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Ep. 65: Black Holes and 2020: Reflections on Travel
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - December 31, 2020 00:35 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsBlack Holes - Those enigmas of the universe we all have conceptually heard of but don't really understand. Taking a break from regular episodes, here comes a 2020 year-ender reflecting on a strange year gone by. This week, join Utsav as he asks us to relook at 2020 in a completely new light, muc...
Black Holes and 2020: Reflections on Travel
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - December 31, 2020 00:35 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsBlack Holes - Those enigmas of the universe we all have conceptually heard of but don't really understand. Taking a break from regular episodes, here comes a 2020 year-ender reflecting on a strange year gone by. This week, join Utsav as he asks us to relook at 2020 in a completely new light, muc...
Ep. 64: Bushmen of the Kalahari: The First People
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - December 24, 2020 00:35 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn 2016, deep into the heartland of Ethiopia, a herder by the name of Ali Bereino, chanced upon a bone in the goat pen in his backyard. It took an archeologist to determine the significance of Ali's find. In many ways, it was literally the bone the world was waiting for. In the fourth episode of...
Bushmen of the Kalahari: The First People
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - December 24, 2020 00:35 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn 2016, deep into the heartland of Ethiopia, a herder by the name of Ali Bereino, chanced upon a bone in the goat pen in his backyard. It took an archeologist to determine the significance of Ali's find. In many ways, it was literally the bone the world was waiting for. In the fourth episode of...
Ep. 63: Whistled Languages: From Mexico to Vietnam
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - December 17, 2020 00:35 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat if I put a bunch of children from varied countries, from Mexico to Vietnam, in a room. What if I told you that they may eventually develop a common language to communicate? Across the world, there are societies which have independently developed a whistling language: they chat, flirt and hu...
Whistled Languages: From Mexico to Vietnam
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - December 17, 2020 00:35 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat if I put a bunch of children from varied countries, from Mexico to Vietnam, in a room. What if I told you that they may eventually develop a common language to communicate? Across the world, there are societies which have independently developed a whistling language: they chat, flirt and hu...
Okinawa, Japan: Living for a Century
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - December 10, 2020 00:35 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat does the 80's blockbuster film - The Karate Kid, a 17th century poem by an English poet have in common with the people who live for over a 100 years? And what if there are multiple communities of people, right from North America to Asia who live for a century? In the second episode of the s...
Ep. 62: Okinawa, Japan: Living for a Century
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - December 10, 2020 00:35 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat does the 80's blockbuster film - The Karate Kid, a 17th century poem by an English poet have in common with the people who live for over a 100 years? And what if there are multiple communities of people, right from North America to Asia who live for a century? In the second episode of the s...
Bajau Laut: Last of the Sea Nomads
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - December 03, 2020 00:35 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn a letter dated 14 May 1728, a Dutch East India company official writes to the Governor-General about a group of people camping out in the ocean off the coast of Indonesia. Two hundred years later, marine biologist suggests a theory of our evolution which gets dismissed by the scientific frate...
Ep. 61: Bajau Laut: Last of the Sea Nomads
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - December 03, 2020 00:35 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn a letter dated 14 May 1728, a Dutch East India company official writes to the Governor-General about a group of people camping out in the ocean off the coast of Indonesia. Two hundred years later, marine biologist suggests a theory of our evolution which gets dismissed by the scientific frate...
Ep. 60: Fighting Climate Change: Why we Su*k!
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - November 26, 2020 00:35 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWe've all heard the story - Put a frog in boiling water and it will jump out. Put it in cold water, bring it to a boil and the frog will be toasted to death. In times where the impact and advancement of climate change are not disputable, why are we acting like frogs? Why are we so terrible at fi...
Fighting Climate Change: Why we Su*k!
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - November 26, 2020 00:35 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWe've all heard the story - Put a frog in boiling water and it will jump out. Put it in cold water, bring it to a boil and the frog will be toasted to death. In times where the impact and advancement of climate change are not disputable, why are we acting like frogs? Why are we so terrible at fi...
Ep. 59: Beginning of the end: World's most beautiful Migration
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - November 19, 2020 00:35 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFor a declining Native American tribe, it's a symbol of future abundance and health. For a whole host of scientists and conservationists, it's a horror story unfolding over the last few decades. Their annual migration is known to be one of the most beautiful in the world. But it's under signific...
Beginning of the end: World's most beautiful Migration
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - November 19, 2020 00:35 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFor a declining Native American tribe, it's a symbol of future abundance and health. For a whole host of scientists and conservationists, it's a horror story unfolding over the last few decades. Their annual migration is known to be one of the most beautiful in the world. But it's under signific...
The Chernobyl you did not see on TV
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - November 12, 2020 00:35 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat does an Icelandic composer, a Belarusian author and a Nobel Laureate have in common to do with the Chernobyl disaster? And why are we talking about Chernobyl 34 years after the disaster, and over a year after the world was swept up in the frenzy of the HBO show? In the sixth episode of Our ...
Ep. 58: The Chernobyl you did not see on TV
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - November 12, 2020 00:35 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat does an Icelandic composer, a Belarusian author and a Nobel Laureate have in common to do with the Chernobyl disaster? And why are we talking about Chernobyl 34 years after the disaster, and over a year after the world was swept up in the frenzy of the HBO show? In the sixth episode of Our ...
