19 episodes
Ikonokast Ikonokast
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A Science Advocacy Podcast. We get great interviews with science writers, and scientists, on their specialties. Rather than focus on topicality, we talk to our guests on the implications of their research and writings with regards to larger issues. Dr. Greg Laden is an anthropologist with extensive research in Africa, as well as on climate change. With his expertise as a research and as a professor, he and Mike Haubrich, engage wtih our guests and audience to ensure meaningful content.
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Episode 32- Electric Cars are Good
Yes, it's true, and our guests explain why.
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Episode 31 - The Range, the North Shore And More
This is an overlapping continuation of episode 31, including the part about Silver Bay. Greg Laden and Mike Haubrich spoke a bit more, about our travels and experiences along the North Shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota. We also talked about the Iron Range in some greater detail, we talked about the gas fires in a flooded Grand Forks in 1997, how Hibbing had to move for the mines in the 1920's and how even the mountains in Minnesota are almost flat.
This is how our conversations go when we get together. You should join us sometime. -
Episode 30: Protecting the Watershed with Megan Bond
In this interview, Megan Bond talks extensively with Greg Laden about the importance of the watershed to Minnesota’s Boundary Waters and Voyageurs National Park as well as the Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario; but more importantly, the watershed flows out from a contintal “trivide” to Hudson’s Bay, The Atlantic Ocean’s East Coast through the St. Lawrence Seaway and to the Gulf Of Mexico through the Mississippi River.
More information at Ikonokast.com
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Episode 29: Agro Ecology and Smart Farmers with Laurent Penet
In this wide-ranging episode, we explored ideas in agriculture on how to make it both more productive and ecologically friendly. Our guest is Laurent Penet, PhD, a researcher with the French National Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment. While we strayed from the initial question, we did cover a lot of ground on maintaining our ability to continue to produce food in the tropics and the temperate zones, how to encourage biodiversity by not killing all the weeds, why we need pollinators, and reiterated that farmers are great resources because they know the land they are working.
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Episode 28: Fourteen questions with Ethan Siegel
Ethan Siegel is a primo science communicator, with a blog at Starts With a Bang, a podcast of his own of the same name, and articles that he has published in a diverse array of magazines. He's an enthusiastic interpreter of science, and we assure you there is no math required to listen to this podcast.
The episode post is at https://ikonokast.com/2022/05/08/fourteen-questions-with-ethan-siegel/ -
Episode 27 - The Science Says I'm Right and You're Wrong
Especially since Covid-19, everyone you argue with either in person or on the internet about masks or vaccines, or climate change, or evolution, or whether the earth is flat or round, or whatever people fight about, there’s going to be a demand to produce the science to support your argument. That’s not always as easy as you might think.