Learn more about everything referenced in this episode by clicking the links below:<a href="https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793600424/The-Philosophy-of-Werner-Herzog">Philosophy of Werner Herzog</a><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%202%3A4-3%3A24&version=NIV">Adam and Eve</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critique_of_Judgment">Kant’s aesthetics</a><a href="https://www.fusd1.org/cms/lib/AZ01001113/Centricity/Domain/1385/Full%20text%20Oedipus.pdf">Oedipus Rex</a><a href="https://www.theoi.com/Text/HesiodWorksDays.html">Pandora Myth</a><a href="https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/hanbe65302/beatrice-han-pile">Beatrice Han-Pile</a>Diego Velázquéz’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Meninas#/media/File:Las_Meninas,_by_Diego_Vel%C3%A1zquez,_from_Prado_in_Google_Earth.jpg">Las Meninas</a>Rothko’s <a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern/display/in-the-studio/mark-rothko">Tate Collection</a>

Learn more about everything referenced in this episode by clicking the links below: Philosophy of Werner Herzog Adam and Eve Kant’s aesthetics Oedipus Rex Pandora Myth Beatrice Han-Pile Diego Velázquéz’s Las Meninas Rothko’s Tate Collection

Learn more about everything referenced in this episode by clicking the links below:<a href="https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793600424/The-Philosophy-of-Werner-Herzog" rel="noopener noreferrer">Philosophy of Werner Herzog</a><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%202%3A4-3%3A24&amp;version=NIV" rel="noopener noreferrer">Adam and Eve</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critique_of_Judgment" rel="noopener noreferrer">Kant’s aesthetics</a><a href="https://www.fusd1.org/cms/lib/AZ01001113/Centricity/Domain/1385/Full%20text%20Oedipus.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer">Oedipus Rex</a><a href="https://www.theoi.com/Text/HesiodWorksDays.html" rel="noopener noreferrer">Pandora Myth</a><a href="https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/hanbe65302/beatrice-han-pile" rel="noopener noreferrer">Beatrice Han-Pile</a>Diego Velázquéz’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Meninas#/media/File:Las_Meninas,_by_Diego_Vel%C3%A1zquez,_from_Prado_in_Google_Earth.jpg" rel="noopener noreferrer">Las Meninas</a>Rothko’s <a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern/display/in-the-studio/mark-rothko" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tate Collection</a>

#009 with Tony Eagan

A new InterPlanetary interview series from the Santa Fe Institute takes a page from the Strugatsky brothers' classic Soviet sci-fi novel, Roadside Picnic, to discuss a variety of transformative alien artifacts.

Thirteen years ago, an alien civilization visited our planet, and left behind myriad, mysterious materials in their crash sites. These areas, Zones, behave very strangely, but the interplanetary items they contain could change the trajectory of our technological advancement. What appears as a hoop might actually be a perpetual-motion machine.  What appears as a slime might alter space-time.

Spend too much time in the Zone and your genes might mutate, your bones might dissolve, your body might be ground into meat. If you’re lucky enough to make it out alive, you’ll likely be imprisoned. But a successful trip in and out of the Zone could alter human history. Do you dare? And for what?

Hosted by Caitlin McShea.

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A new InterPlanetary interview series from the Santa Fe Institute takes a page from the Strugatsky brothers' classic Soviet sci-fi novel, Roadside Picnic, to discuss a variety of transformative alien artifacts. Thirteen years ago, an alien civilization visited our planet, and left behind myriad, mysterious materials in their crash sites. These areas, Zones, behave very strangely, but the interplanetary items they contain could change the trajectory of our technological advancement. What appears as a hoop might actually be a perpetual-motion machine. What appears as a slime might alter space-time. Spend too much time in the Zone and your genes might mutate, your bones might dissolve, your body might be ground into meat. If you’re lucky enough to make it out alive, you’ll likely be imprisoned. But a successful trip in and out of the Zone could alter human history. Do you dare? And for what? Hosted by Caitlin McShea.

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