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The Weather Vane

The Weather Vane

FromThe Last Archive


The Weather Vane

FromThe Last Archive

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Length:
44 minutes
Released:
Dec 1, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The story of weather forecasting is the story of how humans came to think they could predict the future. In this episode, Jill Lepore looks at the history of meteorology, and the story of a revolutionary cloud scientist who tried to control the weather.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Released:
Dec 1, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (60)

The Last Archive​ is a show about the history of truth, and the historical context for our current fake news, post-truth moment. It’s a show about how we know what we know, and why it seems, these days, as if we don’t know anything at all anymore. The show is driven by host Jill Lepore’s work as a historian, uncovering the secrets of the past the way a detective might. iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries.