# Melanie Challenger
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Metaphysically Blown Away: Torrey Peters on Zoë Schlanger’s The Light Eaters | Reading Writers
Charlotte overcomes her resistance to novels about sexual abuse in order to read Kate Elizabeth Russell’s excellent My Dark Vanessa, after which Jo introduces listeners to the freewheeling criminality of Diane DiMassa’s Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian. The ferociously intelligent Torrey Peters th…
The Springing Time – Melanie Challenger
Can we learn from more-than-human beings how to bring our bodies into a more direct conversation with the seasons? In this week’s story, bioethics and history researcher Melanie Challenger explores how our culture insulates us from experiencing seasonal signals in the natural world, ultimately impe…
3.11 - Mark Simpson
Mark Simpson (b. 1988) is a UK-based composer of an acclaimed body of work and an internationally-renowned clarinettist, whose programmes champion music new and old. His music for the stage, orchestra, voices, and chamber forces has been celebrated by leading conductors, instrumentalists, and ensem…
Sally O'Reilly on How to Be Animal: What It Means to Be Human by Melanie Challenger
There is a scene in Beverly Hills Cop where Axel Foley (played by Eddie Murphy) is following a lead with an art dealer.
Before he can speak to the woman he’s come to see, he must converse with the assistant dealer, a strong-accented chap called Serge.
During the exchange, one of Serge’s own assista…
Animals in the Room – Melanie Challenger
How might our decision-making systems work differently if they were adapted to receive input from the more-than-human world? In this archive story, writer and ethicist Melanie Challenger examines the staggering expressive capacities of Earth's creatures, from the subtle vocalizations of turtles to …
Make Space for Animals
Long before Yuri Gagarin became the first human to go into space, Laika, a stray dog, crossed the final frontier. Find out what other surprising species were drafted into the astronaut corps.
They may be our best friends, but we still balk at giving other creatures moral standing. And why are huma…
How we define intelligent life
What does it mean to be a living organism? What are the
driving forces that motivate our thoughts and actions? Are we all simply acting the way we do thanks to the instructions built into our genes and our automatic responses to the environments we live in?
In this episode we’re joined by researc…
Being Alive with Melanie Challenger
Our obsession with the dream of artificial, disembodied intelligence is deadening our experience of life itself. Melanie Challenger — a philosopher, naturalist and National Geographic Explorer — says it’s time to let go of the centuries-old human history of pretending we’re not animals, of separat…
What Actually Makes Something Alive? with Melanie Challenger
What does it mean to be alive? In this episode of Breaking Math, Autumn and Noah speak with Melanie Challenger, author of Alive, about one of the most profound questions in science and philosophy: how do we define life?
Challenger argues that life is not simply a machine-like process or a bundle of…
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