When We Talk About Animals

When We Talk About Animals is a series of in-depth conversations with leading thinkers about the big questions animals raise about what it means to be human. Supported by the Law, Environment & Animals Program at Yale Law School and the Yale Broadcast Stu

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Ep. 25 – Doug Kysar and Jon Lovvorn on law in the Anthropocene

Posted November 18, 201900:50:12

Professors Doug Kysar and Jonathan Lovvorn are the Faculty Co-Directors of the Law, Ethics & Animals Program (LEAP) at Yale Law School. Launched...

Ep. 24 – Christopher Ketcham on the abuse of the American West

Posted October 21, 201900:50:43

For the past ten years, journalist Christopher Ketcham has documented the confluence of commercial exploitation and government misconduct on public...

Ep. 23 – David Rothenberg on playing music with whales and nightingales

Posted September 23, 201900:51:50

Philosopher and musician David Rothenberg has spent decades collecting and studying the calls of birds and whales. In the early 2000s, he began playing...

Ep. 22 – Ferris Jabr on reviving the Gaia hypothesis

Posted August 27, 201900:53:47

In the 1970s, scientists proposed what has become known as the Gaia Hypothesis: the idea that earth is best understood not as a passive substrate or...

Ep. 21 – David Barrie on the wonders of animal navigation

Posted August 5, 201900:59:45

Author and sailor David Barrie voyaged around the globe and through scientific literature to learn about the awe-inducing and still mysterious navigational...