The Breaking Point

The Mapmaker's Gamble


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In 1912, a meteorologist with no geology training proposed that continents drift across Earth's surface—and was ridiculed by the scientific establishment for 50 years. Alfred Wegener's revolutionary idea about our restless planet would eventually reshape our understanding of earthquakes, evolution, and life itself, but only after his death in the Greenland ice. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com
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