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Zoned Out: Race, Property, and Ownership in America

The Shape of the World ·

2025/07/31

Dr. Adrienne Brown reads cities the way professors read novels: carefully, and with lots of attention to what’s written between the lines.

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28:26

Can a Tiny Organism Transform Human Relations?

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2025/05/09

Artist Laurie Palmer believes they can. In her book, The Lichen Museum, Laurie explores what we can gain from learning to see life the way a lichen does.

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Season Six Coming Soon

The Shape of the World ·

2025/05/05

Season SIX Will Launch This Friday, May 9thNew episodes, new guests, and new insights about nature and our built environments coming soon with season 6 of Shape of the World. And more on how we can live together–with nature, with cities, and with one another. Listen on Apple, Spotify, or your favorite platform.

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26:44

Episode 20: The Weirdest Way

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2020/05/06

Dr. Katy Greenwald has a longstanding interest in puzzling out the success and persistence of North America's "gene thieves," the unisexual (all female) Ambystoma salamanders...

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27:03

Episode 7: The Value of Audacious Thinking

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2018/06/02

Zero. When Mary Hennen was growing up, that was the total number of peregrine falcons living anywhere near her home in Chicago. Even in the wilder areas...

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19:49

Episode 6: Women in the Garden

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2018/05/26

The person responsible for Kay Havens’ early interest in interest in science was female: her mother. Together, they collected, studied, and identified...

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Episode 5: One Strange Mountain

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2018/05/19

What would you do if you were required to catch something—an animal—that you knew nothing about. In the entire world, there was literally no one you could ask for help, not one...

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Episode 4: Secret in the Scented Night

The Shape of the World ·

2018/05/12

Each weekend when Krissa Skogen was a kid, she went with her family to a lake in western Minnesota. The six of them camped in tents on a small property where there was no...

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28:05

Episode 3: The Forest of Surprise

The Shape of the World ·

2018/05/05

After first considering life as a musician, Greg Mueller’s professional aspirations took a surprising turn when a college class introduced him to mushrooms in the forests of...

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Episode 2: The Elegance of Erasure

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2018/04/28

When Peggy Macnamara was a young mother of five children, she didn't relinquish her art practice. Each morning she left her house and drove straight to the nearest natural history museum...

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One Minute Introduction to “The Shape of the World

The Shape of the World ·

2018/04/17

Host Jill Riddell explains the what, why and when of Season One.

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