298 - The Whale Identity

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🗓️ 2 January 2019

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

00:00:00 - A quick intro to let everyone know that this episode features an interview with former guest of the show (episode 97) Dr. Nick Pyenson recorded live at Room 11 in D.C. Thanks for Room 11 for having us!

00:01:49 - Nick Pyenson joins us to talk about his new book Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures with illustrations by Alex Boersma. A free-wheeling discussion ensues over a couple of burnt sugar old-fashioned cocktails. We talk a lot about whales and their portrayal in the book, but also mention some other things to check out which you can find here:

Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel by Carl Safina
Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth by Adam Frank
Contact by Carl Sagan

You can follow Nick and his future adventures online via Twitter (@PyensonLab) and Instagram (@pyensonlab)

01:12:59 - PaleoPOWs are a lot like new year celebrations, noisy but with a sense of finality. This week we thank Ian C. for his time as a recurring donor to the show. Thanks, Ian! Here’s to another year of science with all you lovely people.

More cool rewards await you if you decide to support us on our Patreon!

Music for this episode:

Humpback whalesong
I Spy - Guster

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0:00.0	Is this close enough?
0:01.1	Yeah, yeah.
0:01.7	These mics are pretty good.
0:03.5	You'd have to eat them a little bit, but I'll think good.
0:06.0	Yeah, so if you just pretend that you're like a stand-up, you're doing a stand-up routine.
0:09.7	And you are in front of a brick wall, like old Seinfeld fit.
0:12.3	So what is the deal with whales?
0:14.3	I know.
0:16.0	From science sort of.com, you're listening to Science Sort of.com. You're listening to Science Sort of.
0:38.0	Hello, everyone out there in podcast land. You are listening to Science Sort of, the show where we talk about things that are science, things that are sort of science, and things that wish they were science.
0:41.4	I am your host, Ryan Haupt.
0:43.3	This is episode 298, and our theme this week is the whale identity.
0:48.7	It's like the born identity, but it's about whales.
0:52.6	And you'll soon see why, because this week I am chatting
0:55.3	with Dr. Nick Payenson, who is the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History's curator of
1:00.7	marine mammal fossils and author of the book, Spying on Wales, which is the reason we sat down to chat.
1:06.6	So because we both live in D.C., we were fortunate enough to get to record in person a few
1:11.1	weeks ago, and we were able to do so at one of my favorite bars in D.C., which is called
1:15.5	Room 11.
1:16.3	It's in the Columbia Heights neighborhood.
1:18.0	And so because we were in a bar, we were able to do our full conversation and include a
1:23.4	what are you drinking segment sort of in the middle maybe towards the tail end in between cocktails so because this interview really has everything you need i'm not
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