Absolute Units – Prof. Dolly Jørgensen has now been the guest for two episodes in a row. First, on 26 June, discussing her 2024 book The Medieval Pig from Boydell & Brewer, and then again on 10 July for further discussions about the “meaning of pigs.” Also worth adding to your notebook, she has a new book being published this coming October from University of Chicago Press: Ghosts Behind Glass; Encountering Extinction in Museums.
Ffern‘s Found Sound podcast for July features a not only brilliant but also brilliantly recorded interview with Lara Maiklem by sound recording artist Alice Boyd. You’ll likely know Ms. Maiklem’s name from her superb books about mudlarking: Mudlarking; Lost and Found on the River Thames, A Field Guide to Larking, and most recently A Mudlarking Year; Finding Treasure in Every Season (all published by Bloomsbury) Take Ms. Boyd’s advice and listen to this one through the best headphones you have – it’s worth it to do so in order to savour all the artistry that she has woven into the recording of this interview. Also, if you haven’t heard it already, give ear to the other Ffern podcast this month: As the Season Turns – July.
New Books Network: History of Science – Dr. Miranda Melcher interviewed Prof. Meegan Kennedy about her recently published book Writing Embodiment in Victorian Microscopy; Beautiful Mechanism from Oxford University Press. While the title of the book is admittedly rather “academese,” what Prof. Kennedy has to say about it and her research into the history and practice of microscopy of the period is well worth the time to hear by any and all interested in the subject (and if you’re a naturalist, an interest in microscopy is more or less assumed – at least by me).
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