A podcast about what the past can teach us about the future and how to survive it
Previous Episodes
Why are our trees moving north?
Jason Kingsley 0:01We often use trees as a shorthand for how well our ecology is doing. We generally see more trees as a good thing. Today’s guest, however, Ben Rawlence has seen the proliferation and movement in habitat and various types of tree as an indication of how fast and how seriously our climate is…
What can we learn from Vikings’ teeth?
Jason Kingsley 0:01What we know about the mediaeval period comes in large part for people wrote down about themselves and others. How do we find out about the less literate societies, like the Vikings for example? Cat Jarman has spent the last few years working on the remains of the Great Army at Repton and…
What can we predict and what can we not predict?
Margaret Heffernan is an expert on prediction, whose new book, Uncharted, tells is what we can predict, what we can’t, and how we can tell the difference. Jason Kingsley 0:01A lot of what we do on this podcast is speculating about what the future might look like while leaning on the past. Today I’m talking…
Future Imperfect 