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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

The Earth Room

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

We remember Bill Dilworth, who took care of 280,000 pounds of dirt in an NYC loft for 35 years. Plus: Preorder your copy of The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide to Inventing the World today!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone, it is me again. So I have a quick announcement. I have a new kids book coming out called

0:06.7

the Atlas Obscira Explorers Guide to Inventing the World. I cannot tell you how excited I am to have

0:13.3

this book in the world. And it is not just a tour all around the world to incredible locations,

0:19.3

but it's also this guide to the history of

0:21.8

science. I made this book for, well, for myself when I was 11 or 10 or 9, and for my son and

0:30.8

daughter, who are 8 and 10 now. And it's a book for any kid who just longs to understand

0:36.1

how the world works. What are all of these things around us?

0:39.5

And how did we end up with them? How did we get from fire to pumps to fusion power? Like, how do we

0:48.0

arrive in our modern world? This is a love note to that exploration and an incredible tour through the history of science and technology.

0:57.5

It is for any curious kid in your life who lights up when you talk to them about things like astronomy or computers or trains.

1:07.6

This book is for them.

1:10.1

Comes out August 12th, but you can pre-order it right now.

1:13.7

It is on all of the various retailers, wherever you want to get your books from.

1:18.1

Thank you.

1:18.7

And on to today's episode.

1:23.1

Hey, Amanda.

1:24.6

Hey, Johanna.

1:25.3

What's up?

1:26.0

I want to start by showing you this photo. First, maybe just

1:30.7

describe the photo to me. Yeah, okay. So we are standing behind like maybe a waist high glass

1:40.7

barrier. And beyond that, there's like a very large white room. Like it's the walls are

1:49.1

empty. It's white high ceilings. And it looks like there's a thick kind of layer of at first I thought

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