May 3, 2020
Our humble adventurers discuss the Anthropocene, a term that might be the name of the current period of time we live in, in the first of what eventually may be a series of side quests.
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Episode Breakdown:
- We jump right into the main subject - the Anthropocene. Here are the main parts in today’s talk:
- The Anthropocene - an Introduction (00:02:50).
- The Geological Time Scale (00:04:54).
- Humanity and the Global System (00:13:10).
- Suggested Starting Points (00:22:23).
- Should it be Formalized? (00:28:26).
- Current Status (00:32:40).
- Personal Thoughts (00:34:20).
- Once the presentation is over, we move on to a discussion about all the questions that popped in our heads (00:35:35).
- We summarize our feelings (01:05:09).
- We talk about where the idea for this side-quest came from and about future side-quests (01:07:50).
- We then preview the subject of our next episode - Joss Whedon’s Firefly and Serenity (01:11:45).
- Stick around and listen to a promo clip for the awesome It's Murder Up North Podcast (@murderupnorth), an amazing true crime podcast that focuses on the northern parts of England (01:14:38).
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Cover art by Azeecreations .
‘Celebration’ theme by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com).
The episode was recorded on April 3rd, and originally released on May 3rd, 2020.