Not All That Human

CONTENT WARNING: This episode talks extensively about mental health concerns, including a suicide epidemic. Please take care as needed. Emma tells Achilles about the devastating farm crisis of the 1980s and ensuing mental health crisis that left American farm communities reeling. In the modern system of the agricultural treadmill, who benefits? Who is left behind? And who shares the blame? Need mo...

Achilles tells Emma about the world's first climate change publication, which came from Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius in 1896. But how did the biases of scientists like Arrhenius warp the study? What can their blind spots tell us today about the enduring human hope of exploiting all changes to our benefit? Also, how is Greta Thunberg tied into a multi-generational climate change conspirac...

Emma tells Achilles about burial, the grieving rite that separates us from our nonhuman relatives—or does it? How do we define burial? Who gets to be buried? And how do assumptions about burial affect our understanding of sentience, death, and memory? Need more Not All That Human? Follow us on Instagram (not_all_that_human_pod), TikTok (notallthathumanpod), or Twitter (notallthathuman) for more NA...

Achilles tells Emma about the long history of remodeling Niagara Falls, one of the great sources of American natural majesty. But what does it mean to be natural, and what does the history of the falls tell us about our species's interaction with "natural beauty"? Need more Not All That Human? Follow us on Instagram (not_all_that_human_pod), TikTok (notallthathumanpod), or Twitter (notallthathuman...