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The Park Grass experiment at Rothamsted Research Centre in England is the world’s longest-running ecological experiment. It’s also the result of a sort of Victorian Stardew Valley, the enduring friendship between John Bennet Lawes and Joseph Henry Gilbert.
Hosted by: Niba @NotesbyNiba (she/her)
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Welcome aboard flight WU321 bound for Etymology Island. In this episode, Rob and Jess take to the skies and soar through the word origins of a multitude of aviation terms.
✈️ Is it an ‘airplane’ or an ‘aeroplane’?
🐓 Why do pilots sit in a ‘cockpit’?
🛩️ Why is English the language of aviation?
🔠 How did the NATO alphabet come to be?
These questions answered – and many more – in a high-flying episode of Words Unravelled charting the etymology of flight.
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Brian Cox & Robin Ince dig deep into the curious concept of technofossils.
Brian Cox and Robin Ince dig deep into the strata of an imagined human history to unearth the curious concept of technofossils. Joined by paleobiologist Sarah Gabbott, material scientist Mark Miodownik and comedian and tech enthusiast Aurie Styla the panel unearth how the everyday objects that we throw away today compare to fossils of the past.
Together, the panel investigates how these modern artifacts could degrade over time to become the fossils of the future. From old smartphones buried in bedside drawers to sprawling landfill sites, they imagine how these remnants of the Anthropocene might puzzle future archaeologists—and speculate on what these researchers might infer about our technology, customs, and way of life.
Series Producer: Melanie Brown
Assistant Producer: Olivia Jani
Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem
BBC Studios Audio Production
All images and text © Sebastian Piórek
Photographer Sebastian Piórek is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of these images. […]
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Based in Warsaw, Poland is an aerial photographer who specializes in minimal shots of architecture and landscapes. In his pictures he always tries to create and present the viewer with a simple and ascetic approach, because in today’s world where we are bombarded with a lot of technical and visual information, minimalism becomes a soothing break for our busy minds. Through his photographs, he tries to push the audience to see reality from a new perspective, encouraging meditation on time and existence. His works are praised in many Polish and international photography contests, published in National Geographic, All About Photo, Photographize and Amateur Photographer.
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