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NBN Episodes hosted by Robert:
June 20, 2017
Apollo in the Age of Aquarius
In the summer of 1969, two seminal events of the sixties happened within a few weeks of each other: the first man walked on the moon and the Woodstock…
February 4, 2017
Houston, We Have a Narrative
Randy Olson, author of Houston, We Have a Narrative: Why Science Needs Story (University of Chicago Press, 2015), has an unusual background. He is a …
January 10, 2017
Behind the Curve
The year 2016 was the hottest year on record, and in recent months, drought and searing heat have fanned wildfires in Fort McMurray Alberta and in Gat…
December 3, 2015
Capitalism in the Web of Life
In Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital (Verso, 2015), author Jason W. Moore seeks to undermine popular understandin…
June 10, 2015
The Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology
Political ecology is among the most vibrant sub-fields in the discipline of geography. Since the field first developed in the 1980s, political ecologi…
May 11, 2015
Seeing Green
Oil-soaked birds in Prince William Sound. The "crying Indian" in a 1970s anti-littering ad. A lonely polar bear on an Arctic ice floe. Such environmen…
March 11, 2015
Evolutionary History
Evolution is among the most powerful ideas in the natural sciences. Indeed, the evolutionary theorist Theodosius Dobzhansky famously said nothing in b…
January 30, 2015
Mastering Iron (U of Chicago Press, 2013) and Geographies of the Holocaust (Indiana UP, 2014)
Last month on New Books in Geography, historian Susan Schulten discussed the development of thematic maps in the nineteenth century. Such maps focused…
December 12, 2014
Mapping the Nation
Our everyday lives are saturated with maps. We use maps on our smart phones to help us navigate from place to place. Maps in the newspaper and online …
October 17, 2014
Lifeblood
Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) is an incisive look into how oil permeates our lives and help…