254 - Shrinking Cities (feat. Fernando Ortiz-Moya)
Cymene and Dominic talk about shrinky dinks, tiny sweaters, miniaturized submarines and elemental ethnography during this week's intro segme...
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Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and...
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Listen to Cultures of Energy, a Science & Medicine podcast by Dominic Boyer. Stream 254 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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253 - Disappearing Waste (feat. Dan Sosna)
Dominic and Cymene marvel at April snow and the ice cream stylings of Ben and Jerry. Then (8:28) we welcome Dan Sosna to the podcast to disc...
252 - Southern Anthropocenes (feat. Casper Bruun Jensen)
Cymene and Dominic discuss what happened when ten art school kids were given a disney princess baking challenge on this week's episode of th...
251 - Deep Listening (feat. Zina Saro-Wiwa)
Cymene and Dominic lament what is happening in Iran and explore what kinds of dogs they would be on this episode of the podcast. Then (15:47...
250 - Energy Democracy (feat. Nikki Luke)
Dominic and Cymene celebrate the 250 th episode of the podcast with tales of steamy avian encounter. And then (16:14) we welcome Nikki Luke...
249 - Weathering (feat. Astrida Neimanis and Jennifer Mae Hamilton)
Dominic and Cymene talk about their Cathostant (or is it Protelic?) families in this week's intro segment. And then (11:59) we are thrilled...
248 - Maintenance & Repair (feat. Jérôme Denis & David Pontille)
Cymene and Dominic share pirate tales from the Sundance Film Festival and reimagine Heated Rivalry with Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk as the lead...
247 - Feeding the Future (feat. Nicole Negowetti)
We kick things off this week with a short but heartfelt celebration of the tenth anniversary of the podcast. Several friends—Geoff Bowker, H...
246 - Radioactive Governance (feat. Maxime Polleri)
Happy 2026! It's been quite a year so far and your co-hosts talk about their recent trip to Nicaragua and Shadow's reinvention as a fly assa...
245 - 2025 Year in Review (feat. AI ;)
Neither headcolds nor hangovers will keep your plucky co-hosts from bringing you one more episode for 2025. Since this is supposedly the yea...
244 – Energy Transition (feat. Jean-Baptiste Fressoz)
In honor of cookie week, your co-hosts tackle an age-old question: are brownies cookies are not? Then we process the fact that next month wi...
243 - Oil and Intimacy (feat. Chelsea Schields)
Cymene and Dominic recount a pleasant business trip to New Orleans including a mild bout of Satanic panic. Then (9:10) we are joined by the...
242 – Living Minerals (feat. Javiera Barandiarán)
Dominic and Cymene begin with the war on Chicago and Kelly Hayes's amazing essay, " In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together " which everyo...
241 - Militant Chemistry (feat. Alice Lovejoy)
Dominic and Cymene talk about AI and other chowhounds to kick off this week's podcast. Then (12:46) we welcome the wonderful Alice Lovejoy t...
240 - Carbon Banking (feat. Ben Luzzatto & Gustav Peebles)
We begin this episode with a shoutout to our friends at the Canadian Centre for Architecture ( CCA ) and try to settle once and for all the...
239 - Carbon Capital (feat. Sean Field)
There be tales of two Sean Fields on this week's podcast. Happily, we are only welcoming (8:56) the smart and accomplished Dr. Field to the...
238 - Thinking Like a Climate (feat. Hannah Knox)
Cymene and Dominic talk about screamo music and the band Phish and how you can't fake the feels on this week's intro to the podcast. Then (1...
237 - The Canyon (feat. Robert Savino Oventile)
Cymene returns to the pod at long last (yay!) and we discuss recent events and how climate science probably caused wildfires and bears to ha...
236 – Ethical Pessimism (feat. Roy Scranton)
Dominic reports from a delayed birthday trip to Los Angeles and we learn about how Mike Brady (of Brady Brunch fame) nearly perished in a he...
235 - Forever Chemicals (feat. Rachel Frazin)
Dominic gives a quick update from the frontlines of home repair. Then (3:30) we welcome Rachel Frazin an energy and environmental reporter f...