Zooming Out
Bridget Kendall invites listeners to leave earth and zoom out into space, to gain new perspectives on reality. With Sarah Parcak, Mishka Henner and Max Tegmark.
It is easy to be hoodwinked into thinking the world you see and experience is the most important part of reality. This week you are invited to leave the perspective of earth and zoom out into space to discover what can be seen from thousands of miles away. Joining Bridget Kendall for the journey are space archaeologist Sarah Parcak, artist Mishka Henner, and cosmologist Max Tegmark. (Photo: Planet Earth from space courtesy of Nasa/ Getty images)
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Max Tegmark
Mishka Henner
Award-winning photographic artist Mishka Henner zooms out from the particular to the astronomical in his work.聽 He has created a scale model of our solar system in book form, and also stitches together freely available satellite images to create his own aerial perspectives; for example on controversial intensive cattle feedlots in the Midwest of the US.聽 (see our Reality Gallery on the right for examples of Mishka鈥檚 work)
Sarah Parcak
Dr Sarah Parcak is Associate Professor of Archaeology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the US, and a .聽 Her specialism is in remote sensing - satellite archaeology, or as she puts it 鈥楽pace archaeology鈥�.聽 She tells how this emerging field is not only uncovering ancient Egyptian lost cities, but also the looting of artefacts from archaeological sites, a crime that has increased by 1000% since the Arab Spring in 2011.
Broadcast
- Sat 26 Apr 2014 11:00麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 4