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Roundness

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Roundness is a cross-disciplinary podcast produced by the Queen's Library at <a href="https://www.qebarnet.co.uk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet</a>. <a href="https://www.qebarnet.co.uk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.qebarnet.co.uk</a><hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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May 25, 2021

Dun dun dun duuun!

Something happened in 2020. Well, lots of things happened in 2020. But I'm thinking of something in particular. And really, it's not something that happened, but rather something that didn't.  This episode explores how four musical notes came to be so incredibly famous all around the world. For full episode notes, visit: <a href="https://shows.acast.com/roundness/episodes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://shows.acast.com/roundness/episodes</a> Roundness is a cross-disciplinary podcast produced by the Queen's Library at <a href="https://www.qebarnet.co.uk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet</a>. (<a href="https://www.qebarnet.co.uk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.qebarnet.co.uk</a>) Beethoven Symphony recordings, conducted by Bernard Haitink, provided courtesy of the London Symphony Orchestra’s record label, LSO Live. Visit <a href="www.lsolive.co.uk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.lsolive.co.uk</a> to find out more. Additional music provided courtesy of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Alessio Bax with the Southbank Sinfonia conducted by Simon Over.  "Clusticus The Mistaken" by Doctor Turtle (https://doctorturtle.bandcamp.com/) licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">CC BY 4.0</a>. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)  Episode illustration by Simba Baylon (Instagram: <a href="https://instagram.com/simbalenciaga?igshid=gh4w4ebplerc" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@simbalenciaga</a>) For full episode notes, visit: <a href="https://shows.acast.com/roundness/episodes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://shows.acast.com/roundness/episodes</a> <hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

November 30, 2020

Consider the Pupfish

High-speed car chases through the desert. Homemade alcohol. Stolen water. Power cuts. Catholic pilgrimages.  This episode travels from Egypt to the Amazon, from Arizona to Portland, from France to Ethiopia — and it's all about one tiny blue fish.  For full episode notes, visit: <a href="https://shows.acast.com/roundness/episodes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://shows.acast.com/roundness/episodes</a> Roundness is a cross-disciplinary podcast produced by the Queen's Library at <a href="https://www.qebarnet.co.uk " rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet</a>. (<a href="https://www.qebarnet.co.uk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.qebarnet.co.uk</a>) Sources: <ul><li>Description of the Sonoran desert was adapted from <a href="https://sustainability.colostate.edu/blog/humannature/brief-history-three-desert-survivors/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rekha Warrier's article "A brief history of three desert survivors"</a>. </li><li>Global average heights for men and women taken from <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/human-height#how-much-taller-are-men-than-women " rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Our World in Data</a>. </li><li>Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument <a href="https://www.hcn.org/articles/after-12-years-organ-pipe-national-monument-reopens " rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">reopens</a>. </li><li>Analysis of Quitobaquito's falling water levels in 2020 taken from <a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/07/quitobaquito-springs-arizona-drying-up-border-wall/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">"Sacred Arizona spring drying up as border wall construction continues" by Douglas Main</a>; and <a href="https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2020/10/01/the-disappearance-of-quitobaquito-springs-tracking-hydrologic-change-with-google-earth-engine/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">"The Disappearance of Quitobaquito Springs: Tracking Hydrologic Change with Google Earth Engine" by Logan Williams</a>.</li><li>2050 water usage statistics taken from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h23IHDOKhZc " rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Seth Darling's TEDxNaperville talk</a>. </li><li>Details on disagreements between Ethiopia and Egypt adapted from “The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)”, Geography Review, Hodder Education, September 2020 Volume 34 Number 1, pp. 7-9 (p. 9). </li><li>Information on Pharaoh Menes's dam taken from the <a href="https://ypte.org.uk/factsheets/renewable-energy/hydro-electric-power-hep-dams?hide_donation_prompt=1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Young People's Trust For the Environment</a>.  </li><li>Trump says: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-54531747" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">"blow up that dam"</a>. </li><li>The tragic pilgrimage of William X, Duke of Aquitane: details adapted from the <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000p6w8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">BBC Radio 4 series "Eleanor Rising"</a> and the book <a href="https://erenow.net/biographies/eleanor-of-aquitaine-a-biography/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">"Eleanor of Aquitane" by Marion Meade</a>. </li><li>Willamette fishing anecdote adapted from <a href="https://steadystate.org/negative-externalities/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rob Dietz's blog post</a> published by the Centre for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy.  </li><li><a href="https://eu.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2020/11/05/oregon-deq-identifies-toxins-willamette-river-basin-water-fish-soil/6180283002/ " rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hundreds of toxins in the Willamette River water, soil, and fish</a>. </li></ul> Further listening/reading:  <ul><li><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fvvm" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mutant fish (and cows!) with green intestines... with Mark "The Hulk" Ruffalo</a>. </li><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/19/climate-crisis-markets-economic-system" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The failure of negative externalities</a>. </li></ul> Episode illustration: Steve the pupfish in mating season by Simba Baylon (Instagram: <a href="https://instagram.com/simbalenciaga?igshid=gh4w4ebplerc" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@simbalenciaga</a>) Additional music: Lee Rosevere and Doctor Turtle. "What Happened in the Past Doesn't Stay There", "Curiousity", "Edge of the Woods", "Let's Start at the Beginning", "Quizitive", "More Questions than Answers", "Sad Marimba Planet", "Cloudloop", and "Let That Sink In" by <a href="https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lee Rosevere</a> licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">CC BY 4.0</a>."Reality Cartwheeled" and “Clusticus The Mistaken” by <a href="https://doctorturtle.bandcamp.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Doctor Turtle</a> licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">CC BY 4.0</a>. For full episode notes, visit: <a href="https://shows.acast.com/roundness/episodes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://shows.acast.com/roundness/episodes</a><hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