Ep. 57: Indonesia to Italy: Art unravels climate change - Part 2
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - November 05, 2020 00:35 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings10th April 1815: On a remote Indonesian island, a volcano, Mt Tambora, erupted. It was no ordinary eruption - largest in recorded human history and the largest of the Holocene (10,000 years ago to present). It ended up having an enormous impact on the climate of the world. But it also impacted w...
Indonesia to Italy: Art unravels climate change - Part 2
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - November 05, 2020 00:35 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings10th April 1815: On a remote Indonesian island, a volcano, Mt Tambora, erupted. It was no ordinary eruption - largest in recorded human history and the largest of the Holocene (10,000 years ago to present). It ended up having an enormous impact on the climate of the world. But it also impacted w...
Ep. 56: Indonesia to Italy: Art unravels climate change
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - October 29, 2020 00:35 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn 1993, Dario Camuffo and Giovanni Sturaro started looking at the paintings of two 18th century landscape artists from Italy. However, Camuffo and Sturaro weren't art critics or artists themselves, they were climate scientists. And their interest was purely scientific. But what exactly was it t...
Indonesia to Italy: Art unravels climate change
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - October 29, 2020 00:35 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn 1993, Dario Camuffo and Giovanni Sturaro started looking at the paintings of two 18th century landscape artists from Italy. However, Camuffo and Sturaro weren't art critics or artists themselves, they were climate scientists. And their interest was purely scientific. But what exactly was it t...
Paneveggio, Northern Italy: Disapperaring Violins and a Silent City
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - October 22, 2020 00:35 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn January 2019, the city of Cremona in Italy went silent for 5 weeks, for a rather unique reason. But for that, we need to go back over 300 years, to follow the work of a man who created some of the most prized violins in human history - The Stradivarius, the most expensive one being sold for 2...
Ep. 55: Paneveggio, Northern Italy: Disapperaring Violins and a Silent City
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - October 22, 2020 00:35 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn January 2019, the city of Cremona in Italy went silent for 5 weeks, for a rather unique reason. But for that, we need to go back over 300 years, to follow the work of a man who created some of the most prized violins in human history - The Stradivarius, the most expensive one being sold for 2...
Kiribati, Oceania: Weightlifting, Refugees and a Vanishing Country
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - October 15, 2020 00:35 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn the 2016 Rio Olympics, a wrestler from Kiribati celebrated his performance. But he had not won a medal. In the same year, another man from Kiribati filed a case against the New Zealand government at the UN Human rights council. What do these two men, from the tiny island nation of Kiribati ha...
Ep. 54: Kiribati, Oceania: Weightlifting, Refugees and a Vanishing Country
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - October 15, 2020 00:35 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn the 2016 Rio Olympics, a wrestler from Kiribati celebrated his performance. But he had not won a medal. In the same year, another man from Kiribati filed a case against the New Zealand government at the UN Human rights council. What do these two men, from the tiny island nation of Kiribati ha...
Aral Sea, Karakalpakstan: Surviving the Armageddon
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - October 08, 2020 00:35 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat happens when an action from 100 years ago has a profound, unimaginable impact today? How does a sea the size of Himachal Pradesh or the entirety of Croatia simply disappear? If this sounds like science fiction, this week, Utsav takes you to Karakalpakastan, an autonomous republic within Uzb...
Ep. 53: Aral Sea, Karakalpakstan: Surviving the Armageddon
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - October 08, 2020 00:35 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat happens when an action from 100 years ago has a profound, unimaginable impact today? How does a sea the size of Himachal Pradesh or the entirety of Croatia simply disappear? If this sounds like science fiction, this week, Utsav takes you to Karakalpakastan, an autonomous republic within Uzb...
Ep. 52: What's in a name - Ask Africa
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - October 01, 2020 00:35 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn 1840, a Scottish man, David Livingstone arrived in Africa at the age of 27, and went on to become the greatest explorers of the continent, discovering the Victoria falls in current day Zimbabwe. However, his naming of the Victoria falls was only a precursor to what the continent had to see in...
What's in a name - Ask Africa
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - October 01, 2020 00:35 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn 1840, a Scottish man, David Livingstone arrived in Africa at the age of 27, and went on to become the greatest explorers of the continent, discovering the Victoria falls in current day Zimbabwe. However, his naming of the Victoria falls was only a precursor to what the continent had to see in...
North Sikkim - The Trip that Wasn't?
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - September 24, 2020 00:35 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHow often have you waited to take a trip, and it does not happen? For the last 5 years, Utsav had been wanting to see Gurudongmar lake in North Sikkim. Just before the pandemic hit, he made his second attempt - but was he successful. This week, tune in, as Utsav documents his struggle to reach a...
Ep. 51: North Sikkim - The Trip that Wasn't?
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - September 24, 2020 00:35 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHow often have you waited to take a trip, and it does not happen? For the last 5 years, Utsav had been wanting to see Gurudongmar lake in North Sikkim. Just before the pandemic hit, he made his second attempt - but was he successful. This week, tune in, as Utsav documents his struggle to reach a...
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