Titans of Science: Sarah Parcak

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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4.6 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Sarah Parcak was born in Bangor, Maine on the 23rd of November 1978. She attended Bangor High School before reading Egyptology and Archaeology at Yale University. She then studied here in Cambridge under the supervision of the world-renowned Egyptologist Barry Kemp. After that, she was a teacher at Swansea University and then also at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.She pioneered the use of tech to advance archaeology, including the use of detailed satellite images, which has earned her the nickname "The Space Archaeologist". Sarah's discovered literally thousands of forgotten... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	Let's stop there.
0:04.0	Being a soldier, it's exciting.
0:07.0	You already know that.
0:08.0	What you want to know is, what's in it for me?
0:11.0	I wanted to learn leadership skills from the experts.
0:15.0	I wanted to get paid to earn qualifications.
0:18.0	I wanted more confidence.
0:19.0	And I'll look, I'm on the radio.
0:21.6	That's what was in it for me.
0:24.0	Get skills, get qualified, get confident.
0:27.1	Army, recruiting now, search Army jobs.
0:35.3	All engine running.
0:36.9	Absolute genius. Absolutely genius.
0:37.8	Welcome.
0:38.6	Welcome.
0:39.6	This is the show where we bring you science.
0:41.3	What that essentially means is discovery is advanced.
0:44.2	Research.
0:45.2	Technology.
0:45.9	Unbelievable.
0:47.0	Without further ado.
0:48.0	This is the naked scientists.
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