# Xavier Le Pichon

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Plate Tectonics: The Theory that Changed Earth Science

Xavier Le Pichon came to Lamont Geological Observatory in 1959 and spent four months aboard the R/V Vema as a physical oceanography technician. The research cruise set out to test the existence of the mid-ocean ridge system: a long chain of seismically active mountains running along the ocean floor…

[Unedited] Xavier Le Pichon with Krista Tippett

Xavier Le Pichon is Honorary Professor at Collège de France in Paris. He founded La Maison Thomas Philippe that provides retreats for families, including those struggling with mental illness. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “Xavier Le Pic…

Xavier Le Pichon — The Fragility at the Heart of Humanity

Xavier Le Pichon, one of the world’s leading geophysicists, helped create the field of plate tectonics. A devout Catholic and spiritual thinker, he raised his family in intentional communities centered around people with mental disabilities. He shares his rare perspective on the meaning of humanit…

HiQuake, Plate Tectonics@50, Sonic Weapon Puzzle, The Chinese Typewriter

Gareth Mitchell talks to Gillian Foulger of Durham University about HiQuake, the world's largest database of human-induced earthquakes. Professor Foulger and her colleagues have so far compiled close to 750 seismic events for which there are reasonable cases to be made for anthropogenic triggers. T…

88: Fault Line with Dr. Stacia Dearmin

Stacia Dearmin, MD is a Pediatric Emergency Medicine physician that supports physicians and other healers through the confusion often following an adverse outcome and the process of a malpractice lawsuit from her own experience of surviving an adverse outcome and malpractice litigation. Here's th…

Doing Lent After Two Straight Years of Lenten Vibes with Fr. Paddy Gilger, SJ

Well, Lent is here. Hooray. To be honest, it feels like the last thing we need right now is 40 days of fasting and penance and just the general heaviness that comes with this season. We’ve been living in a perpetual state of Lent for two years now. So host Mike Jordan Laskey called up his frien…

*Preview* 211. Influences: Out of Hand

Full episode, support, and archive: patreon.com/contain Influences episode, raw and recorded over a month on a phone about stuff that we love, one being Gary Stewart's trembling country classic Out of Hand, + what makes music have soul, and why no one can play like Chuck Berry anymore, noise-cancel…