Ancient Pacific Navigation, Part 3
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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The original discoverers of the Polynesian Islands traversed a vast ocean, bringing civilization to islands untouched by human activity. How did they do it? In this Stuff to Blow Your Mind three-parter, Robert and Joe discuss the sheer scale of the Pacific Ocean and environmental navigation.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Nikki Lynnette, the host of About a Girl, here to tell you about our new season. |
| 0:05.2 | Every episode of About a Girl digs deep to explore the real stories of women who were there, |
| 0:11.0 | playing an important role in the creation of classic, beloved music. |
| 0:15.8 | For every story you might think you know, there's always another side. |
| 0:19.9 | Listen to About a Girl on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.3 | How did the online harassment of a Saturday Night Live comedian paved the way to a Trump White House? |
| 0:35.7 | Or how did people in Georgia use Facebook to run a black teacher out of town? |
| 0:40.1 | And what does any of this have to do with our democracy? |
| 0:42.9 | The answer is the internet. |
| 0:45.3 | There are all instances where women were targeted by an online hate mob. |
| 0:49.8 | And this kind of thing has been steadily creeping from our computer screen into our wider political landscape. |
| 0:55.6 | I'm Brigitte Todd and on my new podcast, Internet Hate Machine, |
| 0:59.0 | I'll be charting how the harassment and abuse of women and other traditionally marginalized people online |
| 1:03.7 | has led us to our current political healthscape and what we can do about it. |
| 1:07.9 | Listen to Internet Hate Machine on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:15.7 | I'm time on to you and I'm the host of Calling Bullshit, |
| 1:19.4 | the first podcast about purpose-washing, where we dig into the difference between |
| 1:24.2 | what companies say they stand for and the actions that they're taking. |
| 1:28.8 | Join us as we investigate organizations like Noom and Spotify. |
| 1:32.9 | Let's call BS on companies that deserve it but also make some suggestions for cleaning that BS up. |
| 1:39.5 | Listen to the Calling Bullshit podcast on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:45.2 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio. |
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