Time to Eat the Dogs

By Michael Robinson: historian of science and exploration

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 Aug 8, 2022

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A podcast about science, history, and exploration. Michael Robinson interviews scientists, journalists, and adventurers about life at the extreme.

Episode Date
The Habitable Worlds Observatory
Mar 21, 2025
Replay: Icebound
Feb 28, 2025
The Europa Clipper and the Search for Extraterrestrial LIfe
Feb 16, 2025
Replay: Enemy of All Mankind
Feb 02, 2025
Mountains, Writers, and Travelers in the 18th Century Alps
Jan 26, 2025
On the Backs of Others: Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration
Nov 11, 2024
Replay: Quantum Legacies
Oct 05, 2024
Mungo Park's Ghost
Aug 29, 2024
Replay: The Tsarina’s Lost Treasure
Jun 25, 2024
The Challenger Disaster
May 24, 2024
Replay: Portuguese Exploration After the Age of Discovery
May 03, 2024
An Empire of Solitude: Isolation and the Cold War Sciences of the Mind
Apr 01, 2024
The Making of French Polar Exploration
Aug 20, 2023
Sovietistan
Jun 30, 2020
Replay: American Arctic Exploration
Jun 27, 2020
How to be an African Travel Writer in Africa
Jun 23, 2020
Replay: The Mystery of Altitude Sickness
Jun 20, 2020
Empires of the Sky
Jun 16, 2020
Replay: Love, Travel, and Separation
Jun 13, 2020
Why Did Scientists Collect the Blood of Indigenous Peoples?
Jun 09, 2020
Replay: Floating Coast
Jun 06, 2020
A History of Modern Tourism
Jun 02, 2020
Replay: Fifteen Million Years in Antarctica
May 30, 2020
A Strange Week at NASA
May 26, 2020
Replay: An Update from the Hobbit Cave
May 22, 2020
Sea Wife
May 19, 2020
Replay: China is Going to the Moon
May 16, 2020
Women in Antarctica
May 12, 2020
Replay: Malaria, Tonic Water, and Empire
May 09, 2020
Pacific Exploration, Botany, and Revolution
May 05, 2020
Replay: Hawaiian Exploration of the World
May 02, 2020
The Lost White Tribe
Apr 28, 2020
Replay: How NASA Plans Big Missions
Apr 25, 2020
Neptune's Laboratory
Apr 21, 2020
Replay: How George Putnam's Arctic Expedition Got into Trouble
Apr 18, 2020
'Ruling the Savage Periphery'
Apr 14, 2020
Replay: Searching for Life Beyond Earth
Apr 11, 2020
American Arctic Exploration
Apr 07, 2020
Replay: Assembling the Dinosaur
Apr 03, 2020
Replay: Jessica Nabongo is Traveling to Every Country in the World
Mar 31, 2020
Replay: Starlink is Blanketing the Earth with Satellites
Mar 28, 2020
The Mystery of Altitude Sickness
Mar 25, 2020
Replay: The City Built by Travel
Mar 21, 2020
Love, Travel, and Separation
Mar 17, 2020
Replay: Inuit Testimony and the Search for Franklin's Ships
Mar 14, 2020
Reimagining Liberation
Mar 11, 2020
Replay: Science, Islam, and Evolution
Mar 07, 2020
Replay: The Polar Star is Falling Apart
Mar 03, 2020
Replay: Mental Illness and the Mawson Expedition
Feb 29, 2020
Floating Coast
Feb 25, 2020
Replay: Anticipating the Astronaut
Feb 22, 2020
Fifteen Million Years in Antarctica
Feb 18, 2020
Replay: Why are Women Beating Men in Ultra-Endurance Events?
Feb 15, 2020
An Update from the Hobbit Cave
Feb 11, 2020
Replay: The Expedition that Tested Einstein's Theory
Feb 08, 2020
China is Going to the Moon
Feb 04, 2020
Replay: Chasing the Moon
Feb 01, 2020
Malaria, Tonic Water, and Empire
Jan 28, 2020
Replay: How We Talk about Apollo
Jan 25, 2020
Hawaiian Exploration of the World
Jan 22, 2020
Replay: Scurvy!
