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. 20 – Gabriela Cowperthwaite on the legacy of “Blackfish”

Posted July 15, 201900:47:33

Film director and producer Gabriela Cowperthwaite did not set out to make a film that would force a national moral reckoning over how we keep whales...

Ep. 19 – Robert Macfarlane on being good ancestors across deep time

Posted June 24, 201900:48:55

“Books, like landscapes, leave their marks in us,” Robert Macfarlane once wrote. “Certain books, though, like certain landscapes, stay with us...

Ep. 18 — Anthony Weston on animals, aliens and the silence of the universe

Posted June 10, 201900:54:07

In 1950, a physicist posed the question that has come to be known as the Fermi Paradox: given the high mathematical probability that other intelligent...

Ep. 17 – Fabrice Schnoller on free diving with sperm whales

Posted May 27, 201900:53:59

In 2007, our guest, Fabrice Schnoller, was sailing off the coast of Mauritius when he had an encounter that would change his life and open a new frontier...

Ep. 16 – Thomas Seeley on the Lives of Bees

Posted May 13, 201900:49:08

In the spring of 1963, when our guest Dr. Thomas Seeley was not quite 11 years old, he lived — as he still does today — in a wooded stream valley...