Don't Eat Me

I am proposing to create a second series for early 2027, but I’d like some feedback first, please.  I’m thinking of calling this Don’t Eat Me again. Although Don’t Eat Me 2 would also suffice. (Or even 'Don't Eat Me Too'.) Now, I personally don’t like long podcast episodes. I have always had a short attention span, and it only takes me fifteen minutes to walk to work, so ... But let me know y...

Notes & Sources: You.  We live in a world of amazing histories, incredible things, incredible animals, insects and sea life and, let’s be honest, incredible people. So be incredible, people. Written, edited and produced by Mark Webster, original music by kraM Left, plus self-generated & Logic Pro 12 foley, Aotearoa New Zealand 2026

Notes & Sources Things will be cold, crude, smelly, scary, vexing and demoralising at first, but you can do this .  You can do this because you’re a human and that’s what we’ve been doing for much of our existence. Written, edited and produced by Mark Webster, original music by kraM Left, plus self-generated & Logic Pro 12 foley, Aotearoa New Zealand 2026

Notes & Sources Learn First Aid: try your local Red Cross, for example. Here's the NZ link https://www.redcross.org.nz/first-aid/our-courses Learn to forage: A New Zealand example is https://www.wildbotanica.co.nz/pages/free-beginners-foraging-guide but these are very locale-specific, so try and find one for your own area or country.  Build a community: learn to ask questions rather than...

Notes & Sources On the Sarakatsani shepherds; check out Patrick Leigh Fermor's brilliant pre-WWII travel books. They are well worth reading for an intimate glimpse of 1930s Europe: A Time of Gifts (1977), Between the Woods and the Water (1986) and The Broken Road (2013) in which the Sarakatsani shepherds appear (pp 255-258). The language he writes is simply beautiful, and Fermor captured world...

Notes & Sources A nod to my sponsors here – I don't have any. No links as this is mostly opinion – if you've been following along, you should know how I got here. So these opinions are definitely not those of my non-existent sponsors.  This is the beginning of chapter 5 of the unpublished book (Survive). How would we, could we move on from an apocalypse?  Written, edited and produced...

Notes We need fat to survive, which sounds counter-intuitive since we're so paranoid about it, and it's true we get too much in many of our typical Western diets.  But we can't live without it, either, and when things get tough, it's hard to find. There are reasons why even pescatarians like me might end up considering meat. And then there are water-borne diseases to contend with... Written,...

Notes & Sources How many calories does work burn? http://calorielab.com/burned/ How cooking led to bigger human brains: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cooking-up-bigger-brains/ Written, edited and produced by Mark Webster, original music by kraM Left, plus self-generated & Logic Pro 12 foley, Aotearoa New Zealand 2026

Sources & Notes Little House on The Prairie , what they really ate: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-did-they-eat-little-house-on-the-prairie Make your own salt: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-Sea-Salt/ Why we need salt: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/146677.php Canadian diet guide (protein): https://www.canadianliving.com/health/nutrition/article/calories-protein...

Notes & Sources   Daily steps: https://www.verywellfit.com/whats-typical-for-average-daily-steps-3435736   How much food do you need? http://www.mydailyintake.net/daily-intake-levels   Written, edited and produced by Mark Webster, original music by kraM Left, plus self-generated & Logic Pro 12 foley, Aotearoa New Zealand 2026

Notes and Sources International water use:  http://www.learnz.org.nz/water172/bg-standard-f/water-use We're so used to our conveniences: https://melmagazine.com/my-month-as-a-member-of-the-wild-wild-country-sex-cult-8ac377aa7938 The sociological studies of Quarantelli and Dynes: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.so.03.080177.000323     Written, edited and produced by Mark Webst...

Notes and sources Healthy living and emergency management (New Zealand official advice) https://www.health.govt.nz/your-health/healthy-living/emergency-management/managing-stress-emergency/common-reactions-disaster Fukishima, Japan http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-security/safety-of-plants/fukushima-accident.aspx Written, edited and produced by Mark Webster, original mus...

Notes and sources Robo-future with no jobs: https://medium.com/swlh/what-does-a-future-with-no-jobs-look-like-71bda1004a71 Antimatter movements: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-02221-9 Matter matters; https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/7/3/17522810/aliens-fermi-paradox-drake-equation Atlantic fish and microplasticsL https://phys.org/news/2018-02-high-microplastics-northwest-atl...

Notes & Sources www.worldometers.info/world-population/ Written, edited and produced by Mark Webster, original music by kraM Left, plus self-generated & Logic Pro 12 foley, Aotearoa New Zealand 2026

Notes and Information Our moon: https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html NASA on Climate Change https://climate.nasa.gov/effects/ Hurricane Maria http://digg.com/2018/climate-change-survival-hurricane-maria Effects of global warming https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/global-warming-effects/ Road deaths of pedestrians and cyclists www.fastcompan y....

Notes and sources The Great War and mortality impacts: Dmitri Jdanov, Evgeny Andreev, Domantas Jasilionis and Vladimir M Shkolnikov of the Max Planck Institute in 2005. Between 1913 and 1918, British men aged 23 showed a 15-16 fold increase in the probability of premature death. https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol13/16/13-16.pdf During World War One, in 1916, the Newfoundland Regiment...

The spread of the Black Death, an epidemic of bubonic plague caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, was spread by disease-bearing fleas carried in turn by infected rats. Recent research has disputed this. https://www.britannica.com/event/Black-Death The Back Death and HIV http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/10/4/l_104_05.html Tsunami: some countries often have plans to help deal with ‘tida...

Notes and sources An apocalypse is a “very serious event resulting in great destruction and change” (according to the Cambridge Dictionary ) https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/apocalypse A super volcano event possibly resulted in a human population decline of up to 90%, although a group of African early-modern humans nearly 9000kms away managed to thrive in this period, putting th...