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Across the UK, sea eagles, beavers, wildcats and wild boar are all staging a comeback. Calls for the return of lynx grow louder each year. But as wildlife rebounds, it’s confronted by a society that has long forgotten how to live alongside wild nature – and isn’t sure it wants to try. Join Peter Cairns, host of At the Edge, as he explores the fault lines that divide opinion over nature’s place in our future.

From modern literature to menopause, from utopian thought to rodeos - in this classic collection of essays, Ursula K. Le Guin roves with her customary audacity over the intersecting arenas of literature, feminism, and social responsibility, exploding any received notions she comes across and revealing visionary possibilities in their stead.

PETRAS’ At The Edge Podcast explores the privacy, ethics, trust, reliability, acceptability and security of IoT, edge computing, AI and cybersecurity technologies. In our second series we are exploring IoT in the places with live, work and play. Leading experts from across industry, academia and government come together to debate how technology might help to shape the future of our places. To find out more about PETRAS, visit our website: https://petras-iot.org/ The AI-generated music used throughout the podcast - “Eclectic” - was composed and performed by Dr. Alan Chamberlain.

In Bad Indians Book Club, we examine works about history, science, and gender as well as fiction, all written from the perspective of "Bad Indians"—marginalized writers whose refusal to comply with dominant narratives opens up new worlds.

Kyle Mitchell's podcast.

From the creator of the 100 Greatest Invention Podcast, and the philosopher behind the Monetary Revolution comes a brand new philosophy podcast which seeks to push the bounds of human knowledge and understanding far beyond that which we can see with our own eyes. Interests include: political philosophy, philosophy of time, philosophy of economics, sovereign individualism, the ethics of pleasure, and philosophy through literature.

Conversations with startup CEOs with technology that can change how the economy functions.Hosted by Marco Annunziata and Michael Leifman

"Syrian Forces and ISIS Clash at Edge of Palmyra" is from the March 24, 2016, World section of The New York Times. It was written by Anne Barnard and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

The Tomb of the Mili Mongga tells the story of Samuel Turvey's expeditions to the island of Sumba in eastern Indonesia. While there, he discovers an entire recently extinct mammal fauna from the island’s fossil record, revealing how islands support some of the world’s most remarkable biodiversity, and why many of these unique endemic species are threatened with extinction or have already been lost. But as the story unfolds, an unexpected narrative emerges – Sumba’s Indigenous communities tell of a mysterious wildman called the 'mili mongga', a giant yeti-like beast.

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Life and other dreams from the wild edges. johanlonmoores.substack.com