# Richard Sabin

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#113. Timeless Odyssey | Richard Sabin

This week with ELEVATE, we journey through time with Richard Sabin, Principal Curator at the Natural History Museum in London. With Richard as our guide, we'll traverse over 4.6 billion years of Earth's recorded history, exploring the mysteries of our planet's past, and celebrating his 30+ years of…

Chapter 76: The Battering-Ram - Read by Richard Sabin - http://mobydickbigread.com

Introduced by Peter Donaldson, Edited and Mixed at dBs Music 'I have written a blasphemous book', said Melville when his novel was first published in 1851, 'and I feel as spotless as the lamb'. Deeply subversive, in almost every way imaginable, Moby-Dick is a virtual, alternative bible - and as suc…

09 Dippy about the whale | #NHM_Live

On 13 July 2017 the Museum unveiled Hope the blue whale, a spectacular 25-metre-long specimen suspended from the ceiling of the Museum’s central space, Hintze Hall. Just after the BBC broadcast their Horizon documentary about the new installation, Dippy and the Whale, Richard Sabin, Principal Cura…

28. Oceans Under The Sun! With Philip Hoare and the Natural History Museum. Why is the sea salty? Why does an octopus have three hearts? Why are orca whales black and white?

Today I have three questions about the OCEAN and creatures in it! Because June 8th is World Oceans Day, a global celebration with hundreds of events around the world celebrating the ocean, including Everything Under The Sun with this show! Our first question comes from Emmeline and Elkie, they woul…

Natural History Heroes: Edward Tyson

Richard Sabin explains why comparative anatomist Edward Tyson is his Natural History Hero

Earwax, Echoes and Entropy

What can a lump of whale earwax tell us about human history? What does the end of the universe sound like? And how do you play the sea like a synthesiser? This episode of Steve Pretty On The Origin of the Pieces goes from marine mammal physiology to cosmological heat death, taking in hydrophones, c…

Whaling

The history of whaling is complicated. At its height in the 18th and 19th centuries, whaling was a global enterprise built on perilous voyages, long seasons at sea, and a fierce chase for oil and baleen that illuminated streets and homes and lubricated the industrial revolution. In doing so, obsess…

An animal exodus

The Natural History Museum of London is getting ready to move 28 million of its precious specimens to a new state-of-the-art home. Imagine moving tens of millions of delicate animal and plant specimens, gathered from all across the world, over the centuries. Some are as big as a bus, some so tiny y…

139 = Music Down Where It’s Wetter and Throwing Darts Better

🎺 What would standard instruments sound like if they were played under water? 🎯 What would be the average score of one randomly thrown dart? 📂 And there’s some Any Other Business.AOB.zip On THIS episode of A Problem Squared we’re joined by a special guest! The musical (and regularly quite wet) m…

Whaling

The history of whaling is complicated. At its height in the 18th and 19th centuries, whaling was a global enterprise built on perilous voyages, long seasons at sea, and a fierce chase for oil and baleen that illuminated streets and homes and lubricated the industrial revolution. In doing so, obsess…