Episode 274 - Environmental Science and Sustainable Food with Dr. Pete Newton
Probably Science
Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen
4.8 • 707 Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2017
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Matt’s on the road in Colorado and meets up with his old university friend Dr. Pete Newton (@newton_pete) who's now an assistant professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder to talk about his TEDx Talk on why "food miles" are aren’t all they’re cracked up to be, his journey away from and back to academia, safari tours in Botswana, hunting pangolins, anaconda attacks in the field, the perils of ruminants, changing our behavior, changing a whole country’s behavior, and whether you’d eat lab-grown meat.
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| 0:00.0 | Probably Science |
| 0:02.0 | Hey everyone, welcome to Probably Science. We're on the road. I'm in Colorado visiting the girlfriend's family, currently in the basement of their house, of the parents' house, um, |
| 0:22.9 | and an old uni friend of mine lives just up the road. That's right. Nice to meet you again. |
| 0:28.1 | Yeah. Um, I was, probably 14 years or so long. I, I, I, Pete Newton, what, you know, doctor, |
| 0:36.1 | Professor Pete Newton, what? Sure, all of the birth were., all of the birth here. Dr. Professor. Yeah, I got my PhD |
| 0:42.5 | six years ago back in the UK and then I've been in the US since then, really, since 2012. |
| 0:48.2 | I'm now a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, just down the road. It's a very nice, |
| 0:52.5 | I've been up to Boulder. It's a beautiful town to be living in. |
| 0:55.1 | There are worse places to end up as an academic. |
| 0:57.3 | It's a very nice place to wind up. |
| 0:58.6 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 0:59.8 | Let's start kind of towards the beginning. |
| 1:02.9 | And then we'll get onto... |
| 1:04.1 | Like, I saw you did a TED talk, |
| 1:05.3 | and I want to get onto what that was about. but that's also not what your main field of research is in. Sure. That's what your sort of teaching field is in. |
| 1:11.3 | TEDx, just to qualify, but yes. |
| 1:12.8 | Okay. |
| 1:14.0 | So, you were a natural sciences student at uni, right? |
| 1:19.6 | Right, right. |
| 1:20.5 | I studied natural scientists specialized in zoology. |
| 1:23.6 | And then you went into the environmental science field. |
| 1:26.0 | Yeah, yeah. |
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