Gaps In Knowledge

By Gaps In Knowledge

Rhys the Geographer knows nothing about History. Will the Historian knows nothing about Geography. Join us on our quest to fill each other's gaps in knowledge!

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The podcast currently has 24 episodes available.

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October 01, 2023 S3E2 - A little magic chess machine
Today Rhys get all atmospherically gassy, parks in a solar powered car park and goes to Mecca to see how it is. Will chucks up the vomitorium, plays magic mechanical chess then runs naked in The Games.

Rhys talks about:
The most abundant Green House Gas
Solar Panel being build on Car Parks / Parking Lots
The Masjid al-haram, Mecca - Reviews

Will talks about:

Vomitoriums
Wolfgang von Kempelen's Mechanical Turk
The Ancient Olympic Games

Time Stamps

1:58 - Most Abundant Greenhouse Gas
11:40 - Vomitorium
19:40 - Solar Panel Parking Lots
33:57 - Magical Chess Machine
57:51 - Mecca's Google Reviews
1:08:48 - The Ancient Games
1:20:43 - Outro
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1h 24min
September 19, 2023 S3E1 - Ropey Rasputin
Today Rhys gets all docky, shippy and ropey while Will goes Raving with Rasputin, fleeing the French Revolution, and getting spooky in the States with the Winchester mystery house!

Rhys talks about:
Oklahoma - The Tulsa Port of Catoosa
Malcolm McClean and Containerisation
The Chatham Dockyard Ropery

Will talks about:

Rasputin
Louis XVI attempt to flee France
The Winchester Mystery House
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1h 27min
June 25, 2023S2E7 - The Glastonbury Chronicles
Today Rhys sorts out the relationship between Greenland and Denmark, Look at the phosphate mining in Nauru and the dives into the unfathomable depth of the Mariana Trench. Will goes all normal for the first King of England, parties hard in Glastonbury then sorts out his solstice stones in Stonehenge.

Rhys Links:
"Epistemic geographies of climate change" by Martin Mahony and Mike Hulme.

"Introduction: Postimperial sovereignty games in the Nordic region" by Rebecca Adler-Nissen and Ulrik Pram Gad.

Greenland unveils draft constitution in push for complete independence from Danish control

Mining, land restoration and sustainable development in isolated islands: An industrial ecology perspective on extractive transitions on Nauru

Phosphate Mining on Nauru

The Story of Nauru: The "Country that Ate itself"

Mariana Trench
Will's Links:
Alfred The Great

Glastonbury

Stonehenge
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1h 18min
June 03, 2023S2E6 - The Geography Quiz
Today, join Rhys for traffic congestion myths, a wildfire crash-course and naming lizards that have opinions on desertification. Will suprises Rhys for his three-part Geography quiz! Border, flags and countries!

Rhys links:
⁠⁠⁠Critical factors for mitigating car traffic in cities

⁠⁠⁠⁠7 Burning Questions: Wildfires & Public Lands

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Land management practices for combating desertification cause species replacement of desert lizards⁠
Will links:
Belgium's Venn Bahn

⁠⁠⁠⁠World Flags

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠193 countries in the world - United Nations

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Timestamps
Intro 00:00
Misconception Corner: Traffic Congestion 01:46
Misconception Corner: Venn Bahn 11:57
Main Event: Wildfire Crash-Course 18:05
Main Event: Flag Quiz 40:01
Number Time: Lizards and Desertification 01:04:46
Number Time: All the countries of the world 01:25:04
Outro: 01:33:00
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1h 35min
May 14, 2023S2E5 - Sipping and Shipwrecks
Today, join Rhys for Georgian wine adventures, and a deep dive into Georgetown and we play 'Georgia or Georgia?'. Then, Will unpacks Shakespeare's relevance, reflects on Gallipoli, and analyses the Titanic's failures.

