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Dung beetles might sound dirty, but the ancient Egyptians believed their god took the form of a dung beetle to roll the morning sun across the sky every day. In this episode, we roll with dung beetles around the world as they push their precious dung—often in balls many times larger than they are—over Florida pastures, Armenian highlands, and the vast South African savanna.

Riding the rails, Ted Conover tasted the life of a tramp with companions like Pistol Pete, BB, and Sheba Sheila Sheils. From them he learned survival skills - how to "read" a freight train, scavenge for food and clothing, avoid the railroad "bulls." He was initiated into the customs of their unique, shadowy society - men and women bound together by a mutual bond of failure, camaraderie, and distrust.

The game we love goes beyond scoring goals. Rolling with the Punches is a series where we explore, celebrate and challenge the role of football clubs in their local communities. When Ipswich Town Football Club, a storied old institution, dropped to the third tier of English football in 2019, they were in danger of becoming irrelevant. But a US takeover in 2021, propelled them to back-to-back promotions and a place in the Premier League, after 22 years in the wilderness. Ipswich - a small provincial town - is suddenly a Premier League destination again, with a football club worth over 200 ...

Despite global crises and conflicts, we humans are doing better than ever before. But why do more and more people in Europe and beyond seem frightened or have doubts about "the system"? Why do more and more people seem to be distrustful of politicians and political institutions? This podcast believes in two things: democracy and the rule of law.* And that you can only get rid of a feeling of insecurity about such big concepts if you have discussions about them, involving both experts and citizens. We want to get to know the people behind the experts and citizens, their personal views and ...

A revelation for Moby-Dick devotees and neophytes alike, Ahab's Rolling Sea is a chronological journey through the natural history of Melville's novel. From white whales to whale intelligence, giant squids, barnacles, albatross, and sharks, Richard J. King examines what Melville knew from his own experiences and the sources available to a reader in the mid-1800s, exploring how and why Melville might have twisted what was known to serve his fiction.

This isn't for the weak at heart. There's always a great conversation between me and the tractor.

Wir tauchen gemeinsam mit euch in die Welt des „Cannabis“ ein. Aber keine Sorge, hier geht’s nicht nur um Fakten, sondern auch um Geschichten und Insights von Menschen, die sich auf ganz unterschiedliche Weise damit beschäftigen. Seid dabei und bleibt informiert!

What makes the English English? Is it their eccentricity, their passionate love (or, indeed, hatred) of Marmite – or is it something less easily defined? Beginning at the top of a muddy Gloucestershire slope at the Coopers Hill cheese-rolling contest and traversing a landscape of lawns and...