Episode 106 - Franz Nopcsa

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

Science, Natural Sciences, Education, Earth Sciences, Science:natural Sciences

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2021

⏱️ 116 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Happy Darwin Day! Baron Franz Nopcsa was a paleontologist around the start of the 20th Century, remembered today for his innovative fossil research, his (in)famous personality, and his fantastic adventures across Eastern Europe. In this episode, we’ll discuss how this aristocrat became a paleontologist and how he contributed to our modern understanding of dinosaurs, and we’ll share some of the incredible and bizarre stories that surround him. In the news: Parasaurolophus crests, sand striker burrows, dogs in Siberia, and life on Pinatubo. Time markers: Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:04:30Main discussion, Part 1: 00:42:00Main discussion, Part 2: 01:12:00Patron question: 01:46:00 Check out our blog for bonus info and pictures:http://commondescentpodcast.wordpress.com/ Find merch at the Common Descent Store! http://zazzle.com/common_descent Follow and Support us on: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonDescentPCFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/commondescentpodcastInstagram: @commondescentpodcast PodBean: https://commondescentpodcast.podbean.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCePRXHEnZmTGum2r1l2mduwiTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-common-descent-podcast/id1207586509?mt=2 The Intro and Outro music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at http://ocremix.org. Musical Interludes are "Professor Umlaut" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.
0:18.2	Hello, Will. Hello, David. Hello, listeners, and welcome to episode 106 of the Common Descent podcast.
0:27.5	Hey, this episode will come out on February 7th.
0:30.5	It does.
0:31.1	Which is the beginning of the week that includes February 12th.
0:34.1	Uh-huh.
0:34.6	Which is Darwin Day.
0:35.6	Oh, yeah.
0:37.1	Happy Darwin Day to everybody, and we have sort of a tradition
0:41.0	with Darwin Day that started with our Darwin episode. It's one of our many traditions in 28 of doing
0:48.1	historical people of interest. We've done Darwin, we did Wallace, we did Mary Anning last year,
0:53.5	all cool people. This time around, We did Mary Anning last year. All cool people.
0:54.5	This time around, we are talking about Franz Napcha, who probably less heard of than our previous three.
1:04.4	Heard of enough to be requested for the episode.
1:07.6	Napcha is a really interesting character from the turn of the 1800s into the 1900s.
1:16.6	Early paleontological theorist also did research in geology, in cultural studies, named a bunch of dinosaurs, named a bunch of other prehistoric animals. So it's a name
1:29.3	you see come up. And I've heard it suggested that this person doesn't get nearly the amount of
1:35.7	attention that he deserves. Yeah, I had heard the name, but I couldn't have told you anything about
1:42.9	the person behind the name.
1:44.8	Same.
1:45.7	So I'm very eager to learn.
1:47.7	Well, yeah, I've been doing a deep dive into the life and works of Franz Napcha, and it's a really, this is a person whose scientific history is really interesting, and then just all around is a fascinating person there are so many
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Common Descent, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Common Descent and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.