# Michael Goddard

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Free Thinking - Global Crisis

Anne McElvoy talks to the historian Geoffrey Parker about Global Crisis, his influential game-changing account of the political and social upheavals which characterised the Seventeenth Century around the world. As Tate Modern opens an exhibition Conflict Time and Photography, former New Generation …

Draining the Ocean

On 18 November 1929 an earthquake off Newfoundland snapped twelve transatlantic telegraph cables, one after another, over thirteen hours. Nobody could say what had broken them, because nobody knew what the bottom of the ocean looked like. Episode 6 of The Slow Machine is about how we drew the sea …

Listening to the Inside

In 1909 an earthquake shook a valley south of Zagreb, and at stations far enough away the waves arrived twice. The man who worked out why was a meteorologist, and what he had found was the floor of the world. Episode 5 of The Slow Machine is about how we mapped the inside of a planet nobody has ev…

The Weatherman

In April 1906, two brothers went up in a hydrogen balloon over northern Germany and stayed aloft for fifty-two and a half hours, longer than anyone ever had. The younger one was Alfred Wegener. Six years later he told the German geological establishment that the continents move. Episode 4 of The S…

Two Facts That Cored the Apple

In the 1850s, the British survey of India recorded an error it could not explain. The Himalayas — the biggest mountains on Earth — were not pulling their weight. Episode 3 of The Slow Machine is about the two discoveries that wrecked nineteenth-century geology, and neither was made by a geologist.…

The Shrivelling Apple

Put an apple on a windowsill and leave it for a month. The inside shrinks, the skin does not, and it wrinkles. For about seventy years, that was the best available scientific explanation for the Himalayas. Episode 2 of The Slow Machine is about a good theory — simple, mathematical, and wrong. A co…

Before the Question

In 1650, an archbishop worked out that the world began on a Saturday evening in October, 4004 years before Christ. Not the year. The evening. And he was not being foolish. He was being rigorous. Episode 1 of The Slow Machine goes back to before anyone thought to measure the Earth, when every cultu…

The View from a Small Island

I grew up on a coral island, and I was taught that it had been lifted out of the sea by "earth movements". Nobody ever told me what an earth movement was. The textbook did not say — and it could not, because it was printed in 1963, and the answer arrived in 1968. This is the introduction to The Sl…

14 - Asset Purchase Vs. Stock Purchase in Business Acquisitions: Understanding Key Differences

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In this episode, we will explore the legal and financial impacts of Asset Sale and Stock Sale transactions on both buyers and sellers, along with specific transaction attributes that may make each option more appealing. Whether you're advising a buyer, representing a seller, or helping finance and…

The Tape Recorder

In 1950 a Nobel Prize-winning physicist built the most sensitive magnetic instrument in the world, to prove that anything massive becomes a magnet simply by spinning. There was no field. He was wrong. What he had left was the instrument, and it turned out to be the most useful object in twentieth-c…