The Endless Knot
Summary: Aven & Mark discuss etymology, history, literature, language, and cocktails, and the sometimes surprising connections between them all.
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- Artist: Mark Sundaram & Aven McMaster
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Podcasts:
We talked to Dr. Karen Carr about the global history of swimming — in myth, folktale, and history. Who swam, who didn’t, and how do the stories different cultures told reflect these patterns? We also talked a bit about Dr. Carr’s next book, all about silver, women, and textiles.
We discuss the language and history of the ecological sciences, all the way back to the ancient Greeks, and the development of the food chain and food web models of ecological systems. And apologies for the unscheduled hiatus!
Episode 118: A Crisis of Masculinity, with Melanie Racette-Campbell
Episode 117: A Brief History of Misogyny
Episode 116: A Quiverful of Time Arrows
Episode 115: Like, Literally, Dude! with Valerie Fridland
Episode 114a: The XYZ’s of Spelling
Episode 114: The ABC’s of Spelling
Bonus: Livestream Q&A from LingFest23
Announcement: LingFest23 Q&A Livestream
Episode 113: Ovid's Metamorphoses in the 21st Century
Episode 112: The Bellini, Art, and Patronage
Episode 111: Haggard Hawks, back again!
Episode 110: Music and Language
Episode 109: Endangered Alphabets, with Tim Brookes
