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NBN Episodes hosted by Lukas:
June 17, 2023
The Age of Mammals
When people today hear "paleontology," they immediately think of dinosaurs. But for much of the history of the discipline, dramatic demonstrations of …
November 16, 2022
Heart of All
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 in…
May 11, 2022
Prophets and Ghosts
Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology (Harvard UP, 2021) is a searching account of nineteenth-century salvage anthropology, an effort…
March 10, 2022
Inscriptions of Nature
In the nineteenth century, teams of men began digging the earth like never before. Sometimes this digging—often for sewage, transport, or minerals—rev…
January 27, 2022
The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere
The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere (U Nebraska Press, 2021) is a reclaimed history of the deep past of Indigenous people in North a…
January 22, 2021
Catastrophic Thinking
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 …
November 4, 2020
Tea War
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…
July 17, 2020
Vernacular Industrialism in China
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 ma…
June 17, 2020
The Scientific Method
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 prio…
April 17, 2020
Bird Love
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 w…
March 27, 2020
Rock, Bone, and Ruin
The “historical sciences”—geology, paleontology, and archaeology—have made extraordinary progress in advancing our understanding of the deep past. How…
January 8, 2020
After the Flood
Many centuries before the emergence of the scientific consensus on climate change, people began to imagine the existence of a global environment: a na…
November 14, 2019
Sailing School
Throughout the Age of Exploration, European maritime communities bent on colonial and commercial expansion embraced the complex mechanics of celestial…
October 10, 2019
The Lived Nile
In October 1902, the reservoir of the first Aswan Dam filled, and Egypt's relationship with the Nile River forever changed. Flooding villages of histo…
August 8, 2019
Accounting for Capitalism
The clerk attended his desk and counter at the intersection of two great themes of modern historical experience: the development of a market economy a…