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About Lukas Rieppel
NBN Episodes hosted by Lukas:
Science, Technology, and Society
June 17, 2023
The Age of Mammals
Nature, Development, and Paleontology in the Long Nineteenth Century
Chris Manias
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Lukas Rieppel
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When people today hear "paleontology," they immediately think of dinosaurs. But for much of the history of the discipline, dramatic demonstrations of the history of life focused on the developmental …
Native American Studies
November 16, 2022
Heart of All
Oral Histories of Oglala Lakota People on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
Mark Hetzel
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Lukas Rieppel
Working with a group of over fifty students at the Little Wound School in Kyle, South Dakota, Mark Hetzel collected countless hours of oral history interviews with Oglala Lakota people …
Anthropology
May 11, 2022
Prophets and Ghosts
The Story of Salvage Anthropology
Samuel J. Redman
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Lukas Rieppel
Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology (Harvard UP, 2021) is a searching account of nineteenth-century salvage anthropology, an effort to preserve the culture of “vanishing” Indigenous peoples through …
Science, Technology, and Society
March 10, 2022
Inscriptions of Nature
Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity
Pratik Chakrabarti
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Lukas Rieppel
In the nineteenth century, teams of men began digging the earth like never before. Sometimes this digging—often for sewage, transport, or minerals—revealed human remains. Other times, archaeological excavation of ancient …
Science, Technology, and Society
January 27, 2022
The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere
Paulette F. C. Steeves
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Lukas Rieppel
The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere (U Nebraska Press, 2021) is a reclaimed history of the deep past of Indigenous people in North and South America during the Paleolithic …
Science, Technology, and Society
January 22, 2021
Catastrophic Thinking
Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene
David Sepkoski
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Lukas Rieppel
We live in an age in which we are repeatedly reminded—by scientists, by the media, by popular culture—of the looming threat of mass extinction. We’re told that human activity is …
Science, Technology, and Society
November 4, 2020
Tea War
A History of Capitalism in China and India
Andrew B. Liu
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Lukas Rieppel
After water, tea is the most widely consumed drink in the world. It is beloved by consumers in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, and it comes in a bewildering …
Science, Technology, and Society
July 17, 2020
Vernacular Industrialism in China
Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900-1940
Eugenia Lean
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Lukas Rieppel
In early twentieth-century China, Chen Diexian (1879–1940) was a maverick entrepreneur—at once a prolific man of letters and captain of industry, a magazine editor and cosmetics magnate. He tinkered with …
Science, Technology, and Society
June 17, 2020
The Scientific Method
An Evolution of Thinking from Darwin to Dewey
Henry M. Cowles
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Lukas Rieppel
The idea of a single scientific method, shared across specialties and teachable to ten-year-olds, is just over a hundred years old. For centuries prior, science had meant a kind of …
Science, Technology, and Society
April 17, 2020
Bird Love
The Family Life of Birds
Wenfei Tong
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Lukas Rieppel
Wenfei Tong's Bird Love: The Family Life of Birds (Princeton University Press, 2020) looks at the extraordinary range of mating systems in the avian world, exploring all the stages from …
Science, Technology, and Society
March 27, 2020
Rock, Bone, and Ruin
An Optimist’s Guide to the Historical Sciences
Adrian Currie
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Lukas Rieppel
The “historical sciences”—geology, paleontology, and archaeology—have made extraordinary progress in advancing our understanding of the deep past. How has this been possible, given that the evidence they have to work …
Science, Technology, and Society
January 8, 2020
After the Flood
Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe
Lydia Barnett
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Lukas Rieppel
Many centuries before the emergence of the scientific consensus on climate change, people began to imagine the existence of a global environment: a natural system capable of changing humans and …
Science, Technology, and Society
November 14, 2019
Sailing School
Navigating Science and Skill, 1550-1800
Margaret E. Schotte
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Lukas Rieppel
Throughout the Age of Exploration, European maritime communities bent on colonial and commercial expansion embraced the complex mechanics of celestial navigation. They developed schools, textbooks, and instruments to teach the …
Science, Technology, and Society
October 10, 2019
The Lived Nile
Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt
Jennifer L. Derr
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Lukas Rieppel
In October 1902, the reservoir of the first Aswan Dam filled, and Egypt's relationship with the Nile River forever changed. Flooding villages of historical northern Nubia and filling the irrigation …
Science, Technology, and Society
August 8, 2019
Accounting for Capitalism
The World the Clerk Made
Michael Zakim
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Lukas Rieppel
The clerk attended his desk and counter at the intersection of two great themes of modern historical experience: the development of a market economy and of a society governed from …
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