Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica (mixed bag)

I give voice to another almost but not quite lost snippet from "Big Dead Place" and I give the microphone to Adam Fitzgerald who voices the introduction to Jeff Maynard's new book, "The Frontier Below."

Direct download: 153_How_to_climb_erebus_on_your_day_off.mp3
Category:mixed bag -- posted at: 3:09pm EDT

With a hundred meg of storage in my name and a lot of audio snippets with nothing better to do I give you the bits episode. 
Mind the neck bolts.
This episode features the first competition I've run in a long time.  As usual it's biased in favour of early listeners who are old and who are me. 
Voices from the past.
Voices I hope will feature in the future.
One voice that long since broke.
We belong Dad.

Direct download: 112_Bits.mp3
Category:mixed bag -- posted at: 9:32pm EDT

Penguin sex gets the attention it deserves after Murray Levick deprived the world of his observations due to his prudish Victorian era sensibilities.  Professor Lloyd Spencer Davis gives you the good oil on the oily birds getting it on (early birds only get worms).
Extended and diminished visibility and lights in the sky at high latitudes receive some attention from a non-physicist who will accept corrections with gratitude and alacrity. 

Direct download: 110_Professor_Spencer_Davis_Optical_Phenomena.mp3
Category:mixed bag -- posted at: 12:45am EDT

Three interviews with staff at Bransfield House, Port Lockroy, one with a descendant of Bartholomew Sulivan, second mate on the Beagle under Fitzroy and Falklands Island farmer, and animal noises from the islands. 
Happy April, one and all. 

Direct download: 081_Interviews_and_soundscapes.mp3
Category:mixed bag -- posted at: 1:08am EDT

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