Ep 14: Book Announcement
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Exploring the Ethics of Human Settlement in Space
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Listen to Making New Worlds, a Science & Medicine podcast by Erika Nesvold. Stream 16 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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Ep 13: Should We Settle Space?
For the last episode of Making New Worlds, we ask the question we skipped at the very beginning: Should we settle space? Featuring answers b...
Ep 12: What Do You Think?
What do you think about the space settlement ethics topics we’ve covered in the podcast so far? This episode includes comments and feedback...
Ep 11: Which Way Is Mecca?
How will people of faith adapt their religious practices to the space environment? How will our cultural values help us adapt to life in spa...
Ep 10: What If I Get Sick?
How can we prepare for medical emergencies in a space settlement? What equipment should we bring? What kinds of doctors? When resources are...
Ep 09: What If There’s Already Life on Mars?
How do we make sure we don’t bring harmful extraterrestrial microorganisms back to Earth from space? How do we keep our Earth microbes from...
Ep 08: Should We Make Mars More Like Earth?
How do we balance out our hunger for resources in space with the desire to preserve the space environment for future generations? Will somet...
Ep 07: What If I Want to Have Kids?
How do we sustain a stable population in our future space settlements? Do we require settlers to reproduce? How do we limit population growt...
Call for Feedback
Making New Worlds will resume in 2018, but today we have a quick announcement to make about our upcoming audience feedback episode. The tran...
Ep 06: Who’s in Charge?
Who will make the decisions in future space settlements? Will they be governed remotely by nations on Earth? Will settlements develop their...
Ep 05: What If Someone Steals My Stuff?
How will we handle it when someone breaks the rules of our new societies in space? Who decides whether they’re guilty? Do we need to build s...
Ep 04: Where’s My Money?
Once we’ve reached out space settlements, what do we do next? What kind of jobs will be available, and what kind of economy will we have? Wh...
Ep 03: Who Owns Mars?
Once we’ve taken that giant leap for mankind and have set foot on a new world, we have to ask: Who actually owns the land we’re standing on?...
Ep 02: Who Gets to Go?
Before we can head out into space, we have to ask: Who gets to go? What will the population of space settlers look like? Who will be allowed...
Ep 01: Why Are We Going?
Welcome to the first episode of Making New Worlds: Why Are We Going? Examining our motivations for settling space. We talk to historian Donn...
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Welcome to Making New Worlds, a podcast about the ethical issues of human settlements in space. Here’s a quick trailer to give you a taste o...
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