Science of Survival: The Sky is Burning
Outside Podcast14 Elo 2018

Science of Survival: The Sky is Burning

There are between eight and ten thousand wildfires in the United States each year, but most quietly burn out, and we never hear about them. The Pagami Creek Wildfire in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area was supposed to be like that. It was tiny and stuck in a bog that was surrounded by lakes. It was the kind of fire you could ignore. Computer models predicted that it would just sit there. But those models didn’t account for a rare convergence of atmospheric events had prepped the forest for an unprecedented burn. And Greg and Julie Welch were camping right in its path. In the first of four episodes investigating American wildfires, we tell the Welch’s extraordinary story and look at the factors that lead to this unexpected blaze.

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The Outside Interview: The Secret History of Doping

The Outside Interview: The Secret History of Doping

Author Mark Johnson argues that performance enhancing drugs are hardly a recent phenomenon. In his new book, Spitting in the Soup, he traces doping all the way back to the 1904 Olympic marathon in St....

24 Elo 201641min

The Outside Interview: Tim Ferriss Overshares

The Outside Interview: Tim Ferriss Overshares

Tim Ferriss is many things. A bestselling author. A kickboxing champion. A horseback archer. The first American in history to hold a Guinness World Record in tango. He has built an enormous following ...

10 Elo 201647min

The Outside Interview: Jason Motlagh on the Darién Gap

The Outside Interview: Jason Motlagh on the Darién Gap

Jason Motlagh and his crew were the first journalists in years to successfully cross the Darién Gap, a lawless, roadless jungle on the border of Colombia and Panama. Teeming with deadly snakes, drug t...

26 Heinä 201643min

The Outside Interview: Robert Young Pelton

The Outside Interview: Robert Young Pelton

Robert Young Pelton has made a career of tracking down warlords and interviewing people in the most dangerous places in the world. He's been kidnapped in Colombia, survived an assassination attempt in...

13 Heinä 201645min

Science of Survival: In Too Deep

Science of Survival: In Too Deep

It could be one of the most incredible, yet perplexing, survival stories of all time: In 1991, a man named Michael Proudfoot was supposedly SCUBA diving on a shipwreck off the coast of Baja, Mexico, w...

28 Kesä 201641min

Science of Survival: Under Pressure

Science of Survival: Under Pressure

When you’re stuck underwater in a submarine, the number of ways you can die is long and varied—crushing, burning, asphyxiation, exploding, the list goes on and on. Escaping alive requires maintaining ...

14 Kesä 201616min

Science of Survival: The Devil’s Highway, Part II

Science of Survival: The Devil’s Highway, Part II

For centuries, the Devil’s Highway—a waterless pathway through desert in southern Arizona—was one of the deadliest places in North America, killing thousands of Spanish conquistadors, gold prospectors...

17 Touko 201629min

Science of Survival: The Devil’s Highway, Part I

Science of Survival: The Devil’s Highway, Part I

Thirst is an unpredictable threat. In its early stages, it’s much like mild hunger. For centuries, hydration was as much superstition as science. But historical events at Devil’s Highway—a notoriously...

3 Touko 201627min

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