A Secret History of Stars, with Jo Marchant and Helen Czerski

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🗓️ 18 September 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Jo Marchant and Helen Czerski take us on a journey through humanity’s relationship with the heavens. The stars have shaped who we are - our religious beliefs, power structures, scientific advances and even our biology. But over the last few centuries we have separated ourselves from the universe that surrounds us. And that disconnect comes at a cost. To find out more about Jo Marchant’s book, The Human Cosmos, click here: http://bit.ly/humancosmos -------------------------- Intelligence Squared+. The world's best speakers. Your questions. £4.99 per month. Intelligence Squared+ will bring you live, interactive events every week on our new online platform. Just like at our real-life events, you’ll be able to put your questions to our speakers, vote in live polls and interact with other members of the audience. Your subscription will give you access to multiple events featuring the world’s top thinkers and opinion formers, including Thomas Piketty, Margaret Atwood, Clive Woodward, Thomas Friedman, Meera Syal and Paloma Faith. For a full list of Intelligence Squared+ events and to subscribe, click here: https://bit.ly/2yfYIfm Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	Hello podcast listeners, I'm Connor and welcome to this week's episode of
1:03.2	Intelligence Squared today we're joined by Joe March and author of the new book
1:06.8	The Human Cosmos a secret history of the stars and she spoke to Helen Chersky the
1:11.4	physicist and oceanographer all about how the stars have shaped who we are.
1:15.4	From primal societies thousands of years ago drawing paintings and caves right up to the cutting-edge
1:20.5	science of how the moon and lunar cycle may be influencing our biology.
1:24.4	So it's a really fascinating conversation that I myself felt a little
1:27.8	existential after listening to and if you do enjoy it you can find a link for
1:31.3	Joe's book in the podcast description.
1:33.4	Now let's go to the episode.
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