to revitalising & teaching languages 42:00 How are indigenous languages changing & updating? 44:10 Lindsay's latest research This is a series of in-depth conversations with fascinating people, with loads to say about the current state of the world, everything that came before us, and everything that could be still to come. We hope you enjoy. Leave us a comment :) SHARE SUBSCRIBE! And come back next week for more. If you found this episode valuable, please support me with caffeine to keep them coming https://www.buymeacoffee.com/lauramahler :) Refs & Links: https://www.ted.com/talks/lindsay_morcom_a_history_of_indigenous_languages_and_how_to_revitalize_them Lindsay's Links: https://educ.queensu.ca/lindsay-morcom https://educ.queensu.ca/atep Our Socials: https://twitter.com/ideas_earth https://twitter.com/llcmahler https://www.instagram.com/earthideaspodcast https://www.instagram.com/laura.mahler

3. 

   17 Nov 2020

   How Do We Understand The Brain? | with Prof Matthew Cobb (PART 2) | PODCAST #19.5

   Prof Matthew Cobb is a zoologist and researcher into animal behaviours through their sense of smell (including ours!) On the side, he explores further his work in science with writing books on the history of science. His newest, The Idea Of The Brain: A History, explores how we come to define & thus attempt to understand the brain and all its complexities, and how we must continually reinvent our approach to doing as we learn more & more about how the brain works. We talked about historical understandings of the physical human brain and our cognitive abilities, the metaphors used over time for the brain, and new research & research methods that are revealing the limitations of our previous discussions on the brain. The 1st half of this podcast focuses on Matthew's research into the sense of smell, so is available separately in the previous episode :) 0:00 How did you get inspired for your new book? 6:05 Comparing the brain to a computer 10:15 Do we need a new metaphor for the brain? 14:45 Smell in the brain 20:40 How is the brain divided up? 26:30 What are you writing now? This is a series of in-depth conversations with fascinating people, with loads to say about the current state of the world, everything that came before us, and everything that could be still to come. We hope you enjoy. Leave us a comment :) SHARE SUBSCRIBE! And come back next week for more. If you found this episode valuable, please support me with caffeine to keep them coming https://www.buymeacoffee.com/lauramahler :) Refs & Links: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/cobb.html Matthew's Links: https://twitter.com/matthewcobb The Idea Of The Brain: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51719771-the-idea-of-the-brain Smell: A Very Short Introduction: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52049783-smell Our Socials: https://twitter.com/ideas_earth https://twitter.com/llcmahler https://www.instagram.com/earthideaspodcast https://www.instagram.com/laura.mahler

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