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Science
Philosophy
1
Ambika Kamath and Melina Packer, "Feminism in t...
67 min
2
Marcy Norton, "The Tame and the Wild: People an...
An interview with Marcy Norton
56 min
3
Danielle Alesi, "Eating Animals in the Early Mo...
40 min
4
Kevin J. Mitchell, "Free Agents: How Evolution ...
An interview with Kevin J. Mitchell
32 min
5
Yossi Yovel, "The Genius Bat: The Secret Life o...
60 min
6
Jerry Moore, "Cat Tales: A History" (Thames & H...
35 min
7
Living Night: On the Secret Wonders of Wildlife...
61 min
8
Joshua Duclos, "Wilderness, Morality, and Value...
An interview with Joshua Duclos
64 min
9
Ludovic Orlando, "Horses: A 4,000-Year Genetic ...
49 min
10
Eduardo Mercado III, "Why Whales Sing" (JHU Pre...
61 min
11
Karine Gagné, "Caring for Glaciers: Land, Anima...
Gagné explores how relations of reciprocity between land, humans, animals, and glaciers foster an ethics of care in the Himalayan communities of Ladakh...
98 min
12
Thomas Fleischman, "Communist Pigs: An Animal H...
The pig played a fundamental role in the German Democratic Republic's attempts to create and sustain a modern, industrial food system built on communist principles...
56 min
13
Anastasija Ropa, "The Medieval Horse" (Reaktion...
37 min
14
Graeme Rigby, "Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Her...
54 min
15
Rebecca van Laer, "Cat" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
25 min
16
A Song for the Horses: Musical Heritage for Mor...
61 min
17
Tami Parr, "Goats in America: A Cultural Histor...
45 min
18
Eva Meijer, "Multispecies Assemblies" (Vine Pre...
61 min
19
Ron Broglio, "Animal Revolution" (U Minnesota P...
An interview with Ron Broglio
46 min
20
Gerta Keller, "The Last Extinction: The Real Sc...
56 min
21
Kenneth R. Valpey, "Yoga and Animal Ethics" (Pa...
40 min
22
Paying Attention with Anya Daly
29 min
23
Daniel Horowitz, "Bear With Me: A Cultural Hist...
44 min
24
Joshua Specht, "Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Ta...
Why do Americans eat so much beef?
27 min
25
Timothy Barnard, "Imperial Creatures: Humans an...
Barnard explores the more-than-human entanglements between empires and the creatures they govern...
41 min