Jan 18, 2020
How NASA Plans Big Missions
Jan 14, 2020
Replay: The Human Exploration of Mars
Jan 11, 2020
How George Putnam's Arctic Expedition Got into Trouble
Jan 07, 2020
Replay: Escape from Nazi-Occupied Europe, Part II
Jan 04, 2020
Replay: Escape from Nazi-Occupied Europe, Part I
Jan 01, 2020
Searching for Life Beyond Earth
Dec 27, 2019
Replay: Human Exploration of the Deep Sea
Dec 21, 2019
Replay: Destined for the Stars
Dec 18, 2019
Replay: Starvation Shore
Dec 14, 2019
Assembling the Dinosaur
Dec 09, 2019
Replay: Space Science and the Arab World
Dec 07, 2019
Starlink is Blanketing the Earth with Satellites
Dec 02, 2019
Replay: Travel, Race, and Freedom
Nov 30, 2019
Replay: The History of Arctic Fever
Nov 27, 2019
Replay: The British Expeditionary Literature of Africa
Nov 22, 2019
Replay: Faces, Beauty, and the Brain
Nov 19, 2019
Replay: New Insights about Darwin's Voyage
Nov 16, 2019
Inuit Testimony and the Search for Franklin's Ships
Nov 13, 2019
Replay: Women Wanderers of the Romantic Era
Nov 09, 2019
Science, Islam, and Evolution
Nov 07, 2019
Replay: Creatures of Cain
Nov 02, 2019
The City Built by Travel
Oct 31, 2019
Replay: Higher and Colder: A History of Extreme Physiology and Exploration
Oct 26, 2019
Replay: The Medieval Invention of Travel
Oct 22, 2019
Replay: Apollo in the Age of Aquarius
Oct 18, 2019
Replay: After Leichhardt Went Missing
Oct 15, 2019
Replay: African American Women and Jamaican Travel
Oct 12, 2019
The Polar Star is Falling Apart
Oct 09, 2019
Replay: Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans
Oct 05, 2019
Mental Illness and the Mawson Expedition
Sep 30, 2019
Replay: Re-imagining People in Anthropological Photographs
Sep 28, 2019
Replay: The Problem with Andrea Wulf's Biography of Humboldt
Sep 24, 2019
Replay: The Galapagos Expedition that Vindicated Darwin
Sep 21, 2019
Anticipating the Astronaut
Sep 18, 2019
Replay: The Nazi Cult of Mobility
Sep 14, 2019
Jessica Nabongo is Traveling to Every Country in the World
Sep 10, 2019
Replay: The Last Wild Men of Borneo
Sep 07, 2019
Why are Women Beating Men in Ultra-Endurance Events?
Sep 04, 2019
Replay: Should We Colonize Mars?
Aug 31, 2019
The Expedition that Tested Einstein's Theory
Aug 27, 2019
Replay: Searching for the Origins of Humankind
Aug 24, 2019
Chasing the Moon
Aug 20, 2019
Replay: The Navigator in the Early Modern World
Aug 17, 2019
Scurvy!
Aug 13, 2019
Replay: Mountaineering and Glaciology after WWII
Aug 10, 2019
How We Talk about Apollo
Aug 06, 2019
Replay: Death in the Ice
Aug 03, 2019
The Human Exploration of Mars
Jul 30, 2019
Replay: How Isolated Tribes Fight Back
Jul 27, 2019
Replay: Into the Extreme
Jul 22, 2019
Escape from Nazi-Occupied Europe, Part II
Jul 20, 2019
Replay: The Identity of the Traveler
Jul 13, 2019
Escape from Nazi-Occupied Europe, Part I
Jul 09, 2019
Replay: The Archaeology of Exploration
Jul 06, 2019
Human Exploration of the Deep Sea
Jul 02, 2019
Replay: Women, Aviation, and Global Air Travel
Jun 29, 2019
Replay: The New Map of Empire
Jun 25, 2019
Replay: Making Planets into Places
Jun 22, 2019
Replay: The Making of 2001: A Space Odyssey
Jun 18, 2019
Replay: Science and Exploration in the U.S. Navy
Jun 15, 2019
Destined for the Stars
Jun 11, 2019
Replay: After the Map
Jun 08, 2019
Starvation Shore
Jun 04, 2019
Replay: One Long Night
Jun 01, 2019
Space Science and the Arab World
May 28, 2019
Replay: Living on the International Space Station
May 25, 2019
Faces, Beauty, and the Brain
May 22, 2019
Replay: Aboriginal Australians' First Encounter with Captain Cook
May 18, 2019
The History of Arctic Fever
May 15, 2019
Replay: An American in Soviet Antarctica, Part I
May 11, 2019
Replay: An American in Soviet Antarctica, Part II
May 11, 2019
The British Expeditionary Literature of Africa
May 07, 2019
Replay: The Mars Rover Curiosity
May 04, 2019
Replay: What the Dead Can Teach Us
Apr 30, 2019
Replay: Rethinking Humboldt
Apr 27, 2019
Women Wanderers of the Romantic Era
Apr 23, 2019
Replay: The 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition
Apr 20, 2019
New Insights about Darwin
Apr 16, 2019
Replay: Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean
Apr 13, 2019
Creatures of Cain
Apr 09, 2019
Replay: Running and the Science of the Extreme
Apr 06, 2019
Travel, Race, and Freedom
Apr 02, 2019
Replay: The Mystery of the Franklin Expedition
Mar 30, 2019
Higher and Colder: A History of Extreme Physiology and Exploration
Mar 25, 2019
Replay: Watching Vesuvius
Mar 23, 2019
The Medieval Invention of Travel
Mar 19, 2019
Replay: Mapping the Polar Regions
Mar 16, 2019
Apollo in the Age of Aquarius
Mar 12, 2019
Replay: The Last Uncontacted Tribes
Mar 09, 2019
After Leichhardt Went Missing
Mar 05, 2019
Replay: Descartes, Traveler
Mar 02, 2019
African American Women and Jamaican Travel
Feb 26, 2019
The Revolution in Paleoanthropology
Feb 23, 2019
Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans
Feb 20, 2019
Replay: The Biggest Exploration Exam Ever
Feb 16, 2019
Replay: Talking Exploration Books with Sarah Pickman
Feb 16, 2019
Re-imagining People in Anthropological Photographs
Feb 12, 2019
Replay: Project Vanguard
Feb 09, 2019
The Problem with Andrea Wulf's Biography of Humboldt
Feb 06, 2019
Replay: Do You See Ice?
