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About Lukas Rieppel
NBN Episodes hosted by Lukas:
Science, Technology, and Society
January 22, 2021
Catastrophic Thinking
Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene
David Sepkoski
Hosted by 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 …
Chinese Studies
November 4, 2020
Tea War
A History of Capitalism in China and India
Andrew B. Liu
Hosted by 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 …
Chinese Studies
July 17, 2020
Vernacular Industrialism in China
Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900-1940
Eugenia Lean
Hosted by 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 …
History
June 17, 2020
The Scientific Method
An Evolution of Thinking from Darwin to Dewey
Henry M. Cowles
Hosted by 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 …
Environmental Studies
April 17, 2020
Bird Love
The Family Life of Birds
Wenfei Tong
Hosted by 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 …
Archaeology
March 27, 2020
An Optimist’s Guide to the Historical Sciences
Adrian Currie
Hosted by 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 …
European Studies
January 8, 2020
After the Flood
Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe
Lydia Barnett
Hosted by 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 …
European Studies
November 14, 2019
Sailing School
Navigating Science and Skill, 1550-1800
Margaret E. Schotte
Hosted by 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 …
African Studies
October 10, 2019
The Lived Nile
Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt
Jennifer L. Derr
Hosted by 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 …
American Studies
August 8, 2019
Accounting for Capitalism
The World the Clerk Made
Michael Zakim
Hosted by 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 …