Replay: Faces, Beauty, and the Brain
Rachel Walker talks about physiognomy -- the study of the human face -- and why it was so popular...
30:18
Replay: New Insights about Darwin's Voyage
Alistair Sponsel talks about Darwin’s experiences on HMS Beagle and his early career as a...
32:01
Inuit Testimony and the Search for Franklin's Ships
David Woodman talks about his quest to find the missing wrecks of the Franklin Expedition, a...
31:58
Replay: Women Wanderers of the Romantic Era
Ingrid Horrocks talks about the way women travelers, specifically women wanderers, are...
30:04
Sarah Qidwai talks about her research on Sayyid Ahmad Khan as well as her own journey to Mecca...
23:55
Erika Milam talks about the scientific search for human nature, a project that captured the...
37:18
Fiona Vernal talks about the migration stories of Hartford Connecticut’s many communities. Vernal...
31:25
Replay: Higher and Colder: A History of Extreme Physiology and Exploration
Dr. Vanessa Heggie talks about the history of biomedical research in extreme environments. Heggie...
33:16
Replay: The Medieval Invention of Travel
Shayne Legassie talks about Medieval travel, especially long distance travel, and the way it was...
36:50
Replay: Apollo in the Age of Aquarius
Neil Maher talks about the social forces that shaped NASA in the 1960s and 1970s, connecting the...
29:55
Replay: After Leichhardt Went Missing
Andrew Wright Hurley talks about the life and afterlife of Prussian explorer Ludwig Leichhardt, a...
32:07
Replay: African American Women and Jamaican Travel
Annette Joseph Gabrielle talks with Bianca Williams about African American women who travel to...
28:27
The Polar Star is Falling Apart
Richard Read talks about the troubled life of the Coast Guard's sole heavy icebreaker, Polar...
24:36
Replay: Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans
Helen Rozwadowski talks about the history of the oceans and how these oceans have shaped human...
29:12
Mental Illness and the Mawson Expedition
Elizabeth Leane talks about Sidney Jeffryes, radio operator for Douglas Mawson’s Australasian...
39:29
Replay: Re-imagining People in Anthropological Photographs
Artist Chiadikobi Nwaubani talks about his efforts to find, restore, and publish photographs from...
25:54
Replay: The Problem with Andrea Wulf's Biography of Humboldt
Andrea Wulf’s book the The Invention of Nature tells the story of Alexander von Humboldt, one of...
32:23
Replay: The Galapagos Expedition that Vindicated Darwin
Matthew James talks about the 1905 Galapagos Expedition organized by the California Academy of...
29:47
Jordan Bimm talks about early experiments in space medicine involving subjects who did not...
33:06
Replay: The Nazi Cult of Mobility
Andrew Denning talks about the Nazi cult of mobility, a set of ideas and practices that were...
30:42
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