Feb 02, 2019
The Galapagos Expedition that Vindicated Darwin
Jan 29, 2019
Replay: The Journeys of Eslanda Robeson
Jan 26, 2019
The Nazi Cult of Mobility
Jan 22, 2019
Replay: The Rise of Women in Climbing
Jan 19, 2019
The Last Wild Men of Borneo
Jan 15, 2019
Replay: The Amazing Phytotron
Jan 12, 2019
Should We Colonize Mars?
Jan 08, 2019
Replay: Chasing Exoplanets
Jan 05, 2019
Searching for the Origins of Humankind
Jan 01, 2019
The History of Madagascar in Trade and Exploration
Dec 29, 2018
Replay: The Medieval Pilgrimage
Dec 25, 2018
Replay: Inventing the American Astronaut
Dec 21, 2018
The Navigator in the Early Modern World
Dec 18, 2018
Replay: How We Got the Scientific Revolution Wrong
Dec 15, 2018
Mountaineering and Glaciology after WWII
Dec 11, 2018
Replay: Monsters on the Map
Dec 08, 2018
Death in the Ice
Dec 05, 2018
Replay: The History of UFOs
Dec 01, 2018
How Isolated Tribes Fight Back
Nov 27, 2018
Backpack Ambassadors
Nov 23, 2018
Into the Extreme
Nov 20, 2018
Searching for Hobbits
Nov 17, 2018
The Psychology of Extreme Environments
Nov 15, 2018
Lands of Lost Borders
Nov 12, 2018
The Identity of the Traveler
Nov 06, 2018
The Archaeology of Exploration
Oct 30, 2018
Women, Aviation, and Global Air Travel
Oct 24, 2018
The New Map of Empire
Oct 16, 2018
Making Planets into Places
Oct 09, 2018
The Making of 2001: A Space Odyssey
Oct 02, 2018
Science and Exploration in the U.S. Navy
Sep 27, 2018
After the Map
Sep 18, 2018
Living on the International Space Station
Sep 11, 2018
One Long Night
Sep 04, 2018
Searching for Hobbits
Aug 28, 2018
Australians' First Encounter with Captain Cook
Aug 21, 2018
An American in Soviet Antarctica, Part II
Aug 15, 2018
An American in Soviet Antarctica, Part I
Aug 07, 2018
The 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition
Jul 31, 2018
Mapping the Polar Regions
Jul 24, 2018
My Interview with Radio Canberra
Jul 17, 2018
Watching Vesuvius
Jul 09, 2018
Wild Sea
Jul 03, 2018
The Egyptologist
Jun 27, 2018
The Rise of the Megafire
Jun 19, 2018
The Ebola Outbreak of 2013
Jun 12, 2018
The Mars Rover Curiosity
Jun 05, 2018
Psychology in Extreme Environments
May 29, 2018
What the Dead Can Teach Us
May 21, 2018
Rethinking Humboldt
May 15, 2018
The Revolution in Paleoanthropology
May 10, 2018
The Vanguard Project
May 01, 2018
Descartes, Traveler.
Apr 24, 2018
The Journeys of Eslanda Robeson
Apr 17, 2018
The Medieval Pilgrimage
Apr 10, 2018
The Last Uncontacted Tribes
Apr 03, 2018
Bonus Episode: Exploration Books
Mar 27, 2018
The Biggest Exploration Exam Ever
Mar 27, 2018
Backpack Ambassadors
Mar 20, 2018
The History of Madagascar in Trade and Exploration
Mar 13, 2018
Lands of Lost Borders
Mar 06, 2018
The Ebola Outbreak of 2013
Feb 27, 2018
Inventing the American Astronaut
Feb 20, 2018
The First Americans on Everest, Part II
Feb 13, 2018
The First Americans on Everest, Part I
Feb 13, 2018
The Falcon Heavy
Feb 06, 2018
How We Got the Scientific Revolution Wrong
Jan 30, 2018
The Egyptologist
Jan 23, 2018
In Search of Brightest Africa
Jan 16, 2018
Chasing Exoplanets
Jan 09, 2018
Monsters on the Map
Jan 02, 2018
The Amazing Phytotron
Dec 26, 2017
The History of UFOs
Dec 19, 2017
Can You See the Ice?
Dec 12, 2017
California is Burning
Dec 08, 2017
NASA in the Age of Trump
Dec 05, 2017
The Mystery of the Franklin Expedition
Nov 28, 2017
The Ascent of Women Climbers
Nov 21, 2017
The First Americans on Everest
Nov 18, 2017
The Science of Running
Nov 18, 2017
Rise of the Megafire
Nov 18, 2017