
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
While sand beaches comprise just over 30% of the world’s ice-free shorelines, the collective idea of the sand beach can sometimes cast a much bigger shadow.
That imagined beach can even have an influence on other fields of science — like plastic pollution.
Featuring Dr. Max Liboiron.
Links
Liboiron’s essay, “Plastics in the Gut,” published in Orion Magazine.
Outside/In Book Club
The pick for the first book is Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape by geologist and writer Lauret Savoy.
WIN A NEW CAR OR 25K IN CASH DURING NHPR'S SUMMER RAFFLE! GET YOUR TICKETS HERE.
4.7
14101,410 ratings
While sand beaches comprise just over 30% of the world’s ice-free shorelines, the collective idea of the sand beach can sometimes cast a much bigger shadow.
That imagined beach can even have an influence on other fields of science — like plastic pollution.
Featuring Dr. Max Liboiron.
Links
Liboiron’s essay, “Plastics in the Gut,” published in Orion Magazine.
Outside/In Book Club
The pick for the first book is Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape by geologist and writer Lauret Savoy.
WIN A NEW CAR OR 25K IN CASH DURING NHPR'S SUMMER RAFFLE! GET YOUR TICKETS HERE.
131 Listeners
43,946 Listeners
90,886 Listeners
2,582 Listeners
26,156 Listeners
119 Listeners
12,088 Listeners
137 Listeners
2,120 Listeners
387 Listeners
520 Listeners
2,197 Listeners
1,255 Listeners
2,518 Listeners
15,070 Listeners
16,034 Listeners
3,259 Listeners
809 Listeners
1,353 Listeners
327 Listeners
1,669 Listeners
622 Listeners
6 Listeners
962 Listeners
5 Listeners
2 Listeners
270 Listeners
32 Listeners
127 Listeners