Visiting utopias, fighting heat death, and making mysterious ‘dark earth’

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🗓️ 28 September 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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A book on utopias and gender roles, India looks to beat climate-induced heat in cities, and how ancient Amazonians improved the soil First up on this week’s show: the latest in our series of books on sex, gender, and science. Books host Angela Saini discusses Everyday Utopia: In Praise of Radical Alternatives to the Traditional Family Home with ethnographer Kristen Ghodsee, professor of Russian and Eastern European studies at the University of Pennsylvania. See this year’s whole series here. Also this week, as part of a special issue on climate change and health, host Sarah Crespi speaks with Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar, a freelance journalist based in Mumbai, India. They talk about how India is looking to avoid overheating cities in the coming decades, as climate change and urbanization collide. Finally, we hear about how ancient Amazonians created fertile “dark earth” on purpose. Sarah is joined by Morgan Schmidt, an archaeologist and geographer at the Federal University of Santa Catarina. They discuss recent research published in Science Advances on the mysterious rich soil that coincides with ancient ruins, which may still be produced by modern Indigenous people in Brazil. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. About the Science Podcast Authors: Sarah Crespi, Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar, Angela Saini Episode page: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl0606 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:22.3	This is the science podcast for September 29, 2023. I'm Sarah Crespi. First up this week, the latest in our
1:29.5	series of books on science, sex, and gender. This month, books host Angela Saney, talks with author
1:35.0	and ethnographer Kristen Godsy, about her book, Everyday Utopia in praise of radical alternatives
1:41.4	to the traditional family home.
1:48.3	Next, we hear a story from a special section on climate change and health. I talk with freelance journalist Vaishnavi Chandr Chakar about how researchers in India are studying temperatures in urban centers as climate change turns up the heat.
1:59.4	Finally, archaeologist and geographer Morgan Schmidt is here
2:02.6	with research into dark earth in the Amazon.
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