Rhys links:
⁠⁠Drinking Wine in Georgia

⁠Guyana hits back after 'watery wilderness' NYT article

⁠⁠Georgia or Georgia?
Will links:
⁠Titanic failures

⁠Gallipoli

⁠⁠Shakespeare’s actually not that bad
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Timestamps
Intro 00:00
Misconception Corner: Drinking Wine in Georgia 01:50
Misconception Corner: Titanic failures 10:37
Main Event: The True Georgetown 17:23
Main Event: Gallipoli 29:19
Number Time: Georgia or Georgia? 46:38
Number Time: Shakespeare’s actually not that bad 52:04
Outro: 01:05:47
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1h 7min
April 06, 2023S2E4 - Rattlesnake Milking
This week, Rhys investigates the algorithms behind weather apps, examines the sustainability of festivals, and explores the remarkable biodiversity of Venezuela's Orinoco Wetlands. Will discusses Christopher Columbus's legacy, the epic Lewis and Clark Expedition, and the incredible achievement of the moon landings.
Rhys links:
⁠How the % works on weather apps

Sex, Drugs and Sustainability? - How green are festivals?

⁠Swamp Biodiversity Orinoco Wetlands in Venezuela
Will links:
Christopher Columbus

Lewis and Clark Expedition - Corps of Discovery Expedition

⁠Moon Landings
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Timestamps
Intro: 00:00
Misconception corner: Christopher Columbus⁠ 02:07
Misconception corner: Weather Apping 10:42
Main Event: Lewis and Clark 17:29
Main Event: Green Festivals 40:07
Number Time: Moon Landings 55:51
Number Time: Swamps 1:46:48
Outro: 1:14:49
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1h 17min
March 12, 2023S2E3 - Out with a Bang
In this week's episode:
Rhys discusses:
How rich Norway really is.

VindØ - The world's first energy island in Denmark

Abundant Swedish Lakes - Three-Country Cairn, Scandinavia
Will discusses:
Leon Trotsky and the Ice Axe

Liu Bang - The Emperor of China

The Death of Julius Caesar
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Timestamps
Intro: 00:00
Misconception corner: Rhys slams Norway 00:55
Misconception corner: Tickling Trotsky 09:02
Main Event: Vindøvision 14:42
Main Event: The Explosive Liu Bang 28:00
Number Time: Swimming in Sweden 39:48
Number Time: Beetroot Colander 47:45
Outro: 54:45
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57min
February 21, 2023S2E2 - Yawn
In this week's episode Will and Rhys go back to their original subjects.
Rhys discusses:
The longest river in the USA, The Missouri.

How the small Kazakhstan villages Kalachi and Krasnogorsk endured a sleeping epidemic.

The impact of ice melt on sea level rise.
Will discusses:
The Kentucky meat shower on March 3, 1876

The Erfurt latrine disaster in 1184

The Defenestrations of Prague
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Timestamps:
Intro: 00:00
Misconception Corner: Raining Meat?: 01:35
Misconception Corner: USA's Longest River: 09:56
Poo Pool: 17:36
Sleepy Kazakhs: 28:29
Number Time: Czech Defenestration: 41:22
Number Time: Scary Sea Level Rise 51:34
Outro: 01:01:56
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1h 4min
February 21, 2023 S1E7 - Misconduct Motel (Bonus Episode)
In this bonus episode we look back at some of the edits that didn't make the final cut. Not that we didn't think they were good or anything!

Voyeur's Motel by Gay Talese can be perused through this link - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29434763-the-voyeur-s-motel

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Our new website https://gapsinknowledgepod.com/ (under construction).

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11min
January 22, 2023 S2E1 - Opposite Day
In this week's episode Will and Rhys take opposite day to its limits. Rhys does History and Will does Geography! It will surely only end in disaster...

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Timestamps:
Music: 00:31
Intro: 00:51
Misconception Corner: African Alps? 04:25
MIsconception Corner: Neolithic gnashers 11:31
Psychogeography in Paris: 18:41
The World’s Hardest History Quiz: 34:40
Number Time: All Aboard the Terror: 01:06:59
Number Time: Rampaging rabbits 01:15:34
Outro: 01:22:00
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1h 24min

FAQs about Gaps In Knowledge:

How many episodes does Gaps In Knowledge have?

The podcast currently has 24 episodes available.