Miles Traer

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  • Role: Producer/Reporter: Independent

Recent Pieces from Miles Traer

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Building the geologic history of Game of Thrones (05:07)
From: Generation Anthropocene

Ever wonder what Westeros looked like long before the Starks, Baratheons, Lannisters, or Targaryens roamed its surface? How far back can we really imagine the history of the ...
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How farmers are adapting to climate change (33:29)
From: Generation Anthropocene

Fran Moore talks about various ways that farmers in Europe have adjusted to higher temperatures in recent years, and sheds light on the difficulty of singling out the effect ...
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Hanging out in a rambunctious garden (26:15)
From: Generation Anthropocene

Emma Marris, author of Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World, believes that in the Anthropocene we should widen our repertoire of conservation strategies, ...
Caption: Lhotse, Credit: Hari Mix

Because It's There: Exploration in the Anthropocene [part 2] (29:14)
From: Generation Anthropocene

In the second half of his interview with Gen Anthro, Hari Mix talks about his experiences this past spring in the Himalaya and his summit bid for Lhotse without oxygen. He ...
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Because It's There: Exploration in the Anthropocene [part 1] (35:46)
From: Generation Anthropocene

Today’s episode is the first part of Gen Anthro's interview with Hari Mix, a mountaineer, PhD student, and friend of the producers. In this first half, Hari talks about how ...
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Media, nature, and the zeitgeist (29:15)
From: Generation Anthropocene

Today, we take a little bit of break from talking about science to instead talk about how media covers science, particularly the reporting on genetically modified organisms ...
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The Largest Mass Poisoning in History (24:31)
From: Generation Anthropocene

In the mid-1980s, a small problem began to surface in a relatively obscure corner of the world. In 1994, just about a decade later, the World Health Organization published a ...
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The Mouse Brain Detective (24:12)
From: Generation Anthropocene

What does brain science have to do with the Anthropocene? We’re not entirely sure. But the Generation Anthropocene team is venturing into the world of the brain with the ...
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Sandy, NOAA, and the Woman in Charge (29:07)
From: Generation Anthropocene

Jane Lubchenco, the former head of the US government’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), discusses what it’s like being asked to join the president’s ...
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The Dawn of De-extinction (29:01)
From: Generation Anthropocene

Hank Greely and Jake Sherkow discuss the science, morals, and ethics of de-extinction: bringing extinct species back to life. As lawyers with an interest in biotechnologies, ...