Rhys the Geographer knows nothing about History. Will the Historian knows nothing about Geography. Join us on our quest to fill each other's gaps in knowledge!
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Today Rhys get all atmospherically gassy, parks in a solar powered car park and goes to Mecca to see how it is. Will chucks up the vomitorium, plays magic mechanical chess then runs naked in The Games.
Rhys talks about:
The most abundant Green House Gas (https://climate.nasa.gov/explore/ask-nasa-climate/3143/steamy-relationships-how-atmospheric-water-vapor-amplifies-earths-greenhouse-effect/)
Solar Panel being build on Car Parks / Parking Lots (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeaQUhAOdtk)
The Masjid al-haram, Mecca - Reviews (https://maps.app.goo.gl/cChpw5mPgSAKCDQN9)
Will talks about:
Vomitoriums (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vomitorium)
Wolfgang von Kempelen's Mechanical Turk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_von_Kempelen)
The Ancient Olympic Games (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Olympic_Games)
Time Stamps
1:58 - Most Abundant Greenhouse Gas
11:40 - Vomitorium
19:40 - Solar Panel Parking Lots
33:57 - Magical Chess Machine
57:51 - Mecca's Google Reviews
1:08:48 - The Ancient Games
1:20:43 - Outro
19 Sept 2023
S3E1 - Ropey Rasputin
Today Rhys gets all docky, shippy and ropey while Will goes Raving with Rasputin, fleeing the French Revolution, and getting spooky in the States with the Winchester mystery house!
Rhys talks about:
Oklahoma - The Tulsa Port of Catoosa
Malcolm McClean and Containerisation
The Chatham Dockyard Ropery
Will talks about:
Rasputin
Louis XVI attempt to flee France
The Winchester Mystery House
25 Jun 2023
S2E7 - The Glastonbury Chronicles
Today Rhys sorts out the relationship between Greenland and Denmark, Look at the phosphate mining in Nauru and the dives into the unfathomable depth of the Mariana Trench. Will goes all normal for the first King of England, parties hard in Glastonbury then sorts out his solstice stones in Stonehenge.
Rhys Links:
"Epistemic geographies of climate change" by Martin Mahony and Mike Hulme. (https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132516681485)
"Introduction: Postimperial sovereignty games in the Nordic region" by Rebecca Adler-Nissen and Ulrik Pram Gad. (https://doi.org/10.1177/0010836713514148)
Greenland unveils draft constitution in push for complete independence from Danish control (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHOpO0IydBY)
Mining, land restoration and sustainable development in isolated islands: An industrial ecology perspective on extractive transitions on Nauru (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-018-1075-2)
Phosphate Mining on Nauru (https://ejatlas.org/conflict/phosphate-mining-on-nauru)
The Story of Nauru: The "Country that Ate itself" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMvAQh3eLnU&t=20s)
Mariana Trench (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_Trench)
Will's Links:
Alfred The Great (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_the_Great)
Glastonbury (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury)
Stonehenge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge)
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