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The Audio Long Read

Best of 2024 … so far: Solar storms, ice cores and nuns’ teeth: the new science of history

The Audio Long Read

The Guardian

Society & Culture

4.22.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Every Friday in August we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2024, in case you missed them, with an introduction from the editorial team to explain why we’ve chosen it. This week, from May: Advances in fields such as spectrometry and gene sequencing are unleashing torrents of new data about the ancient world – and could offer answers to questions we never even knew to ask. By Jacob Mikanowski. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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We are going to have the juiciest moments

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and all the behind-the-scenes chaos

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you never knew you needed.

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Your favorite cast members dishing out secrets to

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celebrities expect surprises, juicy, juicy insights and plenty of laughs every

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week.

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Love is Blind UK, the official podcast new episodes drop every

0:55.1

Friday. Available on all streaming platforms and on YouTube listen or watch now. Hi my name's David Wolf and I'm the editor of The Guardian Long Reed.

1:11.0

Over August we're changing our regular scheduling to bring you some of our

1:14.6

favorite pieces of the year so far and this week I've chosen solar storms, ice cores,

1:19.8

and nuns teeth the new science of History by Jacob Micanowski.

1:25.6

So what's wonderful about this piece is just how it synthesizes such a huge amount of material.

1:30.4

It's effectively a decades worth of extraordinary research and discoveries into such a lucid and beautifully written essay.

1:37.0

The author describes the ways in which ingenious new scientific techniques have, over the past decade or so, been changing the way historians think about the past.

1:45.6

In one sentence alone he describes how analysis of stable isotopes preserved in bones and teeth

1:50.7

has allowed scientists to track the movement of a single girl from Germany to bones and

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