“The sky was always there; the sky was the storyboard, filled with tales about the meaning of life and social relations. And people were making patterns on this storyboard even before they were painting on the walls of caves. Certainly, prehistoric people were doing it. And the story depends so much on who's the teller - the teller who has to make the story have legs. It's got to be a story that means something and that you can transfer from one culture to another as time changes.” – Anthony Aveni
This week on Living Lab Radio:
- Nature's Benjamin Thompson shares recent headlines, from a new, global map of Saturn’s largest moon, to some science funders’ experiments with lottery systems to increase diversity in the research pool.
- Author and MIT researcher Jason Jay shares tips for handling sensitive topics at Thanksgiving. First and foremost, he says not talking about it is just fine. And, if you do, don’t do it right out of the gate. Start with some
- Gastropod co-hosts Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley trace the history of cranberry cultivation and consumption from early colonial days until now.
- Anthony Aveni tells Star Stories, and not only the Greco-Roman ones most familiar in Western cultures. It turns out the appearance of Pleiades has long been associated with harvest festivals.