June 17, 2020

Pirates, Prisons, and Plots

It’s 1665. You’re walking up a hill. It’s quiet, no one about. On your right is what will, in two hundred years’ time, become High Barnet tube station. You keep walking. It’s awfully quiet. Deserted. The buildings are boarded up. A crow caws in the distance. But otherwise it’s quiet, silent.  Three stories involving pirates, prisons, and plots to kill the king. For full episode notes, visit: <a href="https://shows.acast.com/roundness/episodes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://shows.acast.com/roundness/episodes</a> Roundness is a cross-disciplinary podcast produced by the Queen's Library at <a href="https://www.qebarnet.co.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet</a>. <a href="https://www.qebarnet.co.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.qebarnet.co.uk </a> Sources:<ul><li>John Marincowitz, Developments in English education over 450 years, with particular reference to Queen Elizabeth’s School, Barnet from 1573 to 2023 (forthcoming 2023).</li><li>Edward Impey and Geoffrey Parnell, The Tower of London: The Official Illustrated History (2000).</li><li>Kirstin Evenden, <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/42630518" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">"The ‘Popish Midwife: Printed Representations of Elizabeth Cellier and Midwifery Practice in Late Seventeenth-Century London"</a>, RACAR Canadian Art Review 20:1/2 (1993), pp. 43-59.</li><li>Sheila Williams, <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/750489" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">“The Pope-Burning Processions of 1679, 1680 and 1681”</a>, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 21:1/2 (1958), pp. 104-118.</li></ul> Episode illustration: <a href="https://wellcomecollection.org/works/ekkbndcg" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Geography - monsoons at sea, with rain. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper</a>, licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">CC BY 4.0</a>. Additional music: Agora, Mirah, Lee Rosevere, and Doctor Turtle.<a href="https://doctorturtle.bandcamp.com/track/doctor-talos-answers-the-door" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">"Doctor Talos Answers The Door"</a> and <a href="https://doctorturtle.bandcamp.com/track/clusticus-the-mistaken" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">“Clusticus The Mistaken”</a> by <a href="https://doctorturtle.bandcamp.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Doctor Turtle</a> licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">CC BY 4.0</a>.<a href="https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com/track/all-i-have-left-are-these-photographs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">"All I Have Left Are These Photographs"</a>, <a href="https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com/track/the-past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">"The Past"</a>, <a href="https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com/track/i-dont-want-to-be-like-him" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">"I Don't Want To Be Like Him"</a> by <a href="https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lee Rosevere</a> licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">CC BY 4.0</a>. For full episode notes, visit: <a href="https://shows.acast.com/roundness/episodes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://shows.acast.com/roundness/episodes</a><hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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What is Roundness?: Roundness is a cross-disciplinary podcast produced by the Queen's Library at <a href="https://www.qebarnet.co.uk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet</a>. <a href="https://www.qebarnet.co.uk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.qebarnet.co.uk</a><hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.
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