Time for a Map




Big Picture Science show

Summary: <p>It’s hard to get lost these days. <span class="caps">GPS</span> pinpoints your location to within a few feet. Discover how our need to get from A to B holds clues about what makes us human, and what we lose now that every digital map puts us at the center.</p> <p>Plus, stories of animal navigation: how a cat found her way home across Florida, and the magnetic navigation systems used by salmon and sea turtles.</p> <p>Also, why you’ll soon be riding in driverless cars. And, how to map our universe.</p> <h2>Guests:</h2> <ul> <li> <strong><a href="http://dogsensebook.com/index.php/author/">John Bradshaw</a></strong> – Director of the University of Bristol’s Anthrozoology Institute, author of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0064X82SY/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B0064X82SY&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=arweal-20">Dog Sense: How the New Science of Dog Behavior Can Make You A Better Friend to Your Pet</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=arweal-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0064X82SY" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style=""></i> and, most recently, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cat-Sense-Feline-Science-Understand/dp/0465031013/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1363394335&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=cat+sense+bradshaw">Cat Sense</a></i> </li> <li> <strong><a href="http://www.unc.edu/depts/geomag/Ken/ken.html">Kenneth Lohmann</a></strong> – Biologist at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill</li> <li> <strong><a href="http://www.simongarfield.com/home.asp">Simon Garfield</a></strong> – Author of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159240779X/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=159240779X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=arweal-20">On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=arweal-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=159240779X" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style=""></i> </li> <li> <strong><a href="http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~red/">William “Red” Whittaker</a></strong> – Roboticist at Carnegie Mellon University</li> <li> <strong><a href="http://provost.gmu.edu/robinson/about/james-trefil/">James Trefil</a></strong> – Physicist at George Mason University, author of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1426209711/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1426209711&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=arweal-20">Space Atlas: Mapping the Universe and Beyond</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=arweal-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1426209711" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style=""></i> </li> </ul><p><strong><a href="http://www.seti.cl/programa-de-radio-del-instituto-seti-tiempo-de-un-mapa/">Descripción en español</a></strong></p>