We take road trips and endless highways for granted, but there are other countries where people can pay a heavy price just for getting behind a wheel.

Guests:

<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/finn-murphy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Finn Murphy</a> 
<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/manal-al-sharif" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Manal al-Sharif</a> 
<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/rebecca-solnit" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rebecca Solnit</a> 
<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/lawrence-ross" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lawrence Ross</a> 
<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/david-roberts" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Roberts</a> 
<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/simon-parkin" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Simon Parkin</a>

Interviews in this hour:

<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/put-it-boogie-gear-backslide" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Put It In Boogie Gear On the Backslide</a> 
<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/driving-while-female" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Driving While Female</a> 
<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/what-if-we-forget-how-get-lost" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">What If We Forget How to Get Lost?</a> 
<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/guidebook-blackest-road-trip-ever" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Guidebook to the 'Blackest Road Trip Ever'</a> 
<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/most-boring-video-game-ever-made" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Most Boring Video Game Ever Made</a>

We take road trips and endless highways for granted, but there are other countries where people can pay a heavy price just for getting behind a wheel. Guests: Finn Murphy Manal al-Sharif Rebecca Solnit Lawrence Ross David Roberts Simon Parkin Interviews in this hour: Put It In Boogie Gear On the Backslide Driving While Female What If We Forget How to Get Lost? A Guidebook to the 'Blackest Road Trip Ever' The Most Boring Video Game Ever Made

We take road trips and endless highways for granted, but there are other countries where people can pay a heavy price just for getting behind a wheel.

Guests:

<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/finn-murphy" rel="noopener noreferrer">Finn Murphy</a> 
<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/manal-al-sharif" rel="noopener noreferrer">Manal al-Sharif</a> 
<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/rebecca-solnit" rel="noopener noreferrer">Rebecca Solnit</a> 
<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/lawrence-ross" rel="noopener noreferrer">Lawrence Ross</a> 
<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/david-roberts" rel="noopener noreferrer">David Roberts</a> 
<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/simon-parkin" rel="noopener noreferrer">Simon Parkin</a>

Interviews in this hour:

<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/put-it-boogie-gear-backslide" rel="noopener noreferrer">Put It In Boogie Gear On the Backslide</a> 
<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/driving-while-female" rel="noopener noreferrer">Driving While Female</a> 
<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/what-if-we-forget-how-get-lost" rel="noopener noreferrer">What If We Forget How to Get Lost?</a> 
<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/guidebook-blackest-road-trip-ever" rel="noopener noreferrer">A Guidebook to the 'Blackest Road Trip Ever'</a> 
<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/most-boring-video-game-ever-made" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Most Boring Video Game Ever Made</a>

When Is A Road Trip Something More? [Rebroadcast]

Wonder Cabinet is an independent podcast from Anne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson, Peabody Award-winning creators of public radio's To The Best Of Our Knowledge. For 35 years, that show brought long-form conversations to 200+ stations nationwide; its interviews are <a href="https://americanarchive.org/special_collections/ttbook">now archived in the Library of Congress</a>. Episodes feature intimate, long-form conversations with scientists, philosophers, writers, and artists who are re-imagining our relationship with the planet. Some study black holes or quantum entanglement; others map mycelial networks or count ancient tree rings. And some explore dream worlds, myths, and fairy tales to revive ways of knowing that challenge what we think we understand about the nature of reality. The name references Enlightenment-era cabinets of curiosities—private collections of shells, fossils, astronomical instruments, and saints' relics that existed at a moment when the scientific revolution was still in conversation with older ways of knowing the world. Today, another shift is taking place, as mechanistic models give way to more holistic, relational understandings of life on a sentient planet. Wonder Cabinet lives at that threshold. About the hostsAnne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson co-founded To The Best Of Our Knowledge. Steve hosts Luminous, a podcast about the science and philosophy of psychedelics, and is the author of <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/atoms-and-eden-9780199743162?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;">Atoms and Eden</a>. Learn more at <a href="http://wondercabinetproductions.com">wondercabinetproductions.com</a>.

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Wonder Cabinet is an independent podcast from Anne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson, Peabody Award-winning creators of public radio's To The Best Of Our Knowledge. For 35 years, that show brought long-form conversations to 200+ stations nationwide; its interviews are now archived in the Library of Congress. Episodes feature intimate, long-form conversations with scientists, philosophers, writers, and artists who are re-imagining our relationship with the planet. Some study black holes or quantum entanglement; others map mycelial networks or count ancient tree rings. And some explore dream worlds, myths, and fairy tales to revive ways of knowing that challenge what we think we understand about the nature of reality. The name references Enlightenment-era cabinets of curiosities—private collections of shells, fossils, astronomical instruments, and saints' relics that existed at a moment when the scientific revolution was still in conversation with older ways of knowing the world. Today, another shift is taking place, as mechanistic models give way to more holistic, relational understandings of life on a sentient planet. Wonder Cabinet lives at that threshold. About the hosts Anne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson co-founded To The Best Of Our Knowledge. Steve hosts Luminous, a podcast about the science and philosophy of psychedelics, and is the author of Atoms and Eden. Learn more at wondercabinetproductions.com.

Wonder Cabinet is an independent podcast from Anne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson, Peabody Award-winning creators of public radio's To The Best Of Our Knowledge. For 35 years, that show brought long-form conversations to 200+ stations nationwide; its interviews are <a href="https://americanarchive.org/special_collections/ttbook" rel="noopener noreferrer">now archived in the Library of Congress</a>. Episodes feature intimate, long-form conversations with scientists, philosophers, writers, and artists who are re-imagining our relationship with the planet. Some study black holes or quantum entanglement; others map mycelial networks or count ancient tree rings. And some explore dream worlds, myths, and fairy tales to revive ways of knowing that challenge what we think we understand about the nature of reality. The name references Enlightenment-era cabinets of curiosities—private collections of shells, fossils, astronomical instruments, and saints' relics that existed at a moment when the scientific revolution was still in conversation with older ways of knowing the world. Today, another shift is taking place, as mechanistic models give way to more holistic, relational understandings of life on a sentient planet. Wonder Cabinet lives at that threshold. About the hostsAnne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson co-founded To The Best Of Our Knowledge. Steve hosts Luminous, a podcast about the science and philosophy of psychedelics, and is the author of <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/atoms-and-eden-9780199743162?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;" rel="noopener noreferrer">Atoms and Eden</a>. Learn more at <a href="http://wondercabinetproductions.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">wondercabinetproductions.com</a>.

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