Special Episode: Clayton Page Aldern & The Weight of Nature
This Podcast Will Kill You

Special Episode: Clayton Page Aldern & The Weight of Nature

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 25, 202644 min
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Already this summer, heatwaves are causing thousands of deaths across the world, catastrophic flooding threatens millions, wildfires rage across enormous swathes of the globe, many regions face extreme drought conditions, and a very strong El Niño is predicted for later this year, leading to further climate chaos. It’s a lot to take in. The devastating consequences of climate change can be measured any number of ways, and in this week’s book club episode, we delve into some of the more insidious and less explored impacts: those on our cognition, our mental health, our brains, and our behav...

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Hi, I'm Erin Welsh, and this is This Podcast Will Kill You. You're listening to the latest episode in the TPWKY Book Club series, a series featuring interviews with authors of popular science and medicine books. We've really gotten to showcase a wide variety of topics on this series, from the story

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of leaded gasoline, to the spread of disease and institutionalized settings, from the discovery discovery of a cure for tuberculosis to the pervasiveness of syphilis in early modern London. There truly is something for everyone in these episodes.

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And if you'd like to see the full range of titles that we featured on this series, as well as ones that we're planning to cover in future episodes, head on over to our website, thispodcastwillkillyou.com. There, in addition to finding other goodies like transcripts and references for all of

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