Environmental models! Poetry! Scientists who are poets! Novelists who are scientists! Art + science = an actual -ology. Creative Ecologist, climate scientist, theoretical ecologist, author and celebrated poet Dr. Madhur Anand sits on a porch with me on an island to chat about storytelling, narratives in science, forest beetles, carbon stability, human motives, hip waders, technology meets nature, absurdity, identity, overcoming writer’s or scientist’s' block, and how accepting ourselves can be contagious. Forecast: you begin jotting down poems on envelopes.
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Buy Madhur Anand’s collections of poems A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes) (2015) and Parasitic Oscillations) (2022), and her book of prose This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart) (2020)
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Other episodes you may enjoy: Pedagogology (SCIENCE COMMUNICATION) with Bill Nye), Molecular Biology + SciComm with Raven ‘the Science Maven’ Baxter,) Indigenous Fire Ecology (GOOD FIRE)), Pyrotechnology (FIREMAKING)), Fire Ecology (WILDFIRES)), Oceanology Encore (THE OCEAN)),Enigmatology (WORD PUZZLES)), Syndesiology (CONNECTIONS) with James Burke)
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