From the Vault: Lost Wonders, with Tom Lathan
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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In this classic episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert chats with Tom Lathan, author of “Lost Wonders: 10 Tales of Extinction from the 21st Century.” (originally published 6/19/2025)
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:10.1 | Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. |
| 0:12.2 | My name is Robert Lamb. |
| 0:13.3 | Today is Saturday. |
| 0:14.4 | So it's Vault Time. |
| 0:15.5 | This episode originally published 619, 2025. |
| 0:20.6 | It is an interview that I conducted with the author Tom Lathen about the book, |
| 0:26.4 | Lost Wonders, Ten Tales of Extinction from the 21st Century. Really engaging read, and I thought a really |
| 0:34.2 | engaging conversation here. So I hope you enjoy it. Let's jump right in. |
| 0:41.1 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:50.8 | Hey, you welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. |
| 0:53.4 | My name is Robert Lamb, and in today's episode, I'm going to be chatting with Tom Lathen, author of the new book Lost Wonders, 10 Tales of Extinction from the 21st Century. |
| 1:03.9 | It's out June 10th. |
| 1:06.0 | Without further ado, let's jump right in to the interview. |
| 1:12.1 | Hi, Tom, welcome to the show. |
| 1:14.4 | Hi there, Rob. Thanks so much for having me. |
| 1:16.3 | The new book is Lost Wonders, Ten Tales of Extinction from the 21st Century, publishing June 10th |
| 1:22.4 | here in the States, came out earlier, what, in November in the UK, right? |
| 1:27.7 | That's right, yes. |
| 1:28.7 | It tackles the sixth mass extinction event that we're all living in by chronicling |
| 1:33.4 | ten different recently extinct species. |
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