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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 89 days 12 hours 50 minutes
episode 167: The Geopolitics of Microchips: China, the EU, and the US
An interview with Hermann Aubié
episode 58: Seeing Truth in the Archives
A Conversation about the AMNH and What Gets Saved with Joel Sweimler
episode 31: How a California Electricity Utility Caused Deadly Wildfires
A Conversation with Katherine Blunt
episode 187: Jeremiah McCall, "Gaming the Past: Using Video Games to Teach Secondary History" (Routledge, 2022)
An interview with Jeremiah McCall,
episode 140: Emily Strasser, "Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
An interview with Emily Strasser
episode 352: Christiaan De Beukelaer, "Trade Winds: A Sailing Voyage to a Sustainable Future for Shipping" (Manchester UP, 2023)
An interview with Christiaan De Beukelaer
episode 28: The Promises and Perils of Hype in Science and Technology
A Conversation with Gemma Milne
episode 49: The Future of Nuclear Fusion: A Discussion with Sharon Ann Holgate
How useful will nuclear fusion be? In a major breakthrough last year at the National Ignition Facility in California, 192 lasers achieved fusion – and created energy - for the first time. It was clearly an important moment. But might the development of fusion technology come too late? Owen Bennett Jones speaks with Sharon Ann Holgate, author of Nuclear Fusion: The Race to Build a Mini Sun on Earth (Icon Books, 2022). Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance journalist and writer...