Part One: Mutual Aid and Evolution: Peter Kropotkin and the Battle for Science

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🗓️ 29 September 2025

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Margaret talks to Katie Goldin about the anarchist prince who laid the foundations for understanding cooperation in the wild.

https://thebiologist.rsb.org.uk/biologist-features/who-was-peter-kropothkin

https://trise.org/2018/01/04/kropotkin-and-climate-change/

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/allan-antliff-memorializing-kropotkin

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1883/don/ch07c.htm

https://evolution.berkeley.edu/the-history-of-evolutionary-thought/1800s/uniformitarianism-charles-lyell/

https://summitborn.com/discovery-of-the-ice-age/

https://logarithmichistory.wordpress.com/2024/11/18/gradualism-10/

https://strangescience.net/lyell.htm

https://medium.com/science-spectrum/how-darwin-discovered-invented-evolution-4d99aadf5656

https://psyche.co/ideas/kropotkin-the-radical-aristocrat-who-put-kindness-on-a-scientific-footing

https://www.marxists.org/subject/science/essays/kropotkin.htm

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0:51.4	Hello, and welcome to cool people did cool stuff.
0:53.7	Your weekly reminder that when bad things are happening, there's people trying to do good things.
0:58.5	And this week, one of the people trying to do good things, probably, I assume, is Katie Golden.
1:05.4	Who's my guest? Hi. How are you?
1:07.8	Hi. I try to do good stuff.
1:13.6	You have to do at least three good things before you're allowed on this show. My proudest thing that I do that's good is when my dog does a little pee-pee,
1:20.9	I have a water bottle. And I live in a very like, it's all cobblestones and pavement and stuff.
1:27.9	There's not a lot of grass.
1:29.0	So when she does pee pee pee on the cobblestones, I like wash it with the water.
1:34.4	So, you know, because just like so that I'm doing a little cleaning up after my,
1:39.2	obviously I also clean up her poopoos.
1:42.0	That's a given.
1:43.1	But yeah, just rinse, make the cobblestones, like a little bit cleaner after my dog does her little pissies on it.
1:50.7	I think that just based on the cobblestones thing, that people might infer that you are, don't live in America.
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